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Daddy's Little Monster
Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 4:33PM 
We don't want to tire of the hype around Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn before even seeing Suicide Squad but the marketing sure is leaning heavily on her. Or, more existentially, the question: is it possible to steal a movie that's been given to you?
Your excitement level in the comments please.
Reader Comments (18)
Medium-low. Harley and Joker are the only two really recognizable characters in the film, and she's the one we haven't seen on film before. Good or bad, they had to take the heat off the Joker expectations somehow, so here we are.
If she really is worth the hype her Oscar trek sarts here.
Medium. Expectation of box office? Depends. 90%+ Rotten Tomatoes dream result? It might get the "$115 million" they're projecting. But, based on the trailers and behind the scenes stuff, I'd estimate an end result of a reasonable end result of a Rotten Tomatoes score of somewhere around 60-70% and a final opening weekend gross of $75-80 million. Harley Quinn, though a good but not great character, is not Superman. You can't sell this on characters, concept and the nebulous idea of "loyalty", so perceived quality is going to affect this way more. If it bombs critically, I'd even warn to not be surprised if it actually pulls Ghostbusters 2016 opening weekend numbers.
Viola Davis is the reason why I'm buying a ticket to this.
More curious about The Killing Joke. It'll be a direct-to-video movie despite getting some theatrical screenings in really select cities nation wide.
Of course they're gonna focus all the attention on her - they want all the horny, pimply fanboys who haven't been layed, to go see it once, twice, thrice
and so on.
I find her looks to be a bit overrated.
My excitement has waned a lot since seeing her in Legend Of Tarzan.
She was so fucking good in Focus, Wolf Of Wall Street, and especially Z for Zachariah.
But she was kind of a disaster in Tarazan;
that being said, she still looks - judging from all the trailers - to have all the fun in Suicide Squad.
Mark, there's no way she's gonna be nominated for an academy award for Suicide Squad - unless, of course - she dies before the ballots go out. Not to be insensitive, but Heath Ledger wouldn't have been won the Oscar, wouldn't even have been nominated, if he hadn't died. The Academy doesn't go for comic book movies - never has, probably never will.
Viola Davis and Joel Kinnaman deserve my viewership. I'm a Robbie fan but I'm never excited to see her in anything. Hope she excels in this role, though.
I have realistic expectations: I'm anticipating an exciting popcorn flick with, what could be, a very fun performance from Robbie. I'm more concerned / worried that I will not be seeing Jai Courtney naked. Or that Will Smith will ruin everything. Or that Viola won't have the screen time she deserves (all of it). So yeah ... I'm excited.
Joel Kinnaman has me, as always, super excited.
I feel like Margot's performance will be hard to judge on first or even second screening since half her scenes must have already been seen in marketing materials.
If we had barely seen any of her, I have little doubt that she would have surprised the hell out of people and walked away as MVP. As it is now, her performance is a bit exposed and people will likely be less impressed than if they walked into the thing without seeing any trailers or teasers.
I'll be seeing it if I get the chance. More bacuse of Viola Davis of course, and also for Margot, whom I have been a fan since WoWS. Not at all for Will Smith or the giant turd of Leto's Joker.
THIS!!!
https://www.facebook.com/Nerdist/videos/1294740113877127/
Couldn't give a f---. Grown-up movies, please.
Her and Leto will be incredible.
All comic book movies give me a giant yawn lately, and I say that as someone who regularly reads actual comic book movies. If there was a way to see this movie just for Robbie or Viola Davis and not actually to have to see Leto and Smith (both of whom are so over-baked onscreen, and in the case of Leto I've never actually liked him in anything), I'd buy the ticket but otherwise I'm out. I've got Hail Caesar home from Netflix right now-the Coen Brothers are my version of superheroes anyway.
I have no interest in this film at all. And BTW, I expect it to "underperform" significantly. I think Warners/DC has very, very unrealistic expectations about the success of this only-serious-comics-geeks-know-who-the-heck-they-are team.
I mean, I'm a pretty hardcore comics-film fan (I dragged myself to "BvS"), but there's no way I am seeing this theatrically.
Disclaimer one: I have loved Margot Robbie since "Pan Am"... but she's not my idea of Harley Quinn. (And there's nobody else in the cast I care about - though I have to admit that Viola Davis is an inspired choice for Amanda Waller.)
Disclaimer two: I have loved Harley ever since Paul Dini and Bruce Timm first created her for "B:TAS" (which unlike a lot of you, I watched during its run as 40-ish adult, not a little kid). She's a wonderful character... but Margot Robbie is no Arleen Sorkin. And without Dini writing the character, I'm very dubious.
Anyway, not interested. The next comics flick I plan to see in theater is - of course! - "Doctor Strange"!
She and Leto stole the show from the first trailer last year at SDCC. I think marketing picked up on that obvious factor and used it to their advantage.
God, I am already exhausted by this film and it still isn't out yet. Even though Robbie looks fun in it, the film itself doesn't seem very fun... despite trying over and over to tell us how edgy and fun it'll be.
(The advertising aesthetics are also oddly dated- very mid-00s Hot Topic).