I'd give it maybe an 8 out of 10.
For a DC film, that's high praise.
Overall, I liked it, but one thing really bugged me:That was really only true for the Potter/Perez version, which no longer applies.Spoiler for Hidden:
That was really only true for the Potter/Perez version, which no longer applies.
Man, I thought the Ratings Disease only affected gamers...
I say this will be DC's first 'Marvel' type hit and make tons of money.
They tanked out on the last few films so maybe they will learn what makes this one a good one and put that into their JLA film and other upcoming ones.
movie folks have it too, but they're far less likely to only be rating the product to brag that they used it in 4k or on linux.
Everything gets rated these days. I'm referring to the sickness that makes people think that only a rating akin to 9/10 or higher is good.
8/10 is a great movie and not just 'for a DC movie'.
8.5/10 recommends itself, it doesn't need to be recommended *despite* the rating.
Madness.
Everything gets rated these days. I'm referring to the sickness that makes people think that only a rating akin to 9/10 or higher is good.
8/10 is a great movie and not just 'for a DC movie'.
8.5/10 recommends itself, it doesn't need to be recommended *despite* the rating.
Madness.
- Ares. I found the last act with Ares to be not as interesting as the rest of the movie. Ares in particular is not a good villain. He is practically invisible, and that makes it difficult to build him up to be the big bad of the movie. His presence is always lurking about in terms of Wonder Woman's dialog, but mostly I felt he was bussed into the movie's last act to end the movie.
- Wonder Woman's strength. So just exactly how strong is Wonder Woman anyway? We know how strong Superman is. He's all but bullet proof. Is Wonder Woman? She deflects bullets with bracers and her shield. Can she take a bullet? We see her wielding power that could rival Superman, but on the other hand we often see her fighting more like Batman. When she holds off the machine guns with her shield, she looks like she is struggling with something Superman wouldn't. But she picks up a tank like it was an inflatable duck. The one thing that I don't think the DC movieverse has figured out yet is just exactly where Wonder Woman is in terms of power. And this was the one inconsistent thing in the movie that bothered me a little.
I saw it as more of a progression, fulfilling Antiope's insistence that Diana is much stronger than she believes. Kind of like the whole faith the size of a mustard seed moving mountains. It's very, what is word, wishy-washy. The more right, faithful to her cause, or something, the better able she becomes to realizing her full potential. It's softly demonstrated during her final training sequence; she's looking around, to her mother and other Amazons to gage their reaction to how well she is/is not doing. And when she later takes ti the No Man's Land, she gains more confidence and begins her journey of inner confidence and outward strengths.
Or something. I'm on meds so my clarity may be wonky.
Though, even then, her strength grew or shrank as the plot needed it to.
Wonder Woman no spoiler review.
8.5 out of 10
The good:
- Movie understands Wonder Woman.
- Wonder Woman's strength. So just exactly how strong is Wonder Woman anyway? We know how strong Superman is. He's all but bullet proof. Is Wonder Woman? She deflects bullets with bracers and her shield. Can she take a bullet? We see her wielding power that could rival Superman, but on the other hand we often see her fighting more like Batman. When she holds off the machine guns with her shield, she looks like she is struggling with something Superman wouldn't. But she picks up a tank like it was an inflatable duck. The one thing that I don't think the DC movieverse has figured out yet is just exactly where Wonder Woman is in terms of power. And this was the one inconsistent thing in the movie that bothered me a little.
The Bale ones for the most part 'got' Batman as well.
I believe the insinuation in the movie is that her powers/strength grew as she progressed through the movie until that final battle with Ares when they exploded to her full potential. So, she learned all that fancy fighting and used it. Then, when confronted with the no-man's land battle, she grew strong enough to lift that tank and demolish that church tower. Then, in the final battle with Ares, she ramped up again to "juggle tanks" level and gained rudimentary flight powers (?)Not even sure I'd call it "insinuation." We're told throughout the movie that her powers are growing or that she hasn't reached her full potential. Her mother explicitly was fearful of her gaining too much of her powers before she was ready to face Ares.
I could be wrong, but that's how I saw it.
Except for that last one. :gonk:
Compared to The Dark Knight, Rises is not as strong of a movie, I would agree. But I think it does "get" Batman in the sense that The Dark Knight Rises says something kind of daring about Batman.
No. As soon as the movie opens and explains that Batman basically "gave up" and went into hiding after the events of the previous movie it blows any chance of "getting" Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Of course, that's IMO.
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"Martha Cinematic Universe"... how could that possibly be confusing?
"Martha Cinematic Universe"... how could that possibly be confusing?
"Why did you say that name?!" lol
I'm sure Flash's mom's name will get changed to Nora Martha Allen for the movie.Or Barry will end up boding with Mr. Freeze.
You focus too much on the surface-level comic tropes and miss the deeper philosophic message that Cap didn't have. Cap was a pretty run-of-the-mill popcorn action flick. WW strived for more.
Up until that I never even thought about the fact that both Bruce and Clark's mother were Martha.
I knew they both were named Martha , but never thought - "Hey, Batman and Superman's mom have the same name." (not counting the 4 or 5 imaginary tales where they actually are brothers)
funnily enough my mom's name is actually Martha, it was apparently a really popular name for girls around that time when the books were being written for a few decades, it didn't start to wane in popularity until giving kids biblical names began to fall out of fashion in the 60's and 70's.The Social Security Administration has a web site where you can look up name popularity by year/decade in the US. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html (https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi)
that is really cool to find out, now i can go see if my theory about my name becoming increasingly popular around when i was born because of a certain Beatles song is possibly true. yay research!
"The Walrus" is a great name for any era.