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Wonder Woman
Thursday, May 25, 2017 8:23 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Thursday, June 1, 2017 2:35 AM
SHINYGOODGUY
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: The London release was apparently cancelled due to the Manchester bombing. North America will need to take up the slack. Next Friday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Thursday, June 1, 2017 6:51 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: The London release was apparently cancelled due to the Manchester bombing. North America will need to take up the slack. Next Friday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 All indications are that this will be a record setter. On Fandango/Flixster it posted a 94% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I would say that's pretty good. I was impressed with Gadot's charisma in the awful Batman vs Superman fiasco. I already have my ticket for Friday, and I'm like a little kid at Christmas. I will stop here and wait patiently until June 2. Then I will let you guys know how good this film is. SGG
Friday, June 2, 2017 5:40 PM
ZEEK
Friday, June 2, 2017 11:54 PM
Quote:Jenkins made her feature directing debut with 2003's Monster, which won star Charlize Theron an Oscar for Best Actress. Since then, however, Jenkins hasn't made another feature film, turning instead to television, where she's directed episodes of Arrested Development, Entourage, and the acclaimed pilot episode of The Killing. (Buzzfeed)
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: The London release was apparently cancelled due to the Manchester bombing. North America will need to take up the slack. Next Friday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 All indications are that this will be a record setter. On Fandango/Flixster it posted a 94% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I would say that's pretty good. I was impressed with Gadot's charisma in the awful Batman vs Superman fiasco. I already have my ticket for Friday, and I'm like a little kid at Christmas. I will stop here and wait patiently until June 2. Then I will let you guys know how good this film is. SGG Why not tonight? My smaller local cinema has at least one showing starting every hour from 7 to 11. If I didn't need to go to work at 6am, I'd be there.
Saturday, June 3, 2017 5:01 PM
Sunday, June 4, 2017 5:33 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Monday, June 5, 2017 4:06 AM
Quote: posted by AURaptor: Saw it today, generally liked it, but I'm glad I didn't have my hopes set too high. Parts were cleverly written, other parts were.. not so much. Still, I'd have given it an A rating, over the first 3/4 of the film. The ending though... ugh. Too much CGI ( a trademark for DC films ) Why can't they come up w/ a satisfying , well set up finish to their movies ? It's why Marvel has been kicking their ass to date, and will likely do so until they change how they do things. Geography does seem to be a sore spot. Leave 'somewhere 'in the Mediterranean sea , ( the Aegean Sea, at best ), in a small sail boat, and wake up the next morning , riding up the Thames ? Hello, London! I hope the Amazon gals can move their island, because I'm thinking that the Med sea, in the 21st century, it won't be so easy to conceal an entire island from Google Maps. Just sayin'. * Why do we have to wait until well over 1/2 through the movie to hear WW's theme music kick in? As she starts to finally kick ass , ... and why wasn't it set up earlier in the movie? Stuff like that, I dunno, just seems like it sort a just appears, out of no where, and now , when ever you see her in a trialer, that theme music cranks up... Tired now. Nite.
Monday, June 5, 2017 6:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Saw it today, generally liked it, but I'm glad I didn't have my hopes set too high. Parts were cleverly written, other parts were.. not so much. Still, I'd have given it an A rating, over the first 3/4 of the film. The ending though... ugh. Too much CGI ( a trademark for DC films ) Why can't they come up w/ a satisfying , well set up finish to their movies ? It's why Marvel has been kicking their ass to date, and will likely do so until they change how they do things.
Quote: Geography does seem to be a sore spot. Leave 'somewhere 'in the Mediterranean sea, (the Aegean Sea, at best), in a small sail boat, and wake up the next morning, riding up the Thames? Hello, London!
Quote: I hope the Amazon gals can move their island, because I'm thinking that the Med sea, in the 21st century, it won't be so easy to conceal an entire island from Google Maps. Just sayin'.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:19 AM
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 2:43 PM
6STRINGJOKER
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: There seemed to be a bunch of feminazi dogma forced into the script - perhpas due to the female-heavy credit list (director, producers, etc).
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 6:38 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6stringJoker: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: There seemed to be a bunch of feminazi dogma forced into the script - perhpas due to the female-heavy credit list (director, producers, etc). Have you ever read about the origins of Wonder Woman? William Moulton Marston was a pretty brilliant guy with big time submissive tenancies when it came to his sexual tastes.
Quote: I don't know what DC's doing wrong... especially with Batman. Most of their other characters are just not as interesting as Marvel's characters, but how do you constantly screw up Batman?
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: Select to view spoiler:The reason Ares is not a demigod is because he's the child of Zeus and Hera. Both gods. Diana is a child of Zeus and Hypolita (sp?). One god one amazon. So, she's not full god. Though I will say if the movie is to be taken seriously then she's apparently invulnerable now. They said "it takes a god to kill a god" and if she was able to kill a god then she must be a god herself and supposedly the last one. So, unless she has offspring who are also gods then nothing should be able to kill her. It's lines like that which really drag a movie down IMO. It seems like it was flippantly thrown in to sound cool without taking into account what it actually means.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 7:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Start with Baffleck. Mission accomplished.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6stringJoker: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Start with Baffleck. Mission accomplished. I think it started with Joel Schumacker and Val Kilmer/George Clooney. I'm pretty sure if they let him do a 3rd Batman movie it was going to star Nathan Lane as the caped Crusader. My brother and I joked about that one night and came up with a whole plot for it. Nathan Lane as Batman and Robin Williams as Robin. It was going to be called The BatCage.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:39 PM
Quote: There seemed to be a bunch of feminazi dogma forced into the script - perhpas due to the female-heavy credit list (director, producers, etc).
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 12:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: You misspelled in your post. It's spelled ButtCage.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 4:41 AM
Quote:I want to reiterate that I don't think it was a bad movie, but to act like it was a masterpiece is silly to me.
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: When I says "since Snyder took over" I don't mean to imply he wrote and directed Wonder Woman. I just mean DC movies since the Nolan Batman movies. Because if we include those then even the crummy Bane movie is better than Wonder Woman. Select to view spoiler:The reason Ares is not a demigod is because he's the child of Zeus and Hera. Both gods. Diana is a child of Zeus and Hypolita (sp?). One god one amazon. So, she's not full god. Though I will say if the movie is to be taken seriously then she's apparently invulnerable now. They said "it takes a god to kill a god" and if she was able to kill a god then she must be a god herself and supposedly the last one. So, unless she has offspring who are also gods then nothing should be able to kill her. It's lines like that which really drag a movie down IMO. It seems like it was flippantly thrown in to sound cool without taking into account what it actually means. I want to reiterate that I don't think it was a bad movie, but to act like it was a masterpiece is silly to me. Even in the trailers we see the scene where she apparently can't understand that holding her shield flat will prevent her from passing through a narrow doorway. I get that she's a fish out of water, but why does that make her too stupid to understand that solid matter rarely passes through other solid matter? That's just shoddy writing because she's obviously not a stupid character in the rest of the film. It really seemed like the movie needed a script doctor to polish it. As is it's a bit dull.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 10:52 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Select to view spoiler:Ares was the child of Zeus and Hera. Diana was the creation of Zeus, the King of the Gods, IIRC. That would imply she was more powerful than Ares. Not sure of the source you are using. The film clearly stated that Hippolyta was not Diana's mother. Diana was a gift from Zeus to the Amazon women (residing nowhere near the Amazon.) Diana was the Secret Weapon which Zeus created, to be safekept by Queen Hippolyta and the Amazon women, IIR the film's story correctly.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11:01 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 6:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Select to view spoiler:Ares was the child of Zeus and Hera. Diana was the creation of Zeus, the King of the Gods, IIRC. That would imply she was more powerful than Ares. Not sure of the source you are using. The film clearly stated that Hippolyta was not Diana's mother. Diana was a gift from Zeus to the Amazon women (residing nowhere near the Amazon.) Diana was the Secret Weapon which Zeus created, to be safekept by Queen Hippolyta and the Amazon women, IIR the film's story correctly.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 6:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Wonder Woman’s dueling origin stories are explained at: www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/7/15740202/wonder-woman-origin-story-amazons-marston-explained In 2011, DC Comics instituted a relaunch of 52 of its titles called the “The New 52,” which essentially undid those titles’ previous storylines and “reset” them at a new starting point; it was characterized at the time as a way to make the comics more accessible to new readers. In writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang’s New 52 run, Wonder Woman’s origin is changed. The movie gives BOTH origin stories, the old and the new. The movie leaves the final interpretation of Diana’s origin to its audience, and in doing so reflects a debate over Diana’s origin that’s been going on in Wonder Woman comic books over the past several years.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 10:03 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote:Originally posted by second: Wonder Woman’s dueling origin stories are explained at: www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/7/15740202/wonder-woman-origin-story-amazons-marston-explained In 2011, DC Comics instituted a relaunch of 52 of its titles called the “The New 52,” which essentially undid those titles’ previous storylines and “reset” them at a new starting point; it was characterized at the time as a way to make the comics more accessible to new readers. In writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang’s New 52 run, Wonder Woman’s origin is changed. The movie gives BOTH origin stories, the old and the new. The movie leaves the final interpretation of Diana’s origin to its audience, and in doing so reflects a debate over Diana’s origin that’s been going on in Wonder Woman comic books over the past several years. What are the 2 different ones?
Thursday, June 8, 2017 5:16 AM
Thursday, June 8, 2017 5:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote:Originally posted by second: Wonder Woman’s dueling origin stories are explained at: www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/7/15740202/wonder-woman-origin-story-amazons-marston-explained In 2011, DC Comics instituted a relaunch of 52 of its titles called the “The New 52,” which essentially undid those titles’ previous storylines and “reset” them at a new starting point; it was characterized at the time as a way to make the comics more accessible to new readers. In writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang’s New 52 run, Wonder Woman’s origin is changed. The movie gives BOTH origin stories, the old and the new. The movie leaves the final interpretation of Diana’s origin to its audience, and in doing so reflects a debate over Diana’s origin that’s been going on in Wonder Woman comic books over the past several years. What are the 2 different ones? Diana believed what her mother had told her — that Select to view spoiler: she was made out of clay and Zeus had given her life by magic. It is immaculate conception squared with no biological mother or father. That is the old origin story from before 2011. The new origin story after 2011 is that Select to view spoiler:Zeus had sex with her mother, Hippolyta, and created a child. And if that’s the case, then it’s not clear what else the Amazons lied about to Diana in the movie. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: I imagine that in the film they went with the current story so as to make it more family friendly, and thereby get more butts into the movie theater. I saw a family with two young girls enter the theater minutes before it's start. At a certain point in the movie, showing a PG-13 moment, the girls squealed in reaction. I wasn't sure what that meant, but my first thought was embarrassment. You really didn't see anything but it was somewhat suggestive. I wondered if the male with them explained about the scene, but I was too busy watching the movie to notice. SGG
Thursday, June 8, 2017 7:18 PM
Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Enjoyable reading - thanks everybody. Anyhow, does this mean that her clay was formed around 1885-1899? If Ares fighting Zeus was represented to humans as a great war, which war during that time period do we think was Ares' doing? Or does nobody care?
Saturday, June 10, 2017 2:39 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Enjoyable reading - thanks everybody. Anyhow, does this mean that her clay was formed around 1885-1899? If Ares fighting Zeus was represented to humans as a great war, which war during that time period do we think was Ares' doing? Or does nobody care?Wonder Woman was introduced in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). Really her first war was WWII. For some Hollywood reason, the suits bumped the movie story backwards in time to WWI. Maybe they thought the earlier war was more picturesque? Or maybe it is just arbitrary and capricious meddling? In another part of the movie, some movie executive's whim was to cut an important scene. The director insisted the scene not be cut for very good reasons: www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/8/15742716/wonder-woman-script-second-act Some of these Hollywood executives, believing they are as creative as writers and directors, will make bad changes to good stories. It is the hazard of “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” Remember Firefly and the rush to write a replacement for first episode because FOX didn't want to start where the story should have started? The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Saturday, June 10, 2017 3:36 AM
Saturday, June 10, 2017 10:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: * Why do we have to wait until well over 1/2 through the movie to hear WW's theme music kick in? As she starts to finally kick ass , ... and why wasn't it set up earlier in the movie? Stuff like that, I dunno, just seems like it sort a just appears, out of no where, and now , when ever you see her in a trialer, that theme music cranks up... Tired now. Nite.
Monday, June 12, 2017 3:38 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: * Why do we have to wait until well over 1/2 through the movie to hear WW's theme music kick in? As she starts to finally kick ass , ... and why wasn't it set up earlier in the movie? Stuff like that, I dunno, just seems like it sort a just appears, out of no where, and now , when ever you see her in a trialer, that theme music cranks up... Tired now. Nite. Man, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees things a certain way, or ask odd ball questions, and then this happens ! It makes perfect sense ! Her theme music is even more awesome than I knew ! Man, I really dig learning about stuff like this !!
Monday, June 12, 2017 6:24 AM
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 5:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Oooops...was my post too spoilery ?
Monday, July 24, 2017 6:10 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Wonder Woman’s dueling origin stories are explained at: www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/7/15740202/wonder-woman-origin-story-amazons-marston-explained In 2011, DC Comics instituted a relaunch of 52 of its titles called the “The New 52,” which essentially undid those titles’ previous storylines and “reset” them at a new starting point; it was characterized at the time as a way to make the comics more accessible to new readers. In writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang’s New 52 run, Wonder Woman’s origin is changed. The movie gives BOTH origin stories, the old and the new. The movie leaves the final interpretation of Diana’s origin to its audience, and in doing so reflects a debate over Diana’s origin that’s been going on in Wonder Woman comic books over the past several years. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Sunday, August 6, 2017 7:37 PM
Quote:...exceeded all expectations this weekend, delivering an impressive $100 million opening, the largest opening for a female-directed feature, vastly out-performing the previous record holder Fifty Shades of Grey, which debuted with $85.1 million back in 2015.
Sunday, August 6, 2017 8:18 PM
Monday, August 7, 2017 6:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: The London release was apparently cancelled due to the Manchester bombing. North America will need to take up the slack. Next Friday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I chose to re-watch WW. Now, yes I could have picked Dunkirk, but I was not in the mood. I immediately picked WW, and I was quite surprised to see, at this time of the year (it was released June 2) that it still has "legs" some 2 months later. As of August 6 the worldwide take for this movie has been rather strong $793 Million; and it's about even both domestically and the foreign box office. $399M domestic and $393M foreign markets and counting. According to Box Office Mojo, where I got these numbers, the film cost $149M to make (I'm not sure if that includes advertising). My local theater, a multiplex, was near capacity (about 90% full); there few empty seats and the crowd was enthusiastic as the movie started. While I was waiting on line to enter the theater several people commented that it may be sold out. This on a Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. And there were all kinds of people there; couples, family with kids (some I thought were too young for the war theme) white, black, Asian, etc. It ran across the board, all kinds of people. And everyone seemed to enjoy themselves throughout the movie. WW set a record for a female directed feature:Quote:...exceeded all expectations this weekend, delivering an impressive $100 million opening, the largest opening for a female-directed feature, vastly out-performing the previous record holder Fifty Shades of Grey, which debuted with $85.1 million back in 2015.I was pleasantly surprised to see that, not so much about making money, but that it has exceeded my initial thought as too the success of both the movie and it's star Gal Gadot. Her performance in Batman v. Superman got me excited and now it is more than what I thought at the time. It's more than just a hit movie, it is officially a phenomenon. Just thought I'd share. SGG
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 6:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: That's a solid showing for a 2 month movie on a Saturday night. Anecdotal though it may be. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts. " AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 1:30 AM
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