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movie review - Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2020.12.20

This is a Batman spin-off, or perhaps a spin-off of "Suicide Squad", which is a spin-off of Batman. Anyway, it's a girl-power thing starring a mentally ill girl (fixated on a man that rejected). Ever since seeing her in "Fargo", I've wanted to see more of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and she's the reason I watched this. But this is such a mess it's not worth the effort. I found myself skipping through patches when it had reached the point of paint-by-numbers.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.