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Noisey On Suicide Squad - Medieval Warefare

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

So you probably like him in Fight Club then?

I'm a post generation X, under-40 male aren't I?

[pepper_green]

jared leto looks like his personality would be like. looks like he would know what a constant mirror in front of him would be like.

like an underdeveloped james franco with an extra underdeveloped façade of cred and down to earth vibe.

[noisereductions]

My wife and I both loved it.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by pepper_green

jared leto looks like his personality would be like. looks like he would know what a constant mirror in front of him would be like.

like an underdeveloped james franco with an extra underdeveloped façade of cred and down to earth vibe.

I just learned that Leto won a fucking Oscar in 2014. How did I miss that? Maybe because it was so unlikely it didn't warrant thought.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

My wife and I both loved it.

We skipped it last night. Mostly because I'd worked for 12 straight days, and needed to just fucking rest. Lamest anniversary ever. Adulthood is terrible.

Now we've missed our chance to see it together for at least a week. Goddammit.

[louder]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

My wife and I both loved it.

I'll watch it in the next few days, based on your recommendation, since I trust your taste.

[Severian]

I still haven't seen it and my interest has declined steeply with every article I've read, including the favorable ones.

[louder]

Originally Posted by Severian

I still haven't seen it and my interest has declined steeply with every article I've read, including the favorable ones.

Asked a friend to come watch it with me, she said "nooo I heard it sucks."

[vulva]

It wasn't very good but it wasn't any worse than like Batman vs Superman or Civil War

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by Severian

I still haven't seen it and my interest has declined steeply with every article I've read, including the favorable ones.

you shouldn't do that man. I wish you had just seen it early and not been filled w/ negative press. The whole thing is stupid honestly. I think if this had come out a few years ago it would have been praised. It's just being compared to like 6 other comic book movies per year now. I think critics are overthinking shit they shouldn't. It had its holes and nonsense, but it was full of fun (unless you were one of those people that decided going in that you weren't going to let yourself have fun).

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

I hated that fucker then and I hate him now and I would love to punch him.

death to jordan fucking catalano

[LifeDistortion]

Well, to tell someone that they shouldn't let the critics deter someone from seeing a movie, that's what critic's support of a movie or dislike of a film is there for. Sure, we're welcomed to ignore criticism but the negative reviews of this movie were damn near universal. The problem is that DC movies of late have not been great, and they seem to really want to reach the heights of Marvel, putting out two movies or a year from their properties, but they have yet to make a solid movie post-Nolan's Batman trilogy. There were a lot of people who after Batman V. Superman were really hoping Suicide Squad would set the course right, and it didn't. To put out two bad movies in a row is not looking good for the near future. Fans want to be psyched for Wonder Woman, and Justice League, but DC have yet to prove they can pull off a solid good movie from beginning to end.

[!@#$%!]

why not wait for redbox and rent it for a dollar?

[Severian]

Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

Well, to tell someone that they shouldn't let the critics deter someone from seeing a movie, that's what critic's support of a movie or dislike of a film is there for. Sure, we're welcomed to ignore criticism but the negative reviews of this movie were damn near universal. The problem is that DC movies of late have not been great, and they seem to really want to reach the heights of Marvel, putting out two movies or a year from their properties, but they have yet to make a solid movie post-Nolan's Batman trilogy. There were a lot of people who after Batman V. Superman were really hoping Suicide Squad would set the course right, and it didn't. To put out two bad movies in a row is not looking good for the near future. Fans want to be psyched for Wonder Woman, and Justice League, but DC have yet to prove they can pull off a solid good movie from beginning to end.

There's a good column in all this somewhere. I think the main thing DC/WV fails to grasp is that the reason Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy was so amazing is because they recruited a director... Like, a serious filmmaker. They did not hire a "comic book director" like Zach Snyder, Kevin Smith or, bless his heart Joss Wheadon.

Batman Begins came with pretty low stakes. It was not an attempt to cash in on a trend or start a booming franchise. It had been a decades since the world's most popular super hero had been on screen, and the last film was so disastrous that there was really nothing to lose. So they went a little "arty" with it, and hired an indie director with an eye like Kubrick, and a penchant for epic scenes to rival that of Ridley Scott. Both parties benefitted. Nolan became a household name and got a big budget to make the Prestige, Inception, and Interstellar, and Batman got a surprisingly good kick in the pants.

Then they pulled out the stops and made a sequel that was recently voted favorite movie of all time by Twitter users.

They hired great actors, not just big names, but big names with balls.

Heath Ledger's Joker was not the result of method acting bizarro bullshit, or an actor succumbing to the madness of his character. It was an instance of an actor actually making a character better, not through schtick, but through excellent acting. Heath had COMPLETE control in that film. Control over himself playing the part, and control over everyone's Eyez as they watched him.

Somehow that has really fucked shit up for everyone to come after, though. Applying "method acting" techniques to the Joker is not what made that film a success. Going "extreme" was not what made it a success. Any of them. They were all just good movies with good, often excellent acting, and a brilliant vibe. They were actually pretty terrible as comic boom adaptations in the Avengers sense of the word.

They need to stop trying to replicate TDK, stop trying to build a shared universe, and just focus on making ONE good, solid film.

For what it's worth, I still think Man of Steel was a good, solid film. But even the audiences are spoiled by TDK at this point.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

you shouldn't do that man. I wish you had just seen it early and not been filled w/ negative press. The whole thing is stupid honestly. I think if this had come out a few years ago it would have been praised. It's just being compared to like 6 other comic book movies per year now. I think critics are overthinking shit they shouldn't. It had its holes and nonsense, but it was full of fun (unless you were one of those people that decided going in that you weren't going to let yourself have fun).

Man, I really wanted to go opening night. Like I said, it was my anniversary and we were going to go, but it fell through and I'm still pissed about that. Now it just doesn't make sense schedule wise for me to take the girlfriend any time soon, so I'm gonna either go by myself or wait for Blu Ray, but there's no way I won't see it, and I won't let the reviews fuck up my opinion of it if it's worth while. I think the BvS criticisms were insanely overdone. Overly dramatic. Ridiculously negative. It was a much better movie than I expected after reading what I read, and I expect SS will be the same, but I'm just not pumped enough to rush out and pay to see it by myself.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

or wait for Blu Ray

then that's going to be all of $2 at the redbox

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

then that's going to be all of $2 at the redbox

Yay!

Actually, I think Red Box is more than a little passé at this point. Movies are available on iTunes long before they're available on hard copy. For some reason nobody talks about it, but it's true. The "Ultimatw Edition" of Batman v. Superman was legally downloadable two weeks before it came out on DVD/BluRay.

And then there's always TPB. I don't pirate films often, but when I do, I find it to be almost absurdly easy. I'll bet there's a DVD quality boot of SS available right now on "The Bay."

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

Yay!

Actually, I think Red Box is more than a little passé at this point. Movies are available on iTunes long before they're available on hard copy. For some reason nobody talks about it, but it's true. The "Ultimatw Edition" of Batman v. Superman was legally downloadable two weeks before it came out on DVD/BluRay.

And then there's always TPB. I don't pirate films often, but when I do, I find it to be almost absurdly easy. I'll bet there's a DVD quality boot of SS available right now on "The Bay."

don't know about passé-- it's good for some things.

you said you wanted the bluray, and that's the cheapest place to get that sort of low-iq blockbuster shit. mental margarine from the supermarket kiosk. two-buck chuck, and pick up some potato chips.

grownups with jobs shouldn't be pirating unless it's rare/censored/out of print stuff. it's kind of embarrassing in this day and age i think, at least in countries with full access to everything online.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

don't know about passé-- it's good for some things.

you said you wanted the bluray, and that's the cheapest place to get that sort of low-iq blockbuster shit. mental margarine from the supermarket kiosk. two-buck chuck, and pick up some potato chips.

Yeah, but you often have to wait behind an overweight couple in sweatpants while they fight with their kids about how many games they can rent. I've tried, but I've never actually made it to the box.

grownups with jobs shouldn't be pirating unless it's rare/censored/out of print stuff. it's kind of embarrassing in this day and age i think, at least in countries with full access to everything online.

I don't do it often, really. Never with books, only in the direst of circumstances with music (and also, I only do it with albums that I have purchased and am waiting for, or albums I intend to purchase as soon as humanly possible.) Usually with a release that's important enough to me that I feel like I need to own the physical copy, in which case I'll consider a TPB visit while I'm waiting for te delivery. But I think the last time I did that was with the Life of Pablo, and I ended up subscribing to TIDAL for access to that thing, and then going to the official website and paying $20 for a digital purchase MONTHS after I'd already had access to it.

I try to be fair, but if an album "comes out" and I physically cannot buy it, then I will do what I have to do to be able to listen to it. I live in a small town for the first time in my life, and having no record store fucks up the whole process.

Same with movies. If I can, I'll rent, or go to the theater. But small town theaters don't show films like the Witch or Green Room, so my being employed an adult has no bearing on my ability to see it.

I always prefer owning things, or at least paying for what I get.

You wound me, sir.