*If you haven’t viewed this film yet be warned this review may contain spoilers!*
The villains of the comic book age have now become the heroes in Suicide Squad. The U.S Government gives a team of supervillains the chance to do some good in the world. Lead by Deadshot (Will Smith), the villains are tasked to save the world from an evil, ancient power.
THE GOOD:
Wow!
Just wow!
This indie series hits it out of the park. See for yourself:
EDITOR’S NOTE: From yesterday’s TVWriter™ gang email. (Not on the list? Join the in-group HERE.)
Gang,
Summer is “a goin’ oot,” to badly damage an old Scottish poem, so here’s how things stand as we head for Fall, 2016:
Word on the interwebs is that The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar winning film, is headed for TV via Amazon and Warner Brothers.
The bad news, if you’re a Scorsese fan, is that he isn’t involved in the series.
“Someone has just thrown Lois Lane from an airplane and she’s plummeting Earthward. But today is Humtyglumf Day, the most sacred day in the Kryptonian calendar – a day on which it is absolutely forbidden to rescue falling females. But if I do nothing, in about a nanosecond Lois will squish…”
Full disclosure: I don’t really know if Kryptonians celebrate Humptyglumf Day. On the other hand, I don’t really know if they don’t. Superman seems to have a lot of information about his shattered home world – he seems to knows a lot more about Krypton than I know about, oh…McCausland Avenue where, I have it on reliable authority, I spend the first four years or so of my life. But nothing about politics or religion.
The profit motive partly explains this. I’m thinking of one of my favorite novelists, now deceased. His name was John D. MacDonald and his best known character was/is Travis McGee. McDonald and McGee were, for me, buy-immediately-upon-sighting as I checked out the fresh paperbacks. I don’t know how many McGee novels I read before I realized how little I really knew about our hero. McDonald gave us what seemed to be a heap of personal data about his creation – his friends, his houseboat, his car, his workouts, his opinions of certain cities, his party-timing, all this and more well covered. Yessir, after reading two or five of the books you knew ol’ Trav. But did you? Tell me about his parents, his siblings (isn’t a brother mentioned somewhere?), his home town, the schools he attended, his political preferences, where, if anywhere, he worships…You might be tight with Trav, but you couldn’t fill out his census questionnaire.