Hola, Sneakers! This week on the show, Ian and Dave commit Suicide Squad to the garbage dump of movie failures, but before they get to that they also take a peek at the naked Donald Trump statues; beat men’s penis problems; spend some time on porn sites; and – –
Okay, that came out all wrong.
Let’s just say that David reveals the terrible truth about The Police and then he and Ian tell you everything you wanted to know about Suicide Squad, but were afraid to ask – including: how to ignore the source material; how to mess up an action movie; how to use boring and inconsistent characters; how to not have a plot; how to not use a consistent tone; how to not understand superheroes, and so many more exciting criticisms that you’ll just have to listen to the show to hear them all. (It’s better than seeing the movie!)
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Thanks for listening.
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FYI: the naked Trump statues have no nuts for Ian’s squirrels to go for. The creators of the work called it “The Emperor Has No Balls,” a reference to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” I’m not sure what they are saying Trump has no balls about — maybe that he won’t man up and admit he’s deliberately pandering to the worst fears of bigoted voters in order to get elected? Or more simply, that he lacks the qualities needed to run a country such as character and experience.
Because of the literary allusion, I saw it more as a 3-D political cartoon, not just a case of body-shaming. While they ARE literally mocking him for having a small penis (which may or may not be true), the message they’re sending to the public is that they should figuratively strip away all the boasting and the jingoistic rhetoric and take a good look at the character of man who would be president.
Also, maybe the screenwriter of Suicide Squad should’ve watched the WW2-set flick The Dirty Dozen (1967) to see how to tell the story of an intelligence operative working with the military to recruit violent and psychotic criminals for a secret suicide mission against an evil enemy.