zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Went to Boston to get away for a few days and took advantage of going to movie theater. Went twice. Saw The Suicide Squad and The Green Knight. Suicide Squad was very fun and enjoyable.
Suicide Squad was pretty great. It was fun, It was leagues better than the first one. Which to be fair, I think the OG suffered from studio interruption, which isn't something Gunn would have allowed. But I think the tone of the film being much more violent and much more graphic humor. It plays more like Deadpool or Doom Patrol which I think is better with a film where your heroes are villains.
I think the other huge advantage this film has over the OG is a more focused cast. This one essentially revolves around 6 characters, Flagg, Quinn, Bloodsport, Ratcatcher 2, Peacemaker, and Waller, Everyone else features in a role that aids one of those characters. And really, even Flag could be bumped down to helping Quinn.
The first film had essentially 6 main characters, but other characters with important threads. So while Deadshot, Quinn, FLag, Joker, Waller, and Enchantress, but there were soo many other characters with much more stuff that wasn't really important. Like a lot of time was spent on El Diablo to make his death seem more tragic, but no one cared.
King Shark could have had much more time talked about him, Polka Dot Man could have had more talked about him. But their motivations and backstory were handled quickly because they weren't really important to the story. Like I won't dive too much into the quality of the writing on the disposable characters who feel much more connected to than characters from the first film who had more space.
The Green Knight is a good film. I think it was trying too hard to be Oscar bait. I think Dev Patel will get a best actor nod, and could win it. I think the Set Design, Cinematography and Costuming were all great. But the film was just a bit hollow. I think it will be in the running for best picture, but it wasn't that great of a movie. I don't really want to see it again. I think it was a weird choice to cast Alicia Vikander as 2 roles which I get the general idea behind, but think it was too hamfisted of an approach. I didn't enjoy the ending personally as I think it does take the moral of the original story and just throws it away creating essentially a pointless story.
Suicide Squad was pretty great. It was fun, It was leagues better than the first one. Which to be fair, I think the OG suffered from studio interruption, which isn't something Gunn would have allowed. But I think the tone of the film being much more violent and much more graphic humor. It plays more like Deadpool or Doom Patrol which I think is better with a film where your heroes are villains.
I think the other huge advantage this film has over the OG is a more focused cast. This one essentially revolves around 6 characters, Flagg, Quinn, Bloodsport, Ratcatcher 2, Peacemaker, and Waller, Everyone else features in a role that aids one of those characters. And really, even Flag could be bumped down to helping Quinn.
The first film had essentially 6 main characters, but other characters with important threads. So while Deadshot, Quinn, FLag, Joker, Waller, and Enchantress, but there were soo many other characters with much more stuff that wasn't really important. Like a lot of time was spent on El Diablo to make his death seem more tragic, but no one cared.
King Shark could have had much more time talked about him, Polka Dot Man could have had more talked about him. But their motivations and backstory were handled quickly because they weren't really important to the story. Like I won't dive too much into the quality of the writing on the disposable characters who feel much more connected to than characters from the first film who had more space.
The Green Knight is a good film. I think it was trying too hard to be Oscar bait. I think Dev Patel will get a best actor nod, and could win it. I think the Set Design, Cinematography and Costuming were all great. But the film was just a bit hollow. I think it will be in the running for best picture, but it wasn't that great of a movie. I don't really want to see it again. I think it was a weird choice to cast Alicia Vikander as 2 roles which I get the general idea behind, but think it was too hamfisted of an approach. I didn't enjoy the ending personally as I think it does take the moral of the original story and just throws it away creating essentially a pointless story.
