Saw Harley Quinn this weekend. I mostly went to try out this new "Screen X" gimmick that Cineplex has, where they project the movie onto the two surrounding walls too. I didn't like it. It lit up the theater too much and didn't add much. Every time the theatre got lit up by the effect audience members also felt it was their cue to start talking to eachother.
As for the movie itself, it was a wasted opportunity IMO. Not sure why they kept the R rating. Nothing in the movie needed to be R Rated. In doing so, they lost their key demographic, teenage girls. For example, there's a scene where Harley shoots some police officers....but she uses bean bags. Because apparently Harley is bad...but not that bad. Overall, the movie was just okay. It's not difficult to watch like the Suicide Squad.
I really wish, if they were going R-rated, they would have gone for some over the top total trip of a movie. A zanier version of Deadpool with more gore, as its from the perspective of a supposed actual villain. They played it way too safe though. Instead, it just felt like they were trying to shelter Margo Robbie's image too much, and Harley never really did anything that bad.
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