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Post by Toph on Jul 13, 2015 21:29:52 GMT
I went back quite some ways, because I thought there was a thread for SS, but couldn't find it.
Comicon Promo sneak peek:
(Also don't know how to embed on mobil)
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 17, 2015 17:33:20 GMT
Fixed.
Still think the Joker looks dreadful.
Andy
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Post by Toph on Jul 17, 2015 18:40:55 GMT
Thank you!
But Harley looks amazing, though.
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Post by Jaymz on Aug 6, 2016 10:10:56 GMT
Watched this last night, very badly paced and very boring.
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Post by legios on Aug 6, 2016 21:49:34 GMT
Thank you! But Harley looks amazing, though. I'm not a fan of the look, going by the trailers or the posters. But then, they are just extending a trend with Harley that has been accelerating in an over-sexualised direction since the first Arkham game and does not really agree with me. I prefer my Harleen Quinzel to be more "odd" than "on display". I'm still not sure if I was going to go and see this. I had the opportunity today but ended up deciding I'd rather go see Jason Bourne punch people instead. It has come to a pretty pass when they do a movie-version of Suicide Squad and my reaction as a long-time fan of the Ostrander stuff is more "do I _have_ to?" than "how soon can I get a ticket?" Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2016 21:54:26 GMT
I've never been interested in the comic series and have found the director's previous films to be tonally very nasty and unpleasant to watch so I shall give this is a miss. It's just not for me.
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on Aug 7, 2016 1:37:45 GMT
I'm not a fan of the look, going by the trailers or the posters. But then, they are just extending a trend with Harley that has been accelerating in an over-sexualised direction since the first Arkham game and does not really agree with me. I prefer my Harleen Quinzel to be more "odd" than "on display". I'm still not sure if I was going to go and see this. I had the opportunity today but ended up deciding I'd rather go see Jason Bourne punch people instead. It has come to a pretty pass when they do a movie-version of Suicide Squad and my reaction as a long-time fan of the Ostrander stuff is more "do I _have_ to?" than "how soon can I get a ticket?" Karl There was one shot in the movie where Harley and Joker emulate the Alex Ross Batman Harley Quinn cover, original costume style, looked good. One of the few things DC Nu52 did right was to desexualize Harley's origins, where she actual earnt her doctorate rather than sleeping her way to the top. The pre-Rebirth series even had her accepting her relationship with the Joker was a purely abusive one and moving past it and him. Only took 25 years, but they finally got there. This movie is full-on abusive relationship territory though, which I'm hoping they quickly move past if Harley gets a solo flick. |
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Post by legios on Aug 7, 2016 16:02:46 GMT
One of the few things DC Nu52 did right was to desexualize Harley's origins, where she actual earnt her doctorate rather than sleeping her way to the top. I'll be honest I hadn't followed what they had done in terms of changing her for the comics. In my head she still has the same origin she had in B:TAS, which didn't mention anything of that. Ehhhh. Right, that is another reason for me to skip it then. Considering that even Bruce Timm was backing off on that within about a year of introducing her... I was pondering this yesterday and I think you have tipped the scales, I'm skipping the Squad I think. Plenty of other things coming out which look less unappealing. Karl |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 7, 2016 17:21:17 GMT
Not as good as suggested by the trailers. Still much better than MoS and BvS:DoJ.
Martin
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Aug 7, 2016 18:10:37 GMT
Not as good as suggested by the trailers. Still much better than MoS and BvS:DoJ. Martin You can tell all the best bits were in the last trailer. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 17, 2016 0:03:32 GMT
FInally watched it.
Didn't hang together very well, and quite distasteful in places.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2016 10:14:51 GMT
I found the director's previous work to be very distasteful in tone which is why I did not see this film.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 17, 2016 12:17:02 GMT
I liked some of the characters or at least the actors performances, Smith and Robbie and whoever was playing Waller? Ozzy bloke too.
Oh and Batfleck continues to make me happy.
but yeah it was a mess of a film.
Joker was terrible. I want to watch a good Harley Quinn movie, but I do not want to experience Letos Joker again.
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 17, 2016 12:18:35 GMT
And despite that its the best of the 3 DCU efforts.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 17, 2016 12:19:49 GMT
And despite that its the best of the 3 DCU efforts. Nah, I enjoyed BvS more than this clusterf*ck. |
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 17, 2016 12:29:42 GMT
You might be right, but in all likelyhood I'll rewatch Suicide Squad for the performances I liked long before BvS.
BvS is the Attack of the clones of the DCU, if I could watch a version with about all of the Superman side removed (also probably lex too now that I think about it), then great, but as is it'll be a long time before I can bring myself to do so. Everything about it aside from Batflack wore me down.
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Post by Toph on Dec 25, 2016 3:50:32 GMT
So I finally saw this.
It was a servicable popcorn flick, and considerably the most fun this continuity has been since they decided to leave Krypton in MoS (seriously, the Krypton part was amazing, the rest...ugh)
But what's hilarious?
After all the wretched scummy BS Leto pulled on and off set, and going on and on for months endlessly in interviews about how torturous being Joker is...
His Joker turns out to be the absolute blandest, most generic, and utterly unremarkable version of Joker that's ever been on a TV or movie screen.
That guy in Gotham is kicking his ass royally. Mark Hamill is the most iconic Joker there ever was, and manages to do it without being a terrible human being.
Even Jesse Eisenberg gave a better performance as Joker in BvS. And he wasn't even Joker!
As for Harley/Joker, supposedly there was a lot more in the story, and the movie was supposed to spotlight their relationship as being terrible as it is, and be her learning to free herself of it.
But supposedly two things happened: all the shite Leto pulled resulted in the director cutting a ton of his stuff out as punishment, and the other thing was BvS happened. WB wasn't too happy with fan reaction to it being so grimdark, and resulted them wanting Suicide Squad to be much tonally lighter, and thus even more Joker/Harley scenes got cut.
The result paints their relationship as Abuse=love.
From what I hear they're on the DVD, though.
Maybe Gotham Sirens will correct this, but this is the Nu51 based DCCU, and the same director though, so my expectations aren't high.
There's always Wonder Woman, Flash, and Aquaman though. Those three are shaping up to be the three that make the DCCU.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 25, 2016 21:38:37 GMT
Thought the lass playing Enchantress was one of the most wooden and dead eyed performers I have ever seen. Taking the crown from Harry Hamlin and Monty Sopp.
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2017 21:36:10 GMT
Andu made me watch Suicide Squad today. Sadly I must report it was by far the most boring film I have watched in quite some time. Nowt to get annoyed about, just banal in every department. I doubt it will stick in my memory!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 11, 2017 21:22:13 GMT
Now all that remains is for me to inflict it on the Kaptain!
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on May 11, 2017 21:27:03 GMT
Suicide Squad is my film for this week from Lovefilm. It shall be watched on Saturday night.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 11, 2017 21:29:02 GMT
Suicide Squad is my film for this week from Lovefilm. It shall be watched on Saturday night. Oh dear lord no! SAVE YOURSELF! |
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Post by Pinwig on May 11, 2017 21:32:48 GMT
It has to be done. I take solace in the fact I haven't bought it, it's just turned up as part of the monthly £5.99 sub. I can only scoff and guffaw if I've seen it...
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Post by The Doctor on May 11, 2017 21:33:17 GMT
Poor Pinwig.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 11, 2017 21:34:15 GMT
I haven't done Batfleck vs Superman yet either.
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Post by The Doctor on May 11, 2017 21:37:21 GMT
BVS DOJ is one of those films for me that is utterly rubbish but yet still very enjoyable. Affleck is so awful as Batman he comes round the other side to greatness. It's the only Synder film I can sit through.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 14, 2017 19:03:09 GMT
I quite enjoyed BVS DOJ.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on May 20, 2017 21:50:22 GMT
No Eurovision this week so I had to watch this. I'm ambivalent really. I know absolutely nothing about the DC universe so I'm not invested in these characters. Some truly awful dialogue. It spent forever having to infodump all the character backgrounds because there were so many and even then I didn't really feel like I knew any of them. Marvel does this so much better, but I had to wonder if this is what people who know nothing about Marvel get out of the MCU, ie, a bland action film full of posturing and nothing else.
Reckon a better film would have been to cut half the cast and just focus on Will Smith's character.
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Post by Toph on Oct 15, 2018 6:44:02 GMT
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