Took a night away from the kids' slumber parties in my house and ducked out for Star Trek. Per forum suggestion, I watched it in 3D. Good flick, and definitely the best 3D I've seen to date. Recommend it for sure, even for non-Trekkies.
Then snuck across the hall for Suicide Squad, 3D as well just because I'm lucky. I'll admit I don't know the back story, nor much about the characters, but aside from flash-boom-bang the movie felt very much like B actors performing as B characters. Even the star of Will Smith couldn't pull this up much from being very meh. I'll admit, when Diablo finally kicked in and fought, that was pretty cool. I'll admit, the Croc dude....aside from being able to swim and fight underwater, was a total wtf-is-he-here-for type character easily forgotten. I'll admit, Will Smith did well with Deadshot. I was torn between the sexy enchantress and her archologist alter-ego that was not so sexy....but I kept watching. The military leader was a complete dork. I really wanted to like Harley Quinn a bit more, or find her more attractive, but she was an uninteresting type of crazy and the scenes of her with some guy portraying joker were a joke. The Joker actor was C at best, and even as someone with limited DC awareness beyond Batman/Superman/Wonderwoman/Flash.....the writing for Joker was crap, performed as crap.
