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Feb. 11th, 2020 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynMy compliments to the fight choreographers for the Birds of Prey movie. It's hard enough to do that kind of arrangement for a standard martial arts flick; trying to set it up with a comic book aesthetic in mind and still make it possible for the camera to get in there has to be even harder.
I really enjoyed the movie overall, and very much liked how they handled Dinah and Helena. This version of Renee Montoya reminded me of a terrier, not just in terms of tenacity but in terms of 'I am smaller than you but I swear to Fnord I will rip your throat out if you look at my territory wrong'. And I know there's been grousing about what they did with Cassandra Cain, but to be honest, 'not particularly speech-prone killer little girl' kinda made it to the screen a few years back when Dafne Keen played X-23. I don't think they could've done the comic version of the character without it looking like a ripoff, and frankly, that background would've taken forever to go over. Foster kid pickpocket with next to no fear's fine with me.
And Margot Robbie gets my applause, of course. It's nice when you see an actor really enjoying a part she pushed so hard for.
It was a fun movie. I liked it better than Suicide Squad or several other comic book movies I've seen. I wouldn't say it was great, but it was fun. Just... just assume that every single individual who could be counted as part of the Bat-Family in any way, shape, or form was out of town dealing with a Justice League Unlimited omega-level threat, because if any of them were within fifty miles of Gotham, this wouldn't have happened. Also, Commissioner Gordon would've had to have been retired or in a coma or recovering from an organ transplant or something; when one of the early plot points of the movie is that Harley and the Joker broke up and then a giant chemical plant exploded on Gotham's East Side, if Gordon is even the slightest bit functional and on the job, the Bat-Signal's going up faster than you can say boo. But other than that I was pretty cool with it.
I really enjoyed the movie overall, and very much liked how they handled Dinah and Helena. This version of Renee Montoya reminded me of a terrier, not just in terms of tenacity but in terms of 'I am smaller than you but I swear to Fnord I will rip your throat out if you look at my territory wrong'. And I know there's been grousing about what they did with Cassandra Cain, but to be honest, 'not particularly speech-prone killer little girl' kinda made it to the screen a few years back when Dafne Keen played X-23. I don't think they could've done the comic version of the character without it looking like a ripoff, and frankly, that background would've taken forever to go over. Foster kid pickpocket with next to no fear's fine with me.
And Margot Robbie gets my applause, of course. It's nice when you see an actor really enjoying a part she pushed so hard for.
It was a fun movie. I liked it better than Suicide Squad or several other comic book movies I've seen. I wouldn't say it was great, but it was fun. Just... just assume that every single individual who could be counted as part of the Bat-Family in any way, shape, or form was out of town dealing with a Justice League Unlimited omega-level threat, because if any of them were within fifty miles of Gotham, this wouldn't have happened. Also, Commissioner Gordon would've had to have been retired or in a coma or recovering from an organ transplant or something; when one of the early plot points of the movie is that Harley and the Joker broke up and then a giant chemical plant exploded on Gotham's East Side, if Gordon is even the slightest bit functional and on the job, the Bat-Signal's going up faster than you can say boo. But other than that I was pretty cool with it.
