You can’t say that DC makes good movies that people hate just because they’re DC, and then wave away Wonder Woman as an anomaly. People gave Wonder Woman a chance, and it turned out to be pretty good, and so it was successful. It’s really that simple: Make good movies, and they’ll be successful. Yes, Wonder Woman had its flaws, but Gadot was good enough to make up for them.
How good this movie is remains to be seen, and you can’t really tell from the trailer. But I’ll add my voice to the chorus that’s already saying that that red hair looks terrible. Either go with a natural hair color, or go with something so unnatural that it’s clearly unnatural like blue or green, but red-that’s-not-red-hair-red is just uncanny valley.
‘fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me’
I have a hard time with trailers for DC movies - several have been fantastic (as trailers), Suicide Squad is a great example - and then have the movies not live up (at all).
So, yeah - the trailer for this looks interesting - but going to see it will be entirely dependant on what is playing against it that weekend.
‘Trendy’ may not be the right word. DC isn’t making movies that appeal to the current zeitgeist. I don’t think people’s assessments are without bias toward a certain style/tone of movie. That’s why Wonder Woman ‘worked.’ Because it fit.
The only genuinely bad DC movie so far is Suicide Squad. The rest have ranged from pretty good to flawed to meh.
FWIW I’d love it if DC made more movies with Wonder Woman’s feel: mostly earnest, not much irony, not much grimdark. There can be wit and humor (please god), but it doesn’t need to be wink-wink-nudge-nudge, like MCU is.
I am glad that I am not alone. I wrote an entire thread about why I think Justice League is a good movie (the villain kind of suck, yes but nearly every Super Hero movie has a bad or at least boring villain). And while flawed I think BvS was a course correction in the right direction for Superman.
Wonder Woman is awesome. I look forward to the sequel.
I liked the version of Aquaman in JL. Now this trailer makes me excited to see this movie.
I really liked the JL version of the Flash. I am hoping a movie gets announced soon.
JL had the best looking and most “accurate” version of a Batman of any of his live action films. Even the Nolan films. He looked, moved and fought just right.
Superman needs work but they are starting to fix what Man of Steel got wrong.
Suicide Squad was an entertaining movie. I would love to see a Deadshot spin off.
Marvel Movies are good but it is okay to also like DC movies too.
Likewise, it’s okay to admit that a DC movie failed to get an audience on its own merits or failings instead of blaming some other studio or a cabal of fans for it. DC is up against some stiff competition but that’s on them to make it work.
The comic fans I know would love to see a DC movie that pulled its weight. They follow the comics and talk about the television shows and buy collector’s editions of the complete Batman: the Animated Series. But a DC movie comes out and it ranges from “Meh” to “Bleah”. That’s not Marvel’s fault. Out of the other people I know, two thirds of them wouldn’t blink or see anything weird about Batman showing up to help Iron-Man, that’s how little they know or care about DC vs Marvel. But they’re still not excited about a new Superman flick because the previous ones were a drag.
“Because it’s DC, they hate it” is a lame cop-out.
Exactly. I lay the entire thing at the feet of Zach Snyder. His “vision” for the DCU is what has dragged every movie they’ve done into the depths of garbage.
I wasn’t reminded of the SW scene, but I was thinking it would be kind of cool if they did a Jar Jar implant Easter Egg style. (No speaking parts or anything like that. Just have him hidden in the crowd somewhere for the uber geeks to find after they’ve combed over the movie a few times)
I was so disappoint when I heard it was going to be comedy. Green Hornet sucked that way. Of course, I liked the GH radio serials. I was already sort of negative because it was New 52 Billy, which I don’t like nearly as much as the really good kid PreBoot version. I guess it makes it easier to disassociate from the comics, though, and that’s a plus. Won’t pay theater prices for it, though. Might stream later, if I’m quite bored, and try to keep it as a separate thing and not Captain Marvel (I know, I know, I haven’t even accepted the not-so-new name).
I was just really hoping for a good modernization of Captain Marvel/Shazam. One that let him be the good kid he was in the comics (don’t have to be edgy/jerkish to be entertaining), and dropped the cornball motif/slang that all the other comics (that weren’t canceled in the 50s) gradually lost as the genre changed. You know, back when Billy was new, he wasn’t any more extreme, silly or dated in his language than any other character.
I’m in interested in Aquaman. I hate evil siblings, but that’s kind of baked in the source material (though at least at one time in the comics his brother was all keen on welcoming Arthur and making him king and the brothers got set up to be hostile to each other, if I recall correctly - haven’t read a lot of Aquaman as I never liked evil siblings and got fed up with Atlantis getting destroyed/conquered/etc. over and over again - same thing happen with Tamaran it seems like). Don’t know why they did that to her hair, though.
Still, I plan to check it out.
For the record, I really liked Man of Steel, I enjoyed Batman v. Superman (only extended cut - what I heard about the theatrical was not good), and I liked Wonder Woman, too. Justice League was really not good at all.
It looks like Aquaman of Steel down to the “lifting the <insert vehicle here> out of harm’s way” shot. Jason Momoa does a pretty credible Chris Pratt imitation, and I was going to credit the CGI with looking more polished than the first trailer until I got to the scenes of Amber Heard running across rooftops which look like an early 'Aughts Elder Scrolls game.
I’m waiting for an actually good post-Nolan DC movie (Wonder Woman was a mediocre movie propped up by a great starring performance) but I’m dubious that this is it.
Was never a comic book person by any means but watched plenty of the Super Friends as a kid in the 70s. Immediately got excited recognizing Black Manta who I haven’t thought about or seen in about 40 years.
I’d rather had Vulko bad and Orm good/manipulated (I think that was status quo for at least a bit of N52?). But I’ve never liked evil siblings. And frankly, I sort of have issue with an outsider ruling Atlantis (and Arthur was raised as an outsider), especially given how absolute that monarchy often is in comics. It seems a little colonialist. Though at least Mera is actually Atlantean in this version, so that’s good.
I’ll definitely check it out, but I don’t know if I’m going to go see it in theaters. I just don’t know that I can enjoy evil sibling much.