Reviews

It's truly amazing that a film with the budget this one has can be built upon a script that is so fundamentally bad. For me a huge part of what makes a scary story is a well developed or thought-provoking monster. This film treats its main source of fear as a complete and total afterthought with little to no explanation of what it is or where it came from or why we should be afraid, even the image of the monster looks like a halloween costume someone put together at the last moment. The first insidious was mostly decent because there was a story behind the monster, and it was a pretty decent story. This movie almost feels like it's preparing us for movies written by AI - it's got all the ornaments of a horror film, but none of the substance, the story that actually makes it scary.

Good horror movie if you're sick of bad acting and poor story telling as Rebecca Hall really puts her heart into the film and the story is well paced and compelling. I highly recommend this to fans of horror and suspense.

I don't really know how to explain how amazing this show is, how warm and lovable and painfully familiar I find the characters, especially when I'm cringing. In my opinion Krisel is just knocking it out of the park. This show is really a love letter to America, and it makes me grateful to be alive while its airing.

Thank you Baskets. Thank you.

The positives are primarily the actors - they do a decent job of making an at times idiotic script come to life. I'm on episode six, and without spoiling anything I'll just say that I've lost interest because I am no longer able to suspend my disbelief. The plot is very lazily written resulting in the majority of the story being driven by truly unbelievably rookie mistakes being made by this or that veteran life-long spy. People serving in the field for over two decades only to do something like leave a prisoner unattended and poorly restrained just to have some needless privacy on a phone call. So. Stupid. It's possible that the over-arching narrative might be so compelling as to make enduring this condescending stupidity tolerable, but chances are if the process of getting there is this flat-footed and tedious it's because the writers knew the ending wasn't going to be much different. Having not finished the first season I'm nor able to definitively answer whether or not as a whole the show is worth it but at this point I feel like really only and idiot can derive true pleasure from this vacuous locker-room of a spy thriller. All that aside I guess I should repeat again that the acting actually wasn't bad, in fact I'd go so far as to say the acting was above average.

Cheers.

Surprised at the amount of negative reviews this show has garnered so far. I've only watched the first episode but complaints that the characters are two-dimensional seem unfair without allowing the show to build those characters past the first episode. Of course this is assuming they are laying groundwork for substantive growth of character, which they might not be doing. My point is simply that it has the potential to be a good show, and at a time when the way we get our news is rapidly evolving seemingly without deliberation I'm for even superficial examinations of that process. Anything to kickstart a real conversation.

There's something to be said about the role of self-esteem vs. self-awareness. This movie makes it seem like just believing you are awesome and hot is enough to get ahead in this world, which is simply not true. Far better to be self-aware, to know your strengths and weaknesses, to be aware of what the people around you think and feel about what you look like and how you behave.

Also, please take note that the majority of reviewers who give the film 8-10 stars have not reviewed ANY other films, or have reviewed maybe 3 or four at most. Suspicious!

Many of the recent superhero movies to come out have actually been of surprisingly good quality. The writing can be a little pedestrian, a little (verging on painfully) predictable given the level of self-awareness and emotional depth of the demographic it is produced for. Having said that, usually the writing is of such a quality as to allow us to at least appreciate the acting or, failing that, the neon pyrotechnic spectacle of effects unencumbered by clumsy, sophomoric narrative flailing.

Suicide Squad bears no such considerations. The writing is so flagrantly unconcerned with its own substance as to be an indictment of the intelligence of the viewer - as if it was written out of the spite the writer feels for his own audience. The actors seem to sense this and end up either acting along out of impotent despair (as seen in professional pornography) or callously insulting indifference (as seen in crime re-enactments). Whatever the motives of those involved in nearly every aspect of this production the message of the movie is the same: the sarcastic yet sincere suggestion that the viewer who has consummated watching this film can only have done so out of a stupidity so comprehensive and abiding as to be unable to realize the threat it poses and so, for the good of all existence should commit suicide. There is no redemption for us, for by our willingness to endure such an obvious and grave insult to what is most noble within us we have tacitly endorsed the position that we deserve death, that we too have become irretrievably lost.

There is only one way out now. Ha ha ha. How else could we too become the "Worst. Heroes. Ever."