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A detailed Folding Ideas analysis of Suicide Squad that treats the film as a case study in bad editing, broken structure, and chaotic production. The video breaks down how setup, payoff, pacing, and scene flow fall apart across the finished cut.
A setup about bad editing
Dan Olson opens by contrasting a few solid films from the year with the much more chaotic experience of Suicide Squad.
Clear editing framework
The video explains the difference between momentary editing and structural editing, then uses Suicide Squad to show failures in both.
Production context
It also references the film’s troubled development, including script trouble, reshoots, and competing cuts.
Concrete examples
Specific scenes are used to show broken setup and payoff, weak continuity, and lost momentum in key action beats.
Topics
Editing theory
The distinction between shot-to-shot editing and scene-to-scene structure becomes a core lens for the analysis.
Production troubles
Suicide Squad is presented as a film whose development history likely contributed to its incoherent final cut.
Setup and payoff failures
The video uses specific examples, including Captain Boomerang’s unicorn gag and Enchantress’ heart, to show how the film mishandles setup and payoff.
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In equal measure, The Last Airbender is a great example of bad momentary editing, with lots of poorly selected cuts, bad reverse shots, and just a lot of terrible decisions all around. Suicide Squad, likewise, is so full of problems from structural to momentary, that I would seriously advise anyone with an interest in the art of cinematic editing do their own full autopsy to see just how much went wrong and plain old doesn't work. [ambient hum with an increasingly loud rythmic thud] Now whenever a studio starts to meld with a film, there's an instinctive response, a desire for a clean narrative that casts one side as the villains and the other as either the heroes or victims.
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Audience comments snapshot
Viewer reactions
Comments focus on the film's editing failures, especially continuity, dialogue timing, and visual clarity. Several also quote the movie's most awkward lines and name-check other 2010s comic-book releases discussed in the video.
Comment themes
Editing as the main subject
The audience response mirrors the video’s core argument: Suicide Squad is treated as a case study in broken structure, awkward cutting, and missed setup/payoff.
Scene-by-scene breakdown
Viewers also respond to the video's style of close textual analysis, repeating lines and jokes to underline how the film's choices land on screen.
Audience signals
Editing criticism
A recurring complaint is that the editing feels unprofessional, with one comment calling out poor readability in the film's title-card style presentation.
Quoted dialogue
Multiple viewers quote or parody the film's dialogue, especially Katana's introduction and other overly memorable lines.
Comparison to other films
Commenters connect the video to other troubled comic-book films, especially Fantastic Four and Batman v. Superman.
Representative public comments
16:45 ... That's just unprofessional. I mean that literally. No one who gets paid should put black text on a dark background like that. How the fuck did that happen?
It's all about subverting expectations. For example, most of the audience probably expected a competently made film.
when they introduce Katana, the delivery on those lines are so bad i almost expected him to say at some point "Katana means japanese sword"
Whenever anybody says "suicide squad" i have to physically restrain myself from immediately THIS IS KATANA. SHE'S GOT MY BACK. SHE COULD CUT ALL Y'ALL JUST LIKE MOWIN' THE LAWN. I WOULD ADVISE NOT GETTIN' KILLED BY HER; HER SWORD STEALS THE SOULS OF ITS VICTIMS.
I genuinely appreciate the fact that people still insist on referring to the 2015 Fantastic 4 as "Fant 4 Stic."
My favourite part of the film is that they introduce Deadshot as the most amazing long distance sniper in (one of) his introductions, and then he spends the rest of the film mowing down enemies from up close with machine guns.
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