Suicide Squad (2016)

Suicide Squad was pretty terrible, not as bad as everyone said, but by no means good. There is definitely a style, but it's a strange one. The opening, a montage of origin stories, looks cheap with the punk video game writing on the screen. Viola Davis is too good for this. Margot Robbie is even too good for this. She does what she can with the little she is given. And Jared Leto is a maniacal freak. He scared the heck out of me. Despite a more unique idea, the execution of the film is poor. The plot is borderline boring. These superhero, or super villain, movies just aren't exciting anymore. 

Paper Towns (2015)

This reminded me a lot of On the Town with a tinge of Gone Girl. It's not a musical, but the premise is similar. The male protagonist is searching for the female lead for nearly the entire movie.  His two buddies help him out and find ladies of their own.  Much like Ivy in On the Town, Cara Delevingne is actually hardly in the movie, just a short bit in the beginning and an even shorter scene at the end. But that is just as well because Delevingne is not a great actress. Maybe she should stick to modeling.

As for the Gone Girl aspect, there is that distinction between being gone and being missing.  And then there's that crazy girl.  This isn't quite Gone Girl-level insane, but this girl is not normal.  She leaves a series of impossible clues that make up the central mystery of the movie.  That even the first clue is solved is a miracle.  And continuing with the crazy theme, she pulls some pranks on her schoolmates, which is a seriously bad and dangerous idea when all of your Floridian neighbors have guns.