The Suicide Squad Film Follies

I'm sure style and visual design is one of many categories this film will fail miserably at.

but after seeing the Batman v Superman trailer and knowing Zak Snyder that one will probably be more aggravating

Harkness' ankle boomerang holster duct-taped to his leg seems an interesting choice.

http://www.avclub.com/article/david-ayers-suicide-squad-cast-gets-together-yearb-218890

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEH0cMSUUAA_sJD.jpg:large

Here's Deadshot's mask, which will be see on screen for what, 15 seconds?

Disappointed that there's no yellow in his costume, but the muted crimson banana clips are nice.

I'm still curious whether Will Smith will play him as Floyd Lawton or as Will Smith, but I ain't holding my breath. At this point, if the flick gets more people interested in and reading and flowing some small royalty stream to Ostrander et al for 80's Suicide Squad, it'll be good enough.

Also, movie-Harley's outfit is far less stupid than her current Nu52 get-up, at least.

if the flick gets more people interested in and reading and flowing some small royalty stream to Ostrander et al for 80's Suicide Squad,

under Diane Nelson?

and yup, that's a quote from John 14:6 on his costume & his rifle– 'Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.'

(depending on yer preferred translation)

under Diane Nelson?

I don't know, I'm grabbing at straws here.

xp are you kidding me...

So like, did WB execs LIKE ayer's Sabotage, or had they signed him for this before seeing his previous Rando Eccentric Antiheroes With Guns movie?

when the best thing you have to say about costume design is that you like the "muted crimson banana clips"

Yeah, the costume/makeup design is straight-up pathetic. The Arrow/Flash stuff isn't a whole lot better, but those are television shows with television show budgets. It's noteworthy that a fan in a homemade costume who was photographed near the set was initially mistaken for Will Smith in his Deadshot duds.

it looks so stupid, and then you have the white mask on top of it.

the design for katana is particularly tone deaf; the late-era nu-shi "hey, she's from japan let's put a japanese flag on her face" look is all kinds of dumb
not that the character has ever had strong design to begin with
http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/k/a/Katana_Yamashiro_5.jpg

the outsiders were a special level of final fantasy poor costume design... remember looker?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vH8KPmUziIE/VPhO2DC0w5I/AAAAAAAACmg/5junuftaODQ/s1600/outside2looker3.jpg

the white mask on top of it.

deadshot morelike headshot amirite

they just didn't have to make it look like a baseball glove got thrown in with the bleach cycle

and yes, the Outsiders were pretty terrible designs all around. katana has had much better looks, tho!

They have desaturated away any possible desire to see this thing.

After she saw the pictures of Will Smith floating around, I told my girlfriend that the upcoming Suicide Squad and Flash movies have nothing to do with the shows she enjoys. Befuddlement, as predicted. Congratulations, DC and Warner Brothers!

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3372/3424256247_99cbb73ef6.jpg

see i would respect that! but they just split several bad differences and came up with something worse than the sum of its parts.

exactly

ok i love looker's costumer there except 1. armpit chain which looks dredfully ticklish at best 2. cape is not actually symmetrical
but otherwise reminds me of the best costume design of all time aka BUDDY COLE'S SOFTBALL UNIFORMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCUgFeIjyM

idk who the fuck the fucks in that film lineup are
no comic book cred at all sorry
except harley quinn whose wiki i read & was like 'damn this lady is mad unprofessional for someone with a phd'
also pretty sure she just got raped into being crazy??? that level of characterization
i miss cesar romero :(

harley quinn is paul dini's character iirc and she works best as a cartoonish gunmoll rather than what she's become via videogames and fanservice which joker but with breasts

finally figured out what that promo pic reminded me of
http://www.rhfhouston.com/Homiesqu.jpg

i would SO be into a Homies movie
will smith tumbling out of a vending machine

harley works best playing kazoo taps during the joker's funeral for the apparently dead batman and bursting into earnest tears, not sure where that falls.

margot robbie holding up a flag of mexico for 45 mins & just smiling

i prefer this:
http://enasnivolz.com/Images/Gallery/Fullsize/harley/7.jpg
over this
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/018/b/4/harley_quinn_52_by_elias_chatzoudis-d72kw18.jpg
so of course the film is opting for SPRAAAAANNNNG BRAAAAAAAAAAKE mode

that is some detailed taint shading

cool powerful female leads

the ol' boob 'n' butt anatomic impossibility pose always conveys girl power

I'm not really a comix aficionado either, I just object to how kitschy and calculated the photo is.

surprised none of them are wearing a "Your Mom is In My Top 8 on MySpace" shirt.

(don't mean that as a "omg fukk comix", just that my exploration has largely been WAtchmen, The Killing Joke, Dark Knight Returns, and a few others here and there).

I dig that Adam Hughes signed that cosplayer's mallet.

heh i noticed that too

idk who the fuck the fucks in that film lineup are

Well that was always the point of the book from the 80s on, where they just took a bunch of obscure DC C- and D-grade villains and thru them into this unit. Somebody usually always got capped on each mission.

heh i noticed that too

me three

so disappointed not to see grant morrison in that lineup as notable suicide squad cannon-fodder member 'the writer'

that wouldn't be until the equivalent of Suicide Squad Movie Chapter 58

we can but hope

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?

how they can go wrong, they have that naked chick from The Wolf of Wall Street and nu-Robocop

I would lol if they pulled a Milligan/Allred X-Force move and murdered 90% of the cast in the first 15 minutes

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)

well also GotG looked like it would be good very early on in the promo cycle (that one super expository commercial notwithstanding)

warners really seem to be hellbent on learning all the wrong lessons from marvel's movies

Producers are just going to individually promote the movie to all results in this search: https://www.tumblr.com/search/harley+quinn

more harley - does that tshirt say 'daddy's little monster'?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEIuuaMUgAE3e_J.jpg:large

Really hopeful the soundtrack will have rock guys collaborating with edm guys

bass drops synced with bullets hitting flesh