Man you know the movie isn't great, it has its moments but, not great. Not sure if a title change will fix it.
Birds of Prey gets name change, now called: Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (Update: WB did not change the films name)
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I remember they retroactively renamed Pitch Black to The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black after the Chronicles of Riddick came out.
Star Wars: A New Hope was originally just Star Wars.
Harley Quinn: The New Movie from the Guy That Brought You Protectors of the Solar System
Rolls right off the tongue.
And Raiders of the Lost Ark is now Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
And no one will pay attention to this instead they'll pay attention to these click bait headlines.
Well the film is like a 90% Harley-show. Rest of the birds are basically extras with nothing to do really.
If you're going to do an R-Rated movie of Harley Quinn, you need to include the Joker.
The reason people saw Suicide Squad is they knew there would be Joker. Even a bad Joker is still a big draw. Harley Quinn was an additional draw, as an extension of the Joker.
I don't think the title sunk this movie. I think they mismanaged their own IP pretty clumsily. Why use the "Birds of Prey" name if you're not actually doing what people like about BOP?
Harley Quinn should be PG-13... she can be wacky and chaotic without the R violence and vulgarity.
Batman would make more sense to be R, honestly... Harley Quinn should be more accessible to kids. Harley is a character for 12 year old girls but the film is aimed at adults.
The reason people saw Suicide Squad is they knew there would be Joker. Even a bad Joker is still a big draw. Harley Quinn was an additional draw, as an extension of the Joker.
I don't think the title sunk this movie. I think they mismanaged their own IP pretty clumsily. Why use the "Birds of Prey" name if you're not actually doing what people like about BOP?
Harley Quinn should be PG-13... she can be wacky and chaotic without the R violence and vulgarity.
Batman would make more sense to be R, honestly... Harley Quinn should be more accessible to kids. Harley is a character for 12 year old girls but the film is aimed at adults.
Huh. I mean, I know I'm a bit out of the loop here, but I had no idea that Birds of Prey was the Harley Quinn movie I saw a trailer for. I just assumed "Harley Quinn" would be somewhere in the title from the get go. So yeah, bad initial title.
Yup again it's DC not freaking trusting their characters.
Was it? She's driving a car for most of the film and uses her powers once :P
They should have done that from the beginning. Hopefully now they understand that names are really important in catching the viewer's eyes.
I don't think enough people actually read american comics for this to actually matter lol
Has nothing to do with that. Margot pitched "an R-rated girl-gang movie with Harley" in 2015, before Suicide Squad even released. This is what she wanted and fought for.
She was a constant presence throughout the movie. If anyone was an extra it was
I hate how Disney names Tangled and Frozen. Every other princess film is simply the name of the princess. Mulan, Snow White, Cinderella etc. Even non princess films mostly would follow that style like Tarzan and Hercules.
It makes sense to appeal it to a broader range of people but it still is my pet peeve.
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the damage's been done and changing the title now wouldn't change much. That's not how promotion work in here.
but we know some fanboys will few weeks later, claims how people were wrong about the title isn't an issue since they changed the title and didn't save the movie.
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Yeah this should've been done from the get-go.
Multiple times I've had this conversation with coworkers and patrons: "Yeah I saw Birds of Prey over the weekend"
Them: "??? Which one is that again?"
Me: "The Harley Quinn movie"
Them: "Ooohhhh THAT one!"
Multiple times I've had this conversation with coworkers and patrons: "Yeah I saw Birds of Prey over the weekend"
Them: "??? Which one is that again?"
Me: "The Harley Quinn movie"
Them: "Ooohhhh THAT one!"
seriously........the movie is more about her than the birds of prey moniker gives.
I dont watch many movies and I saw a poster of Birds of Prey and I knew it was related to the Suicide Squad, which I know was a bad movie. Only reason I want to watch this is because I heard the actress was nominated for the Oscar (for another movie) and then I heard the movie is actually good... but being related to Suicide Squad just suck lol. I am going to watch it tomorrow on Imax (first ever experience).
The title is never irrelevant.
The problem with this title in particular, beyond how stupid the name is, is that it's so long it is abbreviated in search fields, certain areas in fandango, etc. This is even worse because "Harley Quinn" is at the end of the title and cut off when abbreviated.
By putting Harley up front in search her name won't be lost anymore.
And as such a failure as the film was, it's insane that they greenlit THREE sequels for it...
The movie was a financial hit despite everyone actively disliking it.
kind of a rare thing for a movie so reviled to make so much money.
it's beyond studio executives' capacity to understand
