Wonder Woman is a Masterpiece!

[Standing Wolf]

Speaking of "horrendous"...



Justice League of America, the 1997 t.v. pilot.



Donald Ogden Stiers as The Martian Manhunter.

[Common]

Speaking of "horrendous"...



Justice League of America, the 1997 t.v. pilot.



Donald Ogden Stiers as The Martian Manhunter.

Good Job you hit a milestone and broke a record, you hit 23% activity. I take pride being the catalyst

[Chris]

Good Job you hit a milestone and broke a record, you hit 23% activity. I take pride being the catalyst

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[Standing Wolf]

Saw Wonder Woman this morning - absolutely fantastic! Aside from having a tough time picturing David Thewlis as Ares, God of War - particularly after watching him play a rather personally disgusting individual in Fargo this season - I enjoyed just about every bit of it. Thought I'd caught a couple of anachronisms - the waffle cone and the ERB hardcovers - but it turns out both were very much around (and popular) in '18. I wish filmmakers wouldn't feel obliged to always make the big final fight scene happen at night, but that's a minor quibble. It was really, really great!

Saw a trailer for Thor: Ragnorak, which looks to be visually spectacular. I enjoyed the first Thor, but the second one put me to sleep; probably my least favorite of all the Marvel movies. If this one does justice to the character and delivers even a halfway decent story, it could be another huge word of mouth film, like GOTG was.

Speaking of which...

[Hal Jordan]

Wonder Woman update:

http://comicbook.com/movies/2017/07/...erhero-origin/

[IMPress Polly]

I think one of the key reasons why Wonder Woman has become the second-highest grossing superhero origin movie of all time with the possibility of passing the first Spider-Man movie to become the very highest-grossing has to do with the breadth of its demographic appeal compared to other films in the genre. Where the superhero film genre overall averages a 62% male audience, this is the first one that has achieved approximate audience gender parity. As much should lay to rest Hollywood's longstanding fear that appealing to women turns men off. Instead of losing male viewers relative to superhero origin story standards, Wonder Woman has retained them and added more female viewers than usual, drawing an expanded audience into DC's film universe. Let that be a lesson for makers of superhero and other action movies going forward!

[Captain Obvious]

Superhero movies are Hollywoods new mass produced swill for the herd. That and kids movies which they still shovel out in heaps.

Easy to make, don't need much plot, box office generally exceeds budget.

meh... no thanks

[Standing Wolf]

Superhero movies are Hollywoods new mass produced swill for the herd. That and kids movies which they still shovel out in heaps.

Easy to make, don't need much plot, box office generally exceeds budget.

meh... no thanks

Yeah, you're right, C.O. Stories about super-powered heroes defeating monsters and villains have only been around - so far as we know - for about four thousand years. It's probably just a fad.

[Cletus]

I think one of the key reasons why Wonder Woman has become the second-highest grossing superhero origin movie of all time with the possibility of passing the first Spider-Man movie to become the very highest-grossing has to do with the breadth of its demographic appeal compared to other films in the genre. Where the superhero film genre overall averages a 62% male audience, this is the first one that has achieved approximate audience gender parity. As much should lay to rest Hollywood's longstanding fear that appealing to women turns men off. Instead of losing male viewers relative to superhero origin story standards, Wonder Woman has retained them and added more female viewers than usual, drawing an expanded audience into DC's film universe. Let that be a lesson for makers of superhero and other action movies going forward!

It's the costume.

[Captain Obvious]

Yeah, you're right, C.O. Stories about super-powered heroes defeating monsters and villains have only been around - so far as we know - for about four thousand years. It's probably just a fad.

Not sure what your point was, maybe you misunderstood my reply.

I just don't find repetetive mass produced story lines entertaining. Some demographic segments do I suppose.