HQ: BoP was *excellent* fun. The plot is paper-thin, but I didn't mind one bit. The girl power themes are hammered HARD and not with any subtlety, which for me was exactly what I wanted and so it was great.
Margot Robbie is a joy to watch. She is having SO MUCH FUN.
Ewan MacGregor's performance is...confusing, but as a personification of rich white male fragility it kind of works?
The fight choreography which has been praised everywhere is REALLY that good. And well lit! You can actually see what people are doing!
The pace lags a bit in the middle, but the last 1/3rd makes up for it. I would have liked less set up and more time with the girl gang all together.
I have already complained on Twitter about the unforgivable sandwich continuity error.
Margot Robbie's manic glee was such fun to watch!
Margot Robbie's manic glee was such fun to watch!
Her face when
she's hiding in the evidence room and realizes the air is full of cocaine.
Ok, have seen BoP and just elegant to point at Jessica's posts and nod. Whee!
Also, seeing a bunch of women's names in the credits was pretty great
I enjoyed that - women in front of and behind the cameras.
I did wonder what ita would have thought about the fight scenes - they looked good to me, but it's not something I have any expertise in. On the - literally - bright side, they were done with enough lighting you could see what was going on.
I read an article about the movie and the fight scenes and the director was heavily influenced by Jackie Chan and the movie The Raid but she also has a background in dance which she drew on for the fight scenes
I've been watching the Youtube channel The Corridor Crew and they have VFX Artists react to good and bad FX and Stuntmen React to Good and Bad stunts and they love Jackie Chan , obviously, but they've featured The Raid fight scenes as examples of really good fight scenes (well lit, well choreographed and well shot) so the director really paid attention to making good fight scenes. I'm looking forward to the Corrirdor Crew reacting to the fight scenes in Birds of Prey.
They've had one of the stunt guys from the Marvel movies (and a bunch of other stuff) on a few times and he is great to listen talking about the mechanics of the fight scenes.
