Wonder Woman Movie

I'm supposed to be seeing it at the weekend so I am resisting clicking on the Spoiler tag...
From what I've gleaned it seems to have lived up to the Trailers. Where as some of the other DCEU films... Not so much.

 

The reviews are great, and I find myself looking forward to it. I'd been skeptical because a) DCEU track record and b) the parallels with Captain America: The First Avenger (World War, Shield...) But I'm glad to know the movie is actually good. I shudder a little when I wonder how the Wonder Women from this movie might be sidelined or muted when she appears in Justice League....but we'll have to wait and see for that one.

 

Going this this weekend. I really want it to be good but I have low expectations. That others are calling it good does not mean much to me really. We'll see.

 

I caught it last night and loved it. For all the people who keep asking how to write strong female characters, go see this movie. This is how it should be done.

 

My daughter is taking a group of 10 friends to see it for her 13th birthday. I wasn't going to go but maybe I will now!

 

It was actually beyond expectation for me. Best DC movie so far. I love her resolution to keep fighting as a hero and her hometown is really beautiful.

 

Saw it a week later than I planned. But, two thumbs up. This was a very good film.

 

Funny, that's my reaction to damned near every super hero movie I've ever seen, heh heh.

 

Gonna see it with my bestie day after tomorrow. I'm stoked.

 

I saw it today, and wow. Really, really good. Very similar to Captain America, agreed; but that didn't prevent me from enjoying it.

I'm going to want that soundtrack. Had some really nice parts in it.

 

I found the film thoroughly enjoyable. Gal Gadot was extremely likeable as Diana, Steve and Diana had great chemistry and a touching relationship, and the action was fantastic — especially the no man's land sequence. And I also liked the film's message, presented through Diana's character arc: she goes from idealism (wanting to be the hero to solve all the world's problems) to cynicism (realising that the problems are impossible to solve since humanity can't be saved from its own evils) then back to idealism again (deciding to fight for Good anyway, since evil is just one small part of humanity).

One of the things I'm a bit iffy on is how the film doesn't do enough to emphasise that the Germans are not the villains, but War itself. Yes, they do talk a lot about that being the case, but 90% of the film still consists of beating up Germans with not enough attention given to the fact that the First World War was a massive clusterf*ck in which there were no real good guys — it was a big old dick-measuring contest between paranoid imperialists. Had the film explored the evils on both sides of the war, and examined (even in a passing way) the sociological causes of the war (and maybe War in general), then the end message would have been better reinforced.

On a side note, I do find it funny how they turned the real historical figure of General Ludendorff into a steroid-using supervillain who dies 19 years before he's meant to in real life.

 

General Ludendorff was kind of a loose end. That is to say, the steroids make him super strong, but he just dies without much effect or consequence, without having affected the story much.

And, yeah.

Diana: Humans are basically good and war is a scourge that corrupts them! I have to free them from the influence of Ares!

Also Diana: *beats up and kills endless amounts of faceless German mooks*

 

We enjoyed the movie, I just can't imagine how Gal shoot the film while being pregnant must be difficult for her.