re: Suicide Squad ***SPOILERS*** and Review Thread

didnt read all 6 pages of this thread.....just got out of the theater....5/10

-what was with the dialogue? And I dont mean the script. The script may have been somewhat decent, but the actual words, the dialogue....was so corny and contrived. I got the sense that they were trying to emulate a comic book word-for-word. There's a reason a comic reads like a comic, there's only so much real estate in that bubble to fill with text. Why would they limit the actors to an endless series of 5 word sentences?

-The editing...it wasnt as bad as BvS and that non-linear jigsaw puzzle of a story path, but the REM pattern of shot to shot to shot to shot doesnt give any credence to any pacing. Jump....jump....jump....jump....jump....like a chris cross video. The first half wasnt a movie, just a series of edited featurettes spliced together. It felt more like a YouTube fan mashup video than a movie.

-I like Joel K. Loved him in The Killing. But Flagg was a terrible character. I thought he did the best with what he was given to work with, but that script....geebus

-Soundtrack, was too much. They over-saturated the entire movie with one pop hit after another, It gave no credence to any scene with a good song. It was just Shrek and Joan Jett over and over and over again

-Where/what was the 2nd act?? There was a 1st act.....then a realllllllllly long 3rd act. Virtually no transition


It sucks, because there's good material there on film. You can see it. There are hints everywhere that this could be a really fun movie, it just got lost somewhere in the mix.