Suicide Squad

Saw this flick twice just to make sure.

Dark.

Harley Quinn is the movie. She’s the rare character doesn’t have a wasted line or action. Killer Croc doesn’t have any wasted dialog either but he has very few lines so he doesn’t count.  I liked his character as well. He’s just far more minor in the story.

Joker is … you don’t like this guy.

Deadshot is a bad ass. Forced sentimentality got old with his character.  But otherwise, he’s a bad ass.

Evil Nick Fury scares me.

Stupid monster.

Enchantress was kinda cool.

The evil foot soldiers were totally killer looking…if they were on Dr. Who. In the 70’s. These are bad.  Marvel did that with their phantom soldiers from the big swirling hole in the sky, Episode One did it with the robot army.  You can only kill so many “people” in a PG-13 movie.  Ya know. They were dumb.  They came in waves like playing a zombie video game. They’re real dumb.

The Man Who Can Climb Anything should’ve been wearing a red shirt.

I liked the Escape from New York gag.  I guess it was also The Running Man gag…

They kept telling us they were the bad guys.  Which I found interesting.

-(What I also found interesting was on my way out of the cinema, I ducked my head into what turned out to be the 1989 Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson.  That Batman didn’t care about killing folks.  He waxed several when he bombed Axis Chemical. And he dropped one dude straight down the bell tower.)

In the end, I thought this flick was okay. The characters are better than the story which is okay as I’m sure there are spinoffs coming. Everyone was cool enough to get their own flick.

Cross movie promotion began before the opening credits.

I rate this flick one medium popcorn.  Use an empty water bottle to fill up before the show and sneak in some goobers. PG-13 is legit.  I’d say this is as close to R as they’ll let them get without the fuck word.  Don’t bring the kids.

After Earth

A thousand years after humans have helped to ravage the earth into an uninhabitable mess, super hero Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and his son who struggles to live up to his father’s oversized reputation, Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith), are stranded on that very same earth.

The years with no humans has been good to the planet.  It’s green and lush and full of life.  Flocks of birds, a herd of land mammals, baboons, snakes, slugs, plant life nearly beyond description.  And everything very deadly!  Seems it’s evolved to destroy human life.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, it looks great.  The technology all looks very organic and modeled after things from nature.  The space ship llooks like a Stingray, ya know, the big fish things.  The insides of the ship could have been the insides of an animal.  There’s definitely some kind of environmental ideologies at play here.

It’s like maybe after we destroy this planet, we’ll learn to live in harmony with  it.

I thought Jaden might have been a little too young for this role but he played it well enough and it fits with his struggles to keep up with is dad’s reputation.  Just a bit of a stretch to believe he would even be considered for a position among these rough and tumble grown ass men.

Some folks dismiss this flick as a vanity project for Jaden.  And I suppose it could be.  Some folks take their kids to Disney World, Will Smith makes hundred million dollar sci-fi movies for his.

This is a decent flick, however.  I put it up there with Oblivion that came out a bit earlier this year.

I’ll split a medium popcorn and drink with ya on this one.  I may even bring in some goobers in my pocket.

 

seven pounds

Seven Pounds.

 

Boy, that Will Smith is pretty good.  And Rosario Dawson is smokin’ hot.

 

I did kinda figure out what was going on in the first third of the film.  And yes, I figured out where they got the title from within that same first third of the film.

 

I was asked the other day, before I saw the film, what seven pounds meant.  And I had no idea, having not seen the flick.  I said I think it comes from some biblical story where some dude has to pay for his sins with seven pounds of flesh. 

 

I think that’s actually the Merchant of Venice now that I think about it…

 

But anyway, it’s a pretty damn good movie.  I mean, if you like drama, emotionally charged drama, this is the film for you.

 

I’m trying to think of a film to compare it to.  Probably the Pursuit of Happyness.  But I never saw that one.  It’s got the same director.  And even though this one was really good, I’m not likely to go and rent or purchase the Pursuit of Happyness.

 

As far as Will Smith movies go, I’d rather buy I am Legend.

 

I like my Will Smith kicking zombie ass.  I don’t, however, like my Will Smith dropping F-bombs.

 

 

Will Smith might get an Oscar nomination.  Rosario Dawson might get a nomination.  It really is that good.  Those two actors carry the film.  Like I said, if you’re halfway paying attention, you know the twist.  But I got kinda emotionally attached to the characters.

 

I give this film four jellyfish suicides out of five jellyfish suicides.

 

If you’re going to the movies before the weekend and you’ve already seen Benjamin Button, I would recommend Seven Pounds over Valkyrie.  But you’re not making a mistake going to see Valkyrie.

hancock

…actually kinda sucks.  i know, i know.  it seems like such a cool premise.  and we all love will smith.  he really showed off some acting chops the first three quarters of i am legend.  i was expecting a super hero style follow up.

but i got hancock instead.

it’s like the producers all sat down around a table having drinks and said we got a hundred million bucks and will smith to make kind of a new spin on super hero movies. 

then instead of going out and getting a writer, they sat there and made a list of all the cool things they would do if they had super hero powers.

and then they only had 45 minutes of movie and a couple really cool trailers.

someone said, hey you ever see my super ex girlfriend?

and someone else said, yeah, yeah.  let’s throw something like that in there for our second plot twist.

i really should have gone to see Wall-E and tried to talk to that smoking hot milf that was taking her kid to see it in line right in front of me.  i even had the chance to jump behind her in the pop corn line.

screw you will smith.