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Toonami |Aug/Sep16| NUDE GIRLS!
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I liked it well enough.
I meant third linearly. I already knew of the spinoff, and don't count it numerically regardless of quality.
Ah, okay, wasn't sure.
Reading the plot, interesting to see they're basically going the "same plot, but brand new characters" route. Not really a fan of "let's just reuse the same story since it worked last time", but at the very least, it might create some new ways of trying to outsmart each other.
It isn't that bad. Just disappointing.
BassForever
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Whats worse though? Incomprehensible bad like bat v sup or mediocre bad like ss apparently is. I prefer incomprehensible since I can laugh at that seeing SS this afternoon.
Hellwarden
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Based on what I read, Suicide Squad just seems boring. The written plot can't be as big a disaster as Batman v. Superman, because for a movie about a spec-op squad of villains, it plays it pretty safe.
Suicide Squad is not good. Like 1/3 of the team has no reason to be in the movie, they're so irrelevant. The villain goes from a promising start to essentially a bad Syfy original movie tier villian.
Deadshot, Harley, Waller, and surprisingly El Diablo are good. Everything else in the movie is lame. Half the jokes aren't funny, the action scenes aren't good, with the exception of one
moment, and the climax is the worst I've seen in a superhero movie since... X-Men the Last Stand, maybe?
It's not complete shit, but it's bad. There's some good stuff buried in it, but it's not enough to save the movie.
Deadshot, Harley, Waller, and surprisingly El Diablo are good. Everything else in the movie is lame. Half the jokes aren't funny, the action scenes aren't good, with the exception of one
Deadshot
It's not complete shit, but it's bad. There's some good stuff buried in it, but it's not enough to save the movie.
Hellwarden
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Is it true that The Joker is really only in the movie for around 10 minutes, and
has almost no impact on the story?
Because, fuck.
Yes.
He has
a very minor impact on the story. There's basically one Harley/Deadshot scene that doesn't happen if he's not in the plot, but that's it.
And this would actually be okay if they used that time to flesh out the other members of the squad instead. It is their movie, after all.
But they don't.
BassForever
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Suicide Squad works in comic form because the audience knows a good chunk of these characters so we don't have to waste too much time reestablishing them. Most of these characters are getting a film debut in SS and I imagine like BvS the film assumes you already know who everyone and everything is which doesn't really work in a story driven movie.
Which is definitely part of the problem. Instead of taking their time and establishing all of their characters properly they're trying to cut corners and it shows. That and they either don't hire the right directors or meddle for no reason.
I actually heard their was a cut of SS that was really good, basically there was a Batman vs Joker movie going on in the background that these guys had to navigate while they did their thing and they kept getting caught up in it. Which, on it's face, sounds like it could be pretty goddamn cool and apparently was. Until they ruined it.
BassForever
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Yep when audiences resonated with the tonally innacurate to the original cut and didn't resonate with the tone of bat v sup I get why WB panicked and ordered the reshoots, but you can't cobble together a dark film about villains being forced to fight other worse villains and a sarcastic anti hero romp.
skLaFarebear
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The concept of SS sounds cool and it probably works well in comic form. It's a shame that the movie isn't good.
Good. They better not destroy The Wall.
Hellwarden
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That's a shame. Seems like the movie, for all its talent on screen, really lacks in the personality department. Just like Batman v. Superman, adding the stuff they cut won't save the movie. Not with all the problems people are mentioning.
In other disappointing, but not terribly surprising news, Telltale Batman runs like crap on PS4. (That's not even mentioning how it launched on PC.)
I used to think that Nurse Rachet in One Flew Over the Cucoo's Nest would never be topped as far as human personification of evil, but I think Amanda Waller in Suicide squad may have set the new standard. I'm pretty sure that wasn't what I was supposed to take away from the movie!
I actually enjoyed Leto's Joker. It's probably the only thing in the movie I didn't despise.
I actually enjoyed Leto's Joker. It's probably the only thing in the movie I didn't despise.
Suicide Squad starring Kirito.
gamerguy2002
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gamerguy2002
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No way? its seriously worse then GXP, the pinnicle of bad Tenchi series's?!
Why haven't we hate-watched the shit out of this yet?!
Hellwarden
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Bring War on Geminar to Toonami.
We're getting too many good things lately.
We deserve it.
We're getting too many good things lately.
We deserve it.
I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. We're going to need to do a group watch to be sure.
Do you want us to die?!
gamerguy2002
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Agreed, theirs nothing worse then GXP in terms of Tenchi and if this is worse like you say man god, then it must be watched.
Also agreed, we need a good hate watch to bring us together again. think we've all recovered from Akame ga kill at this point.
I think its somewhat fair to say that sexism has clouded the opinion of the film for some on a subconscious level. I do think one can have or express sexist thoughts without throwing around expletives or giving statements as extreme as "get them wimmin' out og my Ghostbusters!". There are degrees to everything.
That said, I do think some people on the otherside take it too far. What you're describing kind of reminds me of a while back when Star Wars VII came out and there was that whole conversation about Rey and if she was a "Mary Sue" or what not. Me and most of my real life friends, and I'd describe most of us as full-on feminists, thought her character was lacking in some respects. I remember popping in that thread and reading basically an essay (I remember who wrote it but I'm not going to mention names because who cares at this point) to the effect that "many/most critical or Rey were like just jealous and self-loathing" and some other non-sense. Seeing that didn't make me lose faith in humanity. It just told me I should probably stop posting in that thread because interesting conversation was unlikely to be had.
Rey was a super Mary Sue, just like Luke was basically one as well.
Ghost Buster 16 looked like crap, but then again, I think most major Hollywood films kind of look like shit. Ive seen a lot of films that had incredible rotten tomatoes scores only to be disappointed in the end. Im a super big film snob I guess, which is strange considering I watch anime.
Ghost Buster 16 looked like crap, but then again, I think most major Hollywood films kind of look like shit. Ive seen a lot of films that had incredible rotten tomatoes scores only to be disappointed in the end. Im a super big film snob I guess, which is strange considering I watch anime.
gamerguy2002
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Y-You sure man? the last time we barely got your mentality back you may not come back this time.
I feel like I got a nasty flu coming on soon, so I'll probably be stuck doing that as I have a hard time playing video games when I'm sick unless it's like Dynasty Warriors
Cool. I'm going to listen over lunch.
Anything to lessen the pain.
Btw, I'm watching future One Piece on Crunchyroll and I was surprised to see "Hands Up" starting off the episodes. Didn't you guys say it wasn't available in the US? Maybe this means it'll air in a few years on Toonami.
A great stress reliever
If I recall it was Funimation that definitely didn't have it.
BassForever
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To be fair ignoring that post (and the one saying Aerith was a prostitute) that thread is actually full of quality discussion about FF7 and its expanded universe and character interactions.
It just felt bad when I posted something obviously sarcastic and multiple people took the bait agreeing with that post. And yeah TFA's and FR show that there is always a group of sexist/racist haters who hate because women/black but they're a fairly small but vocal minority that were drowned out by most people who responded positively to trailers and the film. My gut feeling is that the people who are so on the opposite side in their passion to decry any little thing as sexist/racist they paint progressive people in a light that isn't really ideal for getting people to the open and accepting side of the fence. My comment was also a bit hyperbolic, obviously I lost faith in humanity when SAO became popular
The simulsub had we go for the entire time hands up ran so maybe they worked something out.
We won't know for sure until the dub DVDs get there...late next year or early 2018 as even without running for an entire extra arc We Go was already one of the more prolific openings.
I wanna be real here, Dynasty Warriors got me through a lot of bad times, and I appreciate the shit out of that series. Im glad that western journos are a lot nicer to the series nowadays then they used to be, but man, those games were great after a really rough day of high school.
To be fair they basically released two dynasty warriors games a year for about a decade. These giant, review proof games would end up on your desk every six months, and that's before they started the other franchise collaboration games.
DW games are a reviewers nightmare.
It seems Funimation.com's episodes still don't have it but Crunchyroll does. I bet they have the rights now but Funimation.com never bothered updating their videos whereas Crunchyroll has.
Agreed. I grew up on the series, myself.
Yep, the crunchyroll deal is a lot newer than Funimation's.
Like I said though we won't know for sure for a long ass time unless they dub a ton of OP next year. They might get to We Go
aka the timeskip
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