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Looks like a fun ride

Margot Robbie looks like she is enjoying the role....

That she does.

... Black Mask seems to be a bit.. well.. Black Maskless ?

Looks to me like "Contractual Obligations: The Movie".

Not a whole lot of focus on the "Birds" parts of the "Birds of Prey", though Margot is the popular girl in the cafeteria right now and its just the first trailer.

Not too keen on Black Mask without the mask*, again giving me a "contractual obligation" vibe.

With that said, seems like a fun one. I just don't trust a trailer for DC movies anymore.

*Though I only know him from the Arkham games, where I believe he(or an impersonator*spoiler*!!) had a mask on at all times.

Not really feeling it at this point. But I am not enthused about Joker or Terminator either, so probably just me.

Can't tell if this is Wacky Team Ups: the Movie, or a dark and depressing psychological journey. Partly because the clips are so carefully selected, and partly because I have no idea who anyone but Margot/Harley is supposed to be. But either way I won't walk into a movie expecting one when there is a chance I'll get the other.

Its especially confusing that I can't identify the theoretically titular characters.

This is a hard pass, but I always look forward to seeing how bad DC films end up doing. One of these days they'll figure it out.

Aquaman was the best bad movie of the year and Shazam is legitimately good, so things at least seem to be improving.

 nels1031 wrote:
Looks to me like "Contractual Obligations: The Movie".

Not a whole lot of focus on the "Birds" parts of the "Birds of Prey", though Margot is the popular girl in the cafeteria right now and its just the first trailer.

Yeah, I would expect later trailers will focus on other characters.

This looks like a much better take on Harley than Suicide Squad.

Not too keen on Black Mask without the mask*, again giving me a "contractual obligation" vibe.

It's possible that the mask is one of the plot developments.

 LunarSol wrote:
Aquaman was the best bad movie of the year and Shazam is legitimately good, so things at least seem to be improving.

Yeah, Aquaman and Shazam were both a heck of a lot of fun. Haven't seen Wonder Woman yet, but even Justice League wasn't as bad a train wreck as I expected from the talk online.

It doesn't have to be an award winner, I'll be happy with 'fun to watch'... and the trailer looks promising for that.

Suicide Squad suffered from having loads of characters trying to squeeze in their intro stories into a single film whilst also having the film follow its own plot.


Prey looks interesting, if just because she's not "as" over done as Batman and Joker who are characters which are interesting, but my now are so heavily done that they don't hold as much interest for me.

 Overread wrote:
Suicide Squad suffered from having loads of characters trying to squeeze in their intro stories into a single film whilst also having the film follow its own plot.

Also as a film that had chunks cut.

Prey looks interesting, if just because she's not "as" over done as Batman and Joker who are characters which are interesting, but my now are so heavily done that they don't hold as much interest for me.

I think it looks good, personally. The characters definitely have an interest and fanbase to support them.

And Suicide Squad was edited like a music video, which didn't help.

I'm concerned that they've put Black Mask into this film. Actors hate masks, and we've seen so many contrived ways to get heroes out of masks to the point where it becomes self-parody (Black Panther's 3rd act being the worst example of this, but anything involving Iron Man/Spider-Man's nano-suits are just as bad), so why bother with a character who is always wearing a scary black mask that covers his entire face if you're not going to commit to it.

Should'a hired Karl Urban for the role...

 insaniak wrote:

It's possible that the mask is one of the plot developments.

 LunarSol wrote:
Aquaman was the best bad movie of the year and Shazam is legitimately good, so things at least seem to be improving.

Yeah, Aquaman and Shazam were both a heck of a lot of fun. Haven't seen Wonder Woman yet, but even Justice League wasn't as bad a train wreck as I expected from the talk online.

It doesn't have to be an award winner, I'll be happy with 'fun to watch'... and the trailer looks promising for that.

Mask as plot development pretty much always ends up with a bad interpretation of a character in my experience. It just seems to create a situation where the character gets interpreted wrong outside a few notable exceptions.

Wonder Woman was fantastic outside of the third act; particularly since it ruins what was a far better ending that they had just done.

Justice League was.... well, IDK, I got up and did other things whenever I got bored and honestly, didn't see much of it.

I think this looks pretty good, and I am particularly happy to see the hyenas.

Mmmmmmm... I like the way she Talks as Harley. I don’t like the way she Looks as Harley. Also, Black Mask? Really?! Where’s the Mask!? I dunno. Trailer doesn’t speak to me yet really.

 Ouze wrote:
I think this looks pretty good, and I am particularly happy to see the hyenas.

The Hyena is cool - No idea who Black Mask is so all new to me in the film.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
I think this looks pretty good, and I am particularly happy to see the hyenas.

The Hyena is cool - No idea who Black Mask is so all new to me in the film.

Ruthless gangster/crime boss with a black skull like mask fused to his face.

Trailer didn't really do it for me. Didn't feel like a real adaptation of anything I love; more like the awkward name grabbing of random comic things that hallmark WBs worst DC films. Looks like they're playing up the NY gansta "birds and dames" kind of thing with the prey becoming the.... man someone is probably overly proud of themselves.

It doesn't look bad, per se; just not how I'd like to see the Birds adapted. Hopefully its great regardless. DC has been doing a lot better lately, even with things that don't look like they should work.

I assumed it was to do with sex trafficking from a few scenes?

Meh, getting Suicide Squad vibes from this and the lack of accuracy to the Birds of Prey name just makes me feel like it's going to be the usual DC fare. Shame, I did like Shazam.

 insaniak wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Looks to me like "Contractual Obligations: The Movie".

Not a whole lot of focus on the "Birds" parts of the "Birds of Prey", though Margot is the popular girl in the cafeteria right now and its just the first trailer.

Yeah, I would expect later trailers will focus on other characters.

This looks like a much better take on Harley than Suicide Squad.

I can't actually tell the difference between this take on Harley and the Squad take on Harley. They seem exactly the same... cheap thrills, easy laughs.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing. I still think Suicide Squad is the best DC live action film... but that isn't a high bar. It's at least active and lively, rather than a depressing slog. WW had promise, but wrecked itself irrevocably on the shoals of its last act, and what I've seen of Aquaman was just another bland CGI fest with no depth and a very much needed epilepsy warning.

It doesn't look that good, at least...yet?

I'd need to see more...but then, I wouldn't want anything spoiled.

A conundrum indeed!

Slightly worried about how "Birds of Prey" is a Harley Quinn and friends movie. But we will see how it goes.

Black Canary could be a really good interpretation of her (I wouldn't mind an Oliver Queen cameo). Huntress might be ok (but then again, Helena Bertinelli is an extremely easy character to write, in my view).

As for the rest...

Renee seems like a knock-off Jessica Jones. Her character deserves far, far better... She deserves to be a co-lead in a Batwoman TV show.


And Cass... Cass... Best Batkid ever... What have they done to you?

Trailer 2.




Still not feeling it.

A bit of fun but not too deep?

I think Gunn can clearly write and direct a good movie. Im not sure Warner Bros can not feth it up.

Not sold yet, but I think I'm starting to get it after reading that Pulp Fiction was an influence.

And hey, it's another Walter Hamada low-budget special. It certainly doesn't need to make a billion or even half that to turn a tidy profit.

Cassandra Cain does not deserve this assassination of her character.

Well, it doesn’t look like it’s gonna suck.

Might actually be rather fun.

But then....The D.C. Pedigree. The sort of Pedigree that promises a well bred, fault free lovely soft slobbery Labradog, and instead delivers some god awful tiny little yapper with bulging eyes, a bad attitude and mange.