The Suicide Squad was okay. It was worse than both Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and I might have been more down on it if I'd actually paid to see it in theaters, but since I saw on da Max with someone else's login deets, it was a decent dumb popcorn movie. I like how Idris Elbow just walked in off the Hobbs & Shaw set and didn't even bother changing costumes, he was the best part. But ffs, can't these jerks just make comic books movies that are 90 minutes long? Some of us have adult ADHD and can only stay focused on flashing lights and sounds for a limited period of time.
Other stuff I watched this weekend:
The Swarm: French family drama about a widowed mother, her two kids, their failing locust farm, and their bloodthirsty swarm of locusts. For a movie that was advertised as being about "locusts with a taste for blood" I was expecting more of a b-horror flick, but really most of the horror is existential; the locust farm is failing, it's getting hard to pay the bills, the mom doesn't want to give it up because it was her late husband's, the kids get picked on at school because their mom is the weird bug lady, the mom is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Rather than turning the movie into an full-on insect murder spree, the locust's blood frenzy just becomes another other source of stress in their lives.
Blood Red Sky: German action-horror movie about a women on an international flight with her son that gets hijacked by criminals. It turns out the woman is a vampire that's been using medication to suppress her vampirism, but to save her son she's willing to unleash the beast. It was okay.
Pray Away: Documentary about members of the ex-ex-gay movement (people that were once in the ex-gay movement but have recanted their involvement). It's kind of a tough watch because even though these are broken people that did what they did because they felt like it was a way to be accepted and now they all seem genuinely really sorry about it, it's still pretty fucked up what they did. These were the people that were going to megachurches and giving eloquent speeches to get people fired up to vote for Prop 8. As long as they were getting praise and acceptance from their group, it didn't matter that they knew that conversation therapy was a sham and they were hurting other people for no reason.