Suicide Squad - Shit reviews, Jared Leto is mad because he only got 8 minutes of screen time

So what's next? Wonder Woman?

They'll never top the 1977 TV series with Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner's chest hair. It's just so ridiculous and over the top and aggressively 1970s. From the funk guitar soundtrack to the raygun gothic time travellers, it's a real piece of work. And I like that it focuses on Wondy's day to day life fighting crime and only brings in supervillains or bad guys occasionally.

She doesn't get tied up enough though. Golden and Silver Age Wondy was always getting tied up. You'd think the author was some sort of BDSM nut - oh....
 
The movie was alright. There were a lot of issues, like many have said: the pacing was off, the tone was all over the damn place, and some of the characters felt shoehorned in. Also, I hated that thing where they'd introduce a new main character by pausing the screen and showing their name and stats. Took me right out of the movie, it just seemed like such a weird choice. And I didn't care for Jared Leto's Joker, either. He constantly sounded out of breath, he looked like he was designed by a 14-year-old Hot Topic employee, and he came across like someone who's never seen anyone who's legitimately crazy, trying to seem crazy.

Speaking of, I honestly worried that they would downplay how messed-up Harley and Joker's relationship was, moreso than they did, anyway, but you could at least see it. Still, I wish they'd taken it a bit further, because looking back at the Batman animated series Harley originated from? That shit's kind of shocking to watch now.

Viola Davis and Margot Robbie stole the fucking show, too, both of them were awesome.
 
So is this stand alone? Or does it fit in the same universe as Man of Steel?
 
It's part of the DCEU. Man of Steel->Batman v Superman->Suicide Squad->any future live action DC films for the time being. I've heard SS is supposed to be a prequel to BvS as well but I haven't seen the film to comment on that.
Oh God. If the stand-alone Batman movie is a prequel to BvS and goes the 'Joker kills Robin' plot...I feel bad for whoever they get to play Robon
 
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I've heard SS is supposed to be a prequel to BvS as well but I haven't seen the film to comment on that.
It's more of a sequel since....
The beginning does a brief recap of Superman being dead at the end of BvS and the mid-credit scene has Bruce Wayne meeting Amanda Waller since she provided some info for him on the upcoming Justice League members.
 
I thought it was kinda average tbh, though i was more entertained by it than BVS (so much boring "political" talk in that film, snoozing). The first and second act are edited strangely though, and sometimes i felt like the movie skipped a scene establishing something previous since i had no idea what was occurring at that moment.

Leto was okay. I was expecting by the promotion something more cringey but he's just average, not terrific but not awful/embarassing or trying too hard (aside from the makeup/costume). Then again he appears for so little so who knows...
 
It is possible the reason why scenes showing Joker being abusive towards Harley was because the studio did not want any outrage when they're trying to compete with Marvel. Yes, the whole point of the characters' relationship was that it was an unhealthy one. Maybe there will be a director's cut that has those scenes and if future DCEU movies have Joker and Harley, there will be scenes in the theatrical release of him being abusive.
 
I have a hunch the entire DC cinematic universe is going to hinge on director's cuts.
Say what you want about Marvel being boiled down to a basic formula, it kicks the shit out of the DC formula: director's vision gets cockblocked by DC executives that see what Marvel did. Said cockblocks and just being a patsy leads into editing the movie to near incomprehensiblity, and/or using terrible "ideas".
I'M LOOKING AT YOU JIMMY OLSON
 
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I haven't seen it yet but the spoilers make it sound not as good as I hoped. I don't usually care about rotten tomatoes ratings but 29% is pretty bad. I hope I will get a dumb action movie enjoyment out of it atleast.
 
I have a hunch the entire DC cinematic universe is going to hinge on director's cuts.

I've always found the idea of a director's cut for shitty movies dumb, it the movie was terrible or mediocre in theaters why would I spend $30 on a director's cut? Just because Highlander 2: The Renegade Cut removed the aliens it didn't magically make the film any better. At least when Peter Jackson did the extended cuts the theatrical versions were good on their own merit.
 
it kicks the shit out of the DC formula: director's vision gets cockblocked by DC executives that see what Marvel did.

Yeah I'm calling bullshit on that "director's vision" garbage. It's the other way around. The studio wants money so they start making DC movies built around the two things die-hard DC fanboys want most: direction that boils down to "not Marvel" and having as many characters possible crammed into every single movie. That's why they got Zack Snyder--a guy who probably unironically uses the word "moralfag"--to captain this franchise ship. Who better contrasts with Marvel's heroic themes than a man who thinks we're all a bunch of giant pussies for thinking superheroes are supposed to save people?

And DC fanboys will defend this shit to the death because again, it's 1) not Marvel, and 2)they're intent on cramming every single character they can into these movies.
 
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