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There’s a swear in this trailer, just as a heads up.

Remember back when I talked about how the actors on DC Universe’s Titans defended their portrayal of the characters to the fans of the actual comic characters? It’s when I started to realize that the actors saw characters they really wanted to portray, had fun making the show, and really didn’t care about the comic books, because comics rank below animation (which they shoved into its own category at the Oscars because actors got butt-hurt that cartoons were getting Best Picture nods) but above video games (they’ve made good comic-adapted movies) in Hollywood’s tier of giving a fig. For exhibit B I give you Margot Robbie, who was so in love with her rendition of Harley Quinn in the much-hated Suicide Squad movie that she talked Warner Brothers into giving her a movie of her own, and the WB as well as Geoff Johns (who they put in charge of fixing the DCEU movies…then blamed him and his partner for the issues with Justice League and sent them off) were convinced she’d be the break out star. She was the only thing folks liked, although her portrayal and the way she was written were not quite a match to the beloved character.

Robbie felt there weren’t enough movies about a “girl gang”, although frankly I’d say we have too many since I don’t care about movies about criminals whatever their gender is. Didn’t they had two of them last year. However, Birds Of Prey (Or The Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) had two things going against it. One is that it’s a Harley Quinn movie and not a Birds Of Prey movie (and the name was just recently changed–while in theaters no less–to Harley Quinn: Birds Of Prey) and the other is that the movie has terrible renditions of these characters. I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t comment on the quality of the performance or writing; I’m talking about major adaptation errors. Instead she blamed men for not going to see a movie where men are all evil and her team of punk chicks were examples of true femininity, which also didn’t sit well with enough women moviegoers to make up the difference. All we wanted were proper adaptations of the characters. The Birds Of Prey comic, featuring an all-women group of Gotham City heroes, is very well enjoyed, and I liked the TV show despite its own adaptation errors. However, tell me if what you saw in the trailer matches anyone in the descriptions below. I’m betting no.

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