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re: 'Birds of Prey' bombs at the box office — and feminists are blaming sexism
Posted on 2/11/20 at 6:44 pm to WPBTiger
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.
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Posted on 2/11/20 at 6:53 pm to Sentrius
Low 80s both critics and audience on RT which is interdasting
Posted on 2/11/20 at 7:22 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:I imagine this is true. Unfortunately it is seen as a Suicide Squad spinoff, so it was always going to be box office poison.
Your average fun popcorn superhero movie that was lighter on feminism than most female led films and was basically a mid-level Marvel movie.
Posted on 2/11/20 at 7:24 pm to Sentrius
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Amazing how hollywood keeps doubling down on the get woke and go broke bull shite.
Amazing how you talk confidently about things you've never seen and know little about.
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 7:46 am to udtiger
quote:
Ellen Ripley
Sarah Connor
Charlie Baltimore (Long Kiss Goodnight)
Wonder Woman
Black Widow
Dottie Hinson (League of their Own)
Alita
Eowyn
Leeloo (5th Element)
Princess Leia
Dont forget Ahsoka Tano. She is only the most popular Star Wars character since the OT.
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 8:54 am to Napoleon
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Suicide squad wasn't great and this is a spin off of that.
This is the sole reason I knew I wouldn’t see Birds of Prey
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 9:18 am to BigB0882
They announced that they are changing the name of the movie to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. Seems like they agree with my sentiment about the name of the movie being a big issue.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:41 am to BlackAdam
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Dont forget Ahsoka Tano. She is only the most popular Star Wars character since the OT
She proves the point. She's a terrible character with a terrible story in the film that does and says dumb shite. She's disliked for those reasons, not because she has a vagina.
Similarly Rey. Detractors don't have issues with her because she's female, but because she is a Mary Sue. A similarly overpowered, seemingly invincible Force nube that was male would similarly be slammed by fans.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:48 am to GetCocky11
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Isn't February generally considered the worst time of year to release a movie and is thus the time when studios dump their shite into theaters?
Historically maybe, but this has been proven false in recent years. It really doesn’t matter when a movie is released - if the marketing strategy is sound and the movie is good quality, it’ll be a hit.
Deadpool, Black Panther, Lego Movie, Kingsman were all February releases that did well and all got sequels.
This post was edited on 2/12/20 at 9:48 am
Posted on 2/12/20 at 12:04 pm to udtiger
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Detractors don't have issues with her because she's female, but because she is a Mary Sue.
Since only females are Mary Sues, and because the term has been widely adopted by the group that complains about most females in movies, I'm gonna say that the detractors have an issue with her gender.
Luke is as much a Mary Sue as Rey. He's immediately good, trains for half an hour in the second movie, and is then suddenly the best. I'd say he's written as pretty "ideal", but he's a man and people liked him when they were kids, so who cares.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 12:13 pm to WPBTiger
she was weak on "The hot Ones".
Posted on 2/12/20 at 12:22 pm to Jay Are
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Since only females are Mary Sues
Wesley Crusher is usually cited as the male version of a Mary Sue.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 12:39 pm to Master of Sinanju
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Luke is as much a Mary Sue as Rey. He's immediately good, trains for half an hour in the second movie, and is then suddenly the best. I'd say he's written as pretty "ideal", but he's a man and people liked him when they were kids, so who cares.
Suddenly the best? He failed to lift his X Wing. He got his arse kicked and got his hand cut off by his own fricking Dad and had to be rescued by his sister.
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 1:11 pm to Jay Are
quote:Drizzt Dourden is a Mary Sue. He has a ton of struggle in his origin in the Underdark. . .so still not as much a Mary Sue as Rey.
Since only females are Mary Sues
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Luke is as much a Mary Sue as Rey.
His first real fight, he gets fricked up and loses a hand. And that was AFTER his training under Yoda
Rey's first real fight, she beats the frick out of a trained force user with a weapon she has never wielded before, AND out-force-powers him. She has had no force-mentor or force training at that point.
But yeah, just the same.
quote:What?
He's immediately good,
Before Dagobah, the only force shite he does is 1) using the Force to fire laser torpedoes, and 2)force grabbing his light saber in the ice cave. . .which takes him a looooooong time to do.
Rey is able to read minds and do Jedi Mind Tricks the MOMENT SHE FINDS OUT THOSE ARE THINGS THE FORCE CAN DO
Same same?
:lol:
quote:She is the best before anyone talks to her about the Force.
trains for half an hour in the second movie, and is then suddenly the best.
Your point is laughably wrong
Gotta be trolling
This post was edited on 2/12/20 at 1:16 pm
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