A Quickie Question About Wonder Woman, The Latest Movie

[peristaltor]

Did anyone out there enjoy it? I ask, because I only hear good-ish things about it.

It filled me with incredulous rage, and I suspect most people are lying to themselves about their own inchoate rage just to pass with the rest of the crowd.

Seriously, I shut it down a bit more than half-way through and had to stop myself from stomping the DVD to shatters.

Anyone else? Opinions?

Comments

[neonvincent]

I liked it and think it's the best superhero movie of the year.

Now, what pissed you off about it?

[peristaltor]

It wasn't the most egregious rage-maker, but I hit the kill switch after the angered speech she gave after she killed the dude she thought was the God of War, that gas-huffing older guy. She was shocked—shocked!—that even without the dude she thought to be the God of War, people were killing each other.

This from a person who supposedly spoke about a zillion languages and had historical, technical and other information that made the western civilization she was visiting look like a humble backwater village of simple yokels.

I was shouting to the screen that YES!!!, people kill each other, you dogmatically-crippled idiot, and do so with no help whatsoever from any celestial beings who happened to descend from [whatever stupid place] just to wreak havoc for fun's sake.

(I didn't stick around, but I kinda guessed the masked chemist was the movie's "actual" god of war, since otherwise this Wonder of a woman would be proven wrong, wrong, wrong about the human behavior she had studied extensively in books.)

Furthermore, the fact that she was "puzzled" about reactions to her obviously strange behavior even with all that information she carried was also quite stupid; that plot point was simultaneously beaten into pulp and completely irrational, given her supposedly superior education. It made her look like a pompous ass, to do or wear what she wanted (or was accustomed to doing on her home island), yet be all affronted by the "irrationality" of the customs surrounding her in Europe, again, even though she was well-read enough to know these customs existed.

Just. Poor. Writing. Marvel does so much better than the treacle hacks at DC.

[ironphoenix]

Educated people being naïve is a popular trope in the US, as far as I can tell.

I haven't seen the movie, but if I do, I'll have to be willing to make allowances for this.

[peristaltor]

I'm not sure WW herself was supposed to be naïve, but rather that the writers held assumptions of what would (or should) be rational and applied them to her behavior construct, if only to trot out the archaic traditions of Great War England/Europe and give them a good rhetorical thrashing, albeit in a ham-fisted manner that lacked any semblance of subtlety.

I would be interested in your opinion, of course, once/if you see it.

[l33tminion]

Typical mind fallacy. And you know well that you're not typical at all.

(I haven't seen that movie, so I don't have a specific opinion about that myself.)

[peristaltor]

Atypical mind? Moi?!

(Had to look up TMF. Never heard that phrasing for the phenomenon before.)

I know I'm weird. What I found weirder was the complete dearth of agreement on this one. I'm starting to see it now, months after its release.

[bleaknemesis]

I did watch it and of the DC hero movies it was the better of them but I've become so jaded against all the people with super powers movies that I don't really make an effort to watch them anymore unless they're "free" on Netflix or hulu. By the way it was the british guy, Professor Lupen from Harry Potter, that was WW step-brother Ares, the god of war.