Tuesday, August 16, 2016

10 Dumb things in Suicide Squad, the 2016 film


  1. Deadpool's daughter. Why do I give a shit? In a movie about antiheroes, you make Deadpool basically a good guy outside of his headhunting, which is basically what Rick Flagg does anyway.
  2. Harley Quinn's character at certain point of the film: it really made it hard to get into. I understood certain parts that she was supposed to be a woman obsessed with the Joker. But when she had to keep doing the puns, get strapped in by the police, go down at the Joker's strip bar, and keep supposedly joking about death, where there was no punchline, it really seemed to be elementary fanfiction.net garbage attempts at looking cool rather than being cool.
  3. Machines: Why does the Enchantress not like machines? Commercialism? Henry Ford and the Assemblyline? Lack of human evolution due to reliance on other objects? I guess she might've mentioned that they didn't praise the Enchantress and her brother as Gods anymore. But so what?
  4. The Flagg-Enchantress romance. Your top arm and a being consuming one of your staff are together and you don't keep tabs on them? I understand that she teleports, and that Waller's character is supposed to be that of a right wing incompetent, but this just seemed obvious, elementary and stupid.
  5. June says choose between killing the enchantress over saving her. But he needs the Enchantress for his job and I don't get her reasoning for wanting to kill the enchantress. She's part of her body, she'll die without the Enchantress, they both have the same job anyway, (to serve Waller,) and Rick Flagg himself is a mercenary, so he's no better than the Enchantress anyway.
  6. Harley Quinn cell. I understand this is supposed to be for humor, but where DID she get a cell phone to call the Joker?
  7. Boy Slipknot was smart trying to escape in a Battle Royale ripoff.
  8. Why did they introduce Harley Quinn's powers near the end of the film? Also, Batman knocking her out makes the Metahuman Acme Chemicals explanation questionable.
  9. Rick Flagg calls Deadshot a serial killer with credits. Rick Flagg is no better again, and gets paid by Waller to kill people just like Deadshot does.
  10. Killing Harley Quinn. What does Waller gain from Killing Harley Quinn in the film? She'd lose a bargaining chip against Deadshot, by giving him something he wants over a woman who just ran away and could be recaptured. Harley joined later anyway making that point even worse. Their mission was to defeat the Enchantress and save the world, having nothing to do with Harley Quinn. A helicopter shoots them down later anyway, so there was no point testing Deadshot.

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