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Dana - Aug 02, 2016 9:05:22 am PDT #202 of 3455
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

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.

and

If you can believe it, Suicide Squad is even worse than Fantastic Four.

[link]

Tom Scola - Aug 02, 2016 9:18:48 am PDT #203 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Slightly more positive review: [link]

I mean, at least the got The Wall right.

Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2016 9:21:51 am PDT #204 of 3455
brillig

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."

Steph L. - Aug 02, 2016 9:23:26 am PDT #205 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

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.

Tom Scola - Aug 02, 2016 9:43:48 am PDT #206 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

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.

Vonnie K - Aug 02, 2016 11:36:53 am PDT #207 of 3455
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

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.

Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2016 4:52:17 am PDT #208 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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.

Vonnie K - Aug 03, 2016 5:58:58 am PDT #209 of 3455
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

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?

Dana - Aug 03, 2016 6:37:57 am PDT #210 of 3455
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Oh, well, if they have a PETITION...

lisah - Aug 07, 2016 5:40:15 am PDT #211 of 3455
Punishingly Intricate

Holy cow, Don't Think Twice is terrific.

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