Movie Review (as much a warning as a review) "Suicide Squad".
Aug 23, 2016 22:48:29 #
Aug 23, 2016 23:08:37 #
The last movie I saw in a theatre was Men In Black II, my daughter dragged me there. I have little use for the crap Hollywood produces, I don't even watch movies on TV. I pay extra for channels that show NASCAR, INDYCAR, Formula 1, and the NFL, that's where my priorities lie, the rest of the time, I'm on FOX NEWS!
Aug 24, 2016 05:28:31 #
Big Bill wrote:
Your projection is false.
Actually, I liked it. I do not do as some do, and try to see if logic is followed to the letter. I watch to be entertained, as I said.
I'm very happily married, so I don't really need to go to the movies to see a scantily clad woman.
No, not disappointed. Entertained.
If I want to nit pick, I'll watch reruns of Mythbusters.
Actually, I liked it. I do not do as some do, and try to see if logic is followed to the letter. I watch to be entertained, as I said.
I'm very happily married, so I don't really need to go to the movies to see a scantily clad woman.
No, not disappointed. Entertained.
If I want to nit pick, I'll watch reruns of Mythbusters.
"Nit pick"... the way I see it I'm picking on the cinematic mount Everest of fertilizer.Please seek help Bill.
Aug 24, 2016 05:46:13 #
bobm wrote:
Went to see Hell or High Water today. Mainly went because we were background and wanted to see if we made the cutting room floor. Damn good movie! It had great reviews but didn't even make the top ten this past weekend. Make up for wasting money on Suicide Squad and go enjoy Hell or High Water.
Thanks, I think it gets down here in October. I had a quick read of the synopsis... Sounds like a film I'd enjoy. In
the meantime I'm going to see "The Infiltrator". Bryan Cranston plays the lead.
Aug 24, 2016 05:57:35 #
charles tabb wrote:
"What really screws my mind is the fact that so far it has grossed point 5 billion US dollars... We are morons..."
You figured it out.... Just look at our Presidential Election. :-)
You figured it out.... Just look at our Presidential Election. :-)
It's just as bad here in Australia. Earlier this year we had a Federal election and came within
a hairs breadth of voting in a perjuring criminal union thug as Prime Minister. Thank Christ that did
not happen.
I miss the courageous John Howard leading this country very badly.
Aug 24, 2016 06:00:48 #
passumpsicjim wrote:
The last movie I saw in a theatre was Men In Black II, my daughter dragged me there. I have little use for the crap Hollywood produces, I don't even watch movies on TV. I pay extra for channels that show NASCAR, INDYCAR, Formula 1, and the NFL, that's where my priorities lie, the rest of the time, I'm on FOX NEWS!
Suicide Squad makes the MIB franchise look like absolute works of genius.
Do you prefer Indy cars or F1 Jim?
Aug 24, 2016 06:52:53 #
"Suicide Squad" has made $577,563,751 as of 8/24 so it is in danger of breaking even.
Aug 24, 2016 09:22:56 #
Big Bill wrote:
Your projection is false.
I do not do as some do, and try to see if logic is followed to the letter.
I do not do as some do, and try to see if logic is followed to the letter.
Right. If all movies were logical and scientifically accurate, there wouldn't be a movie industry. It's just entertainment, although this film seems to be a bit short on that. I wait for movies to come to TV.
Aug 24, 2016 10:33:53 #
Big Bill
Loc: Phoenix, AZ
Abo wrote: "Nit pick"... the way I see it I'm picking on the cinematic mount Everest of fertilizer.
Please seek help Bill.
"Nit pick"... the way I see it I'm picking on the cinematic mount Everest of fertilizer.Please seek help Bill.
Because I don't share your opinion or reason for watching a movie?
Are you serious?
Aug 24, 2016 10:57:07 #
tramsey wrote:
This post got my thinking, what was the last movie I saw? When I discovered what it was I was astounded it has been that long, how about Barbara Streisand's 'Yentel', 1983.
NO wonder you haven't gone back to the movies again.
Aug 24, 2016 23:14:54 #
PhotoArtsLA wrote:
"Suicide Squad" has made $577,563,751 as of 8/24 so it is in danger of breaking even.
I know you can't believe everything thing you read on the internet (ironic eh.), but I read "it' cost
$175 million to produce... If that's correct (and please let me know if my source is horse feathers)
and if it has made $577 meg, "it"'s $402meg and change in the green sir???
Aug 24, 2016 23:54:38 #
Big Bill wrote:
Because I don't share your opinion or reason for watching a movie?
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
Not on that point Bill... enjoyment of most things is subjective.
Personally if I had to find an upside to the movie, first and foremost,
I could pause the show from time to time and pick a still frame and
feel I was looking at an artful image... Trouble is for me and many
others a still image is not a movie...
and to make the still below work I had to crop out about 75% of the dross.
Of course if "Harley" was gazing into the audience/camera, not space, it would
be a better picture.
Bill, can you say what it was about the picture you enjoyed?
Aug 24, 2016 23:57:19 #
Aug 25, 2016 10:33:14 #
Big Bill
Loc: Phoenix, AZ
Abo wrote:
Not on that point Bill... enjoyment of most things... (show quote)
Quite simply, when I watch a movie, I want to be entertained. I don't try to analyze the artistic merit or skill, I watch to have fun.
Suicide Squad entertained me. Why? Simply because it was so over the top, it was funny. Campy.
I get it that others didn't like it, that's not a problem to me. Maybe I have a different sense of humor than others. I even liked Jerry Lewis, and I'm not French!
I've sat through a lot of movies that the critics raved about, but I didn't like. Maybe it's because I don't like the idea of having to pay to be lectured on morality.
I liked The Wild Bunch even though it was widely panned as too violent. There were several historical errors (an M-1917 machine gun in 1903?), but it was a fictional story in which no actual people were harmed.
I can separate fiction from fact, so Suicide Squad was seen by me for what it was; a piece of entertainment, and not much more. Not to be taken seriously.
Maybe not the answer you wanted. I don't know.
Viva la difference!
Aug 25, 2016 15:54:51 #
My worst successful movie list would have to include 2001: A Space Odyssey. My grandfather took me to see it when I was 9; I fell asleep. I tried to watch it again when I was 39; I fell asleep again. I will not try to watch it again when I'm 69 because I might not wake up.
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