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Having HBO means watching movies that due to not very enthusiastic word of mouth I didn't bother seeing in the theatre, and they never made it to Netflix instant but are currently available to watch on HBO Now so might as well. So this week I've watched Batman V Superman, which had elements I found annoying, mostly Jesse Eisenberg was a shit Lex Luthor, they have Wonder Woman in it and she says nothing, and Doomsday's design was terrible.
Watched Suicide Squad today. Totally serviceable movie. Could've been should've been better and was just okay. I actually didn't mind Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. I hate that she didn't wear the jester outfit more. Leto as The Joker was meh, but he really is in the shadow of two former damn good performances by way of Nicholson and Ledger. Suicide Squad was a movie you can enjoy while you're watching it, but really doesn't stick with you once its over.
Finally, I watched The Green Inferno. Before watching this movie I had yet to say I liked any Eli Roth movies. Not a fan of Cabin Fever or either of the two Hostels, and I had not heard anything to make me look forward to The Green Inferno, but since it was available to watch I gave it a shot. This was another case of, "that's it?" And I think I feel that way about Roth over all. I honestly don't feel he had anything to add to the "cannibal" film as a sub-genre. It neither challenged its audience, or shocked them. It was gory, but really the horror aspects of it were no more cringe inducing than anything he had already done in Hostel. The cannibalism aspects were not frightening or disturbing, just gory. One might say Roth had a point with the whole social media activism, but he didn't explore that enough to drive any point of view on it. That's my mediocre movie marathon.
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