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re: 'Birds of Prey' bombs at the box office — and feminists are blaming sexism
Posted on 2/11/20 at 5:48 pm to WPBTiger
Posted on 2/11/20 at 5:48 pm to WPBTiger
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and feminists are blaming sexism
The evidence of which was one tweet and the words of one comic book nerd.
God damn people lap this shite up on here.
Posted on 2/11/20 at 6:44 pm to WPBTiger
When the usual suspects from the film critic crowd stared using the same buzzwords to praise this movie, I knew Birds of Prey was going to bomb.
Amazing how hollywood keeps doubling down on the get woke and go broke bullshite.
Amazing how hollywood keeps doubling down on the get woke and go broke bullshite.
Posted on 2/11/20 at 7:43 pm to WPBTiger
I blame the name of the movie. They were banking on the popularity of Harley Quinn and the movie is named Birds of Prey. It took me quite a few times of seeing the movie mentioned to finally associate that name with the movie. It just sounded like some IMAX 3D National Geographic limited release thing.
Posted on 2/11/20 at 11:00 pm to WPBTiger
The marketing was trash. It looked like a goofball film...yet i hear its actually good
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:46 am to WPBTiger
Here’s the thing about being the great evil, straight, sexist, white male in the year 2020. I can still spend the money I make on what I want to spend it on, as long as it is legal, and DGF what anyone else thinks.
If all the woke people would spend their money on woke movies and projects, they wouldn’t fail. But they don’t, so they fail. Instead, they sit in their miserable, npc lives and bitch about the latest wokeness that is oppressing them, while blaming the unwoke for their failure.
If all the woke people would spend their money on woke movies and projects, they wouldn’t fail. But they don’t, so they fail. Instead, they sit in their miserable, npc lives and bitch about the latest wokeness that is oppressing them, while blaming the unwoke for their failure.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:54 am to WPBTiger
- Suicide Squad sucked so the DC fans who saw that will be far less likely to give this a chance
- Terrible time of year to get big theater numbers/sales
- This is just my opinion, but the character of Harley Quinn post-transformation into the psycho, probably isn't worthy of a movie. Her origin story and character development from normal into psycho might be, but not afterwards. She's kind of boring and annoying to have that much screen time.
- Terrible time of year to get big theater numbers/sales
- This is just my opinion, but the character of Harley Quinn post-transformation into the psycho, probably isn't worthy of a movie. Her origin story and character development from normal into psycho might be, but not afterwards. She's kind of boring and annoying to have that much screen time.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:00 am to WPBTiger
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"Unfortunately what she may have proved (who can say off one movie) is that the male audience for superhero movies isn't as mature as we'd like to hope, and the female audience isn't large enough to compensate,"
Who would have ever thought this to be true?! Wow, what a revelation!
Posted on 2/12/20 at 12:13 pm to WPBTiger
she was weak on "The hot Ones".
Posted on 2/12/20 at 12:41 pm to WPBTiger
I didn't see it because the trailer gave me a headache. And it looked like shite.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 11:46 pm to WPBTiger
They made Birds of Prey without Batgirl and with Harley Quinn, made it rated R with the stated intent of "not sexualizing Harley," and cast someone ugly as Black Canary.
Can't imagine why it's bombing.
Can't imagine why it's bombing.
This post was edited on 2/12/20 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 2/14/20 at 4:14 pm to WPBTiger
frick that stupid movie
Posted on 2/15/20 at 6:58 am to WPBTiger
Jim Carrey was right. Nobody wants to watch Margot Robbie on screen when she isn’t dolled up and sexy.
This post was edited on 2/15/20 at 6:59 am
Posted on 2/23/20 at 7:32 pm to WPBTiger
Finally got around to seeing the movie and I was right on the money in my earlier assessment.
First off, the synopsis for you tl;dr folks: this movie came across as a 2nd rate attempt at being a lesser, female version of Deadpool.
What killed this movie was the writing. The story moved far too fast and the character development fell flat. Margo does a great job as Harley but it just wasn't enough. At the very least they should have written her character as more ditzy and lucky, the balance they were trying to strike between adorably crazy, psychotic killer and (anti?) heroine never really seemed to work.
Another problem with this movie is (as I mentioned in another post) they are taking a genre that appeals far more to males than females and tried to hammer that square peg of genre appeal into the round hole of female enjoyment (:rimshot:).
Surprisingly the one place the writing did work was in getting the all-female group together. The story of how the team of only females came about didn't beat you over the head with it's blatant feminism...
...or that they are there simply because uterus...
...but rather instead it laid out a scenario where it made sense that these particular characters, who only happen to be female, all have to come together. Now if you expand beyond that to the fact that almost every female character in the movie is where they are because they are a victim of some man's assholery, then you can easily begin to see definite markings of Ovarian Power with just a light drizzle of #MeToo. This is especially prevalent in the fight scenes where all the people they fight against are men and they seem to easily beat all their asses. Strangely though, it didn't have the feel of being the over-whelming story of the movie, just some ancillary aspects.
Or maybe... the writing was so bad that they couldn't even properly nauseate the audience with their overwhelming Estro-fest?
Whatever the reason, the ManBad/WomanGood theme never really fully developed (which I consider a good thing) but neither did much else. All-in-all I would have been better off buying scratch-offs with my $12.
First off, the synopsis for you tl;dr folks: this movie came across as a 2nd rate attempt at being a lesser, female version of Deadpool.
What killed this movie was the writing. The story moved far too fast and the character development fell flat. Margo does a great job as Harley but it just wasn't enough. At the very least they should have written her character as more ditzy and lucky, the balance they were trying to strike between adorably crazy, psychotic killer and (anti?) heroine never really seemed to work.
Another problem with this movie is (as I mentioned in another post) they are taking a genre that appeals far more to males than females and tried to hammer that square peg of genre appeal into the round hole of female enjoyment (:rimshot:).
Surprisingly the one place the writing did work was in getting the all-female group together. The story of how the team of only females came about didn't beat you over the head with it's blatant feminism...
...or that they are there simply because uterus...
...but rather instead it laid out a scenario where it made sense that these particular characters, who only happen to be female, all have to come together. Now if you expand beyond that to the fact that almost every female character in the movie is where they are because they are a victim of some man's assholery, then you can easily begin to see definite markings of Ovarian Power with just a light drizzle of #MeToo. This is especially prevalent in the fight scenes where all the people they fight against are men and they seem to easily beat all their asses. Strangely though, it didn't have the feel of being the over-whelming story of the movie, just some ancillary aspects.
Or maybe... the writing was so bad that they couldn't even properly nauseate the audience with their overwhelming Estro-fest?
Whatever the reason, the ManBad/WomanGood theme never really fully developed (which I consider a good thing) but neither did much else. All-in-all I would have been better off buying scratch-offs with my $12.
Posted on 2/23/20 at 9:40 pm to WPBTiger
They should be bitching at the female armpit hair and camo brigade instead of men don’t you think? I mean nobody complains that not enough women show up to see Expendables or James Bond films. It’s getting to the point where I think they’re making these bombs on purpose just for talking points to push their politics. They’re like campaign ads and the box office returns are man hating poll numbers.
This post was edited on 2/23/20 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 2/24/20 at 12:22 am to WPBTiger
Margo robbie would be the only reason i would watch that tripe.
Posted on 2/24/20 at 1:10 pm to WPBTiger
I thought this was a cartoon
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