PSA for The Suicide Squad
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gwynI just got back from seeing The Suicide Squad. It wasn't a movie that was even on my radar but minim_calibre invited me and I'm a sucker for an invitation to go to movies with min. It's deeply, deeply weird. This isn't casting shade on it necessarily, I think we both sort of spontaneously mentioned that on our own. It's also something that we agreed was maybe the best performance Idris Elba's given in years, which in itself is deeply deeply weird when you think about it.
But for anyone contemplating seeing it, I wanted to give you a heads up: The very first minute, a character violently kills a pretty little songbird. Within the next couple minutes, a humanoid weasel type creature dies. Partway through the movie, an entire captive flock of pet birds are killed in the most horrific way. The sort of villain creature is kind of a product of torture so frankly you almost kind of don't mind if it kills everyone, and they don't really redeem it. There's a rat sidekick for one of the main characters, and I spent the entire movie scared it was going to be killed even though it was just CGI, but fortunately it's one of the only ones who isn't offed, but I definitely felt like they wanted to keep us guessing and nervous about it.
It's also super, super gory. Like, if you have issues with gore, but you, say, loved Harley Quinn's movie, you might want to think twice about if you can stomach this one. I don't have issues with it but even min and I were like, wow, that was gory and violent. They kind of go out of their way to earn their hard R and be grotesque. They kill off a lot of the characters, so don't get super attached to everyone beyond the big name stars. There are also a few scenes of extreme body horror. That's a basic list.
So if those aren't super deal breakers for you, go with God, you know. I'm still figuring out what I thought--a lot of it really bugged me, and like all superpowered action movies it's 30 minutes too long and really noisy, but then they pulled out the team feels or the found family type shenanigans and I was like, well, crap. Also, Viola Davis, you know what I mean?
Did I hate it or like it? I don't know! So I would definitely be interested to hear what other people thought. Comments welcome, so spoiler warnings for them that hates 'em.
Also to add: rather hilariously, when the movie started the Disney logo came up and I was like wait what? And after a few seconds this narration began and I was like this is definitely not the right movie, and it seemed a few other people were murmuring about being confused about what movie they were in. And it became very clear that it was Jungle Cruise. It looked like a bunch of different people went out to tell them that they were showing the wrong movie, but there were a ton of people including us, who were looking at their phones going wait are we in the right auditorium? And it took them a good five minutes at least to stop the movie and then a few more minutes to put the right one in, and it was actually toward the end of the movie so a bunch of people were booing. I suppose it was sort of apropos and matched the tone of the experience.
minim_calibre invited me and I'm a sucker for an invitation to go to movies with min. It's deeply, deeply weird. This isn't casting shade on it necessarily, I think we both sort of spontaneously mentioned that on our own. It's also something that we agreed was maybe the best performance Idris Elba's given in years, which in itself is deeply deeply weird when you think about it.But for anyone contemplating seeing it, I wanted to give you a heads up: The very first minute, a character violently kills a pretty little songbird. Within the next couple minutes, a humanoid weasel type creature dies. Partway through the movie, an entire captive flock of pet birds are killed in the most horrific way. The sort of villain creature is kind of a product of torture so frankly you almost kind of don't mind if it kills everyone, and they don't really redeem it. There's a rat sidekick for one of the main characters, and I spent the entire movie scared it was going to be killed even though it was just CGI, but fortunately it's one of the only ones who isn't offed, but I definitely felt like they wanted to keep us guessing and nervous about it.
It's also super, super gory. Like, if you have issues with gore, but you, say, loved Harley Quinn's movie, you might want to think twice about if you can stomach this one. I don't have issues with it but even min and I were like, wow, that was gory and violent. They kind of go out of their way to earn their hard R and be grotesque. They kill off a lot of the characters, so don't get super attached to everyone beyond the big name stars. There are also a few scenes of extreme body horror. That's a basic list.
So if those aren't super deal breakers for you, go with God, you know. I'm still figuring out what I thought--a lot of it really bugged me, and like all superpowered action movies it's 30 minutes too long and really noisy, but then they pulled out the team feels or the found family type shenanigans and I was like, well, crap. Also, Viola Davis, you know what I mean?
Did I hate it or like it? I don't know! So I would definitely be interested to hear what other people thought. Comments welcome, so spoiler warnings for them that hates 'em.
Also to add: rather hilariously, when the movie started the Disney logo came up and I was like wait what? And after a few seconds this narration began and I was like this is definitely not the right movie, and it seemed a few other people were murmuring about being confused about what movie they were in. And it became very clear that it was Jungle Cruise. It looked like a bunch of different people went out to tell them that they were showing the wrong movie, but there were a ton of people including us, who were looking at their phones going wait are we in the right auditorium? And it took them a good five minutes at least to stop the movie and then a few more minutes to put the right one in, and it was actually toward the end of the movie so a bunch of people were booing. I suppose it was sort of apropos and matched the tone of the experience.
