that wouldn't be until the equivalent of Suicide Squad Movie Chapter 58
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 10:29 (nine years ago) link
we can but hope
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 10:35 (nine years ago) link
Am I wrong in thinking that this whole project is basically hinging on the presence of the Joker (which people have already been clowning, pun very much intended) and Will Smith's questionable present-day pull at the box office? Is there another element I'm not considering that could possibly save it from being a disaster?
― More Fetid Than Fêted (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
how they can go wrong, they have that naked chick from The Wolf of Wall Street and nu-Robocop
― Nhex, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
I would lol if they pulled a Milligan/Allred X-Force move and murdered 90% of the cast in the first 15 minutes
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
another element = no-one had heard of Guardians of the Galaxy, kids are crazy for those comic book movies these days (yes yes, very different comics)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
well also GotG looked like it would be good very early on in the promo cycle (that one super expository commercial notwithstanding)
― DJP, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
warners really seem to be hellbent on learning all the wrong lessons from marvel's movies
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Producers are just going to individually promote the movie to all results in this search: https://www.tumblr.com/search/harley+quinn
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
more harley - does that tshirt say 'daddy's little monster'?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEIuuaMUgAE3e_J.jpg:large
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
Really hopeful the soundtrack will have rock guys collaborating with edm guys
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
bass drops synced with bullets hitting flesh
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
millennials need their own judgement night OST; it's time
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Also hopeful this movie will have some fun meetings ahead with the MPAA, which may still lead to this being released as THE SQUAD, as per the lego batman 3 DLC
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Haha forgot about judgment night, was thinking of spawn
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
https://jeffreyklyles.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/baltimore-comic-con-2014-suicide-squad-2.jpg?w=567&h=409
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8DXw_ufPOdk/UgbiLJip3HI/AAAAAAAARQo/hDidJU7b5Kc/s1600/Ultimate+Suicide+Squad+group+cosplay+DC+Comics.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rvHGXiP9qGY/Ts7_pu1TxGI/AAAAAAAADMw/JBnFHHEpLAM/s1600/Hot%2BVixen-Killer%2BFrost-Ivy-%2BHarley%2Bcosplay.jpg
And the TV versions:
http://cdn.movieweb.com/img.news.tops/NEvnCHFgXeOnzx_2_b.jpg
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/36800000/Behind-The-Scenes-of-2x16-Suicide-Squad-arrow-36866694-500-477.jpg
Movie needs more Michael Jai White, who's played multiple superheroes before
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
from the aforementioned superhero blockbuster, spawn
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
And even bigger superhero, Black Dynamite!
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
skinny Waller is still one of the grossest endemic exemplars of Didio era
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/my646vS.png
― 龜, Friday, 8 May 2015 11:41 (nine years ago) link
About as well as could be expected
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Friday, 8 May 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
god i still can't believe dc is going to just gonna give joker a girlfriend and (allegedly) batman a dead robin four years after DKR. I realize we're all sick of rebooted origin stories, but if you're going to revamp with the story THAT far in progress...
― da croupier, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
and yes, many a nerdlinger knows about harley quinn and jason todd, but if the idea is to compete with the avengers you really don't want to settle for "the nerds already know this"
i'd almost be relieved to hear a marketing research study revealed a large untapped audience of juggalos across the planet dissatisfied with marvel's populism and lack of badass. if that wasn't also a horrifying prospect.
― da croupier, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.monologuedb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Macaulay-Culkin-home-alone.jpg
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 May 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
harley quinn has been a hot topic favorite for a long time ime, unless this was just long-term anticipatory marketing, which seems beyond them
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
for non-comics-fans she also counts as 90s nostalgia
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
relevant article:http://comicsalliance.com/female-heroes-good-girl-role-models/though i feel like it may be unfair to lump the main character from Sex Criminals in there
― Nhex, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah harley quinn was a pretty major character in the batman cartoon on fox in the 90s which was dope
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 8 May 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
See if they did a remake of the animated series that would be dope.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 May 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
I wager that you might feel a little differently if present day DC/WB actually did remake the animated series.
― Doggy McBaby (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 May 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Filmmaker and comic book fan Kevin Smith named his daughter after Harley Quinn; she made a cameo appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as an infant Silent Bob in the opening scene, and was recently featured in his reality television show Comic Book Men.[53] She will appear alongside Johnny Depp's daughter Lily-Rose Depp in the 2015 comedy horror film Yoga Hosers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn#Cultural_impact
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 8 May 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
what i've always been curious about is
In 2002, a live-action television series called Birds of Prey, loosely based on the comic of the same name, included Harley Quinn as a psychotic psychiatrist and main antagonist. The character was portrayed by actress Mia Sara (replacing Sherilyn Fenn from an unaired pilot episode). The show aired only 13 episodes. In this show, she is portrayed as an older, far more calculating and sinister character than her bubbly comic and cartoon personas. Picking up where the Joker had left off, Harleen Quinzel used her day job as a therapist to achieve her savage purpose – to take control of the city of New Gotham. She does not wear a costume, although she does wear an outfit that is reminiscent of her cartoon costume in the series finale "Devil's Eyes." In that episode, she uses experimental technology to transfer metahuman mind control powers to herself. She occasionally makes reference to her "sweet Mr. J.", laments his loss as a Gotham City crime boss and hints at a past relationship reminiscent to that of the animated series.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 May 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
ferris bueller's girlfriend replacing audrey horne!
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 May 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
lol @ yoga hosers
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 May 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/harleyquinnbatman/images/1/14/BoP_Harley.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130607080520
Mia Sara 2003
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Friday, 8 May 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
fyi i'm aware that harley quinn was on kids tv in the 90s i SAID many a nerdlinger
― da croupier, Friday, 8 May 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
the point is that if you're going to introduce a very different batverse to a global audience a couple years after Nolan's, you might not want to smuggle it in mid-story inside a superman and a suicide squad movie, even if many a thirtysomething has sweet afternoon memories of her
― da croupier, Friday, 8 May 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
eh, you're overthinking it. 90% of the audience will be like "oh, the joker's girlfriend, okay" and then "BEWBS!"
― Nhex, Friday, 8 May 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
you're probably correct, in terms of 90% of the audience that will be pulled in by the promotional materials for this movie. just not in terms of 90% of the potential audience for a superhero movie.
― da croupier, Friday, 8 May 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
BREAKING: joker will totally have those tattoos, dresses really cool and great alsohttp://i2.wp.com/batman-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/jared-leto-fights-kisses-margot-robbie-in-suicide-squad-04.jpg?fit=665%2C550&quality=85&strip=infohttp://i2.wp.com/batman-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/0242.jpg?fit=665%2C550&quality=85&strip=infog
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
Please, DC, just one Joker dance sequence. It's all I ask.
― Ape Pagoda (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
Why is DC so bad and hated
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
There has to be a scene where he's locked up in the county jail, alone in a cell, singing "Plush" a cappella.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, 8. toukokuuta 2015 19:08
Even if Nolan didn't really use him, I'm pretty sure it's commonly known (not just among nerds) that Batman has a sidekick named Robin? I mean, the final gag of Dark Knight Rises depended on the viewers knowing this fact, even though Joseph Gordon-Levitt never became a superhero during the movie. And I'm not sure why the dead Robin has to be Jason Todd? Unless they have plans of using Nightwing in the future, they could easily say it was Dick Grayson who died. I'm pretty sure they want to avoid the whole "multiple Robins" thing, so the movies won't get too convoluted.
I do agree that it's a bit weird to start the reboot with Batman so far in his career, but OTOH Batman is pretty much the best-known superhero there is, and his origin story is fairly simple, so there isn't really any need to rehash it. And there are a kazillion action movies where the protagonists actions are motivated by the death of someone in their past, so in this case they'd just be using Robin instead of Thomas and Martha Wayne to provide that motivation.
I still suspect this movie will suck, as do most of Snyder's films, but I don't think continuity issues will be the reason for that.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 07:18 (nine years ago) link
jokerdoesthefutterwacken.gif
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:46 (nine years ago) link
Harley Quinn's not really more obscure than Hawkeye, is she? is she even less known than the Suicide Squad itself? her being in this movie is the least of its problem, if it's even a problem at all.
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
She is by far the most famous thing about it (apart from Mr J) - croupier's universe where 90s kids TV consumption makes you a nerdlinger is utterly bizarre.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Even among comic nerds, Suicide Squad used to be more of a cult favourite than a big seller. But AFAIK a version of them has been introduced in the Arrow TV series (I quit watching it, so I haven't seen episodes featuring them), which might've raised their profile? Though I've no idea how popular Arrow is...
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
But yeah, Joker and Harley Quinn are way more well-known than any other SS members; the whole point of the series was to use mostly C-list villains, so any of them could be killed for real, which you obviously can't do with someone like Joker.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:26 (nine years ago) link