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In case you haven't heard, Wonder Woman is expected to appear in the upcoming Batman vs Superman movie, and star in her own movie a year or two later:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56573
Lately, DC movies have sucked big sweaty donkey balls. Take the Superman movie as an example. I don't mind when moviemakers take extreme liberties with the source material, but when you mess with the underlying theme you've gone too far. Superman is at its heart an immigrant success story: foreigner comes to America and makes it big. The most recent Superman movie failed (at least in my eyes) because they stripped out the immigrant story that is at the heart of Superman and replaced it with a Jesus metaphor.
I bring this up because if Superman is about immigrants, then Wonder Woman is a female empowerment fantasy. If they manage to screw that up, I'm going to be really pissed off. I like me a good female empowerment fantasy (even bad ones).
Oh, and if they are still deciding which female director I sincerely hope they get Katherine Bigelow. Love her movies, and she does action well.
Anyway, what are your thoughts about the character or the movie?
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56573
Lately, DC movies have sucked big sweaty donkey balls. Take the Superman movie as an example. I don't mind when moviemakers take extreme liberties with the source material, but when you mess with the underlying theme you've gone too far. Superman is at its heart an immigrant success story: foreigner comes to America and makes it big. The most recent Superman movie failed (at least in my eyes) because they stripped out the immigrant story that is at the heart of Superman and replaced it with a Jesus metaphor.
I bring this up because if Superman is about immigrants, then Wonder Woman is a female empowerment fantasy. If they manage to screw that up, I'm going to be really pissed off. I like me a good female empowerment fantasy (even bad ones).
Oh, and if they are still deciding which female director I sincerely hope they get Katherine Bigelow. Love her movies, and she does action well.
Anyway, what are your thoughts about the character or the movie?