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All right I SAID I’m tweeting my BIRDS OF PREY watch and that is what I’m god damn doing LET’S GOOOOOOO!!!!
So much of this is just going to be shouting about Margot Robbie’s face acting...
I love the molly club scene so much because it’s like oh YES this is a rated R girl gang movie and no it was never meant to be PG-13 so go to hell if you think it alienated its “target audience”!!!!!
Btw best supporting actor nomination for literally everything Ewan McGregor wears in BIRDS OF PREY
We’re front loaded with tweets because this movie just starts off LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE but I truly love this tiny expression Harley makes here. Yeah she’s a huge bitch but there’s also a little kid vulnerabilty that’s just so sweet.
I MEAN
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One of my favorite things about BIRDS OF PREY is that it’s basically like a high school drama. Like, Rosie Perez finds Harley’s necklace in the road and knows she broke up with her boyfriend because everyone is in each other’s shit here. Gotham High.
MARGOT! ROBBIE! FACE! ACTING!
There are so god many comic book movies and the ones that work best really are the movies where the characters feel entirely lived in. Margot just IS Harley basically, and it’s the little business like her face and hands here that sell character so completely.
I know we’ve already seen Mary Elizabeth Winstead once in this movie but it’s here that we officially SEE Mary! Elizabeth! Winstead!!!
There’s face acting but there’s just having one of the best faces for full frame close ups in all of Hollywood. Listen they’re all Beautiful but the camera still doesn’t even love everyone in the 1% of the 1% the same.
The glitter gun police station scene is SO FUCKING RAD.
I SAID IT’S FUCKING RAD!
Asjkasjkasjkasjkasjk!!!!!!!
just SAVOR IT.
BIRDS OF PREY is just such a GIRL movie down into its bones and it gives me LIFE. The sad slurry bar talk between Canary and Harley leading into Canary kicking the shit out of a pair of dirtbags to clearly stop them raping Harley is just !!!!!!!!
LOL the look on Black Canary’s face when you can kiss your ass goodbye!!!!!!!
Literally EVERY look Chris Messina gives Ewan McGregor in this movie is perfect.
LOOK AT THESE BOYFRIENDS!
Roman Sionis is such an ideal dirtbag and you can feel Ewan McGregor THRIVING in like every line. I rewind him saying that the shrunken heads are “just an ornament in my living room EW! I LOVE IT!” so many times!!!
LOOK AT VICTOR LONGING!!!!
I’m not part of the step on me Chris Messina gang but I do support him being exclusively as freak fuck weird as he is in BIRDS OF PREY forever.
Ewan McGregor is so good at being a PETTY BITCH I’m filled with regret we haven’t seen this his ENTIRE CAREER.
This is… so hot?
I kind of want a Roman/Victor queer psychosexual action comedy prequel to BIRDS OF PREY...
I loved the Diamonds interlude so much when I first saw it a lot but on subsequent watches it’s just even better and the SUDDEN SHOOTING SPREE in the middle is so god damn amazing. As are the fucking BDSM masks on all the dudes...
Such a kindness that Cathy Yan and Christina Hodson split the entirely of the police station fight scene into two piece so we could come back and have THIS MUCH FUN twice in the movie!!!!
lol Harley
The fight scenes in BIRDS OF PREY are just flat out so good. The violence feels tangible and like it’s done by ACTUAL HUMANS, because it is. This move isn’t flashy but it’s one of my favorite parts because it’s so indicative how much IMPACT you really feel with the hits.
Ella Jay Basco is really so wonderful as Cassandra Cain. She just feels so natural and like a real adorbale dirtbag kid.
LOOK AT THAT FACE.
lol Harley.
Dorky ass Huntress ordering her food mild is so funny but also SUCH A CHARACTER DETAIL! Mary Elizabeth Winstead just does such a great job selling her awkwardness so hard but without making it a showpiece.
Also. Hot.
Also. Hot.
I love that Huntress just felt in her soul that she needed to get her fucking assassin outfit at Dolls Kill.
I’m sorry Huntress practicing her intimidating intro in the mirror will stay one of the top 5 scenes of the YEAR.
cc @meganlogan
cc @meganlogan
This movie so effectively illustrates the menace of terrifying, petty men. In all the raucousness Roman’s hideous insecurity and familiar rapey power trips just rip you back down to Earth and it’s flat out frightening. And EWAN. God DAMN.
The amount of screen time Rosie Perez actually spends in her I SHAVED MY BALLS FOR THIS T is truly incredible. It’s been a full third of this movie!
When Doc sells Harley out I feel my little heart break!!! GOD DAMN YOU MAN!!!!
Victor and Roman. One of 2020’s great screen love stories.
Roman clutching his pearls at news of Canary’s betrayal is JUST!
Jesus this moment is CHILLING and I hate it but it’s just so impressive on the part of Messina. Victor is TRULY evil and I hate him but also a man in love with his boss and I root for them as a pair?!
lol Harley :P
Harley is a very physical role yes BUT ALSO Margot Robbie is such a gifted physical performer. Her role as Sharon Tate was so grounded in the physicality of her being this beautiful abstraction and Harley could easily just be broad strokes but there’s so much detail to EVERYTHING
Huntress giving the self-satisfied giggle when Harley points out she just killed Roman’s BFF (slash BOYFRIEND) is so endearing and I would like us to be married very soon.
Ella’s little tears I CAN’T TAKE IT!!!
The eye shadow interlude is just WOMEN WRITING WOMEN DIRECTING WOMEN STARRING WOMEN PRODUCING YES
Jurnee Smollet-Bell!! All of Black Canary just feels so effortless and to make that much swagger look this good without it JUST being posturing is SUCH A FUCKING SKILL. I deeply need a sequel for these characters relating moments so GIVE IT TO CATHY and GIVE IT TO ME.
This was one shot! This is the camera man getting rammed into by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and a henchman! This is CINEMA!!!
Yes I am in love and no I will not apologize.
THANKS @CathyYan THIS IS AWESOME.
ok now kiss her tho...
Listen all I’m saying is seconds after these looks happened Harley shouted WHIP ME at Huntress and I think we should have seen that through.
I will watch Margot Robbie do cart wheels and backflips and round offs as Harley Quinn A MILLION FUCKING TIMES.
She said she’s HARLEY FUCKING QUINN!!!!!
Ok Ella Jay Bosco YES.
Ewan is a FULL THRIVE as Roman Sionis and his line readings throughout BIRDS OF PREY are just so next level. And the way he shouts MORON at Harley on the pier is the exact intonation the word MORON was always meant to be delivered with.
I love this moment SO MUCH!!!!!
Cathy! Yan!!!
Cathy! Yan!!!
I am so charmed by the entire taqueria scene but no question it belongs to Mary Elizabeth Winstead getting to be peak Huntress awkward as a deeply under socialized person making adult friends for the FIRST TIME.
Marry, and I cannot stress this enough, ME.
Marry, and I cannot stress this enough, ME.
A secret MVP of all of BIRDS OF PREY is Jurnee Smollett-Bell’s soul-filling laughter.
Ella Jay Basco has a perfect face and I’m grateful for it.
I absolutely fucking LOVE to see it.
Perfect movie. Perfect face. The end.
GIVE ME THE GOD DAMN SEQUEL, WB.
GIVE ME THE GOD DAMN SEQUEL, WB.
