Saw it yesterday, great movie.
A friend linked to this article on Facebook, which I just found to be funny due to the irony. The movie has a powerful, strong woman character, and it apparently makes these women cry! I'm happy that the women in my life aren't like this.
Why I cried through the fight scenes in 'Wonder Woman' - LA Times
Saw it yesterday, great movie.
A friend linked to this article on Facebook, which I just found to be funny due to the irony. The movie has a powerful, strong woman character, and it apparently makes these women cry! I'm happy that the women in my life aren't like this.
Why I cried through the fight scenes in 'Wonder Woman' - LA Times
The way I read it was... they were crying because they finally got a woman superhero that can fight. And wasn't just window dressing for the men superheroes.
So Ripley from Aliens wasn't Bad A$$ enough for these crying women?
I never did get to the theaters to see Wonder Woman. So we finally saw it at home. After the rave reviews, I'm actually disappointed. They made her way too overpowered. It's what DC Comics does.
It was at least interesting throughout most of the movie. But I hated the ending. The problem with god superheroes is that it takes god villains to make it interesting. At least Marvel is getting it right in their movie series. Thor struggles. Even Hulk struggles. Their ultimate victories are believably in doubt. Now that they've established Wonder Woman's overpowered godness, DC comics has doomed itself into making her potential for defeat unbelievable.
With these kinds of movies, disbelief must be suspended anyway. But it still has to be workable. They've established a tough act to follow. And they suck for it. I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars, but that much, only because the acting was pretty outstanding from the main characters, and the superpower was workable. Until the ending.
They either got lazy in their writing or they wanted Wonder Woman to be more overpowered than Superman.We had to purchase it on pay per view ($9.99) on Direct.
I agree it was pretty good right to the end. The last battle was a serious stretch.
They either got lazy in their writing or they wanted Wonder Woman to be more overpowered than Superman.
^I get what you're saying. I just prefer the darker/serious tones of DCEU. I can watch them over and over, the Marvel cinematic universe, it loses it's appeal for me after 2nd viewing, some not even worth watching the 2nd time around. There are exceptions, Iron Man 1, Edward Norton's The Incredible Hulk, Winter Soldier.
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I like the darker stories too. Darker stories can be more complicated, and therefore more interesting. If you can unpack everything about the story in one viewing it's less interesting to watch again.
I was disappointed with MOS. I bought it, but I've only watched it twice. It's just doesn't have that much depth. DC has a difficult time with Superman anyway. I think Batman is my favorite comic character, and it's because he doesn't have super powers. He defeats his enemies with resources, wit, and honed abilities. He's not a god that can only be defeated by another god. I think this is one of the reasons I really liked the Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Batman. It had it's problems too, but Batmat got hurt. He had to work hard and persevere to win. No superpowers. Just skill and resources. And a lot to unpack. I've probably seen those three movies dozens of times.
Superman needs kryptonite to even allow for the potential to lose. And that gets kinda old. Batman could not have defeated Superman without Kryptonite. We all knew that was coming. And Wonder Woman, teaming up with Batfleck & Superman, should have just led with the trick she used to defeat Aries. With the powers they established in Wonder Woman's movie, she should have been able to defeat the foe in Batman v Superman by herself.
That's the problem with lazy or idealistic writing. You write in some super awesome over the top overpowered ability to defeat an enemy in the end, and we're all just left with the question, why didn't you just lead with that? I get it, she had to be pissed because she lost her boyfriend to discover her awesome god power. But still. It just creates plot holes the next time the superhero has to face down a powerful enemy. It first requires an overpowered enemy, which causes problems of workable scale in itself, or, secondly requires them to write in some script superglue to help us forget how powerful the superhero was the last time.
Marvel has done a much better job with their scripts than that, at least trying to avoid those pitfalls. But I'll agree that some of the Avenger universe lacks depth that I think darker plots would help solve.