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LuckyGungan2001 said:

Smithers said:

Suicide Squad 7/10

Wow, I thoroughly enjoyed this film but it is NOT flawless. Here are my quick thoughts:

• The first 20 minutes were edited very poorly, many scenes that should have been way longer ended up being chopped to shit while other scenes were way too long

• The tone was all over the place

• The reshoots were really obvious

• There were many things cut from the movie that either felt missing or ended up in the trailer

• The villain was really lame

• Joker was really good but he was very underused

• The flashbacks were all too choppy and short. Batman’s cameo was awkward and so was Flash’s.

That sounds like a heck of a lot of flaws for a seven out of ten movie.

Yeah, it’s more of a guilty pleasure to me but I think the second act and the dialogue/humour really made up for most of that.

Suicide Squad

6/10

Overall, a very dissapointing experience sadly. I awaited this with optimistim but felt it failed on many levels. The wonderful aspect of the movie that I feel salvages a positive review is the chemistry between the team and the some of the characters. I fucking loved DeadShot! He was funny, and infectiously charismatic. His action scenes were a lot of fun. I thought the Joker was decent but the sample size was too small for any real comparison between him and other performances. Harley Quinn was great also. And Viola Davis was pretty badass too. A couple cool action scenes and a fun soundtrack is about all that’s left of the positives.

Firstly, The characters that didn’t work for me were Rick Flag, Katana, Croc, Boomerang ,Diablo and Professor Moon. The relationship between Rick Flag and his girl was unsympathetic and forced. I’m in the minority on Diablo. I think that his character arc was also thinly written and developed. Croc, Katana and Boomerang barely had any presence. Croc and Boomerang were literally there for comedy purposes only.

And oh god the villain was AWFUL! The story, the issue, the conflicts the team runs into were poorly thought out. They had so much potential with such a fun group of characters but they instead end it with some dumb sorcery end of world shit. It just lagged on and on with a non climatic final battle. I wish they made “The Joker” the main villain for the film and by the end the team can escape with the joker and they have to choose. DeadShot doesn’t wanna choose evil again (cue flashback to daughter/batman alley scene) but they convince him that he’ll never be accepted if he goes back to Viola Davis. He then chooses to escape with the joker as he shoots his way out with tears drop down his face. A sad tragic ending that displays a villain seeking redemption but ultimately realizing how broken they are and how they’ll never be forgived.

The overall direction, pacing and editing was poorly executed. The team dynamic, humor, action and Viola Davis save it from being a piece of crap though. Still very sad that it didn’t live up to the potential it had.

Cautiously… excited for Wonder-Woman.

Well…the stuff they’ve done in The Killing Joke adaptation…is truly awful…like not only ill fitting and wrong…but just horrible…why do they continue to make these?
First they began by merely repurposing stories into simplified shortened DTV releases but this is…just look up the multitudes of clips all over YouTube. It’s bad enough that they’ve cheapened Babs in such a way but…who in the world thought this stuff was a good idea? The dialogue is ATROCIOUS!

SPOILER:

A stupid fight between comrades that sounds more akin to Robin chafing under Bruce’s control suddenly has costumes flying and sex on a rooftop?? WHAAAAAT just happened???

I gave up. I really did. I’ve never been a huge fan of the book anyway for what it did to Babs, and it’s really overrated. But still it would have been perfect for Conroy and Hamill to have another epic go round…so WHY do this to pad it so agonizingly?

Is it wrong that I never care to see another comic film adaptation ever again?
Didn’t think so.
At least not until they decide to actually adapt a comic property and not pretend to.

DuracellEnergizer said:

captainsolo said:
Is it wrong that I never care to see another comic film adaptation ever again?

Nope. I’m in a very similar boat.

If they do it right, I still want to see Kingdom Come someday, then I could stop watching comic movies forever and die happy.

Too bad, I just finished destroying the last copy of the film.

captainsolo said:

Is it wrong that I never care to see another comic film adaptation ever again?
Didn’t think so.
At least not until they decide to actually adapt a comic property and not pretend to.

Dark Knight Returns, Parts 1 and 2

The Bourne Ultimatum - 6/10

Throughout this film, one thought sat in my head. “Gee, I sure wish I was watching Identity again.” Not a bad film, but like Supremacy before it, it fails to live up to the first movie.

darthrush said:

captainsolo said:

Is it wrong that I never care to see another comic film adaptation ever again?
Didn’t think so.
At least not until they decide to actually adapt a comic property and not pretend to.

Dark Knight Returns, Parts 1 and 2

Watched these recently, meh. I prefer the comic itself. The movie is really faithful but they add in some stupid moments and it overall suffers from having a bunch of subplots that don’t connect. They should’ve just focused on one villain rather than 3.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – 5/10

Are you allergic to anything fun that doesn’t have Heather Langenkamp in it?

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

It was stupid, daft and completely over the top, but really, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have heaps of fun watching this, especially in the second half. It was great to see Robert Englund back in the role of Freddy Krueger, and he did a great job. The other acting was mostly mediocre, I can’t really point out any performance that was any worse or better than the others (apart from Englund’s). The action was great fun to watch, and the final confrontation did not disappoint (unlike the one from Alien vs. Predator). Overall, it had modest ambitions and mostly succeeded, though I can’t give it any higher than an average score.

5/10

Captain America (1990) - 9/10

Almost a masterpiece, and infinitely better than anything Marvel’s done in years. It’s better than the Captain America today, both in performance and plot. It even has better special effects! My only complaint is that it was too short. The film ended with me wanting more.

Overall, I give it a thumbs up!

Lord Haseo said:

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