The Suicide Squad Film Follies

Yale's ashes as a jovial taxi driver

Looking forward to a revive of this debate:

Aldo reads DC's New 52 (So you don't have to)

i always thought timothy dalton would make a good ostrander-era deadshot.

it's so weird that a completely different suicide squad are set to show up in the arrow tv show, and the tv-show flash will have nothing to do with the dc cinematic universe's version. meanwhile marvel's universe is set up to exist more-or-less seamlessly across tv and film. such an odd duplication of labour.

that's not even mentioning Gotham which of course has nothing to do with the movies or CW shows

or Constantine!

had no idea they're doing suicide squad on arrow, marvel must be in a state of a perma-lol

Suicide Squad was already in Arrow S2 - Deadshot, Bronze Tiger and Shrapnel, with a voice-only Harley Quinn cameo. Waller and ARGUS have played a big part in S3 to date.

poor Angela Bassett, she could've been the Sam Jackson of this mess

Deadshot was introduced in the third or fourth episode of S1.

i really should try to watch that and catch up on the Flash

I haven't seen very much of arrow, so i didn't know the squad had turned up already. the flash is way better than i was expecting it to be tho - it's been a lot of fun so far.

it's so weird that a completely different suicide squad are set to show up in the arrow tv show, and the tv-show flash will have nothing to do with the dc cinematic universe's version. meanwhile marvel's universe is set up to exist more-or-less seamlessly across tv and film.

I don't know if "weird" is exactly the word I'd use. WB's attempt to ape Marvel's cinematic universe is like something that has the cadence of a joke but isn't actually funny.

Yeah, Flash is seriously great. Maybe there are a few too many fanboy buttons pushed but I'm happy being manipulated like that.

Arrow has been very patchy. S1 was mainly a let-down with a few notable high points (Count Vertigo, Deadshot, Huntress) but the main RICH PEOPLE ARE BAD plot wasn't nearly engaging enough. S2 looked like it was going down the same route with the Brother Blood stuff but managed to just about avoid the fate by concentrating on Deathstroke and tips over into great with the return of Vertigo and Huntress, Solomon Grundy, Suicide Squad, Flash and Clock King. Ray Palmer turning up has saved S3 from being too serious. There's still a danger of it lapsing into almost Buffy does police procedural which it just about treads the right line of.

I forgot as well, the last ep had Ollie hand over Cupid to Waller as the latest Red Shirt for the Suicide Squad.

And CAPTAIN BOOMERANG at the end, who is in the Flash/Arrow team-up/crossover eps.

Buffy does police procedural

this is definitely the vibe I get from Flash but tbf this is preferable to p much all the other garbage DC is putting out on film

http://airherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Arrows-Season-3-News.jpeg

I had forgotten hearing about them casting Michael Jai "Fuckin' BLACK DYNAMITE" White as Bronze Tiger

Grey/brown/black is a shitty palette to represent a distinctive team of character costumes with. They at least gave a decent costume to Deathstroke, didn't they?

i didn't know they were casting Spawn himself, awesome
Deathstroke looks terrible, like out of a syndicated 90s TV show. actually worse, Hercules and Xena had decent costume work

They at least gave a decent costume to Deathstroke, didn't they?

nope! he looks like brendan gleeson in harry potter

http://img.poptower.com/pic-37102/brendan-gleeson.jpg?d=1024

ha, smack on

The Deathstoke costume is bang on, the full MacFarlane:

http://s763.photobucket.com/user/tvrage/media/gadfly/arrow/s02e18/deathstroke07.jpg

That link doesn't work on mobile, unfortunately

Ok, here we are:

http://i1.wp.com/www.comicbooktherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/d2.jpg

Pretty good, tho something about the smooth plasticine helmet is giving me Rollerball/Casey Jones from TMNT flashbacks.

Did anybody see the Batman Arkham Assault animation?

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-6abltUcric/maxresdefault.jpg

Thanks for the pic. That helmet is also the S2 one, the S1 one was more like the comics.

lool at that Deathstroke costume, can he even walk?

LIEFELDENING

And being that Liefeld we don't know if he can walk because we never see his feet.

Also: Pick out Deadshot's likely mask for this movie
1 - Cool full face mask with scope eye
2 - half mask with cross hair monocle thing
3 - fuck the masks, this is will smith; we're giving him some kind of bionic eye

They used option number 3 for Deadshot in Arrow too, and the actor wasn't anyone you'd ever heard of. I guess superhero series/movie makers just don't believe anyone can act if they're face isn't visible.,, If Spider-Man and Batman didn't have such iconic costumes, I'm sure the movie folks would've come up with maskless design for them too.

well, spider-man does spend a fair chunk of his movie screentime either unmasking himself at every opportunity or having his mask shredded in battle. iron man handled the issue really elegantly - maybe they should give deadshot a nifty heads-up display inside his helmet too.

poor Angela Bassett, she could've been the Sam Jackson of this mess

― Nhex, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 8:40 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, that costumne

Wonder if Kanigher and Andru will get a credit on this

Iron Man had its share of gratuitous unmasking too. For example, in the second movie's climax he lifts his mask up to make some action movie one-liners, even though he's surrounded by enemies... What if one of them had shot him to the face at that point? (And IIRC, in the first movie both his and the big bad's masks were conveniently ripped off during the final fight.) The mask-removing makes even less sense for him than Spider-Man, because Spidey's mask has no protective use.

Tom Hardy: 'Yeah fuck this.'

More like Career Suicide Squad, amirite, Tom?

"The opportunity to take on this nearly Shakespearean character -- that's what graphic novels and comic books are becoming, right?" Leto says. "[He's] this beautiful disaster of a character -- what a big challenge."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6479914/jared-leto-gaining-weight-playing-joker-suicide-squad?mobile_redirection=false

Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Cesar Romero

Jesus, Sabotage is so bad. Badly shot, badly written. Considering it bombed I can't imagine why DC gave David Ayer the keys to this.

Mirielle Enos is a trip in it, though. Maybe Margot Robbie will bring it too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDZ1cCeWMAAaZDb.jpg

wow that's terrible

http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/011-Birdman.jpg

A beautiful disaster, indeed

http://cdn.bucklecontent.com/media/images/bw3/xl/10400A11977_BK_xl_v1_m56577569835788587.jpg

the Bro-ker

Juggalo Squad

Eh, looks fine

It looks like he was designed by me in ninth grade with a copy of killing joke to swipe from

in this film is the Joker the vocalist for Hollywood Undead or

Okay it's just one picture, difficult to get a full feel but my initial reaction is that the tats and overall style is too perfect and clean. Joker is chaotic and scribbly, doesn't give a fuck.

I would imagine if he were to have any tattoos they'd look like they were drawn by a four year old.

damaged

https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/who-plays-shark-king-comedian-steve-agee-actually.html

i love it when Agee gets to do cool shit like this

he’s the best

I know some actors have doubled up on Marvel characters (eg Brolin, a Chris), but is Taika the first person to play three headlined speaking roles across bigtwo flicks?

(Sean Gunn and Agee doing both face and mocap notwithstanding)

btw

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

turns out that Deadshot was in the first one!! but he was played by Will Smith and Idris didn’t want to play a character previously played by Will Smith, so that is why Deadshot is called Bloodsport in it, instead of being called Deadshot, or the character Bloodsport being in it (and called Bloodsport)

next time AT&T should just buy Valiant’s deal from Sony and put Vin Diesel in as Bloodshot

lol they will get Diesel in one of these DC films, i bet

It feels like they totally wrote it originally for Deadshot, what with the whole motivation being to help his daughter out that was shown in the first movie, but thankfully they changed their characters just enough. The jail conversion between the Bloodsport and his kid was hilarious and wouldn't have happened with the Smith incarnation of Deadshot, who is pretty much Assassin Dad of the Year in SS '16.

also by changing it they've said it's so they can bring back Smith for a SS3 if it happens

This movie was great, agree with the Troma comparisons (OK this is like a somewhat subdued version of Troma), I have not ever watched a DC movie that didn't have Wonder Woman in it and didn't feel like I needed to in order to follow this, highly recommended if you like multiple decapitations

Thanks to Neanderthal, Vegemite and forks for recommending this, it rips

:D

I can’t help but think about the dissonance between the most popular monoculture medium used to make a $185 million movie based on Superman books for children, and it’s just got like Eli Roth levels of gore and hanging dong and Lloyd Kauffman cameos and everyone seems to agree that this is not only normal but, in fact, rules

give the ppl what they want

gore & dong

Some real dogshit music choices btw

Jim Carroll Band was a very sick one tho, you love to see it

I laughed very hard at the Jim Carroll Band needledrop

yeah that was great

I let out a few serious serious cackles in the theater, memorably when the head blood spelled out like Warner Bros presents in the water and Harley saying “69”

based on Superman books for children

serious serious cackles in the theater, memorably when the head blood spelled out like Warner Bros presents in the water

Caught it earlier this week and I gotta say after the last month, a lot of the whole 'America fucks around elsewhere for a long damn while and then decides to quickly leave and hide its tracks' motivation of the plot as such was, how you say, remarkably timed.

the same plots were remarkably timed when they kept recurring in the 1980s and 1990s run by that doctor at the start of the movie tbf

(maybe not the long damn while part, idrc)

is this where we talk about Peacemaker & how i love it already?

is it out already? Start a new thread if so as I am also kinda hyped. Looks a lot better than whatever marvel's got on tap!

on it

ok new thread has been created but i cant link it bc i am on my phone