The Suicide Squad Film Follies

if Snyder Cut became reality, screw it, anything's possible

this was shockingly enjoyable! jumps directly into the story with minimal bullshit and the filming is crisp and engaging. pointlessly over the top with its sadism and gore but there's a zany glee that mostly mitigates the nastiness. ultraviolence minus the grim and gritty is far less insufferable. Everybody is having a great time on screen and the FX and fighting and set pieces and general direction are all fun. The only issue is length: this shit being two hours is ludicrous. The "by the time I finish my large popcorn, we are in denouement" rule needs reinstating stat.

cool! ima watch it today

Yeah, this was big dumb fun.

yeah i watched yesterday and loved it
had zero knowledge of comics and have never seen the other movie

flat-out bonkers, fun, violent, hearwarming even? all the things

some of the music cues were great too, ie pixies, louis prima

Liked it a ton. The only part that had me doubting it was the set-up with all the camera moves. 1) Re: showing a gun and not paying it off, was expecting a different ending for Polka Dot Man, after his mention of having to void the dots twice daily - maybe Harley's javelin pierces the eye, King Shark chucks PDM through, PDM happily explodes and dissolves Starro? The climbing rats didn't seem threatening until they got inside to eat. 2) After Deadpool 2, the initial bit wasn't as surprising, though I'd have loved a "we're f*cking distracting bait" recognition once TDK's arms started slapping. 3) Best use of Harley yet. The spinning/escape scene was a DCU highlight in a "commits to action like Keanu" way. 4) Killing Flag was a surprise. 5) John Cena was great. I totally bought what could have been a overly-ridiculous character. 6) Starro being a fave Justice League villain, thought they did it ... justice. Its final words were poignant. 7) Viola Davis just inhabiting Amanda Waller's rage. 8) And just now mentioning Idris Elba, which shows how jammed this movie was.

Don't know how good this was, but it wasn't bad, especially considering I don't know anything about any of the characters. Gunn knows and loves his b-movie and exploitation tropes. Plus, a few weirdly beautiful scenes.

Oh, and Gunn is remarkably adept at realizing the comedic potential of former pro wrestlers, though I guess Cena has been good at it for a while now.

He tweeted something a while back about Bautista that I liked (cant find the tweets but found the quotes) - “The difference between Dave & many wrestler-actors is when you look in his eyes on set he’s in the place he’s supposed to be, not thinking about what he’s going to do next," … "One of the things I deal with a lot with actors who have been a part of other performing arts (ie wrestling or comedy) is to get them to STOP JUGGLING and JUST BE. It’s not your job to entertain us - it’s simply your job to be present to the moment in front of you -And to treat it honestly. I never really had to teach that to @DaveBautista. His rawness set him apart from the first moment I met him. It was merely a matter of creating a space where he could come and share himself with all of us."

Cena reminded me of the movie Mr. Freedom.

xpost Yeah, dunno if Cena can do drama, but he def. has ace comedy chops. Bautista in Blade Runner 2049 at least gave the impression he can go deeper.

Cena was great i thought
Plus his costumes (superhero & daywear) were incredible & ridiculous

also when King Shark had that head in his mouth & the camera pulls in & the eyes are still moving

my troma heart grew two sizes <3

( (a) that was not a spoiler and (b) spoiler tags drive me crazy )

Gunn's deeper love for comics is on display in a number of interesting and sometimes subtle ways: the casting of John Ostrander in a minor speaking role, the naming of the country as "Corto Maltese," the clearly displayed Mafalda keychain in Milton's car...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ostrander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corto_Maltese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafalda

Veg, you have Pat Boyette to thank for the remarkably doofy Peacemaker costume, reproduced to near obsessive specificity in the film

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kovREurEVHk/UKbFFiZwKyI/AAAAAAAA2u8/rhba9RsmPxg/s1600/fightinfive40.+-+page+20.jpg

oh wow, yeah i love it even more now!

plus it looks like they chose really thick, maybe wool? material, adds to the old fashionedness like a turn of the century football uniform
so funny

oh and that almost too-short ridic tight polo shirt he wears made me looooool

ahhh ok it all makes sense now
judianna makovsky was costume designer on this - she did Cap’s costume for the first marvel cap movie <3 <3

no wonder everything looks so great

(she did Big! also Harry Potter & Hunger Games)

immensely enjoyable dumb movie.

fair number of people on twitter seem to unable to comprehend the plot of the movie which makes me worry about, well, a lot of things

lol this world

like, this movie is quite a bit easier to follow than any number of Marvel films and I can't imagine anyone finding it 'boring' but that seems to be an opinion that is held.

If ever there was a movie that didn't need a plot it's this one, and it came really close to just such an achievement.

its like the Wile E Coyote rocket
just light the fuse & watch what happens
what the fuck else could you possibly need

can you imagine a fucking snyder starro
we'd have to listen to it fucking monologue and proselytize about the moral arc of the universe

lmao at all the characters who snuffed it before the actor's name appeared in the opening credits.

yes! that was hysterical

I'm 57 minutes in and it's all sad backstories

now they're bonding in a nightclub

ok I'm still only halfway through this movie?

he just made that section boring to make the Harley breakout more fun

like walking through the narrow tunnel that leads to the Forbidden City

you know we watched it right

don't worry I'm in no position to criticize

also when King Shark had that head in his mouth & the camera pulls in & the eyes are still moving

my troma heart grew two sizes <3

easily the finest feature-length DC adaptation shot in the past 30 years

I suppose The Dark Knight Rises is kind of Knightfall, and Dawn of Justice is kind of The Dark Knight Returns? Other than that (and Watchmen), I'm not sure what's on the shortlist there.

If you just mean that it has DC characters in it, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies would like a word.

This was terrific. The perfect dumb, gory fun and some absolutely gorgeous sequences.

I do kinda miss the Ron Funches version of King Shark from the most recent Harley cartoon

I suppose The Dark Knight Rises is kind of Knightfall, and Dawn of Justice is kind of The Dark Knight Returns? Other than that (and Watchmen), I'm not sure what's on the shortlist there.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, August 9, 2021

If you just mean that it has DC characters in it, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies would like a word.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, August 9, 2021

i carved out room for Watchmen by specifying feature-length. probably could have extended the window to 35 years or whatever to include the Burton Batman. mostly just leaving room for Superman II lol.

this movie would have to be very gay to be better than batman returns

i'm excited to see it tho, troma superhero movie sounds like my kind of thing

Sgt Kabukiman, NYPD was kind of one

is Michelle Pfeiffer in this

no but you get to see a faceless Pete Davidson

also a random flaccid penis on some dude in the background who is promptly murdered for laughs

Jake Gyllenhaal?

why do you always ask this

i carved out room for Watchmen by specifying feature-length. probably could have extended the window to 35 years or whatever to include the Burton Batman. mostly just leaving room for Superman II lol.

I'm just being a dick about the fact that none of these are adaptations.

I'm with the conventional wisdom, it was both fun and too long — there were a couple of intermediary fight scenes that could have been saved for the MORE GORE cut, and there was a tendency for the battles to make me feel like I feel when I watch my kids play video games — I understand that somebody is having fun here, but I'm aware it's not me.

It does feel very much like they just told Gunn, "Make us a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but with these characters," and he delivered as ordered.

... apart from the bit where he had full choice over which characters?

lol ok — “Make us a Guardians of the Galaxy with whichever of these characters you want, except obv Harley Quinn has to be in it.”

I kept thinking "why is Deadshot called Bloodsport in this?" but ddg'd and found that there is a Bloodshot, but he is a different character, and they just called Deadshot Bloodsport in this

this movie would have to be very gay to be better than batman returns

this is not 1/16th as good as Batman Returns or Lego Batman or TTG!TTM, and not gay at all, but it is a p dece troma