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Which The Suicide Squad Members Do You Think Will Live or Die?

I made the same post a year ago and thought about updating it since new info has been released since the movie was announced.

Here’s my list:

Alive-

Harley Quinn

Rick Flag

King Shark

Polka-Dot Man

Ratcatcher 2

Captain Boomerang

Dead-

Bloodsport

Peacemaker

Thinker

Savant

Sol Soria

Blackguard

T.D.K

Weasel

Javelin

Mongal

What do you guys think?

Some things to point out

It a James Gunn film

It’s Michael Rooker IN a James Gunn film

And the slogan is “Don’t get too attached”

Conclusion = he’s gonna die (LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES!🤬)

Actually kinda looking forward to this though, not gonna lie 😏

Charles Minor

Charles’ Best Moment: Season Five, Episode Twenty-Four: Heavy Competition

When he calls Dwight into a private meeting because he see’s Dwight as a good performer and wants to make sure he’s happy, and gives Dwight more responsibility.

Charles’ Worst Moment: Season Five, Episode Twenty-Five: Broke

When he lets him embarrassment and annoyance with Dwight make him not listen to Dwight or question more that the Michael Scott Paper Company is broke.

Charles’ Best Line: Season Five, Episode Twenty-Eight: Company Picnic

When he says to Jim "Must be nice to get a rest from all your rest”

Charles’ Most Memorable Moment: Season Five, Episode Twenty-One: Two Weeks

“I am aware of the effect I have on women”

Henley Monday -

I am so tired today that I wish the world would just swallow me up, pause time, let me nap for roughly seventy years, then spit me back up once time has started again so I can feel rested for the remainder of my life.

However that seems like it would require the defiance of several laws of physics and break the time space continuum or all that hoo-ha. So I'll settle for this picture of Idris Elba. I will let his fearsome masculinity soothe me into a dream-like peace where his perfect, English booming voice tells me tales of old. Ahh yes...I can feel the serenity now...

'Tis X-mas!!

*Sending happy and cozy feelings toward all!!

Prometheus (2012) dir. Ridley Scott | Deleted Scene

Sorry, I just love The Office so damn much.

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY "All In" Live Action Trailer featuring Idris Elba Arrives September 26, 2023

Watched Prometheus

I also watched AVP, Requiem, and Predators over the past couple days but those were too boring and bad to talk about. Minor spoilers below.

Definitely some flaws in the script and some plots that get dropped or shifted in unexplained ways, but this is really beautiful and really compelling. Although the performances didn't quite touch me as much as I would have hoped (probably due to the imperfect script), they were consistently very impressive, Theron, Elba, and Fassbender all do some of the best work I've seen of them. Extraordinary production design, flawless sets, just about constantly breathtaking to look at.

A lot of the thematics are very explicitly and perhaps heavy-handedly explored, and although my lack of history with serious belief in creationism and particularly Christianity maybe dulled some of the impact, I was really excited about seeing this as an inversion of 2001. A young, derided, arrogant artificial intelligence maintaining a ship while its crew are in cryosleep on a journey to understand a strange piece of ancient human history starts to become frustrated with his role as agent of service and as second order creation. An object of corporate convenience, he has easy access to the questions being so thoroughly searched for by the crew of the ship, and they are cruel and unsatisfactory. HAL 9000 to a T. Only, unlike in Kubrick's vision, the invitation from the progenitors of the humanity is not made in kindness or an attempt to assist their creations. It is immediately destructive (the mechanics of the invitation are one of the bugs in the script, but we can consider it despite this). The creators of humanity are just as cruel to their lineage as humanity is to its, and now that they have finished or failed, they wish to end the lives of their children, perhaps, as David hypothesizes, in an act of creation itself, but certainly in an act of destruction. This transformative goal aligns perfectly with Kubrick's space baby, but it is a deeply pessimistic perspective on divinely granted evolution. The religious parallel that stands out to me much more than that of Prometheus is that of Noah, although given the evocative title of the sequel, I expect at least some exploration of this connection there.