The Suicide Squad Film Follies

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

Batman Returns is overrated

https://www.tacticaltoolsusa.com/batman/images/PENGUIN-2.gif

I like how they made Starro look cartoony and clumsy, it reminded me of Maggie in her little star-shaped baby grow.

Gregg Turkington looking good

I've seen like one capeshit movie in the last 10 years but everyone keeps comparing this to Troma. Would I like/understand this?

In the way that someone "understands" Hobo with a Shotgun, sure

I liked Hobo With a Shotgun!

Good! It rules

Whiney I think you would like it
It doesnt take itself v seriously — and you dont have to know the characters to enjoy the movie as presented, it gives you a lot to enjoy as is

from my personal experience not knowing the comics & not seeing the other leto movie

I went to piss during Leto's first scene in the first one.

Then didn't go back into the theater

Which was actually on an airplane

i imagine you'd not regret having watched this whiney but not betting anything beyond that

Christ, this was really, really fucking funny. I was laughing very hard at some of the needle drops.

As for the length, somebody mentioned elsewhere that this felt like reading a proper 6- or 12-issue trade, and I agree with that, and enjoyed it b/c of it

This was fun! Felt more like a 2000AD sensibility than a DC one (i.e. thrilling immoral violence, lightly done) but that's probably why it works. It was MUCH TOO LONG though.

God bless Pete Davidson, he can't even act falling down dead well

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