The Suicide Squad Film Follies

http://www.avclub.com/article/suicide-squad-totally-fuck-you-hardcore-pg-13-rati-237894

The MPAA obviously agreed, saying the rating was due to “sequences of violence and action throughout, disturbing behavior, and suggestive content and language.” Oh, it’s gonna suggest the hell out of some language and content, letting your mind fill in the blanks of all that awesome violence and language you’re not going to see or hear onscreen. Meanwhile, Deadpool continues to be the highest-grossing R-rated film in history. “Yeah, whatever. F that,” retorts Suicide Squad, because, hey, language.

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“Purple Lamborghini” by Skrillex & Rick Ross
“Sucker For Pain” (with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign & X Ambassadors) by Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons
“Heathens” by twenty one pilots
“Standing In The Rain” (feat. Mark Ronson) by Action Bronson & Dan Auerbach (of The Black Keys)
“Gangsta” by Kehlani
“Know Better” by Kevin Gates
“You Don’t Own Me” (feat. G-Eazy) by Grace
“Without Me” by Eminem
“Wreak Havoc” by Skylar Grey
“Medieval Warfare” by Grimes
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Panic! At The Disco
“Slippin’ Into Darkness” by War
“Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival
“I Started a Joke” (feat. Becky Hanson) by ConfidentialMX

“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Panic! At The Disco

uhh

I'll be so disappointed if the Joker isn't introduced in an extended musical number where he does the futterwacken to "Without Me".

This is the kind of soundtrack that should come with the case pre-scuffed and markdown used CD price stickers on it indicating it already made the rounds of old chains like the Wherehouse before finally ending up in the dusty cardboard box at the charity shop a strip mall church theoretically runs.

“I Started a Joke” (feat. Becky Hanson) by ConfidentialMX

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Pre-cover?

nominate ned to pre-cover 'without me'

I'm to the point on ilx pop culture threads where Old Lunch posts my own thoughts before I read the thread

keep up the good work!

xpost -- Thank you no. I will however coordinate a volunteer effort to delete the master files.

xpost Haha, thanks, will do.

'Slippin' Into Darkness' is a tite track, anyway. If it gets the kids into War, something positive will have been achieved by this endeavor.

My wife is a fairly popular author of steamy Joker/Harley fic. I'd love to enlist her help in writing some erotic lyrics that I could set to some brutally beautiful metal riffs should a precovers sesh come to pass

Something something show you my squirting flower

Rhyme 'Juggalos' with 'juggle those'. This thing writes itself.

'where does he get those wonderful toys', harley gasped

'This clown needs an enema.'

Lost opportunity here for a Steve Miller/Lil Wayne collab.

'i'm gonna make this penis disappear'

okay i'll stop now

I make no such vow.

'Gonna make my puddin' pop'

'you can rub my rhubarb any day mistah j'

Why so serious?
Take a ride upon my laughing fish

All A+ contributions, good work team, you truly are super villians

very the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard

I was thinking Spawn.

^^What Harley does to achieve orgasm.

38% on RT...

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suicide_squad_2016/

Welp. Nice knowin' ya, DC cinematic universe.

i'm shocked

SHOCKED

saw some quote from the director in the NYT about how the end was "morally questionable" or something like that - put my fears to rest

oof

From the first scene to the last, it’s an absolute mess, one whose harried pacing, jumbled narrative, and blaring soundtrack of radio hits suggests a desperate post-production attempt to reconfigure what Ayer got on set into something palatable and poppy.

viola davis as amanda waller seems like the only good decision anyone involved in this movie made, huh

Not convinced that this is the end of the DCCU, this is more like 'what if Deadpool tanked'

I imagine that negative reviews will only bolster the fervent defense of the movie by the people to whom it is targeted (Ed Hardy wearin' gritty muderverse stans).

xpost Except that they're planning to build a 10+ film franchise off of a scant handful of underwhelming and underperforming flicks. If this one doesn't turn things around...

you just described zack snyder iirc xp

Wonder Woman is seriously the first entry of this nonsense that looked like something I might pay money to see. The recent bombshell that Snyder was more hands-on than at first indicated, though, gives me second thoughts.

i can't wait for the schadenfreude lols that future behind-the-scenes production stories will bring - seems like it was a bit of a shitshow from start to finish

It sounded very much like they reshot and re-edited much of the movie at the eleventh hour as a reaction to the success of Deadpool. Which seems like a pretty great recipe for cinematic magic (I call it 'cinemagic').

In polite old New England vernacular, calling a misbehaved child "fresh" is tantamount to calling him a vile little shit. It's reserved for ill-tempered, snarky kids who cuss a lot. My mom calls Hot Topic "Fresh Topic," and referred in the '80s to Bart Simpson as "that fresh yellow boy." In every possible way, this movie looks like it's trying to be fresh.

One time in high school when I was with my extended family around the holidays, my weird and similarly-aged cousin kept coming up to me and my brothers and saying random curse words under his breath and giggling like it was super transgressive but it was actually just sad and more than a little uncomfortable. I guess WB decided that audiences nationwide should have that same experience.

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Can't trust the SUICIDE SQUAD reviews because there's a very real chance the critics were all driven insane by how twisted it is

i am liking these pull quotes.

"Who stole the soul of Suicide Squad? I'd say it's Ayer's willingness to go all limp-dick and compromise his hardcore action bona fides for a PG-13 crowdpleaser that would rather ingratiate than cut deep, or even cut at all."
-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A puzzlingly confused undertaking that never becomes as cool as it thinks it is, Suicide Squad assembles an all-star team of supervillains and then doesn't know what to do with them."
- Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

"So much happens in David Ayer's DC Comics adaptation Suicide Squad that by the end, it's as if you've seen nothing."
- Stephanie Zacharek, Time

"What a waste of a perfectly twisted Suicide Squad."
- Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun Times

I should catch up on classic Suicide Squad comics, but the way this movie was pitched was as a murderous group of loners who would accept being allied for pragmatic reasons and it's being pitched as a funny team of oddball reluctant friends

Sorry, _was_ pitched versus re-pitched

There were never any plans to build a Franchise off this though, the through path is Man of Steel -> Batman vs Superman from Man of Steel -> Wonder Woman from Batman vs Superman -> (Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman and Aquaman and Flash) from Batman vs Superman in the JLA -> Flash from JLA -> Aquaman from JLA -> JLA II. This is like Deadpool in that it's a scrappy little film (though much more expensive) without anyone that we'd expect to see again.

It sounded very much like they reshot and re-edited much of the movie at the eleventh hour as a reaction to the success of Deadpool.

As far as I know yes except instead of "success of Deadpool" read "critical kicking of Batman vs Superman"

That Travers quote is O_O. Dude is generally such an undiscriminating cinematic milquetoast. 'Limp dick'! It must really be bad.

Ayer's previous movies have, for the most part, been based around a group of cops or soldiers that have a very tense relationship with their peers, with an air of distrust compounded by in-group hazing or outright abuse.

You could look at The Fast and the Furious or S.W.A.T, both of which he wrote but didn't direct and tease out a PG13-ready concept but the former has too much heart and the latter ended up feeling very rote and fell into the generic "film version of a tv show" trap that a bunch of films around that time did. Nothing controversial enough to bruise what the studios felt was a useful property, nothing interesting enough to make it worth watching.

Bringing him on due to his stronger work, restricting it to PG13, and then recutting it via intense focus group studies.. probably doesn't have much of a chance

This is like Deadpool in that it's a scrappy little film (though much more expensive) without anyone that we'd expect to see again.

They had Affleck Batman in it from the beginning and the pitch in the commercials is "we need a team in case the Superman thing happens again"! Even if we never see any of these characters again, they're tying it directly into the backstory of their movie universe.

it's a scrappy little film (though much more expensive) without anyone that we'd expect to see again

except they shoehorned the Joker/Batman in there purely for franchise reasons

im glad all the actors in this got shitty poorly spelled tattoos so they can remember this great experience for the rest of their lives

Oh I didn't know about Affleck - nemmind then. Jesus, what an odd fucking film to tie into the two-film-old attempt to hamfistedly copy Marvel ... oh yeah.