A Short Review of Suicide Squad

Remember, we're the bad guys...

• Suicide Squad was about a C+/B- Movie that had potential left on the cutting room floor
• Needed more Joker, or no Joker.  You don't make the Joker a plot device that's only relevant for like 20 mintes of a 2 hour movie.  He's the most famous DC villain there is.
• Also, jokes?  I didn't expect nor desire a Mark Hamill style performance, but he's the JOKER!  Joke is in his damn moniker.  Sarcastic isn't the same as funny...  
• That said, I did like Jared Leto's take, but again, not enough.
• Harley was great.  Appreciated the nods to her origins with the harlequin costume and the "Batman: Harley Quinn" cover reference.
• Deadshot teased us with the worst decision a movie studio trying to compete with Marvel could make.  Thank God he missed.
• Yay Set-up for Justice League!  But why?  I mean we knew it was coming...  No where near as 'cool' as it was seeing Nick Fury in Stark's house at the end of Iron Man when we didn't even know what we would get yet.
• El Diablo is my new favorite villain, if only because of like 5 minutes of movie.
• Will Smith as Deadshot was good.  I'd see another movie.  Kinda want a Katana movie though...
• The woman who sets up the Team-X?  Cold....  Like, William Lord Kelvin would have found her too cold for him...  Absolute ZERO!
• I am starting to just want a Batfleck movie.  And he better be as cool as he was in BvS...

My short review!  :)

The Truth Comes Out (A micro post)

I need deadlines!

Short story:  I don't write without deadlines.  And on top of that, I need a damn list of goals for myself.  I just skimmed my blog and realized I said I would do reviews of movies that aren't even in theaters anymore, of games that may have had sequels announced already, and have not continued either of the 'series' of posts I wanted to do regularly: Questions Authors Ask and World Building...

On top of that, the only 'writing' I've done lately is rewriting, and before you say, "But Shane, all writing is rewriting," this had been the worst slate of rewriting I've had to do.  I'm frustrated with a scene I feel I need but hate how I've written it and I can't bring myself to move on.  So I'm basically erasing the last two chapters I wrote (more like saved and put in an archive folder) and trying to change things to get me beyond it.  And of course now I'm just not motivated so it's taking a long time.

So blegh.  Any ideas?  Suggestions?  This really hurts to admit but I have to get it off my shoulders and chest and brain...