Guilty Pleasures #39 - Suicide Squad

Hope you enjoyed my little skit, just something I wanted to try out. But to the actual review. This is Suicide Squad

The next in the line of DC movies following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Awfulness, Suicide Squad had a rough production history, with the editing being handled by a trailer house and an effort made to inject more humour into what was a serious movie and only 6 weeks given to the writer to script it.

The end result was divisive but profitable none-the-less, and here’s how I weigh in on it.

Mini Review - Reasonable Doubt

It’s time for an entry I didn’t have time to put into Samuel L Jackson month last year, this is reasonable doubt.

This movie largely went straight to DVD and has not met critical praise, but because it was straight to DVD, there isn’t a lot of word out there to make this seem conclusive. Here’s my take on it.

#49 - Superman III

OK, so Superman 2 was great, wasn’t it? Only bad things to come from here.

Richard Lester is in full control and it’s time for, *sigh* a more comedic Superman movie. They did manage to make their money back but it was critically slammed and the next entry was done with a different production studio and far less money. But that’s a story for another day, let’s take a look at Superman III

Mini Review - The Da Vinci Code

I haven’t even started the review yet!

But yes, you’ve read that title right, this is the Da Vinci Code

So, pre-requisites for reviewing this movie:

No, I haven’t read the book by Dan Brown, I’m judging this on its own merits.

In terms of religion, I am atheist, so I’m not going to dwell on the religious aspect of the movie that has made it so controversial.

With that out of the way, released in 2006, the Da Vinci Code was financially successful, earning nearly $760m on a $150m budget. But critically it was less successful with a rotten 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average 4.8/10 score. It was also nominated for a razzie for worst direction but lost to M Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water (and rightfully so) but my thoughts are to follow.

Neeson Month: Mini Review - Non-Stop

This may be a little belated but we have one more review for Neeson Month

And that’s Non-stop.

Released in 2014, Non-Stop was profitable, earning $200m on a $50m budget and earned critical praise, although with a few provisos which I’ll get into because, trust me I have some words about it, and speaking of, let’s begin.

TV Retrospective - The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3 Part 3 - Mona Lisa's Revenge/The Gift

We’re back with the final 4 episodes of the Sarah Jane Adventures

#48 - Neeson Month - A Million Ways to Die in the West

It’s Neeson Month

And I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten a bit sick of this mediocrity, we need some good old-fashioned cr*p. But I’m too lazy to find anything obscure, so just give me an easy target

He’ll do very nicely. Yes Seth MacFarlane, the guy behind Family Guy and cavalcades of Cartoon “”””””””Comedy.”””””””” I’ve watched maybe 5 minutes of Family Guy and I already know I can’t stand it. Especially when they come up with Screams of Silence, an episode which managed to be more offensive than Kill the Moon, BY INTENTION and better yet as an attempt at shock humour. Here’s the thing about offensive comedy, you can make people laugh by offending others, but it has to be a 2-sided issue with valid arguments on either side, which is why political and religious comedy can be funny. Domestic abuse isn’t funny! Or at least you have to be very clever to make it funny, and it’s a few IQ points above MacFarlane’s. He also did Ted and its sequel, both about a man and his relationship with his teddy bear. I’d rather eat the goddamn bear than watch those.

Thankfully we’re not here to look at that today, this is a Million Ways to Die in the West

Released in 2014, this movie decides to try and parody how dangerous is to live in a western. In theory, this could be the key to a lot of comedy, but it falls short there and in various other aspects too. Neeson stars in this, but is not the lead, instead we have to make room for MacPharlane’s ego as HE plays the main character.

The movie made $87m on a $40m meaning it only barely broke even, and would be considered quite the downgrade from the Ted Movies, which made over $200m each for some reason. The movie garnered a mixed reception, with a 33% rating on rotten tomatoes and a 40% audience rating.

But this intro’s getting long, let’s just dive in.