Posted on 02/10/2020 6:38:06 AM PST by conservative98
Some will argue that Birds of Prey was never meant to be a big pic like Suicide Squad with its lower-than-DC-budget (around $97M gross, $84M net).
Hogwash.
It’s a brand, and that’s a lot of money to spend, according to finance sources, on a movie that’s intended to be an event film in the offseason.
While spinoffs in their grosses have traditionally shown to be down in their grosses from the core franchise (i.e., Hobbs & Shaw‘s $60M opening was off 39% from Fate of the Furious’ first weekend, and Fantastic Beasts was off 56% from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2‘s first weekend), for Birds of Prey to be off 75% from Suicide Squad‘s record August debut of $133.6M raises many questions on whether the movie should have been greenlit in the first place. What’s baffling here is that Margot Robbie made Suicide Squad fun with Harley Quinn, and arguably a commercial success. It stands to reason that a spinoff would be greenlit, and she was a force behind getting this movie off the ground.
Some in distribution circles question, though, whether the DC bad girl has a big enough following to warrant her own movie. Others in the field say in the spree of bad-ass chick films that have struggled at the box office or didn’t fully pop out (Atomic Blonde, The Rhythm Section, Alita: Battle Angel), Harley Quinn is a bad-ass, and then what? Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel exude heroism in their sell. What does Harley Quinn sell? Captain Marvel beat any deeper universe stigma first in her brand name, and second, the film was a bridge between the highest-grossing Avengers movies all time. And Harley isn’t a female Deadpool. The film, nor she, isn’t very funny, or riveting in their action.
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Saw the trailer when I went to see 1917. I don’t have enough adjectives to describe how awful it looked.
When will Hollywood end the era of CGI-heavy comic book movies and make some that actually tell a story? Other than 1917, the last two moves we went to see had the F-word in the first two minutes and went down hill from there. One even had children in the scene - which caused me to ask my wife, “What parent would willingly allow their kids to a part of that, regardless of the money involved?”
Well they did put it in the February dump zone. This is where they put movies they don’t expect to make bank.
Watched it without sound. Looks beyond stupid.
Margot Robbie, while still gorgeous, has grown some bigger ‘womanly’ curves.
I saw the previews during 1917 as well. And I’ve been seeing them on TV and the internet. “Birds of prey” just looked brutal and bad. Seems that is the case.
A light skinned black chick, an Asian, a Latina gangster, a bull dike. All the boxes are checked. I wonder why the movie didn’t do as well as ecpected. /sarc.
It’s R-rated almost entirely for language. There’s no sex stuff. The violence could easily have been made to PG-13 rated and it’d have made a ton more money.
What? You no like an action movie staring Rosie Perez, an over-the-hill Trump hater? I did like her in White Men Can’t Jump but that was almost 30 years ago.
Tonight on Broadway my surprise guest was the amazing Rosie Perez. We talked DACA & what we're going 2 do about Trump pic.twitter.com/bdbgPhA5Q2— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) September 2, 2017
Meh.
The comic it was based on had a line up with some DC heavy hitters throughout most of its run, and I would assert that using the “Birds of Prey” Name without the associated characters crippled the box office performance because long time comics readers largely panned it.
“Ford v Ferrari” was a great movie. Bets movie of 2019.
Trailers made the movie look stupid and ugly.
So I didn’t go.
Even though I think Margot Robbie is smokin’ hot and a good actress.
films that have struggled at the box office or didn’t fully pop out (Atomic Blonde, The Rhythm Section, Alita: Battle Angel),,,,,
Never heard of Atomic Blonde until it was on cable. It was OK. This is the first I’ve heard of Rhythm Section.
Never heard of Alita, until I saw it on a plane coming back from the west coast. Great movie, bought the DVD. Hope they make a sequel.
They should have gone full exploitation with this, like “Ms. 45” or the Rutger Hauer classic “Hobo With A Shotgun.” Then it could live forever on the “B” circuit and eventually make bank. As it is it’ll be forgotten next week. At least until The Razzies nominate it.
Miscast. As a batman fan that saw Harley Quinn introduced in 1992 by the animated batman series, I am disappointed that Hollywood has to again cast a thin star into what is a voluptuous woman. That is what makes HQ sexy, she is not some rake of a woman. But that’s just me.
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