The Suicide Squad: Everything I Loved (And The One Thing I Didn't)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- After the much maligned theatrical version of 2016's Suicide Squad saw Task Force X's cinematic hopes dashed for good, here comes James Gunn with The Suicide Squad. Thoughtful title. I break down my favourite moments from Idris Elba's Bloodsport, John Cena's Peacemaker, my thoughts on Malcolm Tucker aka Peter Capaldi as the Thinker... and the film's alien contingent. I then touch on the one thing that distracted me from giving this movie a perfect score...
The Suicide Squad directed by James Gunn. Starring Joel Kinnamen, Viola Davis, Idris Elba, Margo Robbie, Jai Courtney, Michael Rooker, Pete Davidson, Nathan Fillion, Peter Capaldi, John Cena, Alice Braga, Daniela Melichor.
CHAPTERS
0:00 - HECK, ITS PEACEMAKER!
0:18 - Mild Spoiler Review
7:59 -Heavy Spoilers hence forth
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I finished watching "The Suicide Squad" earlier and I loved it. It's very deceptive. When you think you've figured out it's style? It proves you wrong. The humour is dark and surreal but other times it switches the mood to serious. There are some beautiful visual moments and others that take you by surprise. For instance, what had been comical takes a sadder turn.
The cast? Everyone gets to have their space to breathe and John Cena in particular deserves credit for being damn good at comic and straight acting. Harley Quinn? She wasn't needed. They could've removed her and the film wouldn't have missed a beat. Iris? The real star of the show.
I feel like the closet thing to a true suicide squad game would be the darkest dungeon.
This dude spend 10 mins talking bad about Harley Quinn tf
Stfu about Harley already
I would love to see Deadshot, Bloodsport, DeathStroke, and Peacemaker in death dool. That what would be a really cool fight scene and maybe each ahs different agent I've to kill the other or as interference. Also, always got confused with Deadshot and Bloodsport since they sound similar, but would say Blood shot is deffently a top B villian or A villian before watching this movie. He is just too highly skilled with emotion.
Wouldn’t it be funny if weasel was in every suicide squad sequel and is always believed to have died in a stupid way but continues to survive and outlive everyone
that would be fun
Yes, I want him to be useless in multiple movies as a running gag, but always lives. Then he’s absurdly useful in one of them and then dies.
That would be funny
Oh my god, they killed Weasel! Bastards!
Thats a fantastic idea
The fact that John Cena wore the Peacemaker suit during press interviews is the best thing ever.
I love it
Well, it's the only way he could be seen.
@@ilovecoffeev kek 😂
@@danielcheeseflavoredtortil1302 Sorry, let me try again.
*clears throat*
The fact that John Cena wore the Peacemaker suit during press interviews makes my soul sing out in the purest joy imaginable. Its as if I'm soaring the skys in pure unadulterated bliss and harmony everytime that he dons that beautiful silver helmet.
Better?
You have my heart 👍✨
I love how Bloodsport and Deadshot are virtually the same character, Gunn still found a way to make Bloodsport a waaaaay more interesting character.
Will Smith put too much sarcasm into a borderline character, Idris puts more class into a darker character.
Same. When Bloodsport was introduced on screen I actually said "oh, so Idris is playing Will Smith in this one huh?" but Elba's portrayal made me care about the character way more than Smith's. I mean really Smith was just playing Smith - I didn't see Deadshot in there at all. He didn't really even do any interesting trick shots, he could have been one of the special forces team like Flag instead of an iconic villain and it would have made more sense, but of course he's an A-list celeb so they had to waste a named comic book character on him. Not to say I don't like Smith, he just wasn't a good fit for that role. To some extent Bloodshot was also just Elba playing Elba, but at least Elba's more brooding style fits the character much better and makes me believe in him. And he got to play with some cool gadgets AND out-shoot Peacemaker with a trick shot that was waaaay more impressive than literally anything Deadshot, the supposed master marksman of the DC world who can hit targets with his eyes closed and make multiple ricochet shots, did in the first movie.
Well, Idris is an actor. Will Smith is... Will Smith. We don't need his Deadshot back.
Yeahhh, I’ve heard Will Smith wants to come back for the next movie if there is one but quite honestly I hope he doesn’t.
I think Flag, Bloodsport and Deadshot are supposed to be three versions of the same characters.
I like how they used Harley Quinn. She wasn't vital to the plot, but she's absolutely vital to world building. She's the one person who sees a suicide mission as normal life, simultaneously providing comic relief and heightening tension for the other characters.
just like pokadot who didn't really care if he would die or not, Milton's death was such a good scene
That first scene on the beach, where Waller tells them they can't back down even though their cover is blown and the entire army is there, and Harley's just like "Okay" and pulls out the rocket launcher and gets to work is so funny. It gives her a reason to be on the team, too. I mean, IRL we know she's on the team because she's a main character and has plot armour, but in-world she seems like nothing but a liability, but her willingness to just throw herself into situations, and her ability to make others care enough to act against their own self-interests and go along with her, makes her an actually useful addition to a team of this nature.
@@TheDelinear I also suspect that Waller placed Harley and Flagg on that first beach team knowing it was going to be a blood bath because she knew those two were likely the only ones that would oppose her plan to just destroy the files.
I think she may have wanted them there because she hoped they would be killed, but she couldn't just detonate their head-bombs for no reason because then the rest of the Squad would abandon the mission.
(This is also a side theory, but I suspect Peacemaker may have known more than he was letting on and actually knew that the camp was full of freedom fighters. Maybe Waller had them target the camp because they wouldn't be cool with covering up Starfish and their numbers needed to be thinned for her plans.)
@@reesiuspeesiuspuffs3006 Peacemaker is definitely Waller's attack dog, and I think any theory regarding that is plausible
@@devforfun5618 Who's Milton?
"Another Suicide Squad" seems like an appropriate title for a sequel.
hell yeah
Suicide the Squad sounds cool too
“The Next Suicide Squad”?
A Subsequent Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squads
Starro at the end saying “I would’ve been happy in space gazing at the stars” before he died was so cool the fact that james gunn took a space starfish and made you feel for it is insane
He killed a tree and made me cry so I expected nothing less XD
I felt bad for Starro from the start, was that just me?
He asked the SS to help him when they first met him; And when he was free he let the SS go.
He prolly thought that they helped him and for them to come back and kill him.
America screwed Starro over too
James Gunn made me cry over rats... this guy can do anything 😂
It is arguably the best DC movie we've had so far. Probably rivaling Snyder Cut. Shows that studios should get their grubby hands off films and let creative minds do their thing.
Why is it that the one movie with immature af humour considred "the best X movie we've had so far". Points for the "rivaling Snyder Cut" though.
@@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961 ooooh we have an edge Lord over here
@@tigarson4955 Excuse me? I liked The Suicide Squad.
@@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961 it's just jokes, don't be offended please
Wrong. This movie was cheesiest as hell I would see Birds of Prey any other day instead of this. EVERY character is a foul mouthed edgy cliché.
I feel like Gunn handled Harley’s predictable inevitable survival by putting her in the team that got massacred right up front, so the tension in her situation came with *how* she survived, rather than whether or not she would. Which made the whole romance subplot hilarious, because we knew she was really in control / along for the ride the whole time. Brilliant, A+ use of the character imho, but hey I’m just one guy on the internet so 🤷
i totally agree, she is underestimated because realistically she shouldn't pose any threat and that is how she can deal with basically anything, she basically had an entire solo movie while the other characters were trying to save her, i had fun just imagining how bad her torture would fail, like, the only way someone can convince her to do anything is by threatening a child and i doubt anyone would think of that because no one expects her weakness to be empathy
I want to agree but I also have trouble agreeing. She was handled well but she still didn't need to be there in the first place. And I didn't like that both times she survived for literally no reason other than nobody shot her. It just felt forced to me that she was being kept alive. Everyone was massacred but they stopped shooting to take her. Why? She just killed the president of the country, an entire army walks in...nobody shoots her and they take her again....why?? For me the whole romance thing was just too random and misplaced. It's the only part of the movie I didn't enjoy.
This is a very good take
@jamrhein2 I 100% agree Harleys love scene was unnecessary and she wasn’t even a big part in the movie compared to Bloodsport, Peacemaker, King Sharks purpose throughout the film like I didn’t think she needed to be in the film but that’s just my opinion
@@jamrhein2 tbh if someone assassinated the president I’m pretty sure they’d want them alive, as they would assume they’re sent from some other country. I didn’t like that scene either but it feels quite realistic that they wouldn’t shoot her. They need info on why she just did that, and they can’t get that info if she’s dead.
The catchphrase I saw was “don’t get attached”, and god damn they really hammer that down
You could have easily predicted that they wouldn't kill some characters, like Harley.
@lilmil So what? He could have not included her to begin with, he could have not wasted screen time with pointless falling in love subplot, but he did...
If she is there, she ain't dying.
@@Wlof25 I didn't think flag and boomerang could die
@@kaimoney2611 So what? How does that refutes what i said?
@@kaimoney2611 agreed boomerangs death really threw me
I would fucking love more bloodsport he was the most enjoyable character in any DCEU film yet
His gun was awesome lol
Wish we got to see the helmet more but I guess you can’t exactly keep Idris Elbas face covered the whole movie
Same.
Him, PeaceKeeper, RatCatcher 2 and Sebastian 🥺
I wanna see them again someday.
Especially RatCatcher 2. She was such a heartwarming character.
@@danielandanthony8939 there’s a peacemaker show coming out on HBO
@@cornboyparth5154 atleast he wore it more than deadshot did
They should have done "fake scenes" for the trailers. To make it harder to tell who is gonna die.
yeah i'd love that!
I truely love that Idea BUT the first suicide squad film had a class action lawsuit against it for missing scenes from the trailers
@@Freshie207 and how many of them went through and succeeded? Entertainment media have exemptions for trailers to keep twists so that they aren’t ruined in the trailers
@@Freshie207 most marvel movies have missing scenes from trailer like Hulk in IW trailer. Or Loki overlooking from Avengers Tower in Loki Trailer
I said the same thing as soon as I saw the movie. They made it painfully obvious who was gonna die.
Harley is a staple in the squad for like 12 years. Every version of the squad has a veteran member from the trinity. Deadshot, Boomerang, Harley, and Flag are the most reccuring repeat teammates. That's how the comics work.
For current Suicide Squad comics, this film is based on the original run from the 70’s (way before Harley existed).
So this is an argument to return to Suicide Squads original premise
what's canonical and what is better for a story is not comparable. I dont care if superman is canonically able to shoot world ending X-rays out of his ass, if that was in a movie it would not generate much plot or conflict
(Spoilers)
Be that as it may, if they can kill Boomer then there's not much reason Harley can't be vulnerable too aside from all the hype around her
@@zacharyjackson1829 but it’s not like comic books exist in a vacuum nor do they exist as just stupid cartoons with colorful characters. When things become canon or exist in the comics, they had an entire team and thought process responsible. Obviously if the canon isn’t good you can fix it, but you can’t say whats canonical doesn’t really matter when it comes to the story because at the end of the day this is also an adaptation.
@@dope8878 right there, repeat that last sentence. "At the end of the day this is also an adaptation" is a very important point. some things work in comics or some other written medium while they don't work in a film or TV series. The important key word there is "adaptation" meaning it has to "adapt" in some way, shape, or form.
I really hope we see rat-catcher 2 again. Maybe in a teen titans movie ? Side note - James Gunn would absolutely kill it if he made a teen titans movie.
With Titans and teen titans go being aimed at such different audiences, it’s unlikely they’ll make one for a good while
Teen titans are kinda popular, he's more of an outcast type of people, lucky for you, Doom Patrol exists
HELL yes, i would love a Teen Titans movie by Gunn.
All throughout the story, bloodsport learned the value of human life, first showing subtle hints of remorse once he learned of waller’s ‘distraction’, AKA team A getting wiped from existence, then, soon after, feeling guilty for obliterating the rebels (whom they were supposed to be helping), once again with Ratcatcher II, seeing his daughter in her, and a chance to be better, like maybe the small sliver of good in him isn’t gone for good. Very much reminiscent of Deadshot in the first movie, he took his second chance at not being 100% a bad guy.
Yeah agreed and by the time he goes “Fuck” before fighting Starro was perfect. Showed how he noticed he changed
Honestly the new film felt like a James Gunn vision of the first. Like he took what the first promised and maybe fell short of fulfilling and fleshed the arcs better. I'm not mad about it though. I just want a film I can enjoy. I got something richer than that.
I just found it weird becuz the first time he was on screen with his daughter...he was like going "fuck you" and like having no care in the world for her. And the few seconds later he is trynna be his father. Maybe it's just him, regardless of caring, having a sliver of humanity decency to not see her daughter in prison. Maybe he wants to be better, or good but the prison life and the time with his father wiped that off. He litterally has no ability to be good until maybe the time with the team and the chance to do smth for his daughter is a shot at redemption, a shot for trying. I wish we had good character moments like that for the rest of the team...cuz tbf there's isn't a lot of character development for the other characters compared to bloodsport. Doesn't make the movie anything less for what it aiming to be tho
@@tauhid9983 he obviously cared about her he's just a bad role model
@@tauhid9983 He was scared of rubbing off on her and repeating his father's mistakes so he wanted to cut all ties with her. And throughout the movie he gets a surrogate daughter in Ratcatcher 2 and also learns that you can give love to a child even being a homeless drug addict, which I also think changes his perception of himself and what he can bring to the table as a father. And as the op said, the story has a great character arc for Bloodsport to make him more empathetic and finally defying Waller.
Man, what a comic book movie masterpiece.
The last words of Starro made me cry. Awesome movie
my favourite line!
I absolutely loved that line, it made me emotional as well. He was taken from his home, tortured and held against his will to do someone else’s bidding, kind of like all the members of the suicide squad. Except he didn’t do anything wrong, unlike the members of the squad.
@@GrimDrive I feel like the extent that the squad did anything wrong is relative too. I definitely get the impression Waller is not beyond pushing for people to be sent to Belle Reve for even minor stuff if she thinks they'll be useful to her. I'm particularly thinking about Ratcatcher II here. From what she tells us, she was homeless and without family and unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank and for that first infraction she was thrown into the same prison as literal monsters and mass murderers. Likewise, we don't really learn how Polka ended up there, but it's pretty clear that he's a deeply traumatised individual and should be receiving psychiatric help, not being locked away until his powers are useful. In both cases I can see some parallels to Starro's treatment.
@@FullFatVideos Imagine if that line was delivered by a child instead of the general, that would be way more emotional.
@@TheDelinear I totally agree with you. They may have done wrong by societies definition, but at least a few of them seem like they were just down on their luck and got caught at the wrong place and wrong time just trying to do what they can to get by. Some of them were no doubt monsters, but they had some really good character development that made you question some of their places on the squad.
I feel like Harley’s scenes are a solid form of relief from that “Don’t get too attached” premise since it’s a very tense one to have. It’s like how horror movies tend to have calm breaks with comedic relief every now and again. It’s difficult to preserve the momentum of tension presented by the basic premise if it’s always present.
I thought to myself there's no way they're gonna kill off Rick Flag, peacemaker, or captain boomerang. soooooooooo I was wrong.
Peacemaker didn't die. Prison end credit scene
@@hntrl8880 yeah but for a brief second I was like woah he’s dead and figured his tv show might be a prequel that ends with him in prison
Want to give a spoiler warning?
@@Sandersthoz u clicked on the video🤣
@@Sandersthoz bro clicked on a video speaking about the movie and got mad because he got spoilers ain’t no way 😭😭
I think if Harley is part of the Suicide Squad, it should show the effects of being a survivor in a Suicide Squad. She's an A-lister surrounded by expendable D-listers who she keeps growing attachments with them and watching them die horrible deaths while she keep miraculously surviving, rinse and repeat. She gets a legendary status among all the teams she works with and she hates it almost as much as Joker. Eventually she goes rouge against Waller, gets Batman or someone smart to remove the bomb from her head and the plot of the next Suicide Squad film is the newest Squad being ordered to hunt her down.
"A single tear come out of his mouth"
I'm not shark expert but I'm pretty sure sharks don't cry through their mouths.
noticed it with 5 mins to go live, fuck it
I'm not a shark expert but I'm pretty sure sharks don't cry.
@@Savage-- that's how the ocean gets its saltiness
@@Savage-- or have hands or talk like Rocky Balboa or wear swim trunks or walk...so?
@@Savage-- I'm not a shark expert but I'm pretty sure that sharks don't.
I think Harley giving “safe” moments of the movie was good. It gives the audience moments to take a break from the emotional tension so we can be ready to face the next intense emotional beat.
Whado you mean?
Depends if that dumps the audience out of the emotional grip altogether
@@16thcenturynormie Oh yeah, youre too right.
Agree
@@16thcenturynormie It shouldn't. Tension isn't tension if every moment is equally tense. That's filmmaking 101. -_-
When I saw Harley using her gymnastic ability and skill against all the soldiers, my first genuine question was: If HARLEY is this awesome, what will the Robins be capable of should we ever get them.
I rlly wish we got to see the fight scene between robin and Harley Quinn
To my knowledge, Harley is superpowered due to the toxic waste. I don’t believe Robin has powers.
@@brianharrison5635 nope. Just a normal ordinary albeit extremely crazy human
@@brianharrison5635 she gets a power boost from Poison Ivy
@@colinhenderson1736 same
When Bloodsport was falling threw the building I was expecting a death scene where his legs just shattered 😂
I knew he wasn't gonna die there, I was expecting him to sacrifice himself to kill starro, but man... I didn't expect it to be Sebastian and his boys killing starro
@@cheesybeans9476 i totally expected ratcatcher or polkadot killing starro, they were the only ones with enough power for that, but the movie made such a good job setting the tone, that for a moment i thought bloodsport would die when he fell, even though i should have known he wouldn't because he had to save ratcatcher2, the 8 minutes later was a brillant scene, that could have gone very bad under a different direction
@@devforfun5618 personally I was expecting bloodsport to sacrifice himself or for harley to stab the javilin into his eye
@@devforfun5618 honestly I thought Ratcatcher was gonna die
I knew Bloodsport had to be the one to stop Peacemaker from killing Ratcatcher II because of the bus scene, but I felt kind of bad for Harley that Peacemaker killed Flag and she wasn't involved in any of those scenes. I mean, I know IRL it's not healthy to exact revenge, but in the movie it feels like it would have been pretty standard for Harley to mete out some justice to Peacemaker (maybe with Bloodsport wounding him and Harley finishing the job). Instead of Harley showing us how much that hurt, we just had a scene where she told us it made her sad. It's a minor thing in the grand scheme but it's probably the biggest misstep in the movie for me.
RIP Milton.
The best thing about this film is the swearing. Seriously. It's hilarious.
Get on the satellite, Dale....
Wdym? Milton was with Harley at the end of the film 🤪
My dad actually really disliked the swearing, he said it was unnecessary and excessive
I don't remember any Milton in the movie... And i think i would, cause that name isn't a common name... 🤔
@@wowisntitanamazinglyamazin9550 they are all criminals and villains that are in a situation where they could die any moment. Them not swearing so much would be unrealistic and silly
I was actually thinking Superman might show up when I was watching the end of the movie, because I had no idea how they were gonna kill Starro. But the death by rats was probably my favorite scene in the movie. The soundtrack in that scene just made it so much better.
This is like the prequel to the injustice universe right. Where killer Superman fights “we don’t kill” Batman.
I thought Superman was going to save the day too! It would have been a neat ironic twist to show how hard the Suicide Squad worked for the win only for a supe to fly in and finish the job with barely any effort. Ultimately I'm glad they found a plausible way to defeat Starro on their own terms though. If Harley had just stabbed it in the eye and it died, it would have felt super cheap, but Harley just making an opening for the rats to do the work - well, it worked for me. Kind of sad to see Starro die after how well they portrayed it, but I guess it's hard to make into a repeat character (and if they ever DO need another Starro, well space is a big place).
Absolutely loved the movie but I was devastated that the polkadot man got killed at the end. He was tortured against his will to make him a superhero but he ended up becoming a villian. When given the chance in the suicide squad to do some good, he goes for it and really leans into it. At the end he embraces becoming a super hero but then is killed instantly. I think they could have kept him for longer or included him in following movie or show
I will make a video on it
Agreed. He's death was one of those that is not necessary, unlike Flagg's death, which is totally heartbreaking but has to happen in order to go forth with the plot. I think they could have done more with PDM.
@@pandanganmatiyn1487 They could always throw in some science mumbo-jumbo to bring him back to life! After all, we still don't know much about his disease. Maybe it could give him a form of regeneration...?...After all, there was a point where he said he "hopes they all die"...
@@pandanganmatiyn1487 Flag could easily come back tho because it's comic BS and he wasn't turned into paste
@@erubin100 they defo could but highly unlikely
I'm just really sad that they put a full story ark, fully fleshed out the character, got an amazing actor and then just squashed him. They kept alive king shark and harley who are just comic relief but not the most interesting character in the whole movie
I just loved how this movie always kept me on the edge of my seat, every time something happened I thought a character was gonna die.
Spoilers
If they make a sequel, with Flag dead, it would be cool if they continued the all villains team dynamic by having Waller reach out to a mercenary to lead, perhaps a guy with a missing eye and a liking of black and orange? But seriously Deathstroke would be a great character to have as a new leader, plus it would help with the idea of everyone being vulnerable cause he doesn’t care about the other members, just the money
They could bring King Faraday as the new comander of the Squad hes an silver fox DCs super spy that works for waller and have lead the squad before
@@four-fq6cf I don't think it does, deadshot is never mentioned at all,nor are the events of the first one, it's it's remake not a sequel
I really wish they would use Deathstroke atleast once, he has so much potential. I love him
@@BassBanj0 they probably will
this could work, since the survivors this time completely got out, so I suspect we won't see any of them in the next one.
I really didn't mind Harley's plot armour much. Between the opening sequence and the third act she's basically off in her own little short that never relies on that type of tension. Every time she's in danger with the group, she's surrounded by more than enough very killable characters.
Can I get some F’s in chat for my main man Rick Flag 😭
F😓
F for FLAG GANG
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IDRIS ELBA,VIOLA DAVIS,JOHN CENA AND POLKA DOT MAN were great standouts for me.
"I cherish peace with all my heart,and I dont care how many Men,Women and Children i have to kill to get it." 😂😂 dead
what a line
Weird that you call some of them by the actors names and some by the character they're playing
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 I just dont know the actor for Polka dot man's name.
@@dominiqueodom3099 his name is Jared Leto.
@@discotequilasunset you are joking, right?
I’d like to see them have consistently revolving teams. Bring back say Killer Crock and see if they can make him work. Whether he looks the same or not, who cares? Think of it as like the comics, where the art work changes artist to artist. But only use one member from James Gunn’s Suicide Squad. This is fun and helps consistently create new dynamics from previous teams while consistently adding new ones. Like if Bloodsport wasn’t in the next one, but the one after that that, I’d be down for it.
i agree - make him big and monstrous - he should be able to go toe to toe with someone like king shark
Killer crock vs king shark
Yea it definitely felt like King Shark was his stand in, but they did a much better job displaying his strength. It really is night and day how these 2 films display the skills of the squad.
I mean for Killer Croc, he like mutates as time goes on in some continuities, so they could just say that he mutated as an explanation to make him look different.
King Shark vs Killer Croc
The fact that Gunn has killed Yondu twice in two universes cements his place as the most badass adaption director in the game to me. Like the raising the flag on the peak of a very long mountain. From Scooby Doo all the way to Staro, this man is brilliant.
Yah but he had a meaningless death in one of these movies
@@alekoo_ngdiak you didn't care about his death in guardians of the galaxy ? you are monster
James Gunn is a cult artist if not a cult director.
Excuse me, Scooby-Doo? He directed Scooby-Doo? The live action movies or…?
@@erikpng Gunn wrote the live action Scooby Doo movies. He's the reason they're as mature as they are, because he wrote the first one to be R but had to edit it down to PG
I was really excited for Polka-Dot Man but I feel as though he was underutilized. If he was going to be a main character for the major surviving cast he should have had more lines or more of an arc so he didn’t seem like fodder. Even if he had to die, giving him a more heroic or tragic death rather than a comedic one would have landed better I feel.
I agree. His death was unexpected
I agree completely. Seeing it twice only reinforced that he was kinda useless? Of the main group of characters we follow for most of it, he doesn’t add anything we don’t already have. He’s not the funniest member, he’s not the heart of the group, and he doesn’t really have much of an arc at all. He’s kinda just there for most scenes. He’s just a punchline right up to his final moment, and I didn’t think it was a particularly good punchline. Really really loved the movie, but I think if you take Polka Dot Man out of it, nothing changes.
He could of also use moreof his tech. Like a lot.
@@nickbernard7187 he’s literally one of the biggest jokes in comics, there’s no way he was going to be a major character him and weasel were major gag characters, and even then weasel was more important in comics
@@kylefoster1445 I mean I still expected a little more given he was there the majority of the runtime and was part of the core group of the film. And like I said he wasn’t even the funniest member, so he brought nothing.
15:00 I love how before Harley begins her big fight scene escape, we spend a few seconds with her putting on a pair of combat boots, almost like a Fuck you to the high heels idea
The only thing I didn't like about this movie was how quickly and how unceremoniously Captain Boomerang was killed off
That way they made us realized anyone could die even a beloved character like boomerang
it was necessary as a tone setter
I understand why Gunn did it, but I'm still not happy about it. I wish Boomerang would've at least lasted a little longer
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 yeah me too, he is one of my favorites
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 I was definitely sad to see him go, especially since he actually brought his good boomerangs this time and seemed like he was going to kick some butt with them, but holy crap it was a mind-blowing opener to the movie and I can't be mad about that. Movies are meant to make us feel, and Gunn is great at doing just that.
I need Kiteman for the next Suicide Squad. Hell Yeah!
It would be awesome but at the same time I know Gunn and I don't want to see Kiteman violently die
Or maybe pre powers plastic man and something fucks up and he gets turned into plastic man in the movie
Or hear me out…Condiment King
KITEMAN!!!, F#@$ YEAH!
He can die peacefully at the first 3 seconds. *HELL YEAH*
The way you described what yoy wanted out of a Suicide Squad game really makes me wish we get one in the vein of XCOM
YES
For a long time I've thought a Suicide Squad themed Darkest Dungeon game would be great.
I think a dungeons and dragons suicide squad would be sick
Also how is it that the new Suicide Squad game is the same universe as the Arkham games? That’s just so stupid imo
@@GabesEdtiz and gotham knights isn't
I want him to call the next one "2 Suicide 2 Squad"
Wouldn’t it be 3 Suicide 3 Squad
@@mk6rfc1 no after watching TSS it shows its it own thing
@@bradleyhernandez1170 it is its own thing to a certain point, it’s still a somewhat sequel to the first Suicide squad
2 suicide 1 squad cause it’s the third
2icide Squad
Harley Quinn killing multiversal Jokers? Sounds awesome
I hope that not made
I fucking hate time travel and multiverses
I cheered when I saw the weasel alive, it’s so funny to me that I was able to get attached to ridiculous characters so easily and without stupid introduction slides like the first.
i think this was probably my favourite dceu movie. really fun and well written and well paced throughout. There's also a certain death right at the beginning that i honest to god did not see coming at all and the finale might have one of the most ridiculous solutions to a big threat I've ever seen lmao
Yeah I was kinda wishing that we got more from him
@@alekoo_ngdiak Yeah, I wish we got more of him too because he was one of the best parts of the original movie but it definitely cemented the 'anyone can die' status
Starro literally got Squirrel Girl-ed
@@fathm4623 im taking bout savant tho
@@alekoo_ngdiak yeah, unlike slipknot, his death messed with me, because both the character and the actor had potential, his reaction to the bloodbath was so good
Margot Robbie’s Harley going into multiple dimensions while fitting into their universe’s respective art-styles and just meeting/fighting all this interpretations of the Joker actually sounds like a really fun journey!
Some spoilers!
I totally agree about the expendability. The combination of making Rick Flagg, Nanaweh and especially Ratcatcher 2 SO loveable with that “nobody’s safe” attitude made it such an emotional and intense cinematic experience. When Peacemaker was pointing a gun at Ratcatcher I was on the edge of my seat!!!
Also can I just say I love all the epic set up. The Javelin, the rats over Bloodsport, the tiny bullet, the mother, the golf club made for SO many satisfying moments.
Also Peacemaker was so interesting. The fact he has a show meant nobody was expecting A. Him as an antagonist at the end (I feel a Loki style redemption arc soon) and B. His death (not really I know)
in my mind it made total sense in hindsight, before the movie was out the redundancy of having bloodsport and peacemaker in the same movie was weird, then waller calls attention to it again by pointing out how similar they were, so the treason makes total sense, she put bloodsport as the leader because she knew the team would follow him, but put peacemaker to deal with him because he would do what had to be done
Fr lmao when peacemaker got shot I was like damn, guess we’re getting a prequel show, so at the post-credits scene when they said “we found him under the debris, I can’t believe his heart’s still beating” I was like FUCK YEAHHH POLKA DOT MAN IS ALI-oh it’s this cunt, yeah that makes sense
@@devforfun5618 Yeah definitely. Also that joke was so funny as James Gunn basically called himself out.
@@manuelleyva2811 Yeah true! I always thought the show would be a prequel and thought the post credits would be Rick Flagg but then whaaaaa that happened
@@harrisont2004 yeah lmao that was unexpected, but I’m not mad, cause peacekeeper was my favourite character and I love John Cena in the role
But Harley, Deadshot, King Shark, and Capt. Boomerang have been in the group in the comics too. Some villains are just more skilled at survival than others. That is why Waller keeps using them.
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While Polka-Dot Man's death was very well done and hilarious, I really hope we get to see him again at some point. He was my favourite character in the movie next to King Shark.
Dastmalchian is basically a DC legend at this point. He'll be back
Bird
Maybe he’s in the polka dot dimension
what about milton, man? he's been there all the time!
If enjoy to see his brothers and sisters are other villains like maybe he has a twin brother who is the Condiment man
Honestly one of my favourite comic book movies of all time now. Whole cast was amazing, but Margot Robbie and John Cena especially stole the movie for me. ESPECIALLY Cena. There’s so much to Peacemaker and Cena embodies all of it, for comedic and dramatic purposes.
The action is fucking electric, it’s funny, super heartfelt, and the pacing is so wily that the jumping around back and forth is ALWAYS engaging.
True masterwork, definitely James’ best movie in my opinion.
When I first saw that John Cena was in this I ain’t gonna lie I thought it was a bad sign but he was one of the best characters and I’m actually really glad he got his own show
@@joec0b751 fun little fact, wrestlers are actually pretty good actors, especially for action purposes. The whole thing with wrestling is that its a mix of theatre, and stunts to deliver a usually emotionally charged narrative of two people fighting. Wrestler are literally actors and stuntmants at the same time, the difference with a movie actor being that they can never break character while in public, to keep the illusion and inmersion of the audience.
I really thought the thinker would have a moment where he escaped from the suicide squad as he pitted them against each other so he could sneak away seeing as he was meant to be super smart but nothing really came of this big brain which was disappointing but i loved the film overall. When staro said they were happy looking at the stars oooh that got me
Yeah I was surprised they didn’t even at least attempt to show The Thinker being like… smart.
@@cd8467 he didn't even try to alert the soldiers in the nightclub that he was being kidnapped - that seems like the very bare minimum "smart" thing he could have attempted, but instead he just quietly went with the flow even though the squad was massively outnumbered. I kind of got the feeling that movie Thinker isn't actually all that smart, and the gadgets in his head are more to make him look like he should be smart so that nobody questions his position. After all, he's been studying Starro for decades but doesn't seem to have done much with the research - he mentions that he is working on a human controlling tech like Ratcatcher's rat controlling tech, presumably based on the Starro drones, but we don't see any evidence of it. I feel like the Thinker was maybe once a smart guy who was basically then used by the ruling family as nothing more than an executioner, and he got lazy and complacent in his role, never really needing to be smart because all he had to do was torture enemies of the state and he'd have a job for life.
Yeah but the film is already stacked with a lot of stuff. I don’t really mind he being like that.
I would love Kite Man to be in the hypothetical sequel. He seems like he’d fit in well as the main protagonist (at the very least it keeps us from getting yet another Master Marksman Mercenary.)
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My only gripe was Rick’s death.
I get it needed a big death but flag was one of those that should’ve made it into at least the next one and maybe die then. He was such an improvement in this film and easily a top 5 character, I just feel like they should either bring him back somehow or maybe a movie set before this or in a new timeline. And boomerang should’ve survived a least into the halfway point. Or maybe even killed by peacemaker. Tho i get why James did what he did
I agree with the boomerang and stuff but I think they won’t bring Flag back, they specifically showed the blade piercing his heart
@@Mike_Finger peacemaker aint gonna die because he is gonna have His own show
Completely agree. I know it needed to happen but Joel Kinnamen is just so goddamn awesome I need him to still be alive
I agree that I wish Flagg didn't die but it was also such an impactful moment.
@@kbg12ila very true
I feel like yeah the 4 survivors from this suicide squad movie should move on into other movies and the next suicide squad movie should feature a whole new cast to keep it fresh.
Veasel!
The only person who should be safe in the Suicide Squad franchise is......Waller
Agreed
And Deadshot and Harley though James Gunn was open about not believing in the source material while making Guardians of the Galaxy and just using it as a vessel. In the comics the main stays were Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn and Deadshot. They were in almost every team and the only one that died was Deadshot but Waller kept finding ways to resurrect him as beyond his skills he had the trust and loyalty of the Squad. Ironically he was Suicidal and wished he could stay dead despite Waller not letting him.
Deadass when they hit her over the head tho
Coulda 100% died there
noones safe😳
Ooh what if they have a set number of Suicide Squad movies planned out and in the last one whatever member of the squad that she pisses off by threatening them with something similar to how she threatened Bloodsport’s daughter kills her and that is the permanent end to the Suicide Squad.
In a way, this Harley showed me why she's dangerous in this movie. No other DCU movie has done that yet, with Birds of Prey getting the closest
I had no idea who blood sport was before I watched this, and now he's my favourite DC villain.
Same. Idris Elba really killed it!
my biggest gripe is that they killed too many at the start, I know they were going for shock value, and my god did it shock, but I feel it would've been better if they were more sparsely placed and give us more time with the characters.
it's definitely top 3 DCEU movies and better than guardians 2.
They should’ve at least kept savant and boomerang
@@Frank_MC agreed, killing boomerang that early was definitely a waste
@@acunt he was one of the better parts of the first film and in his short time here, he was funny af.
I am so disappointed what James Gunn did at the beginning. Boomerang is a such a wasted potential. He is one of my favorite Suicide Squad characters. Jai Courtney is amazing as a Boomer.
My biggest issue was that everyone felt like a hero at the end. The suicide squad are literally just a bunch of criminals forced to do the government's dirty work but at the end, they were made out to be heroes and they were cheered on. Even though the first film was terrible, they at least felt like villains. It annoyed me when the person knocked Waller out cause that's when they were treated like heroes. Both the suicide squad and Waller are supposed to be villains, there isn't really a hero in the situation.
However I can agree with you on killing too many at the start but at the same time, it's almost impossible to give every character development over the film, that's why they used a smaller group.
9:13 It’s also been a running thing since then, every new first issue kicks off with like half the team getting killed. They even put that on the cover sometimes. “3 of these characters will die!!”
I'd love to see Sportsmaster in a Suicide Squad movie, since each movie has a different new weapons expert mercenary.
I feel like they should of played with Harleys Unkillable-ness ,embrace it , make it a feature to play off of and joke about .
At least that's what I think they should do ^__^ , the contrast with an unkillable lucky character and the rest would be a nice way to deal with it
U mean domino in deadpool 2
You mean like fast 9?
@eqw alle Because, as explained, the Suicide Squad's premise is that they are a squad full of people who could die.
@@TheCloudeGraves right and even in the suicide squad comics you know certain characters will survive, it’s not some modern movie problem, it’s a normal issue that most of the time popular characters will survive
I like Harley’s character and I hope we get a second birds of prey film later down the line, but I hope Harley doesn’t get included in the sequel. She’s great but we’ll always know that she’s got that unkillable plot armor.
She can come back in Suicide Squad 3, but for the next one they should just have it be a completely new team of characters we know nothing about or haven’t gotten that much attention in the comics.
If the Suicide Squad was able to have two films with the same director they won’t need Harley.
Harley is marketable that’s why they kept her.
She's the face in the comics. She's not just marketing. Actually proves how a list she can be.
Bruh, Harley is part of suicide squad, that's why they kept her, She's also super lucky so her survivability over the team makes sense
@@JesusRodriguez-rs8jq she is gleaming with plot armor
I mean they kinda already set up a sequel
@@Starisborne I'll be honest, knowing that Harley was going to survive literally had no impact on my enjoyment of the film and if it did yours then you should probably grow up
John Cena as an overly zealous patriot was a perfect casting
Savant was tragically nowhere to be found in this video, despite how much Michael Rooker crushed it. That was a hell of a POV for the opening sequence.
I had the same thought about having different directors do these movies I like that idea. I think there should be a suicide squad vs Task Force X moves with the SQ team being made up of surviving members from the first two movies then for the TFX have more D listers
I was actually really concerned for ratcatcher 2, she's a very lovable character and the most vulnerable out of all of the characters left in the 2nd act and I don't want the writer to kill her like they did with other characters
The only thing I didn’t like was how easily Starro was defeated. Even in Batman Brave and the Bold, he didn’t die so easily and was established as a true threat long before we ever saw him.
If Black Adam is considered successful, I’d like to see him in a Suicide Squad sequel like he was initially going to be whether as a threat or as a protagonist.
James Gunn seems like an energetic guy and almost all of his movies that I like have the same theme chaotic and energetic
So, basically you want a Loki series but its Harley?
Sounds fair :)
i mean, James Gunn wants to do a Harley Groot team up
Pls God no
Imagine having harley and joker variants in one room
@@corporalanonymous4589 how telling is it that when I hear 'Joker' my kind goes to the Persona 5 protagonist and now I am wondering what Harley's reaction to him would be
@@ClaireWritesSometimes Omg jokerrr i love him too
Loved the polka dot dude I died at the club scene when it’s all his moms
Would love to see bloodsport return in an Arkham Origins-esque film starring him, deathstroke, dead shot maybe and the league of shadows hunting Batman for a bounty (final act would be whoever set the bounty)
something i love about peace maker (spoiler obvs) is that when hes gonna kill rat catcher and she pleads to him and asks him why he has to kill her when he can just destroy the drive he pauses for a sec and u can see hes like shit shes right and then his brain trys to rationalise him enjoying killing a young girl as just being for the greater good for peace rather then it really being part of his blood lust
I still can't wrap my head around his character. We'll see in the TV Show I guess..
Personally I don’t believe it’s him actually enjoying killing rat catcher he understands from his perspective is the idea of if the data leaked the ramifications are too high for that to happen like the classic line “nothing personal only business”/“no witnesses” he seemed very remorseful with Rick flag and he believes that killing ratcatcher is more safe than letting her live cause the possibility of it leaking
@@Venom_V1 yes that do seem logical. But I guess Gunn intentionally made his actions mysterious for his TV show. So that people would look forward for the series. Come to think about it Cena is having his best days of his life. Jakob in F9, Peacemaker in TSS, and his own TVShow????? Bruh.... 🔥
@@Venom_V1 I feel like he's just a character who lacks nuance, he sees the world as black and white, right and wrong, and he just doesn't have room in his worldview for moral ambiguity. It's why he's happily serving time, or why he'll happily eat a beach full of dicks, if it reinforces his worldview. I've said it elsewhere, but at this point he's essentially Rorschach from Watchmen. He's got that same "Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon." energy, and like Rorschach, I get the definite feeling that he's lying to himself about not enjoying what he does. Hopefully the TV series develops his character more - because as it stands currently, as much as I think Cena portrayed the role really well, it's not a character I find super palatable or want to spend a lot of time in the company of.
@@TheDelinear The Comedian from Watchmen was actually based on Peacemaker, which makes the Rorschach comparison a bit ironic.
Bloodsport's entrance at the very end is one of the most badass last second save entrances ever.
10 movies in, WB finally realized that movies work best when they are done with vision, love and integrity. Baby steps, but a good sign…
If they ever make a sequel, I NEED Condiment King
And Calendar Man
@@ballisticboo7808 If I remember he made a cameo in the movie played by Shaun Gunn(sorry if butchered he's name)
Love this video especially when you said “a single tear came out of his mouth”
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Lmao
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The Suicide Squad is hands down the best film that is canonical to the DCEU, and the second best of all the DCEU movies. My Top 5 ranking would have to be:
1. Snyder Cut
2. The Suicide Squad
3. BvS
4. Shazam
5. Aquaman
It’s fun, gory entertaining and feels like the Suicide Squad from the comics. They’re not intentionally taking on a threat that we would expect the Justice League to take on like in the first movie. What they do is a black ops mission to protect America’s safety and then get dragged into saving the world. That’s the Squad from the comics.
The cast gave it their all and really nailed each of their roles. I think the best performances were easily Elba’s Bloodsport and then Ratcatcher II. John Cena as Peacemaker was both badass and funny, and I can’t wait for his spin off show. Stallone’s King Shark was comic relief but didn’t feel out of place or take you out of the story.
At first I was worried that Bloodsport would be a Deadshot knockoff, but he actually has his own motivations and feels similar to Deadshot (explaining that if Deadshot couldn’t make the mission, then they have another marksman who can do the job) but different so that it doesn’t feel like they put in the movie because Will Smith couldn’t do the movie.
Starro was good. I find it funny that in the comics it took the entire Justice League to take him down but in the movie he’s taken down by a Javelin and a swarm of rats. While I wish we had gotten the chance to see him go up against the Justice League, there is still the potential for him to return if perhaps the US Government manage to get his DNA and clone him.
The biggest thing this movie did better than the first was the gruesomeness and expendable nature of Squad. The fact they die horrifically and that the majority of them all die really does make them seem more like the Squad from the comics and what the Squad should be. In the first movie only one or two members died and that was because they had a small team (albeit it was meant to be a pro type team)
I love how Waller just sends a whole team of them to their deaths as if James Gunn knew that we expected those characters to die and just went all out. It’s a very Waller thing to do but also just adds to the fact that the Squad members are expendable.
My only issue with the move is how they treated the original 2016 cast. You can tell the studio wants us to forget about the 2016 film. They brought 4 of the original squad members back and only 2 survived. I know there’s rumours that they couldn’t get Smith back as Deadshot due to his scheduling issues, but why no Katana or Killer Croc? Rick Flag didn’t even reference June (The Enchantress) at all. We’re they still together or what?
I wasn’t expecting Boomerang to go out at the start of the movie because Jai Courtney is very funny as the character and was a character we recognised from the first movie. If they ‘had’ to kill him, I wished they’d done it halfway through the movie and not the start.
Rick Flag went out in an okay way but I was kind of annoyed because he is a great character and Kinnaman does a great job. Plus he is there to be Waller’s stand in when in the field. I know that he wouldn’t have stayed on if he survived but I kind of hoped he would because of he enjoys working with the Squad. That was also a great part with his character, the fact that he becomes ‘friends’ with Harley based on their time together on the Squad following the first movie.
It’s just a shame that we’re not going to see those two again at all in a sequel unless the Flashpoint movie does reboot things and they do come back.
Speaking of sequels I would love to see Deadshot and Bloodsport together side-by-side in a sequel. They’re similar characters with similar skill sets and both are very badass, funny and quirky characters who do bad things but have good in them.
The banter between the two of them would’ve make the Bloodsport & Peacemaker banter look like a friendly debate.
I got to admit, as a Midwestern American, I loved your Peacemaker impression! You got my subscription. Great work.
Thanks! Hahaah
For me, this is everything I wanted and more.
As studios relentlessly pump out more and more superhero movies, it seems that more people than ever are saying the genre is tired. I am happy to report that James Gunn delivered a movie that quells such a concern with massive success. This film was frankly batshit insane and I am here for every moment of it. It’s so colourful in both it’s visuals and writing that I am just as excited to rewatch it as I was before my first viewing (maybe even moreso).
The characters are really well written and they all standout in their own separate ways. Polka Dot Man is easily the standout for me as I loved his weird characterisation (helps that I love weird characters) and he easily had some of the funniest moments. Bloodsport, Rick Flag and Ratcatcher II were also brilliant in this and Margot Robbie easily gave her best performance as Harley Quinn. And of course, King Shark is adorably vicious! Peacemaker is an unlikable dick, but despite that I’m actually excited for the Peacemaker prequel show that was announced a while back too.
Overall, this was a fantastic time that, while not perfect, hit every spot for me in all the right places. The violence is brutal and the action, comedy and storyline were all brilliant for me. I would get why certain people wouldn’t like the movie as it’s definitely a specific taste (and a specific humour that may not jell with everyone) but for me this was my dream superhero movie.
The Dark Knight and Logan may be regarded as masterpieces of this genre, but to me this is the most fun of the lot; hence the high rating. Exactly the type of movie I needed to get me back in the theatre and you should definitely get your tickets as soon as you can.
More of this please DC!
i felt like it was a deadpool movie, without breaking the 4h wall but with all the dark humor, and i say that as a compliment, i was really immersed in the movie
I disagree with the Harley take. I think it was a good decision to keep her separated for most of the movie because it aided in her character progression, made the group feel less safe by comparison, and was important for giving the audience a breath of air before going back into the high pressure of the group.
My first thought was , If Will Smith had returned ,the character Bloodsport would be Deadshot.
Same character , same background . Both have a daughters .
Still Idris Elba is the best thing in this film.
I have to say that this is by far the most enjoyable movie review of yours that I've watched, and I have seen a lot of them.
Thank you for the great entertainment!!!
I really love your idea of a multiverse HQ's adventure! It reminds me of the HQ #0 where each 2-page was drawn and written by different artists.
Dear Sir... A multivers-hopping Harley with a liberation agenda sounds like the best thing I have heard all year(s)
I absolutely love The Thick of It, so the fact that you referred that makes me quite happy, great video, but if nothing else then that got my like and sub hahaha
Amazing! Thank you!!! I might need to do a video on the thick of it it’s so good!!
Unclutch your fn pearls!
Absolutely agree
I am unfuckable!
17:50 that's a great thought because when she's on screen, it feels like Harley excels in scenarios wherein you really think she's in over her head but comes out on top every time.
Not gonna lie owning the original Rat Catcher 2-parter comics made me happy to see him (well, him in a flashback, his daughter) appear, even though Rat Catcher died a little differently in that story
This is one of my favourite films of all time now. And was the best cinematic experience I’ve had since Endgame.
18:20 I like the idea of Harley going to the BTAS universe ready to duke it own with Hamill's Joker only to get there and see Jokerized Tim Drake kill him. Also if Harley gets a movie, Ivy's gotta be there too.
My guy, why you gotta do me like that? I was just opening this video to watch in a few, and the opening shot is freaking killer! AHAHHAHH
I like to imagine that Harley knows she can't die. Every time she interacts with another character she is anticipating them dying any second while thinking "I'll make it back to Gotham no matter what"
I would love to see Kite Man and Condiment King show up in the next one and absolutely steal the show 😂
While I understand your point of Harley, DC needed a big name character for this movie after the disaster that was the last suicide squad
Thank you!!!!!! I'm a new sub because your the first one seen that thought like me that it was a xenomorph mask. I want something like bloodshot vs Predator explaining how he got the armor.
I gotta say, I was surprised Ratcatcher made it to the end.
The trailers made me think she was going to have a "We are Groot!" sacrifice moment and then her dialogue throughout the movie, the scene on the van with Bloodsport, etc, I totally thought she was gonna kick it.
(this is my last comment on this vid) i want DC to stop there continuity for the most part they can keep subtle connections like in this film but i would like them to have every movie work on its own where they can do anything and don't need to work with the other films and can have different versions of things like they could have another suicide squad film completely disconnected to this one of have a movie with bat man where polka dot man appears at some point and we don't need to say he died in that other movie i feel trying to be a cinematic universe lowered dc's potential and id love them to just start bringing in great directors and actors to make amazing work with basis in comics
you're completely right. keep the same actors, but forget the continuity - that's the way to go. gives every director and writer a lot more freedom but also means we can get to know and love the characters
Hey man, have you ever heard about punctuation marks?
Shazam and this movie are great examples, they can build it back up slowly if they want too!
@@janst.3791 i have but I'm dyslexic and not to bothered about that on something as informal as a TH-cam comment
They wanted their own MCU but they tried to rush it and blew it instead, so yeah, I think they should ditch the idea of an interconnected universe and just focus on making good solo movies. Sure, add cameos and crossovers IF it serves the plot of the movie, but otherwise stop trying to be the MCU - we already have an MCU and it's been doing this a lot longer and a lot better. The first Suicide Squad definitely suffered in part from having to shoe-horn in Joker and Batman. Hell, MCU are probably going this route next too, now they have the multiverse established and What If..? up next it means not every movie has to tie into every other movie, and if they want to bring back Raimi's Spider-Man for instance, nobody will balk at the idea of that existing alongside Holland's Spider-Man.
Thinking about it, it is weird that Harley is in this movie. There was no way she was dying and she kinda feels out of place
And a lot of her screen time was just a waste of time. The whole thing of falling in love and then escaping was....pointless....
James Gunn's favoritism.
She is loved But she doesn't fit, Cuz we all know she's basically immortal , in comics , in animated serie , everywhere she appears..
I like your video essays, but I certainly would like to see more reviews like this as well in the future
Dude, seeing Henry Cavill come in like that for a sequel would be freakin’ amazing!!!
Bringing in TONS of D listers is definitely how to keep the series fresh. Although, I’d say the survivors could move on to future movies elsewhere throughout DC.
Birds of prey 2:
Rats of prey
“He may have been your father, but he ain’t your daddy”
-Yondu
"I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!"
- Mary Poppins
Your multiverse story idea is so good!
Thank you!!