The Suicide Squad isn’t quite the movie that you’re expecting. Oh, sure,
James Gunn’s latest superhero blockbuster is as funny, violent, cynical, and chaotic as its red-band trailer indicates. But it’s not just a bloody good time. Amid all of the mayhem, there are moments of genuine emotion. Many of the action scenes are harrowing, not comedic. Gunn plays the biggest character beats completely straight, infusing
The Suicide Squad with both tragedy and heart.
“This movie really was about just making the biggest, most entertaining film I possibly could,” Gunn said during a post-screening Q&A, just before admitting he was “trying to take risks with a spectacle film.” The result is unique among big-budget superhero movies. Structurally,
Screenshot: Birds Of Prey
The last time we saw Dr. Pamela Isley, also known as Poison Ivy, she was being swallowed whole by a Venus flytrap in
Batman & Robin. In the 25 years since the film’s release, Uma Thurman’s performance as the plant-obsessed botanist who just wants to save the friggin’ environment has aged the best. Still, there’s a growing movement of people who like the whole film, so maybe it’s time to bring Poison Ivy into this new breed of DC movies. (If Zack Snyder can shoehorn Martian Manhunter in there, we can surely get a little Ivy.)
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DCEU Movies Ranked: From Man of Steel to Zack Snyder s Justice League
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Starting in the long-long ago of 2013, Warner Bros. and DC have been releasing entries in their DC Extended Universe series of movies, which connect heroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and others across one superhero movie landscape. Of the nine movies so far, a few have been solid, if even heroic, entries in the genre, while several others have been.yeah. Across them all, I ve been watching each one and waiting sometimes even eagerly for the next additions, and in that time have assembled my list of the very best and very worst entries.