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Birds Of Prey Review Thread - 92% RT: What are we? Some better Suicide Squad?
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They didn't get rid of a shared universe. The movies still connect. They let the film makers actually make the movie they wanted to and stopped messing with their final edits. Also, Zack isn't in charge anymore.
Man Harley is on a hot streak. First her new animation series gets rave reviews and now her upcoming movie is getting great reception too.
Shazam actually reference MOS, BvS and Aquaman. The only disconnected movie is Joker.
Glad this one is being well received, looking forward to watching it this weekend.
Good to hear. I HATED Suicide Squad, so I think I was rightfully worried about how film aping that sort of style would do. It's awesome to see DC doing so well diversifying their lineup post Justice League.
The trailers have been pretty terrible but I guess that doesn't mean much when some of the trailers for Suicide Squad were pretty good, lol.
I mean but they aren't
They aren't as tightly this movie leads to this movie led to that movie as Marvel
But clearly establish that Aquaman, Shazam and BoP take place in the same universe/continuity as MoS, BvS, Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman.
I knew it referenced Batman and Superman obviously, but the way those references were handled had me thinking they were mostly different takes on the characters (costume aside). I also sorta thought they were stepping it down even more going forward.
Happy to be wrong, though!
I posted this in my impressions, but for over here
We literally get a flashback to Harley's origins from Suicide Squad, carefully cut to avoid showing Leto's Joker, but eh
Then when she meets Cass officially and they go shopping, she gives a brief rundown of her history, which includes a summary of Suicide Sqaud
In the police station, there's a wanted poster for Boomerang, and Harley says "Hey, I know that guy" it's a cute moment
And in one of the clips, it shows when digging through her old stuff, her shirt/outfit from Suicide Squad "oh not that one, sentimental"
Then when she meets Cass officially and they go shopping, she gives a brief rundown of her history, which includes a summary of Suicide Sqaud
In the police station, there's a wanted poster for Boomerang, and Harley says "Hey, I know that guy" it's a cute moment
And in one of the clips, it shows when digging through her old stuff, her shirt/outfit from Suicide Squad "oh not that one, sentimental"
That guy is nothing but trash. Since there's no Dolemite Is My Name (Academy too lame), Parasite is definitely Best Picture. I'm watching it again as I type this. lol
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This guy gives this movie a 0/4, how does any movie honestly deserve a 0 out of 4? Did he not find anything to enioy at all... like I understand giving it a 10% or even 30% if you didnt like it but a 0%. Anyways here's a brief bit of his review.This is why it dropped so much over the last few minutes
Naw
I think for better and worse, DC will continue with these films being whatever the director wants and we saw with others that doesn't always translate to a good movie
I like the unpredictable nature of their releases though
You never really know what you're getting
I mean the film itself was utter shit so I can hope Robbie's Quinn is better in this.
Black Adam is going to be the next DC billion movie.
Dwayne Johnson brings the money
That's true, they seem to want to move away from the Snyder movies but still show that they still exist in that universe. I believe going forward those movies will be forgotten entirely with this new phase, especially after Flashpoint if the movie rumours are true.
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Hehe... :p
I'm not mad, I just never understand when i see reviewers give movies 0%, I just think even the worse movies I have seen I can still aknowledge something good about it and give it atleast some credit, not a 0%
Flashpoint would be a very convenient way to do a "keep what worked ditch what didn't" approach to things, yeah.
The Batman costume will be slightly darker or lighter than the grey they envisioned and it will lead them to believe the entire production is a mess.
Sounds more like an angry fan than an actual professional critic.
It's truly awful.
Who knows if there is any callbacks beside Joker which you see in the trailer anyway.
It's honestly so bad but for comparison maybe...but I wouldn't want to ruin this film with it. Looks like it's own thing and there is nothing worth calling back anyway beside that awful Joker being dead, hurrah.
Definitely possible. Its international performance should be stronger than the first film.
So you "read" a few reviews, but some how missed that it's Rated R and filled with violence?
You clowns need to do a better job of hating on this movie. This is just lazy at this point.
As she throws Harley Quinn into various kinds of trouble, convinces her to save the young thief instead of turning her over and has the women team up to fight Roman's ever-expanding gang, Yan finds plenty of opportunities for exciting set pieces: Extravagant action choreography makes the most of colorful set design, unlikely gimmicks and wrasslin'-style brutality. But Hodson's script offers far less diverting banter than it might've between the fight scenes, and has a hard time imagining the unconstrained id that makes Harley Quinn so magnetic. One or two beautiful sequences — like the one in which Harley's longing for a perfect breakfast sandwich leads to tragedy — don't suffice to keep the character's magnetic madness alive onscreen.
Nor does the picture suggest there'd be any reason to watch a Birds of Prey movie that stars only the crimefighters who'll eventually adopt that name. Without Harley Quinn, these are characters who'd be doing well to carry a basic-cable TV series. Cassandra Cain, in the comics, is one of many women who fight crime under the Batgirl moniker. But nothing in Birds of Prey suggests she'd ever merit further attention, far out in this suburb of Gotham with Batman nowhere to be found.
Nor does the picture suggest there'd be any reason to watch a Birds of Prey movie that stars only the crimefighters who'll eventually adopt that name. Without Harley Quinn, these are characters who'd be doing well to carry a basic-cable TV series. Cassandra Cain, in the comics, is one of many women who fight crime under the Batgirl moniker. But nothing in Birds of Prey suggests she'd ever merit further attention, far out in this suburb of Gotham with Batman nowhere to be found.
The script, by Christina Hodson ("Bumblebee"), has attitude to spare, but in a rather bare-bones way. It's going for the sparky nihilist defiance of "Deadpool," with a running fourth-wall-breaking commentary by Harley, and there are cheeky character IDs ripping across the screen, as when Harley discovers herself under attack by the driver behind her, identified as "Some Frida Kahlo-looking asshole" (which she indeed is). But if the film's (black) heart is in the right acid place, "Birds of Prey" could have used more of the intricate cleverness of "Deadpool." The actresses who come together to form Harley's posse, like Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Roman's nightclub chanteuse Black Canary or Ella Jay Basco as the wily Cassandra, have presence to spare, but you wish they'd been given more to do.
I can post more if you'd like.
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Birds of Prey certainly errs on the side of style over substance — if you dig too far into its flashy surface, you may not find much underneath. It's not saying anything deep or groundbreaking about the female experience or the nature of revenge. Birds of Prey is reveling in being as gonzo and stylish as it can be. But when the fights are this thrilling and the humor this absurd, whatever's underneath the surface doesn't matter all that much.
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Yeah, several people I know who either don't watch superhero movies or only see stuff like Avengers were super-hyped by the trailer.
As long as David Sandberg is doing Black Adam it's hard to imagine the Shazam series doing a nose dive.
I think the poster was commenting on you taking what they assume is a kid to a rated R movie.
Sandberg's directing Shazam 2. Black Adam's being done by the guy who made Jungle Cruise with the Rock.
Still dumb. He doesn't know how old my child is or what kind of movies he watches.
He just wanted to try to paint anyone that is not all in one on this movie as a hater
You literally just proved my point. All the reviews you are citing explicitly call out the violence, the R rating, comparisons to Deadpool and Kill Bill, explicit language. Nice try.
Oh wow I had no idea those were separate films. I though Black Adam was Shazam 2.