That's one hell of a tone shift from the last two trailers. Seems like Warner Bros is goin all in on making this film fun and not the funeral. March that BvS apparently was. Also, cue the crying about Harley Quinn being sexed up and dumbed down.
The tone of the trailer is exactly the same as the last one, which was released mid January - well before Deadpool came out. They're almost carbon copies of each other. Sounds like you're just being contrary for the sake of being contrary.
And Deadpool's ad campaign was already well underway at that point, as was the "buzz" around it. Everyone could see the $$$ approaching.
On a related tangent, Warner Brothers is now scrambling to reshoot scenes to add more humor and jokes in light of BvS dismal reviews on the dreary tone. Make of that what you will.
Yeah not to mention it's impossible to schedule specific re-shoots at the drop of a pin - you have to line up cast and crew, location, etc - takes months to organize.
Jared Leto's Joker sort of reminds me of Mark King from Level 42 as the creepy clown whatsit from the video for "Something About You"
First off, are they going to use every song from Wayne's World? What's next, Foxy Lady? Second, I"m really looking forward to this. Third, it still drives me absolutely nuts that Harley doesn't have the Brooklyn accent. I don't know if I can ever get over that. Lastly, I guess we have to go through this every time so I'll say it again, I wasn't sure about Jared Leto at first, but I'm really looking forward to seeing this version of the Joker. Each version is different and I still like Heath Ledger the best, but this one is looking better than I originally thought.
Dumbed down would be a concern, as she was originally created as a genius with a PhD... I'm hoping any "dumb" behavior is justified as an intentional ploy to manipulate people. That's how I read the sexing up, anyway.
Was she? Great if so, but some authors (maybe even as early as the Batman:TAS stories) also suggested she slept with her professor for favours, but not sure if that came later. Wouldn't work in the UK system either as, unless exceptionally well-coached, the external examiners would pick up at the interview portion that she didn't know her stuff. Don't get me wrong - Harley IS certainly much smarter than she appears - but some of the backstory is iffy on whether she truly earned her doctorate.
I do remember the episode of the Batman cartoon where her backstory was shown. She was a psychiatrist at Arkham and slowly fell for him as he worked his manipulation tactics on her. The stuff about her professor must've came after that.
Googling around, it appears in the graphic novel Mad Love (Harley's transition to comic canon instead of just the cartoons) has her outright tell Bats that she slept her way througb med-school, and he had previously suspected the sex-for-grades arrangement with her Prof. But she IS also acknowledged as having a genius-level IQ, so the implication is perhaps that she is either lazy or prefers a submissive route to power as she does in her relationship with Mistuh J. Someone also suggested that her D-grade (changed to an A+ after getting jiggy with the Prof) was actually due to her insights into the Joker's madness being so revolutionary that the Prof couldn't understand them, making her a bona fide genius (or total whackjob)
@matthunter beat me to it. In a way, Harley's shifting backstory, to me, implies another dimension in which she's gradually becoming more like the Joker, in her own autobiographical statements, in the increasing difficulty others including Bruce have in piecing together the truth, and in the game of hide and seek played with the readers.
First review is in, and it's good. And from someone who was dreading it. http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...quad-is-exactly-what-dcs-film-franchise-needs
Margot Robbie appears to be the BEST THING about & in this flick! Margot Robbie, Jaime Pressly, & Samantha Janus could all easily be sisters. Margot & Jaime being virtual twins!
So far the reviews are rather scathing. Some even going so far as to suggest the new Fantastic Four movie is better than this. Fucking hell. Complaints are that the movie completely lacks a story. Editing is terrible. Pacing is all over the place. Flashbacks out the ass. Just a sad mess all around. Get it together DC.
