[Movie] Suicide Squad

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
We have yet to discuss Suicide Squad.

Thoughts? Do you plan to go on opening weekend?
 
Not sure how I feel about it. But good on the trailers for not spoiling the whole movie, I still don't know what the story is other than bad guys forced to fight for the "good" guys.
 
I would have wanted to see it when I was 10, but my parents would not have let me watch it, so I would have had to sneak out, but it was a small town back then, the ticket lady would have called my mom and told her I was watching the movie I was not allowed to see....
 
I think I've been to a movie theater once since 2005.
 
I don't go on opening weekend for anything, not since a certain movie opened in 1977.
 
EdFred said:
I think I've been to a movie theater once since 2005.
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You need to get out more, lol. We have a Warren Theater a few miles from the house and we go 2-3 times a year for date night. Reasonably-priced food served, beer, heated reclining seats, fabulous Atmos sound, 30's cinema styling, it's always a positive experience.


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If the plot involves a bus full of kardashians sailing into the Grand Canyon while on fire and exploding then I will watch it. If not then not interested.
 
EdFred said:
I think I've been to a movie theater once since 2005.
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My dad has you beat, the last movie he saw in the theater was the original Godfather!! 1972? He is not a movie fan, but he reads 3 books a week!
 
Seeing it? Absolutely. Opening weekend? Absolutely not.
 
wayne said:
Seeing it? Absolutely. Opening weekend? Absolutely not.
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Yup


Saw the latest Borne movie. Pass. Crap story, passable acting, and the director was shaking the camera like a spastic monkey to make it seem like there was constant action. If you get seasick, don't see this movie in a theater.
 
Art VanDelay said:
I would be hard pressed to think of a stupider movie.
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Thanks.... I'm not the only one. I didn't think adults watched stupid stuff like this. Heck my 13 year old son wouldn't even like this kind of garbage. I guess we are down to earth and normal.
 
Growing SO tried and sick of one Marvel/DC movie after another.

What about something new and refreshing as opposed to Iron Man 4 or whatever.
 
Nothing preventing anyone from writing and making their own movie if you don't like what's out there.
 
Scrabo said:
Growing SO tried and sick of one Marvel/DC movie after another.

What about something new and refreshing as opposed to Iron Man 4 or whatever.
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Like the just announced remake of the 80's movie Splash? Please keep giving me marvel movies instead of remaking old movies that were not good to start with by twisting them in some manner. This time the mermaid is going to be male and played by Channing Tatum. This is really the kind of complete drek that Hollywood is green-lightning today. I believe this is one of the signs of the apocalypse.
 
Blindrage said:
Like the just announced remake of the 80's movie Splash? Please keep giving me marvel movies instead of remaking old movies that were not good to start with by twisting them in some manner. This time the mermaid is going to be male and played by Channing Tatum. This is really the kind of complete drek that Hollywood is green-lightning today. I believe this is one of the signs of the apocalypse.
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Mer-MAN!

 
I'll probably see it, some of the marvel/DC films are fun, others not so much, first iron man was cool, the recent batman (with joker) was good, dead pool was good, many of the others kinda sucked, like the most recent batman, which I could tell lol looked bad just from the previews.

Think this one might be fun.
 
I love good WWII movies based however loosely on real events. Comic book movies? Superheroes? Ugh. Let's pretend that Batman vs Superman really happened. Superman would put Batman down in two seconds or less. He can fly, shoot rays out his eyes... Batman is a rich dude with a utility belt. Not even an interesting notion. The premise of Batman being plausible because he's just a rich guy with gadgets is ruined by having an alien with super powers by introducing Superman.
 
Inception was an out of the box movie, no part 2, no remake...just a good movie. We need more original ideas.

I thought I read somewhere... lost in space was up for another remake...uhhhh
 
Lachlan said:
I love good WWII movies based however loosely on real events. Comic book movies? Superheroes? Ugh. Let's pretend that Batman vs Superman really happened. Superman would put Batman down in two seconds or less. He can fly, shoot rays out his eyes... Batman is a rich dude with a utility belt. Not even an interesting notion. The premise of Batman being plausible because he's just a rich guy with gadgets is ruined by having an alien with super powers by introducing Superman.
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Grab Batman, lift him up to 250nm AGL and let go.

Fight's over.


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Supposedly, there's a Goonies reboot they are working on. The entire premise of the Goonies movie would be solved today if one of the kids had a cell phone. Movie over. Some things you just can't remake.


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You guys must be batting for the other team (NTTIAWWT) if you don't want to see a movie that involves Margot Robbie in a skin tight shirt and skimpy shorts bouncing around for 2 hours. Plot? Who cares!

HRNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
 
DavidWhite said:
You guys must be batting for the other team (NTTIAWWT) if you don't want to see a movie that involves Margot Robbie in a skin tight shirt and skimpy shorts bouncing around for 2 hours. Plot? Who cares!

HRNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
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I do have to agree with this. What we really need is a spin-off movie of just Harley.
 
Stephanie B said:
Grab Batman, lift him up to 250nm AGL and let go.

Fight's over.
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I had similar ideas.

-wait til he sleeps, drop a mile-wide boulder on him
-throw him into the sun (or drop him off on Jupiter)
-bring him to the bottom of the ocean for ten minutes or an hour
-eye laser him to shreds from a mile up
-grab his batmobile as he's driving it, flip it upside down, smash it with your super feet until it's flat
-fly by at 450 knots, grab an arm on the way by, rip it off his body; repeat
-fly straight down, fist out, fast as you can, and pummel him into the earth about 10 miles down
-grab him, before he can act, super-squeeze the guts out of his body


Why there was any kind of "fight" means superman wasn't really trying to kill the bat.

I'd be way more of a jerk than superman is. From the trailer, batman asks if superman bleeds, and follows up with "you will"... I'd punch him so hard his lungs came out the other side of his chest. Then I'd ask "...you were saying what again...? I feel like it's apology time, don't you? ...or are you happier with your head traveling about a mile that way?"

Like I said, I would not be a noble superman with batman all being dicky and everything.
 
What if Batman has a kryptonite doped suit?
 
drop the boulder
car thrown into the sun
eye laser

A superguy still has options.

:)
 
falconkidding said:
Not sure how I feel about it. But good on the trailers for not spoiling the whole movie, I still don't know what the story is other than bad guys forced to fight for the "good" guys.
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Sounds like Dirty Dozen to me. the worst of the worst given an offer they can't refuse to make war against the bad guys.
 
Scrabo said:
Inception was an out of the box movie, no part 2, no remake...just a good movie. We need more original ideas.

I thought I read somewhere... lost in space was up for another remake...uhhhh
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(Caution: thread drift) not a remake of Lost in Space, but I've gotten hooked on the Syfy series Dark Matter. 7 people wake up from deep sleep but their memory has been wiped. So it's a little like LIS, but instead of not knowing where they are, they don't know who they are. Each episode yields another clue. And a hot female android.
 
Since I started this thread, I'll add my impressions and review after seeing it today.

Summary: Don't waste you money paying for the full price evening or weekend ticket. At best, it's rental worthy or matinée like I did today.

Silver-Eagle's comment of "Dirty Dozen" was pretty apt. DD is a favorite movie of mine and it did appear the director and writers copied much of that playbook. At the beginning, much of you are seeing is "these are the characters, what their crimes were and how they were caught." Then as the story progressed, it was a lot of "if you disobey us, you die. If Rick Flag is killed you die." And on and on...

The plot and characters never got to any semblance of full RPM. Very muddy throughout and several were left behind. It was liked they rushed the better bits of the back story so they could get to the awful main plot. Leto's Joker needs to have his own movie.. He is that good in the role (reminds me of the way Heath Ledger played it) but he barely gets any screen time, and what he did have, we already saw 90% in the various trailers.

We do get to see Will Smith doing what he does best in action movies, being Will Smith and barely letting anyone else in the same scene have a chance at camera time.

The highlight of the movie was how well Margot played Harley Quinn. It was an excellent mix of sexuality and bat-sh_t insanity that makes you like Harley in the first place. Margot could (and should) take that character to her own production. Or better, do a film with Harley and Leto's Joker as the main characters and Batman as the antagonist. If you're reading that I think the film was drug down by having the other Squad members in the same movie, you're correct.

I saw the film at one of the Movie Taverns. Big Mistake. 75% of the film is night or dark room scenes, and the trivoli lights the theater uses so the waiters can find their way are always on, creating lots of light pollution and made it difficult to enjoy the cinematography. But even so, the film is not well lit or shot.

I was hoping that Warner Brothers would do something as irrelevant and badazz as Deadpool. Lord knows they had the comic book character pedigrees to make that happen. But unfortunately they didn't pull it off.

Maybe something can be salvaged in the sequel (and yes, that was foreshadowed during the credits)

But save your money... Split the rental with a group versus purchasing individual tickets.
 
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Just noticed Suicide Squad earned $135M opening weekend.
That demographic appears profitable.
 
oilburner said:
Just noticed Suicide Squad earned $135M opening weekend.
That demographic appears profitable.
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What did it cost to make? Not saying you aren't correct, but "profit" only comes after the thing is paid for.
 
denverpilot said:
What did it cost to make? Not saying you aren't correct, but "profit" only comes after the thing is paid for.
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Lol, look at accounting on most movies. Unless the thing was an unexpected blockbuster no movie ever makes money according to the studios. They use little tricks to have the cost of the movie equal whatever is brought in so that they can avoid almost all taxes on the things. There have been movies that made hundreds of millions on release that are still losers on the paperwork.
 
Blindrage said:
Lol, look at accounting on most movies. Unless the thing was an unexpected blockbuster no movie ever makes money according to the studios. They use little tricks to have the cost of the movie equal whatever is brought in so that they can avoid almost all taxes on the things. There have been movies that made hundreds of millions on release that are still losers on the paperwork.
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Wikipedia says there have only ever been 48 movies that have grossed more than $200M at opening, and only 19 that have grossed over $300M, ever. I think you're overstating it a bit claiming there's a lot of movies that made "hundreds of millions on release". Best estimate is that there are roughly half a million feature-length films in existence.

Of course, most of this isn't adjusted for inflation, but when you do and switch to total gross, "Gone With the Wind" still kicks *everything's* ass by $420M in goal gross. Followed by Avatar, Star Wars, Titanic, The Sound of Music, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, The Ten Commandments, Doctor Zhivago, Jaws, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. (Per Wikipedia anyway...)

But you specifically said "on release" which is fairly specific. Whether modern accounting principals mean that studios hide the profit doesn't really affect whether or not it made one. Many movies don't make back in reality what it cost to make them, just going by the Net/Net. And often they're really good movies, too.

This movie will do okay at the box office and will probably make more in rental revenue over its lifespan than anything.

My wife and I always jokingly say "Rental!" out loud during the pause between previews of the really awful stuff pre-main-event, on the rare occasion we see something in a theater these days. It always gets a chuckle.
 
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