Originally Posted by
Hybrid
You give me that explanation like that somehow makes everything better. Look at the bigger picture: Marvel can make characters as obscure as the Guardians of the Galaxy work, and even Ant-Man can lead a solo film (Hell, they didn't even use Hank Pym, but his formerly D-list successor Scott Lang). Now we're getting Eternals, Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, and She-Hulk. There's even talks of Werewolf by Night in Phase 5, and I bet Marvel is going to use some deep cut X-Men IPs better than Fox ever did (Excalibur movie, please!). Even the pillars that started the MCU, Iron Man, Cap and Thor, were all B-listers at best beforehand.
Are you getting what I'm saying here?
They could easily make a Birds of Prey movie work if they had the talent as Marvel. They could base it primarily off of Simone's run, make the main cast Oracle, Huntress, Black Canary and Lady Blackhawk (hell, throw in a better version of Cass for good measure), and make it an action movie first, girl gang movie second.
This is literally just a platform for Harley, to a point where it really should've been called Harley Quinn. On top of that, the characters I can barely recognize without research, and are only there to give Harley a cast to bounce off of. Replacing Oracle with Harley is wrong, making a Cass a sidekick to Harley (and what looks to be a major wimpified version) is criminal, and turning everyone else into one-note characters who are only there for Harley's benefit is straight-up bad.
Again, it goes back to what I was saying about how the DCEU is made primarily by corporate suits who know nothing of what they're making, while the MCU is made by people who know both the comics and the movie-making process, and know how to make them fit. It's a shame, because I know a DC cinematic universe can be just as good as the MCU if it were given the care it deserved.