By Hera! Come anticipate the WONDER WOMAN movie with me!

if she's smart enough to read 30 languages, why isn't she smart enough to analyse the situation and work out that the british and german aristocracy and military are to blame before smashing hundreds of people into walls?

The cognitive dissonance between her relentless naivete and her book learnin' was very weird and funny to me, generally not in a good way

Likewise, as I mentioned earlier, why doesn't she eventually prevent WWII?

I mean, are we sure she doesn't

for real though there's an interesting contrast to be made between this movie and Skull Island in terms of handling a major 20th-century conflict, though technically the latter takes place immediately *after* Nam

Kong is also totally isolated on a secret island. WW takes place in the middle of a high profile war. Wouldn't the entire world (er) wonder about her for decades? Before the arrival of Superman and the advent of Batman, there would be entire books titled, like, "Who Was This Godlike Woman Who Fought On The Fronts Of WWI Yet Failed To Stop WWII?" Assuming she didn't stop WWII, of course, but from what little I know about Bat vs. Supes, neither of them knows who she is. Supes I can understand - can he even read? - but Batman is pretty literate, he should know his world history!

Though I did get the poorly conveyed impression that the millions of people fighting WWI were all operating under the influence of Ares. That is, at the confusing end there were shots of people taking off their helmets and masks and essentially shaking off the cloud of EEVIL. But if Ares can hypnotize people into being EEVIL (and/or design random pills that give random people random rage-strength), why bother making them fight at all? Anyway, best not to think about it, this movie has sat well enough with me, and my younger one now reads WW comics.

I wish movies would just be allowed to invent invent historical wars the way they invent countries

Anyway, best not to think about it, this movie has sat well enough with me, and my younger one now reads WW comics.

yeah, i made my squeamishness about the wwi setting clear at the start of this thread but in the end the strength of the lead performances was enough to get me through it

i dunno how much i'll be able to overlook it on future viewings but for now i'm happy that there's finally a decent dcu movie and i hope there's still time for justice league to learn from it

pretty cute how into superheroes my nephews, age 3 and 5 are

3 and 5 year olds are usually excited by power

Why would a woman that book-learned and fluent in countless languages apparently never learn the word for "snow"?

sapir-whorf hypothesis

The bizarre thing for me was when I saw the movie I'd just come back from a week-long tour of Belgian battlefields, and having heard countless stories of dreadful slaughter and carnage and visited so many war graves, it was a bit of a headspinner to have that as the setting for exciting super-punching action fun times.

It's also a bit odd when you consider how significant the Second World War was to Wonder Woman's origins, and which played a big part in the TV series as well. So why the change? They can't have been worried about ripping off Captain America surely, that movie was years ago!

Because then the movie would have been about Wonder Woman punching out the Manhattan Project.

with oppenheimer as the big bad, literally 'become death, destroyer of worlds'?

i'd watch the shit out of that tbh

Oh I think ILX would totally watch that movie. Hence the budget should have been in the $2500 range.

"A Mark Duplass Film"

ilx post-covers the wonder woman movie

i spent a few days camping with a group of friends & two unrelated 5 yr old girls had WW bathrobe & pyjamas, two moms had WW tshirts, and at one point the 8 yr old boy was playing "magic lasso" with some old rope he found by the river.. it was super cool seeing all the unplanned ww love :)

despite my historical issues, a lot of it was excellent, and she was hella charismatic and a lot of things were done super well. therein lies the frustration - and it's pretty lame that her next appearance is alongside total downer-bros Cavill and Affleck in the next one.

http://www.tcj.com/professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women/

Just a piece about some of the puzzling choices in the biopic.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/medium-post-gal-gadot?utm_term=.xhYANAr7KD#.vmGA1APmKq

13 years ago, Gal Gadot would have been 19 years old or so. I don't think anybody is a perfect moral specimen at that age. I don't appreciate Medium's handling of it, but then again, fucking Medium, you get what you pay for in a platform.

I read the original post before Medium took it down. If the account is true, not being a "perfect moral specimen" doesn't cover it.

Just read the webcached version. Fuck me, what a vile human being*.

*Assuming it's true as written

well okay then I guess she sucks

everyone sucks

dang

Can the fuller story be seen elsewhere?

Posts shit bigging up the IDF as well.

not sure why that's a surprise to anyone

Saw this two weeks ago -- a bit if all right as far as superhero things go. At least the action was intelligible.

Can the fuller story be seen elsewhere?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fVArhMNLAXcJ:https://medium.com/%40imasurvivor/heres-how-gal-gadot-actually-responded-when-her-friend-raped-me-7aa7a2bea919+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

Warning: really pretty unpleasant reading. Starts off with her blaming a 15 year old victim for being raped, goes downhill from there.

This is good this is.

*spit take*

He's not wrong.

i liked it too, it just seemed uh dmac-proof to me

ITT Deems and Tombot agree on a movie

The last act drags but the first is a doozy and the second balances comic booky and plot furtherance well.

And uh gadot

The cognitive dissonance between her relentless naivete and her book learnin' was very weird and funny to me, generally not in a good way

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 13:41 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are u ppl kidding me or yourselves more in this place that's what I ask myself

Well, this is interesting news.

So excited to confirm the most thrilling news. Yes! It’s true! So incredibly lucky to welcome the sensationally talented Kristen Wiig to our Wonder Woman family. Can't wait to finally work with one of my favorites. And SO excited by what we have planned. #Cheetah!!! @GalGadot pic.twitter.com/Gn0jICiIAH

— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) March 9, 2018

Wiig plays a hard-boiled undercover detective determined to find out who killed her father, Sir Patrick Morgan

huh, so i guess she's playing cheetah? guess we'll have to wait another few years before that wonder woman / egg fu bigscreen face-off that fans have been clamouring for

and this should be Cheetah in the 1980s, right? should be interesting

Great trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GQ5mWYwTtQ

not a fan of orchestral blue monday tbh

kinda dreading the explanation of how chris pine is alive but also happy to see him cuz chris pine is good fuiud

It's actually nice seeing DC get its shit together

I never knew I wanted to see Wonder Woman wreck Pentagon City mall until now, but I do!!

the first one was a bit over-long (why do these films always have one too many climactic battles?) but Gadot and the overall tone was great, will totally see this w my daughter

looks cool, not toooo much LOL 80's stuff going on, wish they'd just used the original Blue Monday though.