Birds of prey deserved their full chaotic 15 minutes of glory

It is always nasty when something that is quite good and obviously well done is just not hitting the way it looks like there should be. This is especially true when it comes to movies; Think of a movie you saw that was surprisingly enjoyable and how it didn’t really shake for some reason.

Many examples come to my mind for me, but one of the first is Harley Quinn: Birds of PreyS Originally issued on February 7, 2020 below it Originally (and more willing) title., Poultry (and the fantastic emancipation of a Harley Quinn), The movie is a slightly tangled knot. You may remember that it looked like a first self -vehicle For Harley of Margo Robbie after-Suicide Squad 2016, Then somewhere along the line, she too There may be become something for the popular, Usually women with participation The B-List superhero team then was in the end … a kind of both?

Maybe the strange hybrid is always what was fate Justice League, And it seemed that Warner Bros. He decided to just let these movies do their own thing. Aquaman and the original Shazam are clear examples of this freedom, but they came with less essential luggage than Harley, whose main title character was the average solo brand transformation with a big name in 2010. After spending the biggest part of his life as a joker friend (and sometimes poisons on Ivy, Roommate), DC decided that Harley could start being his own person outside the sometimes exhausting orbit of Paramour.

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And what makes you again like a breakup? Whatever else you can tell Birds of prey, It is obvious to have a ball that allows Harley to grieve, and then overcomes its explosive split with a joker. There were many franchising movies that operated as soft restarts, but not quite the way Robbie gives 110% to be Harley, so they are now looking for some results. As much as WB tries to distance himself from some of Dceu’s wider films, the first Suicide Detachment The film left a long casting in the shade, with slaves and colleagues co-star Viola Davis and Joel Kinaman stick longer than most stars under James Gun’s new creative regime. Even Will Smith has left a mark Detachment-Dentric media, although they have not appeared in films in almost a full decade.

When everything is said and done, Harley Robbie is Dceu’s most existing character, and her casting is controversial, along with the late Arlene Sorkin in terms of her importance for the history of Arlequin. Let’s admit it, Harley probably wouldn’t have its own Current show Or present in a prominent place in several basic video games, if not for her live trips.

But good presence and chemistry on the screen of equally good cast can only take you so far and in Poultry Case, it didn’t go far. The film was released shortly after the Covid-19 pandemia was declared an international public emergency that left the movie theaters and studios that roll to figure out what to do. WB decided to put the movie on Vod a month after its release, but the movie was damaged before: along with General Ol ‘Misogyny at Frick of Superhero, Frick, People were burned by DC movies too many times and the the First title It may have been small. The worse is that it landed right in front of Sonic the Hedgehog, which won the audience after his online fanbase harassed the makers of films in a more redesign redesign. Things were not exactly in his favor, which is something like a trend with every handful of superhero movies in this decade – for everyone Batman or Deadpool & Wolverine, There are two or three Blue beetles or Wonders which are burned out of the trouble of the universe (or its own genre).

The initial days of the pandemic broke the film system and this pain is still felt, even now. After Birds, WB chose Divide the difference By giving his films at the same time editions in theaters and his new streaming service, HBO Max. Although understandable at that time, he gave movies like Wonder Woman 1984 and 2021 Mortal Kombat some kind of streaming boastfulHe also angered several movie makers. Christopher Nolan, dissatisfied with the director’s lack of contribution to this decision, noted his long -standing partnership with the company and jumped at Universal where Openheimer became a success of the box office and upgrades for expectation of his Odyssey In 2026, the audience has returned to theaters in recent years, but the studios still play some dissatisfied tricks, such as offensively short (and underestimated) theatrical windows or cancellation Already completed moviesS

Somehow, Poultry He was lucky to strike in 2020 and avoid a potentially fateful fate, as WB seemed on the threshold of an active collapse. However, it is difficult not to want better for this – joyfully violent energy remains as fun now as it is then, and its characters are all rejected as well that you can not want more than their accidents. As it is, this is an interesting cultural artifact because of how it appeared and lived … And also a great advertisement for Bodegas and breakfast sandwiches.

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