Gotta say that I'm not sure about the 'R' rating and the fourth-wall-breaking, because I don't typically see Rated-R films and don't really like it when characters talk directly to the audience instead of each other.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn)
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After how The Rise of Skywalker got unfairly destroyed when "critics" actually got around to publishing full reviews of that movie, I'm not going to give 'initial reactions' any credence whatsoever.
Unfairly?
Or she was worried about the big name characters outshining her character. I much prefer your theory because it's more positive.
Jason
Yes. Unfairly.
(The variation in quality among Star Wars movies is not nearly as great as some fans appear to believe. Simplistic popcorn entertainment aptly describes each installment.)
Most were expertly made though. Rise Of Skywalker is flawed even on a technical level, something no other Star Wars movie ever had a problem with.
According to whom?
Critics, a lot of viewers, and also me.
IOW, people who don't know anything.
As opposed to you?
If a movie is technically speaking edited correctly, but to me it looks choppy, that means its choppy. The whole point is to appeal to the general audience (such as myself)
Speaking of, there are reports that Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
incorporates footage from Ayer's Suicide Squad,
(They are also now officially part of a shared multiverse with TV's Arrowverse and multiple -- indeed, impliedly all -- other DC film and TV continuities, though "some" on this board fervently wish it were otherwise.
)
The jury is still out on whether or not The Suicide Squad is a "DCEU" film because there have been conflicting reports, but BoPatFEoOHQ was already explicitly confirmed to be a DCEU film even without using footage from Ayer's Suicide Squad.
Gunn's The Suicide Squad features Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, and Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag. Difficult as it may be to form an independent thought in the absence of an Official Pronouncement, I'm prepared to conclude it's a sequel to Ayer's Suicide Squad and part of the DCEU continuity.
I know that; however, there's still been conflicting reports as to whether or not it's actually part of the DCEU continuity (the reprisal of characters and actors doesn't necessarily mean anything).
As you can see from his signature, for this guy if the creators say something is in continuity even when it violates every single thing in its predecessors, he'll say that it's "factually" in continuity. If a movie keeps all the actors, and continues directly from the events of the last, but the creators haven't said anything about the continuity, he will say it's not in continuity.
Not a reasonable person, I don't recommend engaging.
