Last movie you watched......

King Shark absolutely needed to be in that movie, dammit. I don't know how anybody can watch it and think otherwise.

You are missing part of the point. These people are awful. Flag and Ratcatcher 2 are about as close as they come to decent people, but the rest of them are monsters. Some of the monsters are just worse than others, and Waller is probably the worst of them all.

 

Them keep him in it and don’t indiscriminately slaughter everyone for laughs.

 

We get it. You missed the point and have no interest whatsoever in having anyone help you see it.

So much of the movie is focused on revealing the true monsters, people like Waller. Unlike King Shark, the real monsters in that movie are people who could actually exist.

Yes, much of the movie is built on very dark humor. I don't know how you could have gone into that movie expecting anything different.

 

Nah, you missed the point.

They senselessly killed hundreds if not thousands and had a jolly good time doing it. Such as when they went into the camp and had a kill-off of everyone before finding out they just killed all the good guys. And no one batted an eye.

Dark humor is fine. I don't enjoy watching massacres being played for fun.

 

I went and watched The Suicide Squad with a friend today -- first film in theater since 1917 in early 2020.

I largely agree with TSP. I enjoy dark humor and laughed several times, but it's just way too much violence, and it's nothing significantly different from what's already been added to the genre. And it doesn't say anything about violence that hasn't already said been said better by other films or TV shows (see: The Boys).

Though I long ago burnt out on superhero films in general. On the contrary to what someone said earlier, the last 20 minutes were far and away the worst part of the film. They just can't do a superhero film without a CGI destruction of a large city in the third act, can they?

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And they ultimate demise of starfish is among the stupidest ever. A bunch of rats? How thick is that starfish monster? How could rats biting its skin have caused it to be so distracted or cause it so much pain? Yeah, yeah, they get in through the eye chew through its nervous system thanks to Quinn's javelin. It should have never quit moving in the first place and should have been blocks away by the time Quinn ever did that.

 

The individual songs -- as video singles -- in that movie were pretty good.

The "plot" of the movie was sheer idiocy, but the musical performances weren't bad.

All year long (1976-77) before that movie was released, there were rumors the Beatles would appear at the end, based mostly on the involvement of George Martin as musical director.

 

The horror of these people's actions was the point. Did you not see the trailers? Unless you went in completely blind, I don't understand how you could decide to see this movie, then make that your complaint.

 

I go to pretty much all the superhero movies with a group of friends. I don't think they showed all of the senseless slaughter in the trailers. So who is to know how much of it would fill the movie? Remember when the Man of Steel and The Avengers finished with gigantic fights that destroyed major cities but our heroes were deemed heroes because they survived and stopped it -- but what about all the people who died and billions of dollars in property damage from the plot device? It received a lot of criticism. I think it is a problem with comic book movies and also something they've tried to shy away from in movies since.

I remember not liking Kill Bill, mostly because I didn't enjoy when she killed all the ninjas. I thought it was excessive. (And Harley Quinn going through half the army was basically an homage to that.) Meanwhile, I enjoyed John Wick (the first one at least) despite the entire movie being about him exacting revenge by shooting just about everyone he meets in the head. And I went to see the latest Halloween movie in the theaters despite knowing what it was all about. (And I didn't like it because I thought it was mostly stupid, not because a bunch of people were killed.)

Remember -- just because I didn't like all the bloodshed doesn't mean you can't still enjoy the movie.

 

I guess you don't like war movies.

 

War movies are a totally different thing. They aren't depicting mass murder just for fun.

 

Your issues have no bearing at all on my enjoyment of the movie. I thought it was very clear that this was going to be extremely violent. To be fair, I read a review that addressed the violence, including the specifics of seeing a heart pierced inside a character's chest.

One of the bits with King Shark was a bit much, but again, this is James Gunn without Disney looking over his shoulder. This is a guy whose mentor is Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma Entertainment. (Kaufman even has a cameo in the movie.)

 

But people have fun watching it.

I get what you are saying, but Game of Thrones is worshiped by some and is 100x more disturbing than this. There’s a lot of main stream death porn out there. I don’t think this is it.