PSA for The Suicide Squad
Aug. 5th, 2021 11:11 pmI just got back from seeing The Suicide Squad. It wasn't a movie that was even on my radar but ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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: ( slightly spoilery warnings about animal harm, general harm, and a few other extreme warnings )
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: ( slightly spoilery warnings about animal harm, general harm, and a few other extreme warnings )
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.
