Action seems legit. Writing (the little in the trailer) seems waaaay weak! :(
Curious that eindeckers are being used in the film, which would be super-unusual for a WW1 film, and would seem to indicate a very early war situation (although some more advanced biplanes can be briefly seen along with them, too). The photo in BvS was dated 1918. This might be resolved by the setting if the fighting is near Turkey...?
So that's why the Germans lost WWI. I thought that whole Allied War Effort thing was over-rated. Maybe Aquaman will do a cameo sinking a U-Boat with a Spearfish. ::)
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 25, 2016, 10:11:52 AM
Maybe Aquaman will do a cameo sinking a U-Boat with a Spearfish. ::)
:2funny:
Quote from: mirth on July 25, 2016, 10:23:16 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 25, 2016, 10:11:52 AM
Maybe Aquaman will do a cameo sinking a U-Boat with a Spearfish. ::)
:2funny:
Now that it has been said, I must see it, dammit!
Wasn't sure if I should start a new thread or not. Decided to start it here.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni60149298?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2540377602&pf_rd_r=1PQ1FGFQ7RV2QQ8RKZJH&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_nw_tp4
Quote"Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins responded to an open letter allegedly written by a former Warner Bros. employee that slammed the production company for releasing an array of subpar superhero movies, ranging from 2013's "Man of Steel" to this month's "Suicide Squad." The letter then proceeded to allude that "Wonder Woman" would be a "mess."
"Maybe Wonder Woman wouldn't be such a mess," the letter states. "Don't try to hide behind the great trailer. People inside are already confirming it's another mess. It is almost impressive how you keep rewarding the same producers and executives for making the same mistakes, over and over."
Although the identity of the letter's author remains a mystery, Jenkins was less-than-pleased. She released a string of tweets on Friday responding to the scathing words.
Woah, just saw this press about Ww having problems. Are they serious? This is some made up bs right here.
I'm not getting the same disaster-in-the-making vibes so far off WW. It's World War One after all; it's supposed to be dark and depressing enough to drive Diana into hiding for a hundred years!
I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya!
http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/dc-comics-wonder-woman-bisexual-2016-9
Hmmm.... Gonna need proof before I believe it.
Lots and lots of proof... :coolsmiley:
Lord, I hope this scene makes it into the movie
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Does this mean she and Green Lantern can be....... what the hell would they be? ???
Quote from: OJsDad on September 29, 2016, 05:00:12 PM
I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya!
http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/dc-comics-wonder-woman-bisexual-2016-9
I've been wondering whether they'll ever loop around (or if they've already done so -- I don't keep up with her canon much) to point out the true subversiveness of her situation: she lives on a lesbian island and wants to seek out a good romantic relationship with a man. :o
I suspect this is why the romantic angle of her origin (operating in "man's world" anyway) has been downplayed a lot (though not always) in recent years. Looks like the new author team will be downplaying or eliminating that, too, because if she leaves to seek a romantic relationship with man that would be "diminishing her character". No, dummies, she's taking a radical stance against her conservative longstanding culture, and it's even more embarrassing that she's the one doing it because she's not only the heir: she's the only really viable success so far at trying to reproduce Amazon numbers without men!!
The new author team is stupid.
Of course the Amazons have a concept of being gay; they wouldn't call it that, but they have it. (Not the historical Amazons, whatever they were, or in myth, but in DC's general version of them.) They might call it lesbianism (or maybe not, depending on what they recall as true about Lesbos!), but they'd recognize it: they know perfectly well that men are necessary for reproduction, and go strongly hard in rejecting the company of men at every socio-cultural level (except for rape-seducing sailors occasionally as "sirens" to help keep population up, per recent Nu52 canon -- not sure what the Rebirth canon will do with that -- but that's a resented fact of life which they partially express by murdering all the sailors afterward if they can). They aren't just gay, they're
militantly anti-hetero, and they have cultural reasons both historical and mythical (in the sense of being poetically meaningful) for that choice of lifestyle -- which IS very much an ideologically chosen lifestyle for them. The whole point to them wearing those bracelets is that they serve as a reminder to being enslaved sexually thanks to Herakles seducing their queen! (That's also related to why, traditionally, they lose their power if someone can connect the bracelets.) They aren't accidentally on that island without men, they (or their ancestors in some cases) chose that situation and willingly continue to enforce it as far as they can get away with doing so.
Edited to add: granted, if the writing team is changing all that background,
then maybe the Amazons could be so culturally ignorant as to have no concept of being distinct from heterosexual behavior. That wouldn't exactly be flattering to them as an advanced culture -- do they really think storks bring babies to birds and bees?? -- but I suppose it's one possible way to write them.
I suspect the writers are just being liberally foggy, though, with concept trendiness.
I liked Gal Gadot in BvS and I want the Wonder Woman movie to do well, but the trailers just seem bland.
Quote from: mirth on November 04, 2016, 12:22:32 PM
I liked Gal Gadot in BvS and I want the Wonder Woman movie to do well, but the trailers just seem bland.
Unfortunately, I agree with you. The Comic-Con trailer was more interesting, but neither has me particularly excited for the film so far.
Not blowing my skirt up. Pun intended.
I like the Hans Zimmer theme song.
Same here. But then, I seem to like most stuff Zimmer puts out.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-v-superman-cellist-returns-for-wonder-woman-and-1792985755
Trailer #3 is out. A couple short clips in the beginning; the actual trailer starts 30 seconds in.
That's looking better. I'm meh on Chris Pine, but Wonder Woman was kicking some ass.
I rewatched part of Batman v Superman this morning with the kids. Wonder Woman was really the best character in that movie.
Quote from: mirth on March 12, 2017, 09:42:14 AM
I rewatched part of Batman v Superman this morning with the kids. Wonder Woman was really the best character in that movie.
We're in 100% agreement on that. Wish she would've gotten more screen time.
I finally got to watch Batman vs Superman a couple of weeks ago. I just could not get into it.
I think it's amazing that in all the posts talking about her movie so far, not one of us (except maybe me but I think I keep forgetting, too) has mentioned that a major action sequence features the heroes using AN EINDECKER OF ALL THINGS!
Aside from the movie looking great otherwise, I'd go just to see whether they even pretend to account for how crappy a plane it was by the standard of the biplanes around it.
How crappy the Eindecker was compared to the biplanes around it would depend on what year it was.
Also, judging by what looks like a Sopwith Camel or 1 1/2 strutter among the parked Eindeckers in the strafing clip I'm not sure the film makers were too worried about what all the Grogs were going to think of the choice of aeroplanes.
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 15, 2017, 06:30:31 PM
I'm not sure the film makers were too worried about what all the Grogs were going to think of the choice of aeroplanes.
Go figure.
Anyway, it can't really be any worse for historical accuracy than Flyboys (https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2Fvomit.gif&hash=f8c0cec79f834c3558ced52ccf681c80fdf7c2e4)
^Barfy!
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Early impressions are positive.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-reactions-for-wonder-woman-are-spectacular-1795356828
I will be taking the kids to see it opening weekend.
Me too, I think. Not sure if its appropriate for 11 and 8 year olds...but I am sure The Wife will approve in her militant feminist way.
Quote from: Gusington on May 19, 2017, 10:28:17 AM
Me too, I think. Not sure if its appropriate for 11 and 8 year olds...but I am sure The Wife will approve in her militant feminist way.
My kids are pretty much those ages and I'm confident it will be okay for them. The only recent comic films I've steered them clear of are Deadpool and Logan (and that most recent Fantastic Four - because it sucked).
Hmm this may be an all out mobilzation of Clan Gus for a movie night, then.
I'm not sure I can buy into the Germans of WWI being the evil villain that requires a superhero to save the world. Am I missing something with the story line.
Quote from: OJsDad on May 20, 2017, 08:00:55 PM
I'm not sure I can buy into the Germans of WWI being the evil villain that requires a superhero to save the world. Am I missing something with the story line.
There appears to be some kind of Imperial German Wunderwaffen involved that imperils the historical outcome.
The real villian is Ares, not the Germans.
Quote from: mirth on May 20, 2017, 08:49:23 PM
The real villian is Ares, not the Germans.
Didn't Xena already fix his wagon way back in the day?
He's like a bad penny.
Or a bad drachma.
He's such a drachma queen
I'm so 'Old School' that I think the only Wonder Woman should be the TV show one with the very large boobs-- Linda Carter I think. She wouldn't need a magic rope to catch me. :dreamer:
Please....Mrs. Carter...please lasso me! I've been a bad boy!! O0
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She can ride in my Invisible Plane anytime she wants! :D
The girls at the Nerdist (Team Unicorn iirc?) have released a video porting Wonder Woman (and related lyrics) into feminist icon songs. (Their own description.)
"Some boys fly, and some boys buy, but they won't save the day (no way, no way).
"But I will: a demigoddess sculpture made of claaay.
"Because we're livin' a Themyscyrian world, and I'm a Themyscyrian girl..."
...they're kinda cringey. :hide:
^I'll be in my bunk.
That's not Team Unicorn though. Some of the ladies from Nerdist. Still hawt.
Yeah, after I watched it I wondered if they'd shuffled new 'members' onto the Team.
Jessica Chobot as Wonder Woman :smitten:
Tix purchased for Saturday showing.
Times review
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/movies/wonder-woman-review-gal-gadot.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/movies/wonder-woman-review-gal-gadot.html)
QuoteIts earnest insouciance recalls the "Superman" movies of the '70s and '80s more than the mock-Wagnerian spectacles of our own day, and like those predigital Man of Steel adventures, it gestures knowingly but reverently back to the jaunty, truth-and-justice spirit of an even older Hollywood tradition.
Linda Carter was one of the first women I ever found hawt...I was like 5 years old and wanted to see more of her bewbs but I didn't know why.
Quote from: Gusington on May 31, 2017, 12:32:32 PM
Linda Carter was one of the first women I ever found hawt...I was like 5 years old and wanted to see more of her bewbs but I didn't know why.
Do you know why now?
She used to make me 'wonder' too. :dreamer:
Yes because she was uber hawt. She's still doable IIRC.
Her daughter ain't too shabby either.
Holy mother of God - her daughter is even hotter!
Now that would be a Dynamic Duo.
I think my heart stopped for a while.
Quote from: mirth on May 31, 2017, 11:52:52 AM
Times review
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/movies/wonder-woman-review-gal-gadot.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/movies/wonder-woman-review-gal-gadot.html)
QuoteIts earnest insouciance recalls the "Superman" movies of the '70s and '80s more than the mock-Wagnerian spectacles of our own day, and like those predigital Man of Steel adventures, it gestures knowingly but reverently back to the jaunty, truth-and-justice spirit of an even older Hollywood tradition.
I've seen other reviews comparing it favorably to the 70s Superman films, too. Also, no (or not much) freakish color desaturation!
Just saw it. Solid flick. Easily the best of the Snyder-verse DC movies. For a Marvel equivalent, I'd put it on par with the first Cap or Thor.
Gal Gadot is fantastic. She makes Wonder Woman the most compelling and interesting of any of the current DC heroes. And she totally kicks ass.
It's a buy the numbers superhero flick, but better done than anything else in the DCEU.
She's got her Golden Lasso around you for sure. Please tell me there are lots of scenes of her changing into and out of her WW suit. :dreamer:
Just seen it - not bad.
WTF is with the CGI though!! It is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay exaggerated. There's a scene when she's in the water with Chris Pine and you can see they're in a pool with blue scree/CGI behind them. It's really pretty poor.
Gal Gadot is kick ass though and the fight scenes (without CGI) are well done, especially the slow-mo sections.
Saw it with my wife this evening. I liked it. She liked it a lot more than I did.
Gal Gadot was well cast. She has muscles and coordination. Thick fingers and muscles. She could actually hold a sword and use it. Totally unlike Supergirl who has 0 upper body strength. My wife said Gal has two kids and was an instructor for the Israeli military. Fight scenes were well done. She carries the movie well.
The plot was pretty ordinary Greek tragedy on mankind (if you know ancient literature which is what 0.5% of the movie audience).
Entertaining movie. I like the Marvel movies better.
Just saw it myself (with friends).
Neat film.
And I'm really happy to finally see an Israeli actor/actress get a lead role in a Hollywood movie.
Quote from: Tpek on June 16, 2017, 04:32:49 PM
Just saw it myself (with friends).
Neat film.
And I'm really happy to finally see an Israeli actor/actress get a lead role in a Hollywood movie.
:bd: