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If you're wondering whether you need to see Suicide Squad first to "get" this movie--you don't. All you need to know is Harley Quinn used to date the Joker, and Margot Robbie's "fantabulous" voiceover narration will give you the rest.

GIF: Harley Quinn walking away from rainbow-colored explosion
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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is everything I never knew I needed in a comic book movie writ large, colorful, and ridiculous. Tone-wise, it has more in common with 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World than anything else DC has produced, with all the absurd funhouse logic that implies. It's loud, fast, action-packed, and gloriously, unapologetically queer. All it asks of you is to get on the ride and hang on.

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Current Music: Pat Benatar, "Invincible"

Pride Month has arrived once again, and I actually picked a theme this year: Werewolves.

Left to right: Ethan Chandler, Ruby, and Remus Lupin
in Bisexual Pride colors

I know this might seem confusing or random at first, so let me explain.

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I finally saw it! This weekend! And that was kind of perfect because it was my mom’s birthday, and this is her very favorite Disney movie. One of the first questions I had when I found out this adaptation was happening was: Will it be a musical? The answer is a resounding YES, and I cannot express how gleefully happy this made me.

GIF of Belle and The Beast dancing.
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However, because the 1991 animated feature is one of my favorite movie musicals of all time, I have a slightly different set of criteria when it comes to reviewing it. Usually my priorities fall this way:

Characters.

Setting / atmosphere.

Plot.

In a musical though? Everything falls somewhere after one question: Can they sing?

( Tale as old as time... )

Let's.

Blogger’s Note: This is a revision/amalgamation of two previous blog posts I made elseweb, entitled “#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend” and “The Trouble With Agent 13” respectively. Expanded my thoughts on both after rewatching Civil War, and reading Ed Brubaker’s The Winter Soldier. For *ahem* “research.”

It’s been eight years since the first official MCU movie came out--Iron Man in 2008.

Do you guys realize how long ago that was? Obama was in the process of moving into the White House. Heath Ledger had just died, and the dark, gritty, realistic Christopher Nolan-verse Batman movies were the exception, not the norm. David Tennant was still playing The Doctor. Okay, eight years isn’t really an astronomically long time. BUT the MCU has churned out thirteen two-hour-plus episodes of their staggeringly successful franchise on a regular basis since it started. And we are still waiting for one--Just one!--canonically LGBT character.

HI THERE!

It is Bisexual Awareness Week, and if you didn’t know this, I am not straight. I’m bisexual more or less, although a more apt description is “panromantic demisexual” (words which aren’t recognized even by my spellchecker, but I encourage you to Google them), and I’ll answer to both.

What you probably do know is I watch lots of superhero movies and read fewer but still lots of comic books. That doesn’t really set me apart. And I’d like to see more awesome action movies with characters that reflect my POV/orientation just a little bit. Which . . . also doesn’t set me apart, because I think everyone wants that. Who *wouldn’t* want to be a superhero, at least in a power fantasy kind of way? However, when you’re not a straight, white dude between the ages of 18 and 35, it’s a little trickier to split the difference.

I’m here to talk about Bucky Barnes.

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Entries tagged with representation matters

Review: Birds of Prey (2020)

Pride Month: All About Werewolves (Intro)

Review: Beauty and the Beast

Let's Talk LGBT Representation and Superheroes.

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