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Still not mad, just disappointed

Posted on August 5, 2016 by reelentropy

Photos courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.

Hope it’ll be good? Know it’ll be bad? Just interested to see the cinematic interpretations of the diverse cast of characters? Whatever you’re expecting from Suicide Squad, it doesn’t deliver.

Suicide Squad takes place after the death of Superman in March’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and centers on the U.S. government reacting to the idea that more metahumans are on the way. Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) has the idea to have a task force on standby to deal with metahuman threats. However, because Waller is incredibly stupid — more on that later — she recommends the task force be constructed of incredibly violent criminals most of whom are actually not metahumans. The group’s defacto leader, Floyd Lawton (Will Smith), a.k.a. Deadshot, dubs them the Suicide Squad.

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On Heath Ledger, Jared Leto and revisionist history

Posted on August 2, 2016 by reelentropy

Media courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.

Give him a chance!

You can’t judge until you’ve seen the movie!

He won an Oscar, for Pete’s sake!

People were upset about Heath Ledger’s casting, too!

I’ve been hearing things like this for more than a year now. This weeks’ upcoming Suicide Squad recasts Jared Leto as the Joker. It will be the character’s first onscreen portrayal since Heath Ledger’s instantly iconic turn in The Dark Knight, still the most recent good movie DC has made. Many are awaiting the movie with appropriate apprehension, but just as many are determined to be optimistic, particularly about this performance. Optimism isn’t wrong, and it is important to give movies a fair shake in spite of whatever history they may have, but that last statement really bothers me. People were upset about Heath Ledger’s casting, too. That’s true, but it’s not even half the story. A few days before the movie itself hits theaters, let’s take a moment to honestly compare the life cycles of The Dark Knight and Suicide Squad.

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Nerve is the movie you wanted Ghostbusters to be

Posted on August 1, 2016 by reelentropy

Lazy people are comparing this movie’s premise to Pokemon Go, but it’s much more in line with Twitch Plays Emma Roberts. Not as current or fear-mongering, but a much more interesting premise. Photos courtesy Lionsgate.

You want to watch a movie because it has ladies in it? You want to watch any movie at all?

Here you go! This is the movie for you.

Nerve follows wallflower Vee Delmonico (Emma Roberts) — Vee short for Venus, if you want to get literary. About to graduate from high school, Delmonico has made a reputation for staying in the background while her friend, Sydney (Emily Meade) takes up the spotlight. Sydney is a competitor in an illegal online game called Nerve, in which watchers vote on dares for players, and whoever can gain the most followers wins a massive cash prize. In a jealous haze, Delmonico signs up as a player. Her first dare is to kiss a stranger, and the watchers direct her to Ian (Dave Franco), another player. They are then both dared to go to the city together, and what follows is a Midsummer New York City Night’s Dream with twisted, sinister overtones.

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The Bourne Dumpster Fire

Posted on July 29, 2016 by reelentropy

Photos courtesy Universal Pictures.

Wow. Bring a barf bag.

Jason Bourne begins with its title character, ~~David Webb~~ ~~John Cena~~ Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) scrounging a living in underground bareknuckle boxing matches in Southeastern Europe. He’s called out of hiding by his former CIA handler, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), who hacked the CIA database and discovered to absolutely no one’s surprise that they’re using the same assassin training methods they used on Bourne in Treadstone under a new two-syllable code name, Ironhand. Bourne is indifferent, but when an assassin (Vincent Cassel) kills Parsons instead of him by mistake, he gets real mad and starts killing people again.

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The real-life Bourne legacy

Posted on July 29, 2016 by reelentropy

The Bourne Identity is one of those movies that was so massively influential it gets taken for granted. On the eve of the franchise’s second attempt at rebooting, let’s look back at the movie that shifted action on its axis.

Going back to 2002, the most recent movie to revolutionize action was The Matrix, a very good movie to be sure, but full of hyper-stylized scenes like this-

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