Birds of Prey - It's a Garbage Movie

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Remember how Joker was criticized because it glorifies violence? But when Harley Quinn does it...

"Cassandra shits out the diamond and the movie ends." Warner bros +DC, 2020 😒

"That's right, I completely got over Joker" continues to dress up like a clown and commit crimes using clown-related gadgets

I love how DC/WB's deliberate attempts to create long-running franchises have largely been failures, while a movie intended as just a one-off throwaway film (Joker) ended up being their biggest critical and commercial hit.

When the "bad guys" are weak, it's hard to make the "heroes" strong.

Remember when we had films like Kill Bill and Alien that did strong female characters effortlessly?? *sighs

Thing is, you can't actually separate Harley from Joker's reputation. She rides off the Joker's fame because he was the one who manipulated and brainwashed her to become Harley in the first place. Trying to turn her into an independent woman makes as much sense as Batwoman trying to justify Batman taking all the credit away from her image while she runs around in a modified hand-me-down suit of his.

Being a woman myself and having been in a lot of all female fandom groups and thus seeing all sorts of fandom ladies, I think I know who the intended audience is for this film. It's the kind of woman who sees/hears about the film, says, "It's so cool that they have an all female cast in a Superhero movie! It makes me proud to be a woman." And then goes to think about other things without ever bothering to see the film. I don't think the studios took the second part into account.

I'm happy and surprised that a movie about a blue hedgehog trying to find his rings to go to mushroom land defeated this movie

You know, That giant chemical explosion would have also been a great way to get Batman to come down and stomp your ass too. But I guess that's not in the script either.

Every time an 80 pound girl beats up a trained muscular man I count that as a plot hole

Harley Quinn is the poster girl for "It's okay when WE do it".

"staffed by the dumbest most incompetent cops on the planet." Well it is Gotham.

"I'm not about to let a man take credit for a woman's work" Puts on her appropriated Batman suit and flies away

When you were talking about Harley being an unreliable narrator, it dawned on me that every man being dumb and every girl being glorious could've been used to represent how she sees the world, with her being fabulous, while every man she encounters being just the worst because they all gotta be like the Joker (and any and all other exes) who dumped her. This would not be that bad of an idea for her character, at least this version of her. Thing is though, it just doesn't work as a basis for a full movie. It could work for a single scene, perhaps recounting a scene that the viewers have already seen - but painting it in a completely over the top way when she narrates it, where every man looks really bad, while she looks as amazing as possible. This way, with viewers seeing the clear difference between what actually happened and how she narrates it, it would actually highlight her being heartbroken, angry and bitter towards Joker, and projecting those feelings onto every other man around her. But fuck that, that would make her into at least somewhat of a relatable character. Who needs that, when you can have the message, amirite?

Imagine a superhero movie getting absolutely annihilated at the box office by a hyperactive hedgehog. Oh wait. That’s exactly what happened.

The Critical Drinker: "I watched Birds of Prey so you don't have to" carefully, he's a hero

To remind everyone: this movie for adults was defeated by a kids movie about a hedgehog. Let that sink in.

To quote Knuckles from Sonic Boom: “Anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.”