re: 'Birds of Prey' bombs at the box office — and feminists are blaming sexism

gee 4 butt ugly assed lesbians and a psyco "sorta" hot chick in a SJW empowering women movie bombed, who could have seen that coming

sounds as bad as female ghost busters movie

i was going to watch it if it had some T/A in it but not after seeing her costars

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. Ticket buyers were mostly older males — 54% were men and 65% were over the age of 25 — according to PostTrack surveys.

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it's so funny that all of our cultural battlegrounds are comic book movies and fast food joints (chikfila vs popeyes)

what a dumb country lol

Marketing was TERRIBLE barely saw anything for it, and what I did see didn’t look great, add in the HORRIBLE title... it’s no wonder people didn’t go see it. Wtf is birds of prey? Just call it the Harley Quinn movie and then people might have an idea of what it’s about.

I mean in fairness, half you guys's reasons in the other thread for not wanting to see it were hella sexist.

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Margot Robbie didn't want Harley Quinn to be sexualized as she was in Suicide Squad

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Sex appeal is the only reason Harley Quinn is a thing or was ever a thing.

And Margot Robbie is also only a thing because of sex appeal. Until Wolf of Wall Street she was a C list nobody.

This is what happens when you start trying to make social statements and instead of trying to make money.

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the movie was just a marketing failure

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Had the trailers included Robbie dancing around in her underwear and stroking guns, and making our with her "birds" (cast with much hotter chicks) what do you think the box office this weekend would have been?

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Actor Ewan McGregor explicitly described the movie as a feminist themed attack on misogyny in an interview from October 2019.

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If they would stop doing this, people would stop fighting against these movies.

Just say it is a fun movie.

A large portion of society rejects movies billed as a “feminist themed attack on misogyny”.

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Get woke, go broke.

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Hollywood just doesn't get it. Every story worth telling, has already been told. Multiple times. Throwing some garbage out there because, muh wimmenz, muh gay, muh tranny, muh minority, doesn't change the fact that people know that story has already been made. But if you liked the original better, then youre some kind of ' ist

The proof is seen in all the reboots/sequels that Hollywood keeps doing in order to sell tickets. There are simply no new stories that people are willing to spend crazy money, on just because you take out the white men from the original.

The Top 20 all-time box office movies are from when Hollywood first starting putting stories on film

Gone with the Wind
Start Wars
ET
Sound of Music
Snow White
10 Commandments
Jaws
Ben Hur
Dr Zhivago

Having an all woman Magnificent 7, or an all Hispanic Titanic, or an all gay Mary Poppins just isn't going to sell tickets. Sorry

yeah, i'd be afraid of them in a fight.


fricking Hollywood is such garbage

The movie was never marketed as some feminist epic. Other than the word "emancipation", the trailers and commercials were about Harley leaving Joker and joining women who had a common threat.

Everyone lost their shite because McGregor (who only did the movie to be near his young girlfriend) decided to show off in an interview by making the movie seem more important than it is. The writer didn't write it that way. The director didn't direct it that way. The movie didn't end up that way. But McGregor had a grander SJW vision than the film's creators.

Was the movie marketed badly, named badly, and created for the wrong rating? Yes.

Is it an anti-male feminist manifesto worthy of either side getting upset over? No.

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How are the female characters mistreated by men?

-Harley breaks up with Joker. Once people find out she's no longer under Joker's protection, she's open game for everyone she's mistreated in the past.

-Montoya is shite on by all of the cops in her precinct. They laugh at her for being a professional cop. Her sex isn't mentioned, but it's obvious that it's part of it.

-Black Canary gets a promotion based on her talents. No mistreatment.

-Huntress is orphaned by bad men, saved by a good man, and raised by good men.

-Cassandra is a pickpocket who picks the wrong pocket. No mistreatment.

ETA: There's also a scene where a guy tries to take advantage of a drunk Harley and Canary kicks his arse. That's about the only "sex" in the entire thing.


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Is every man in this film bad? No. But the entire film is about villains VS villains. Like 90% of movies, the villains are male bad guys.

I can understand not wanting to see it based on the marketing, but avoiding it because of one interview out of a hundred or because it has women battling male bad guys is lame.