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Wonder Woman Review thread

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caliph95 said:
He's totally not racist he was in a diverse neighborhood and had black friends
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I don't think he is but dude
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I can't believe this is real. lol
Veelk said:
Okay, post the link.

I gotta see this one to believe it.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmEFfaOMEGQ

I gotta walk back on my statement. It wasn't that he didn't believe it was about race he just doesn't understand racism. But that still adds to my point about him not seeing color.
 
Why would anyone look forward to an RLM review of the first female-led superhero movie in ages? Not really desperate to hear two middle-age dorks say "Diversity's a corporate conspiracy that kids don't even care about" for an hour and a half.
 
I hope this is good so RLM can eat some big fat crow. That "endless trash" gif with Wonder Woman is gonna be useless unless someone crops out the poster.
 
Fancyarcher said:
Listening to the score right now. Some fine moments, but for me it's just more RC-style music with loud noises, repeating percussion loops, and a lot of ear bursting action music.

Wonder Woman's theme doesn't even seem to get an orchestral version disappointingly enough, and they still use that very inappropriate electric cello version

Meh!
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Inappropriate?


According to who?

Hell naaaaaaaaaaaaw
 
ElBoxyBrown said:
I can't believe this is real. lol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmEFfaOMEGQ

I gotta walk back on my statement. It wasn't that he didn't believe it was about race he just doesn't understand racism. But that still adds to my point about him not seeing color.
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Eh, I watched the video and his point is that he grew up around POC, so he doesn't "understand racism" in that he doesn't get how someone could be racist. He words it kinda funny and it's even funnier when he shows that picture but I wouldn't say there was anything malicious there, just a goofy dude not really knowing how to properly talk about race related issues.
 
So we're somehow going to surpass 10 pages before the embargo even lifts. DCEU review threads are essentially the E3 threads of off-topic.

Anyways, got my eyes set on a nice 90% RT
 
Fancyarcher said:
Listening to the score right now. Some fine moments, but for me it's just more RC-style music with loud noises, repeating percussion loops, and a lot of ear bursting action music.

Wonder Woman's theme doesn't even seem to get an orchestral version disappointingly enough, and they still use that very inappropriate electric cello version

Meh!
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Same as i think sadly. There seems to be some melodic touches in that track, but as you say more loud Zimmer style noises than anything else. I hoped that being a different composer didnt brought the same type of OST to the table.
I was hearing Gladiator OST this morning, now im wondering, if Zimmer had to compose Gladiator now, would he do the same melodic style as his old ost, or would all be filled with non stop percussion noises?
 
The Last Samurai is about a character who enters a new culture and discovers a conflict over which he has no control, and in doing so learns about his identity.

The Wonder Woman of 2003.
 
Bronx-Man said:
Why would anyone look forward to an RLM review of the first female-led superhero movie in ages? Not really desperate to hear two middle-age dorks say "Diversity's a corporate conspiracy that kids don't even care about" for an hour and a half.
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I like the Star Wars reviews, but I dont think the twi guys are progressiv or very liberal.
I always get a bad feeling when they bring Samuel L Jacksons casting up as a pandering to black people, because he is so cool and street

I have no reason to watch a WW from these two guys.
 
Bronx-Man said:
Why would anyone look forward to an RLM review of the first female-led superhero movie in ages? Not really desperate to hear two middle-age dorks say "Diversity's a corporate conspiracy that kids don't even care about" for an hour and a half.
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40 year old cynicism-addicted white men from Wisconsin pretending to be half-drunk VCR repairmen should be your go-to for in-depth analysis of the 21st Century cultural zeitgeist as its happening.

You will get no more in touch with art and artists than with those guys steering your journey towards greater understanding of film. Plus think of all the great gifs and empty catchphrases only 3 other people you kinda talk to on the internet will understand!

It's very cool.
 
DeathyBoy said:
Higher than Thor 2 please.

Why?

Because fuck Thor 2. That's why.
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Man, Thor 2 isn't even the worst Marvel movie.

Y'all could at least shit on Iron Man 2, which kind of deserves it, instead of Thor the Dark World which is just forgettable.
 
Speevy said:
The Last Samurai is about a character who enters a new culture and discovers a conflict over which he has no control, and in doing so learns about his identity.

The Wonder Woman of 2003.
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WONDER WOMAN IS A MIGHTY WHITEY

MIGHTY WHITEY IS WONDER WOMAN
 
Fancyarcher said:
To me Wonder Woman's theme should sound more mythological and epic, not like classic but good Zimmer trailer music, especially when the film is set in WWI.
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Nah

I dig it when scores can go more electronic (?) for what's typically expected to be an orchestral score. Something like Fury back in the day would've been more orchestral, but Steven Price did more to it and I think it totally has its place in period pieces.
 
ElBoxyBrown said:
I can't believe this is real. lol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmEFfaOMEGQ

I gotta walk back on my statement. It wasn't that he didn't believe it was about race he just doesn't understand racism. But that still adds to my point about him not seeing color.
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Eh, I think this is an instance where "I don't see color" may actually have some merit. When he talks about it, he's talking about the fact that he specifically grew up in an environment where there were a ton of black people and with a family that was largely inclusive. So, because of that upbringing, racism is something of a foreign thing to him. Meaning that he legitimately thought he grew up in a post-racism environment. And that's something I atleast sympathize with, because I was the same way and had to learn better in my teen years. However, he understands that racism exists and that his case is the exception, not the rule. And he connects this to the movie because it helps offer him a perspective that he has trouble grasping because he just didn't experience it in his environment. So it's using it as a "This film showed me some of what it is like" explanation.

Now, how credible the idea that his environment was without racism is for me hard to believe. It's perfectly possible, maybe even probable, that there was some shit going on that he just didn't notice because he thought it was normal. But the fact is that we don't have any idea of what exactly his childhood was like and maybe he really just did luck into a community that didn't discriminate.

"I don't see color" is usually bad because it's an excuse to not acknowledge the problems of racism. But he does acknowledge the problems of racism, he's just saying there weren't many in his own childhood. It may or may not be true and we can't prove it either way, but at the very least, since he is acknowledging that racism is a very real and serious problem in most places, so it's not the typical usage of the phrase that invites automatic derision, is all I'm saying.
 
SpacePirate Ridley said:
Same as i think sadly. There seems to be some melodic touches in that track, but as you say more loud Zimmer style noises than anything else. I hoped that being a different composer didnt brought the same type of OST to the table.
I was hearing Gladiator OST this morning, now im wondering, if Zimmer had to compose Gladiator now, would he do the same melodic style as his old ost, or would all be filled with non stop percussion noises?
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Rupert Gregson Williams is a protege / former employee at Zimmer's RC company, so him sounding like Zimmer doesn't surprise me. I'm also sure the studio asked for the sound, considering that most studios are love in the current Zimmer's style because of how simple it is.

Zimmer's Gladiator has a lot of his own touches and those RC trademarks, but at least it has some actual themes as well, and it's not like I despise modern Zimmer either. I'm a fan of his score for Sherlock Holmes, Interstellar, and most of his animated score whether he composed them entirely or not are usually fairly stellar. I'm just tired of his sound being in almost every major blockbuster these days.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
40 year old cynicism-addicted white men from Wisconsin pretending to be half-drunk VCR repairmen should be your go-to for in-depth analysis of the 21st Century cultural zeitgeist as its happening.

You will get no more in touch with art and artists than with those guys steering your journey towards greater understanding of film. Plus think of all the great gifs and empty catchphrases only 3 other people you kinda talk to on the internet will understand!

It's very cool.
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my favourite thing about rlm is how they rustle your jimmies.
 
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