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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 4, 2016 5:17:09 GMT -6
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I really wanted this one to be good. One reviewer said it was worse than Green Lantern and Trank's Fantastic Four. Now that's harsh!
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Post by The Huntress Diana on Aug 4, 2016 8:30:27 GMT -6
....I still feel the need to go see it...
...comic book movie...must support...
Please help me stop feeling this way!!!!
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Post by mh on Aug 4, 2016 14:57:56 GMT -6
i got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when i heard ol' big ears, "welcome to earph", the former mr. july was in it. it seems like everything he touches turns to poo for the last seven years or so
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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 4, 2016 15:51:10 GMT -6
‘Suicide Squad’ is perfect for 2016. Which means it’s absolutely terrible.
By Ann Hornaday August 3 at 4:01 PM
We may be only a little more than halfway through 2016, but I’m prepared to call it: “Suicide Squad” is the worst movie of the year.
Unpleasant, incoherent, astonishingly poorly made, the DC Comics spin-off, about a ragtag team of criminal meta-humans (“the worst of the worst,” Viola Davis’s character solemnly intones at one point) conscripted to save the world from World War III, provides yet one more nail in the franchise’s cinematic coffin, joining last spring’s “Batman v. Superman” in what has become a dreary roll call of cinematic Debbie Downers, tarted up by moody visuals and a dour tone to seem far edgier than they are.
Nowhere is “Suicide Squad” more tiresome than in the Joker, DC fans’ favorite villain who in previous incarnations was portrayed by some of the greatest actors of the 20th century, from Jack Nicholson to Heath Ledger. Here, the duties fall to the Oscar-winning Jared Leto, who dons silver tooth caps, grubby tattoos and the character’s signature painted-on grin to deliver a manic, derivative performance that takes a pinch from Nicholson and Ledger, and unseemly dollops from Jim Carrey at his most mannered and wearyingly self-referential.
Leto’s on-screen histrionics aren’t helped by his off-screen behavior, chronicled in stories during the film’s production that recounted him sending items such as bullets and a live rat to his co-stars – attempts at getting into his amoral character that went more than a step too far. If the results in “Suicide Squad” are any indication, there wasn’t any method to Leto’s madness, just badness in his Method.
Thankfully, the Joker goes missing for great swaths of “Suicide Squad,” which picks up and loses characters with haphazard absent-mindedness. But the actor’s penchant for harassing his workplace colleagues reflects the same passive-aggressive insecurity the entire enterprise is steeped in. Nasty and nihilistic, “Suicide Squad” is a study in over-compensation at its most pathetic — arriving as if conjured by the same unmediated shadow material that has been given free rein in a season when the song of summer has been replaced by rage, resentment and deranged political rhetoric that seems to find new lows with every passing news cycle.
There’s something undeniably entertaining, even cathartic, about watching “the worst of the worst” onscreen, as seen in villains from Hannibal Lecter to Anton Chigurh. But, right now at least, “Suicide Squad’s” governing ethic of surly, smash-and-grab hostility and id run amok seems less like innocent escapism than the ugly, strutting vision of an America that’s getting a little too close for comfort.
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Post by mh on Aug 4, 2016 18:42:12 GMT -6
"unpleasant, incoherent, astonishingly poorly made ..."
that's dc comics films over the last 30 years in a nutshell! batman aside and the last superman film being an anomaly. idiocy. you have a roster of the greatest comics characters that has been or ever will be and you can't produce a decent film? jeezus! c'mon! give me the rights to doctor fate and a 70 million dollar budget and i'll make the best friggin comics film dc has done since superman 2! and dr. fate isn't even that great! not that i know crap, but i'd hire people with talent who do. give me swamp thing, or the new gods, or kamandi. dc has the greatest source material and can't do a decent film. there are good film makers out there who could create dc comics films at least on the level of the x-men movies. If and when they do a justice league movie, it will almost certainly suck. they'll affleck it up, as friggin usual |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 4, 2016 20:49:10 GMT -6
Some folks on another board I visit have a theory that it wasa the knee-jerk reactionary editing after Batman vs Superman that turned it into an incoherent mess, but I dunno....
27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
"Suicide Squad amounts to an all-out attack on the whole idea of entertainment." - The Wall Street Journal
"Sometimes it's good to be bad. In Suicide Squad's case, bad is just plain bad. It gives villainy a bad name." - The Detroit News
"Not even Margot Robbie's enthusiasm nor Viola Davis nor professional movie star Will Smith can save Suicide Squad, written and directed by David Ayer, from somehow being visually unpleasant, tedious and obnoxious all at once." - Austin American-Statesman
"Whenever Robbie isn't dancing around, the movie feels as heavy and relentless as a Mack truck." - Chicago Reader
"The plotting, which initially seems intriguing, eventually collapses onto its own narrative petard, and the entire affair devolves into a rain-drenched slow-motion climax." - San Diego Union-Tribune
"It wants so desperately to be subversive and irreverent in the manner of Fight Club or, more likely, Deadpool. And yet the most shocking thing about it is how risk-averse it turns out to be." - National Public Radio
"Suicide Squad should have been a whole lot better." - The Sun (UK)
"Suicide Squad is the most miserable time I've had at the movies in my life." - National Post (Canada)
At this point, I wonder if WB can make a good DC movie. Man of Steel was like if Michael Bay filmed it while suffering from Bipolar depression. Batman VS Superman was dark, dreary, and incoherent. And from all reports, this is a hot mess, too. I don't get a good feeling about Justice LEague. The trailer for Wonder Woman looks great, but so did Suicide Squad. I think the film editor for the trailers must have been better than the guy who edited the movie
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Post by mh on Aug 5, 2016 11:04:28 GMT -6
yikes!!! i haven't seen reviews that bad since madonna quit making movies!!!!
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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 5, 2016 14:55:31 GMT -6
Hishighness took his boys to see it this morning. I'll be interested to hear what he has to say.
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Post by The Huntress Diana on Aug 8, 2016 12:10:07 GMT -6
Suicide Squad earned $135.1 million this weekend!!! O.o
It beat the record for Guardians of the Galaxy which made $94.3 million its opening weekend.
Wow!!! I am floored right now!!
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Post by mh on Aug 8, 2016 20:39:45 GMT -6
i was shocked too. so much for negative reviews. kind of refreshing people still went to see it. i'm not so shocked the the box office dropped 41% on saturday. www.slashfilm.com/suicide-squad-box-office/it apparently needs to make about $800 million to even break even, which batman/superman missed by a lot after a big opening. it had tv ads out the wing wang, and people seemed excited to see it -- including me! the first movie i REALLY wanted to see since 'star wars'. why am i hearing NOTHING about 'star trek: beyond'? |
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Post by Doc Quantum on Aug 9, 2016 11:37:48 GMT -6
It's strange. I've seen a lot of critics pan the movie, but nearly every review I've seen on Facebook, or user reviews on sites like Cinemaclock, are more or less positive about the movie. This movie is causing a huge divide between the critics and the average moviegoers, and a lot of people are saying that Rotten Tomatoes is broken because of this. It's just an aggregator of reviews, so the problem (if there is a problem at all) would be with the critics themselves.
I'm still planning on seeing it eventually, but the wife and I hardly ever get out to see new movies at all these days, and when we do, it's going to be for something we know we'll both enjoy. My wife loves the X-Men movies, but hated X-Men: Apocalypse when she went to see it with a friend. I love DC Comics, but I still haven't seen Batman V Superman, since I'm waiting until the "ultimate" extended edition is available in Canada for rent (currently only the original theater version is available for rent here). Our movie-watching time and money is very limited, and Suicide Squad is a lower priority movie for me to watch.
Tonight we're going to see Star Trek Beyond, though. That'll be good.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 9, 2016 11:50:06 GMT -6
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Post by Doc Quantum on Aug 9, 2016 11:52:16 GMT -6
Yeah, I saw that, too. I haven't read the review because of spoilers, though.
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Post by The Huntress Diana on Aug 22, 2016 19:09:23 GMT -6
Saw it yesterday with the hubby.
Shockingly - I did not hate it.
Enchantress - ugh.
Slipknot - ugh.
Flagg - ugh.
Waller (at the very, very, very end) - wth?
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Post by The Huntress Diana on Aug 22, 2016 19:12:49 GMT -6
Worldwide totals so far (I think)...
$575,428,736
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