I saw a drive-in double feasture of Jason Bourne and Star Trek Beyond Friday night. A group of us sat in lawn chairs in front of the speakers up near the screen, so we had a great view of the mess that was Jason Bourne. At the end of it, my friend's 17 year-old son turned to me and asked "Did you understand any of that?" Now granted the neither he nor I had seen any of the previous Bournes, but when even your target audience is wondering what the hell just happened...
We had gone for Star Trek , and it was okay. Liked the character stuff, and unlike the first two it actually felt like Star Trek. But I kept losing my suspension of disbelief in the action scenes. There was some stunningly bad science and logic holes, even for Trek, and it kept throwing me out of the experience.
It's not looking good for Suicide Squad.
Suicide Squad is bad. Not fun bad. Not redeemable bad. Not the kind of bad that is the unfortunate result of artists honorably striving for something ambitious and falling short. Suicide Squad is just bad. It's ugly and boring, a toxic combination that means the film's highly fetishized violence doesn't even have the exciting tingle of the wicked or the taboo. (Oh, how the movie wants to be both of those things.) It's simply a dull chore steeped in flaccid machismo, a shapeless, poorly edited trudge that adds some mildly appalling sexism and even a soupçon of racism to its abundant, hideously timed gun worship. But, perhaps worst of all, Suicide Squad is ultimately too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting. At least revolting would have been something.
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If you can believe it, Suicide Squad is even worse than Fantastic Four.
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Slightly more positive review: [link]
I mean, at least the got The Wall right.
I was uneasy when I saw their version of The Joker, then heard about how the actor was getting into character. I like my Joker to be the witty, intelligent, bat(heh)shit crazy guy in the natty purple suit.
"Look at this rain! I could just kill the weather man. Hm, that's a thought."
I mean, at least the got The Wall right.
I would see it just for The Wall, except...no. I'd rather see Ghostbusters again. And I still need to see Star Trek.
The more I see how much of a clusterfuck the Warner/DC movies have been, and just how mediocre the Fox/X-Men movies have been (Deadpool excepted), I am just amazed at the job that Kevin Feige has done at Marvel. I mean, even the worst of the Marvel films have this veneer of professionalism that the other movie studios can't seem to match.
Yay! I am actually happy to have an excuse to skip Suicide Squad. Sounds like whoever is on top has no idea how to make this franchise thing work. The only thing I'm concerned about is the Wonder Woman movie, which I really, really want not to suck for obvious reasons.
As I said elsewhere, Wonder Woman managed to be awesome even when surrounded by a glowering silent Superman, murderous xenophobic Batman, Lex Luthor doing a Jim Carrey impression and a cave troll stolen from Fellowship of the Ring. In the hands of a competent director I feel good about her movie's chances.
Some butthurt DC fanboys have mounted a petition to shut down Rotten Tomatoes for the bad reviews of Suicide Squad: [link]
I've been giggling over this for solid 10 minutes now. Do they even know how RT works?
Oh, well, if they have a PETITION...
