Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn: Too ugly for superhero movies?

By David Futrelle

The right-wing snowflakes are out in force, clogging up the internet with gloating comments about the alleged utter failure of Birds of Prey, a comic book movie about a lady super-gang headed up by Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. In its opening weekend, you see, the film earned $33 million in domestic box office instead of the $45 million Warner Brothers was expecting.

To its angry-dude critics, the overwhelming majority of whom have not seen the film, this was proof that studios that “get woke go broke” because true comic book movie fans will reject this sort of “feminist propaganda” in favor of movies that don’t have quite so many ladies in them.

Birds of Prey is flopping at the box office. Is anyone really shocked? Hollywood, Stop making all female ensembles with political and feminist agendas. None of us want them. They fuckin suck — Braeden (@braeden_lowe) February 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/HuoBambino/status/1226142981947707392

birds of prey is literally a simp movie — Applesauce 🇮🇹 ✝️ (@ApplesauceIgor) February 11, 2020

Naturally, some of the leading lights, such as they are, in the far-right griftosphere had things to say about Birds of Prey.

If you do anything this weekend do not go see Birds of Prey



It was one of the worst things I've ever seen



Who was this movie made for??!



Its Ghostbusters 2016 all over again — Tim Pool (@Timcast) February 7, 2020

I hope #BirdsofPrey fucking flops so hard that DC has to start making films that are true to the source material. Feminist Harley Quinn should never be a thing. — Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) February 7, 2020

Birds of Prey had a dreadful $33.2M opening – wow didn't see that coming. 😄 — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 9, 2020

The right wing culture critics aren’t just mad that there are too many women in the film; they’re also mad that these women aren’t wearing skimpy enough clothing, thus making them ugly in the eyes of men who watch films with their boners. “They are so ugly,” complained one Twitterer, “why they dont choose pretty females? They seems like shemales, strong and masculine.”

BREAKING: Margot Robbie is ugly.

“[F]uck your gay ass woke birds of prey,” wrote another. “Sexualize Harley Quinn forever.”

You may or may not be shocked to discover that the film’s detractors include literal Nazis and at least one equally literal piss-drinker.

In a post on Sunday, The Daily Stormer trashed the film as “Another Gyno-Ghostbusters” with women not only in front of the camera but behind it. As the Stormer’s Andrew Anglin whined,

The film doesn’t just star women, it was also written, produced and directed by women. Even the soundtrack features exclusively female artists.

Actually, seven of the nine executive producers for the film are men, but it’s not like the Daily Stormer ever checks its facts..

Anglin sarcastically mocked the film’s less-than-perfect performance at the box office.

Basically, they are going to need laws forcing men to see these films. Because it is unacceptable for these women to go through all the trouble of producing these $100+ million films to lecture men and then men not show up.

Actually, as Variety notes, the majority of those who went to see the film were men, mostly over the age of 25.

And while most of the critics of the film’s not-sexy-enough-for-angry-dudes ladies focus most of their ire on Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, Anglin is more troubled by the inclusion of, ahem, “afro-kike” actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell, though even Anglin admits she’s easy on the eyes.

Gotta say, for combining the two least attractive races – black and Jew – into a single individual, Jurnee Smollett-Bell did alright. Definitely bests Meghan Markle on the old “male gaze-o-meter.”

Meanwhile, Birds of Prey has also drawn the attention of YouTuber and former novelty congressional candidate Joey “Salads” Saladino, perhaps most famous as “the guy who literally peed in his own mouth on video”

https://twitter.com/JoeySalads/status/1226212721412079616

In fairness to Mr Salads, he says he didn’t actually swallow any of the piss that he deliberately pissed into his own mouth, so he’s got that going for him.

Film criticism is weird.

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