Wonder Woman sucked and the only reason it’s a “cultural phenomenon” is because nobody will stand up and say so because GRRL POWA! The female Ghostbusters would’ve been just as much a cultural phenomenon as well if it hadn’t been so horribly awful (it still holds nearly as high a rating as Wonder Woman on rotten tomatoes)
“Wonder Woman sucked and the only reason it’s a “cultural phenomenon” is because nobody will stand up and say so because GRRL POWA! “
A few of my friends that I trust with movie reviews tell me that Wonder Woman was really good and that it wasn’t “forced down your throat” PC garbage. (they all hated the new Ghostbusters FWIW).
I’ll wait for the home release regardless.
By the way, if you want to tweak a liberal, tell them that you couldn’t care less about female leads in action films ... so long as the woman is smoking hot ;-). Trust me, their heads melt and their blood boils :-).
Wonder Woman was just ok. At the time, I gave it a B-.
Gal Gadot is gorgeous, so you can look at her for 2 hours without too much trouble. But as usual, it had a stupid plot, unbelievable villains (the WW I Germans? Really? When do we get the Afrikaners?), and it was (as all current movies are) too long.
Above all, this, the Mummy, and the rest of the “Dark Universe” has a problem with the very essence, which is dark, foreboding, pessimistic. Gadot’s Wonder Woman is reasonably heroic, but to what purpose? Just to stop a gas attack?
Brandon Frasier’s “The Mummy” was spectacular because it was funny, campy, and very much played up his Americanism. But, sigh, on FR I speak to the choir.
First, Gal Godot is absolutely stunning and it is really hard to watch the movie while she is on the screen because she is just so nice looking. I had to close my mouth more than once.
I will grant that the scene where Steve is imploring her not to give up on mortal humans was the worst inspiration speech ever filmed, it only takes a few minutes from the total package. The action isn't excessively chaotic and you get lots of full on action scenes for the time spent.
The whole superhero genre is corny to begin with, so what? Many of us read the comics in the distant past and are happy as hell seeing how good they make the stories look. The secret is the same as with any other entertainment which is to keep it in the proper perspective. And there really is nothing wrong with putting a woman in an action movie.