From the director of Birds of Prey. I remember Birds of Prey getting poor reviews and being slammed by fans, but now I see it has positive scores on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and audiences. Maybe this film will also get good reviews from critics, and Jenna Ortega will be the first non-franchise film to receive positive reviews.
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Birds of Prey was great. It didn't suffer at the box office because of quality.
BoP was a great movie that got terrible publicity because it pissed off BoP comics fan for being basically nothing like the comics. But I think the main thing that brought it down was the R rating. It just wasn't the type of movie R rated audiences tend to embrace and being R rated tends to be a deal breaker for large percentages of the general audience who I think would've enjoyed the movie otherwise.
Yeah, I agree with this. I was disappointed at first when I realized the Birds of Prey and even the individual heroes only vaguely resembled their comics counterparts, but that didn't last very long because the story and acting were so much fun.
The Fallout movie, released on HBO Max during the Covid period, received good ratings.
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One of the big problems this movie, and Gunn's The Suicide Squad later on, had box-office-wise is that probably the biggest demographic in the Harley Quinn fanbase is teenage girls, so while an R-rating may make sense for the character itself, it is poison for the box office performance. WB saw Harley like their own Deadpool, and that was just too simplistic.
I thought she'd have a big teenage boy fanbase too. You could be right, but I thought the big problem with Birds of Prey was backlash from both Suicide Squad and Captain Marvel.
