{"id":160183,"date":"2023-08-16T21:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160183"},"modified":"2023-08-16T23:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:41:55","slug":"dceu-rewatch-birds-of-prey-and-the-fantabulous-emancipation-of-one-harley-quinn-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/16\/dceu-rewatch-birds-of-prey-and-the-fantabulous-emancipation-of-one-harley-quinn-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"DCEU Rewatch: &#8220;Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)&#8221; (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of my <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/dceu-rewatch.html\">DCEU Rewatch<\/a>. First Watch? <strong>No.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m skipping <em>Aquaman<\/em> (2018) and <em>Shazam<\/em> (2019), as it feels like I&#8217;ve recently rewatched and and reviewed them both (<a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/aquaman-2018\/\">3\/5<\/a>, Shazam <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/shazam\/\">3\/5<\/a>)).<\/p>\n<p><meter value=\"3\" max=\"5\" low=\"2.1\" high=\"4\" optimum=\"5\"><\/meter> 3.0 Acting<br \/>\n<meter value=\"3\" max=\"5\" low=\"2.1\" high=\"4\" optimum=\"5\"><\/meter> 3.0 Production<br \/>\n<meter value=\"2.5\" max=\"5\" low=\"2.1\" high=\"4\" optimum=\"5\"><\/meter> 2.5 Story<br \/>\n<meter value=\"3\" max=\"5\" low=\"2.1\" high=\"4\" optimum=\"5\"><\/meter>\u00a0<strong>3.0\u00a0OVERALL<\/strong> with a \u2665<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-148474\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster-437x650.png\" alt=\"Birds of Prey\" width=\"437\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster-437x650.png 437w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster-101x150.png 101w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster.png 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 85vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fluffy, violent, surreal, misanthropic, and fun. It&#8217;s like eating a whole bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos in a sitting &#8212; you know you shouldn&#8217;t, but, every now and again, you know you will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-160186\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2-422x650.jpg\" alt=\"Birds of Prey\" width=\"422\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2-422x650.jpg 422w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Birds-of-Prey-poster-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 85vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I previously watched this, and <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/birds-of-prey-and-the-fantabulous-emancipation-of-one-harley-quinn\/\">here<\/a> was my lengthier opinion of it on LetterBoxd.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7713068\/?ref_=tt_mv_close\">Birds of Prey (2020) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birds_of_Prey_(2020_film)\">Birds of Prey (2020 film) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot to say about it, beside it being violent action fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/birds-of-prey-movie-poster.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/19\/dceu-rewatch-shazam-fury-of-the-gods-2023.html","url_meta":{"origin":160183,"position":0},"title":"DCEU Rewatch: &#8220;Shazam: Fury of the Gods&#8221; 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