Birds of Prey is giving indications that it will be wretched.
It releases in the USA on February 7th. It is now February 2nd and no, none, nada critic reviews have been released. Seems like an "embargo" has been placed.
The trailers do not look that interesting. Superhero/villain trailers almost always look good - often better than the movie itself.
Dang, I didn't realize it was already releasing this coming weekend.
Now that you mention it, though, I've seen virtually no press/marketing for the film these past couple weeks, which the studio should really be ramping up to a fever pitch by now. Not a good sign.
That is because you are all sexists and/or racists or some other ists.
They're already prepared to blame men, and particularly white men, for the film failing; I've seen the spin marketing in various access media sites already. Spin marketing explicitly connected to the avowed themes of the film by the writers. ::)
I would say they should have just let Gail Simone write the thing, but she has gotten caught up in too much political correctness in recent years that her quality isn't reliable anymore. (Or maybe it's vice versa: her quality started to decline so she took such a route to remain relevant.)
It's too bad. A full BoP origin story could have been very good, but they seem hamstrung on being unable to do that for some reason, and/or stitching a solo HQ film into it. Harley's character probably can't carry a solo film, but marketing doesn't care about that, just about her visual popularity since she does have an iconic look with some trashy/provocative/cute behavior. THAT can be marketed. But then notably, none of the BoP crew have got their iconic looks somehow...
I'm not the world's greatest BoP fan; I'm not even a fan. But I appreciate what the original run was able to do, and its quality both artistic and in writing. This had potential. Now it doesn't. Perhaps this will be the last of the misguided DC film management -- Aquaman and Shazam, despite some problems either way, demonstrated how to handle franchises correctly. More of that please; just be careful about quality, and the material should work out!
I've never even heard of this.
3 days from release and no reviews are out yet.
Very, very bad sign.
Gus - this is the Harley Quinn movie with a bunch of other DC Universe female supers. My wife and I go to so many movies now that I'm retired that we have seen the trailer for weeks.
We saw the trailer two weeks ago when we went to see JoJo Rabbit - a good but surreal film.
Could someone please bring back the 80s right now?
Quote from: W8taminute on February 03, 2020, 06:49:20 PM
Could someone please bring back the 80s right now?
Only one person could accomplish that feat...
My buddies have told me that JoJo Rabbit is hilarious.
You have Buddies? :o What am I saying? Of course you do. So do I. Though mine are all....imaginary.
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 03, 2020, 10:46:52 PM
You have Buddies? :o What am I saying? Of course you do. So do I. Though mine are all....imaginary.
You have had many, many doggy friends.
True that! \m/
:o
My imaginary buddies are all in agreement that you should not be shocked. Also, they think it's time for you to change your avatar.
What's wrong with the avatar?
My imaginary Buddies say it looks like a giant eyeball watching everything they do. That's them now, not me you understand.
This is weird. The critics reviews were embargoed until 48 hours before the first showing - and they are very positive. They also mention that the movie is highly chaotic which makes sense since Harley Quinn is batshit crazy.
The wife and I may go see this on Tuesday - there is nothing else out other than a horror movie that holds any interest for either of us.
84% on Rotten Tomatoes?! I take review sites with a grain of salt, but I wasn't expecting that high of a score. Eagerly awaiting your reviews.
The high fresh score comes from a strongly weighted 64 or 61% "okay, sure" consensus. ;) 84% of reviews are technically over the fresh limit, therefore "fresh".
Haven't seen it myself, probably won't. I did notice that some of the trailers show more colorful footage than previously.
We may go see it on cheapo Tuesday.
Opinions please. O0
For what it's worth, the auteur director of the John Wick series was hired in to reshoot most of the fight scenes (though not the finale, for whatever reason).
Title of the film will now be digitally changed in the theaters to "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey", to try to improve the marketing draw. This begs the question of why, with this film being SO VERY OVERTLY a vanity project for Margot Robbie, in marketing her as Quinn, the producers didn't lead with that in the title. This suggests BoP was originally meant to guest-star Quinn but Robbie took over the production (which to be fair, she and Ewan McGregor are by far the two best actors with the most energy in the film, but still.)
Aside from quality issues behind the switch, this may be historically the first time a film's title was altered in the same nation (or national market) while the film was still in theaters. (Films often have different titles in other languages, beyond merely translating or transliterating the titles.) Since films are now purely digital distribution, "patches" can simply be uploaded to theaters.