Night Hunter
Banned
With the lowered production cost next to BvS or SS the people at WB will be very happy I'd guess
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Wonder Woman set to pass $400M domestic today, after 68 days in release
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Gentleman Jack
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Adjusting for inflation doesn't help create an apples to apples comparison. Movies aren't in theaters for nearly as long now as they were in the early 1980's, for example.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Adjusting for inflation is horseshit.
Alex_Mexico
Member
You mean the first good one. We've had female superhero flicks before but they were all utter trash.
Also, all I did was list facts. People can make their own comparisons.
E.T. was obviously a bigger cultural phenomenon than Wonder Woman, but E.T. also wouldn't have scored 16 weekends at #1 in 2017.
Avatar is the only film since 2000 to get more than 4 weekends at #1. It held that for 7 weekends. Even that is next to impossible now that studios are pushing bigger January releases.
Salty Rice
Member
Its no Thor: The Dark World but still a good movie.
Judgement: Deserved
Judgement: Deserved
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Just goes to show that the audience and critics will respond to a safe formulaic origin story.
Have fun trying to convince WB that they need to invest in more edgy takes on comic books. Expect a lot more of these well crafted but ultimately predictable stories from these guys.
Have fun trying to convince WB that they need to invest in more edgy takes on comic books. Expect a lot more of these well crafted but ultimately predictable stories from these guys.
Inferno313
Banned
It's absurd. Shit like that and the JJ lens flare stuff are things people like to regurgitate so as to sound smart, when in actuality it betrays the fact that they know jackshit about engaging with and criticizing a piece of story-telling and narrative and simply reach for the surface-level low-hanging fruit.
Nightwing123
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Congrats to everyone that worked on Wonder Woman. The movie should get to 800M as well WW.
I thought the slo-mo was overdone, robbing a lot of the action of its impact. Slo-mo is great for highlighting moments and communicating how Diana perceives things and can react so quickly, but used too much it gets tedious.
The only sustained action scene in the film to not use it is the initial assault on the town, right after the NML scene. (Slow-mo was just fine and made sense there.) Plowing through guards, down the alley, up onto the roof, great shit. Then she busts into the building and we get tons of slow-mo fighting with that awful BvS buttrock theme. Keeping it real time as she plowed through soldiers, and then end it with the epic slow-mo knee shot going out the window would have worked so much better, IMO.
No one told me that was bad, I just didn't like those scenes nearly as much as I wanted to, and the use of slo-mo (and that soundtrack) is why.
Lord of Ostia
Member
Well, what they were doing wasn't working for them, and Wonder Woman did work. I'd rather more Wonder Woman's than Suicide Squads, tbh.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That's a decent explanation that I don't normally see in response to "too much slo-mo" getting burped up as a go-to nitpick.
I still disagree that it was used too much, but I know I haven't seen it as often as you have, so your criticism is definitely going to be built on more experience with the movie than I've got.
Strangelove77
Member
I wonder how all the Snyder-loving edgelords feel about this. It seems like the success of WW will change the course of the DCEU from now on towards something a lot less edgy and convoluted and more into something a normal human being can appreciate.
The slo-mo was used properly in this movie, IMO, unlike Snyder who just uses it constantly with no reason. Slo-mo should be used to punctuate and illustrate, and I don't recall an instance of WW using it to not do one or those things.
The real criticism of WW is its weak and obviously reshot-to-hell third act, but if we're going to roast every superhero movie that fumbles the third act we'll be here all damn day. WB is being rewarded for making a superhero movie that didn't suck for the first time since The Dark Knight and that's great to see. The audience doesn't always do the right thing, but I think they have in this case.
disappeared
Banned
Never got to see it in theaters bit I'm happy for its success. Will be buying the BluRay to support the film.
Fancyarcher
Member
Awesome & well-deserved.
FWIW, I only saw it twice. I planned to go a third time but those plans never came together (went to other movies, then my theater dropped it the day before I could go when I actually wanted to.)
I'd still put the action in WW above most super hero films, and I think it used slo-mo better than any others I've seen. I just wished they'd dialed it down in the early action scenes. I love that scene with her plowing through the town and wish they'd run with that a bit longer.
This was one of the few moments in the entire indoor sequence that plays out without slo-mo. I just wanted more of it because I love the hell out of it. Do that shit for a minute or two and then end with the knee out the window. (best .gif I could find of it)
Okay, end of my derail.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I hate when that happens.
You guys don't have a beer theater out that way yet, do you? Gotta imagine that'll be comin, your area is growing.
I live in Saint Helens, which has a theater with one screen. The next town over (15 minute drive) has a 7-screen which is where I see most movies. WW got dropped when it landed in the bottom of the top 10 box office. On the upside, that theater still uses real butter on the popcorn. Which is alright by me.
There's a ton of multiplexes about 45 minutes away in the Hillsboro/Beaverton area but that replicates my commute to work so I save it for more desperate times (it's how I had to see Get Out). Things are growing out here but probably not enough to get more screens.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I dunno. McMenamins loves to buy up property and throw a brewery & a theater screen (or two) in it. I could see 'em doing something like that in St. Helens, definitely.
Eh it ties up with the Dark Knight (original run, think saw twice more in theaters after)
And I mean it depends
Saw it at a fan-screening for free, had opening day tickets
Friends wanted to see (and paid for it over the weekend)
And then the other 2 was because was going to the theater and really nothing else interested me (during The Mummy/Transformers/Cars) days of summer.
Knuckle Sandwich
Member
It's a great movie and Gal Gadot and Chris Pine are amazing in it. Saw it 5 times and pre-ordering and Blu ray.
Snyder edgleord here and I feel fine. Get a grip dude.
Snyder edgleord here and I feel fine. Get a grip dude.
Inferno313
Banned
I definitely have seen some DC/Snyder fans act like Wonder Woman is actually overrated, and that it's reception is going to ruin the DCEU. Lmao.
How anyone can think Wonder Woman is anything less than far-and-away the best thing in the DCEU is beyond me.
I'll take a "CGI crapfest" any day if we get something as good as Pine's last scene. That is top tier superhero film scene worthy.
Hari Seldon
Member
I thought the movie was OK. The story was tight and good (especially compared to the incomprehensible avengers garbage), but it was a CGI shitfest. I was ready to love the movie after the first half but by the end I was pretty meh on the entire thing.
I haven't seen any Snyder fans dislike the movie, so there's that.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
about 2/3rds of off-topic lives in this state, apparently.
Ha I look at Wonder Woman of the actual realization of a Snyder superhero movie. It has all of his trappings with few of his flaws
Cipher Peon
Banned
I am happy about DC's success ^^
I really hope that the tone of future films are more in line with BvS and Suicide Squad over Wonder Woman, but to me the continued success of the DCEU is very important to me! The loss of edginess is very saddening, though
Play it safe, oh well. I do wonder how the edgy Suicide Squad would have been received but people said BVS was too dark. I would have loved to see the version that was supposed to share a similar tone to se7en that had the Joker smacking Harley and showed how fucked up the relationship truly was. That said I didn't hate Suicide Squad. And MOS was just too realistic, only 74 or so people dying in Avengers don't make me laugh
Leo_Sagittarius
Member
Well deserved!
WW and Aquaman will carry this universe until everyone else gets their shit together.
Black Republican
Member
Glad for its success
New face of DCU
New face of DCU