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Apr. 13th, 2020 03:21 amOn the one hand, insomnia sucks. On the other hand, tonight's bout of it provided the perfect opportunity to watch the new Birds of Prey movie, which is entirely misnamed since it's 95% Harley's movie, and characters like Cass (and Dinah?) owe basically nothing to their comics namesakes.
It was a frenetic, chaotic shitshow of a movie, and thoroughly enjoyable. The structuring (flashback-heavy) was actively confusing; I'm not sure whether it was written that way or whether it was restructured in post-shoot editing, but it made the middle third of the movie (what should have been Act 2, I guess) nigh-incomprehensible. Or maybe it was watching it at 3am that did that. But, still, it was splashy dumb fun with a few great character beats for Harley. (Then again, I actually didn't hate Suicide Squad, and I thought the extended cut in particular made it a substantially better movie.)
I mean, god only knows what DC is doing with their movie continuity these days, and I think BOP suffers for that because as an ensemble movie would have been much stronger in a strongly-drawn and comprehensible setting. But that's not gonna happen with DC any time soon, so... it is what it is, I guess.
Still, given the givens, it was fun and I'm glad I watched it.
(Edit: Also, Ewan McGregor was fucking great.)
I had to watch a bunch of it on tenterhooks because although it mostly wasn't gory, there was a looming threat of violence in so many scenes (mostly anything with Sionis or Zsasz in it, both of whom were like unstable explosives) so I did watch bits of it with headphones off and peeking through my fingers. I've seen it compared to John Wick, and I don't actually feel that worked for me - the majority of the action was way more comic-book-y and cartoony than John Wick, while the notable minority was (IMO) way more gruesome. (( one comment is spoilery ))
It was a frenetic, chaotic shitshow of a movie, and thoroughly enjoyable. The structuring (flashback-heavy) was actively confusing; I'm not sure whether it was written that way or whether it was restructured in post-shoot editing, but it made the middle third of the movie (what should have been Act 2, I guess) nigh-incomprehensible. Or maybe it was watching it at 3am that did that. But, still, it was splashy dumb fun with a few great character beats for Harley. (Then again, I actually didn't hate Suicide Squad, and I thought the extended cut in particular made it a substantially better movie.)
I mean, god only knows what DC is doing with their movie continuity these days, and I think BOP suffers for that because as an ensemble movie would have been much stronger in a strongly-drawn and comprehensible setting. But that's not gonna happen with DC any time soon, so... it is what it is, I guess.
Still, given the givens, it was fun and I'm glad I watched it.
(Edit: Also, Ewan McGregor was fucking great.)
I had to watch a bunch of it on tenterhooks because although it mostly wasn't gory, there was a looming threat of violence in so many scenes (mostly anything with Sionis or Zsasz in it, both of whom were like unstable explosives) so I did watch bits of it with headphones off and peeking through my fingers. I've seen it compared to John Wick, and I don't actually feel that worked for me - the majority of the action was way more comic-book-y and cartoony than John Wick, while the notable minority was (IMO) way more gruesome. (( one comment is spoilery ))