What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

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Coherence (2013)
Una lunga fila di croci / Hanging for Django (1969)
 
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A ★★★½ review of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)


A carnival ride of a comic book movie that only exist to have fun... much in the same vein as Deadpool. It takes the foundation of what David Ayer was trying to do with Suicide Squad and elevate it to a much more cartoony and comic style under a female perspective. The director Cathy Yan delivers a really colorful and vibrate film that has a lot of things going on that all ultimately work together. It also helps the editing and focus was way more competent even though they play with time one too many times.

I will say despite the title, this is definitely Harley Quinn's movie featuring the Birds of Prey and Margot Robbie is clearly the main star. As for story, they pretty much took the Harley's Holiday episode from Batman TAS and molded it around Birds of Prey. The cast was pretty solid for the most part. Margot Robbie was clearly having a blast making this and she captured Harley Quinn from the show pretty well. I also like how creative they were with addressing the elephant in the room (aka Leto's Joker). I really dug Ewan Mcgregor as Black Mask, he was hamming it up like Shatner and Gary Oldman.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Helena Bertinelli probably had the best underrated performance. She wasn't given a whole lot of screen time, but she was great every time she showed up. Jurnee Smollett-Bell did fine as Black Canary, although they definitely depowered her abilities for plot conveniences. Rosie Perez also did fine as Renee Montoya, although they don't really give her a lot to do. As for Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain... as much as I enjoyed her performance and how well she's integral to the plot, she's Cass Cain in name only. Also there's a surprise Ali Wong supporting role that caught me by surprise.

Overall, despite some issues I have with it, it's ultimately a solid fun movie that isn't meant to be super dramatic in a world saving plot. This along with Shazam! is exactly what DC needs right now.
3.5/5
 
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Birds of Prey - loved it and Harley Quinn was awesome!!
 
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Saw this on the list of Korean films to watch after Parasite and I’m glad it was on Netflix as it was fantastic! I highly recommend it. I thought I was so smart for guessing the twist early on only to be gaping in awe later on as the twist I (partially) predicted was just the tip of the iceberg. With this, Parasite, Oldboy, A Tale of Two Sisters, etc. Korean cinema is where it’s at when it comes to unpredictable and refreshing plot twists and turns.
 


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A great succession of movies I watched and highly enjoy.

Zootopia
Coco
Drive Angry

One of these things is not like the other...
Obviously Zootopia, cause it deals with anthropomorphic animals and has no dead people communicating with the living.
 
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