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DirkCrisis

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If you liked the original when you saw it then go with 4K. If you're keen to see what it might have been like, the extended blu ray.

 

I would suggest buying neither though because it's a terrible film although curiously not my least favourite film of the year. That was Triple 9.

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37 minutes ago, Salsa Party Animal said:

OK so it is not a good film then :( I will wait for extended blu ray to drop below 6 quids then. 

 

 

It's just boring. None of the things that seem interesting go anywhere and all the gaps are filled by generic action or really generic dialogue. It's not even funny bad like BvS.

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2 hours ago, Salsa Party Animal said:

OK so it is not a good film then :( I will wait for extended blu ray to drop below 6 quids then. 

 

 

Wait, so the ludicrously expensive 4K version doesn't include the extended version? Cheap as fuck and avoid mate. 

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The video VN1X posted is great - really shows just how badly this was slapped together.. Any coherence there might have been to the plot (assuming there was any to begin with) or any sort of vision for the film is completely gone in the utter mess that was made in the edit..

And dear god, that has to be the most obvious, overused and laziest song selection in modern cinema..

 

Though the whole thing is riddled with other issues.. and if Jai Courtney isn't nearly the weakest link in your cast.. you're definitely in trouble!

 

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jonathanhoey

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Not really. There's quite a lot more Jared Leto, if that's your bag. Apart from that I couldn't really tell you much except it felt slower and baggier. Lots of scenes just went on longer with more dialogue that didn't seem to me as if it really added much.

 

I don't know if you listen to Mark Kermode on Radio 5 but he's very fond of repeating an adage, which he attributes to Roger Corman, that most films would benefit from losing a third of their running time in the edit. I think in this case less probably is more.

 

While I think it's a flawed film at best, I didn't hate either version and was happy enough to have watched them, but I wouldn't say the extended version is necessary.

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RubberJohnny

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Yeah I struggled to finish it too, it's just really long for something where nothing interesting happens, there's got to be like forty minutes of setup before they ever get to the city? And parts of it are just baffling, like why are there all these nameless soldiers with them who do everything and are far more effective? I thought they were going to have all the soldiers killed off leaving only the core group but then a bunch more appear out of nowhere near the end who have luckily brought scuba gear with them. And the action is incredibly flat, and most of the characters are barely 1d, and it's got the worst villains ever.

 

It's not hateful like BvS, it's just got nothing going for it, nothing to recommend. If it weren't for laughing at the bad music choices there'd be nothing memorable.

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22 hours ago, SeanR said:

 

the enchantress flashback stuff, yeah?

 

confused as fuck

The whole thing just seemed like they'd shot scenes they quite wanted to see, but never bothered to link any of them together. Even Margot Robbie's wardrobe couldn't distract me enough.

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Just watched the Extended Version.  It makes the biggest mistake of any film.  It's boring.  Robbie is the best thing in it, the Joker is wasted, stuff happens with no real reason to happen, Waller is just a dick for no reason at all (why did she shoot the people she was trapped with, no clearence? Then why were they there in the first place?) and then it ends.  Dull, boring, badly written bollocks.

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