The Suicide Squad

My first movie in the cinema this year and yeah, decided on The Suicide Squad. Mostly for a couple of reasons: 

1. I would rather watch anything bloody during the day than at night - the body count in these movies are pretty high. 
2. I think it's almost at the end of the theaterical run here, so I better watch it while I still can. 

Bought a ticket online (RIP paper tickets), got there with minutes to spare but still sat through almost 20 minutes of ads (can't say I blame them though - they haven't been able to operate for almost half a year now) before the movie. The room wasn't even full by SOP standards - there was probably a dozen people?

I'm guessing (haven't exactly read that one through) that one of the SOP is that you can only pre-purchase concessions and not crowd the counters for popcorn on a whim. For the prices they're charging for popcorn in 2021, I might as well buy a small bag of Garrett's. Actually, at this point I would rather just buy other savoury snacks on offer but the one I wanted wasn't available, so ya, too bad la. 

No complaining about spoilers - it's been out for months by now (maybe not in Malaysia, but that's not the point). 

• You know Flula Borg, Nathan Fillion and Pete Davidson are in this, but like that scene in Deadpool 2, they die off pretty quickly. 
• The ladies are the MVPs of this movie. 
• As much as I cringe at fake gore, but I always enjoy a good escape choreography. 
• I'm always tickled whenever I see Taika Waititi in a movie (even in flashback form); I forgot that he was in this one.
• I dunno how they (Waititi and the kid playing younger Cleo) scaled that high, or just damn good CGI. 
• Blackmailing Waller into letting them go is not the worst ending ever. 

Calling this a soft reboot of the previous movie is a bit of a stretch, it's almost pretty similar - Deadshot/Bloodsport getting roped in because of their daughters, Harley being Harley, them being dropped to stop a creature from causing havoc, the one strong but dumb character (King Shark/Killer Croc)... you get the drift lah. It was funny in places, but I was mostly watching through my fingers from the fake gore.