All Things Wonder Woman: An Open Discussion - - - - - - - - Part 17

[brandeezy89]

Regarding the China preview, China just started this year allowing films in the West to show footage early. Before you could only show the full film or trailers

 

[SupermanFanboy]

Wonder Woman is selling Great here in Austin, TX! All the Alamos have added about 12 showtimes to each 5 theaters around Austin cause they keep sellin out! One auditorium holds about 187 seats! Sold Out! Also our huge IMAX downtown has sold out both 2 Thursday night Showtimes and Fridays Showtimes! JUST Great To See! GO WW

 

[Joeyjojo72]

Wonder Woman is selling Great here in Austin, TX! All the Alamos have added about 12 showtimes to each 5 theaters around Austin cause they keep sellin out! One auditorium holds about 187 seats! Sold Out! Also our huge IMAX downtown has sold out both 2 Thursday night Showtimes and Fridays Showtimes! JUST Great To See! GO WW

I always wondered: do folks in Austin feel like West Berliners before the fall of communism?

 

[Bagide]

Wonder Woman is selling Great here in Austin, TX! All the Alamos have added about 12 showtimes to each 5 theaters around Austin cause they keep sellin out! One auditorium holds about 187 seats! Sold Out! Also our huge IMAX downtown has sold out both 2 Thursday night Showtimes and Fridays Showtimes! JUST Great To See! GO WW

Hope more theaters are sold out.

 

[Charlatan]

 

[jfurioso]

But hopefully the 4 inch heels wont be necessary someday.

RDJ is giving you the evil eye now.

 

[jfurioso]

It's a movie about a metahuman. They all look "video gamey".

Yeah, I still wonder why they cannot make a movie about people with magical super-powers look like those in the real world.

 

[Joeyjojo72]

RDJ is giving you the evil eye now.

Lol i would imagine so

 

[Bagide]

So BvS reviews are now related to WW the movie? Lol isn't that being biased? Again LOL

 

[Bagide]

RDJ is giving you the evil eye now.

Lol his are custom made.

 

[2kt09]

What?

Well, moot at this point as I'm assuming that was off-topic.
Don't reply in the quote of someone else's.

 

[Claude_Speed]

Well, moot at this point as I'm assuming that was off-topic.
Don't reply in the quote of someone else's.

Oh I see. Thanks. Posts were deleted and probably for the best since we were getting into a silly debate.

Cheers.

 

[misslane38]

Sorry if this has been posted before, but it seems Torrid -- a plus size female clothing company -- will be featuring its own Wonder Woman themed clothing line.

I think it's interesting in light of the thinkThin controversy.

 

[AulaMagna]

Eurosport's running a mock movie trailer / blockbuster-themed ad for their summer sport coverage that features Lindsey Vonn as Wonder Woman just to let you guys know lol

 

[AulaMagna]

Yeah, I still wonder why they cannot make a movie about people with magical super-powers look like those in the real world.

Well according to Elon Musk real life's probably a video game so there's that

 

[jfurioso]

Well, there was also this a way back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca6gxouAFeM

 

[The Guard]

Sorry if this has been posted before, but it seems Torrid -- a plus size female clothing company -- will be featuring its own Wonder Woman themed clothing line.

I think it's interesting in light of the thinkThin controversy.

That's pretty fantastic.

I got here late on the controversy. While I understand that there are societal messages about what women should and shouldn't look like all over the place, I'm fuzzy on how "Think thin" somehow means "you can only be thin to be a decent person." or something along those lines, or how Wonder Woman's involvement equals "demeaning those who are overweight".

They're basically like, protein bars. My wife loves them. Heck, I eat them sometimes. This particular product is designed to give you energy, be part of the package of helping you lose weight and maintaining a healthy weight. And the character "promoting" them is thin. She's in very, very good shape, in fact.

What's the issue here, exactly?

How is essentially celebrating a character who is in shape somehow inherently demeaning to those who are not?

 

[moviefreak]

Said Taghmaoui's character in Wonder Woman as revealed by Taghmaoui himself:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4f2krlc-O/

Spoiler

Black Hawk --

DC Wiki: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Blackhawk

 

[The Guard]

That. Is. Awesome.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Nice!

 

[Bagide]

Noice

 

[Thome216]

Uh oh

That dude she punches somehow roles into the fire.

They should change the name of this to Murder Woman.

To be fare, he could have avoided that fire entirely...

I have no problem with her sliding after moving super fast. She's a super being doing super being things and super beings doing super human things got to be super.

And I didn't notice the super heels until now. Thanks, now all I'm thinking about are dominatrix boots...

 

[The Guard]

Regarding that spoiler...one wonders if that's how they're going to bring in

Spoiler

the invisible jet...with..."their" current technology in a sequel.

 

[Gee]

Said Taghmaoui's character in Wonder Woman as revealed by Taghmaoui himself:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4f2krlc-O/

Spoiler

Black Hawk --

DC Wiki: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Blackhawk

Oh nice. Hopefully we'll get [BLACKOUT]Zinda[/BLACKOUT] in the GCS/BoP movie(s).

 

[misslane38]

That's pretty fantastic.

I got here late on the controversy. While I understand that there are societal messages about what women should and shouldn't look like all over the place, I'm fuzzy on how "Think thin" somehow means "you can only be thin to be a decent person." or something along those lines, or how Wonder Woman's involvement equals "demeaning those who are overweight".

They're basically like, protein bars. My wife loves them. Heck, I eat them sometimes. This particular product is designed to give you energy, be part of the package of helping you lose weight and maintaining a healthy weight. And the character "promoting" them is thin. She's in very, very good shape, in fact.

What's the issue here, exactly?

How is essentially celebrating a character who is in shape somehow inherently demeaning to those who are not?

I've already probably provided more than my two cents about this issue, but I'm happy to add a few more. I just want to be careful not to belabor it.

Basically, the name of the product is thinkThin. To me, that sounds like "Think positive!" It's a product name that essentially places thinness as as a positive mindset and that thinness is what's valuable. Now, the truth is, as you've described it, that the product and its company's philosophy are more about being healthy and having energy; however, the product name obscures that message.

Wonder Woman is about empowering and inspiring women of all kinds, so even the slightest hint that she values thinness can be met with concern. And I think you're right that Wonder Woman being a beautiful and thin woman herself can have that effect too, and I believe that was partly why her appointment as a UN ambassador created controversy. However, I think both reactions -- the thinkThin bashing and the revocation of Wonder Woman's ambassador status -- go too far. Wonder Woman can be thin and beautiful and still be a role model. She is just being herself and loving herself and her goal is to support that for women (and men) of all shapes, colors, and sizes.

That's why I appreciate this partnership with Torrid. It doesn't change the fact that the thinkThin brand name is a bit problematic on a superficial level, even though the product and the company's philosophy are not, but it does balance it out and affirm that DC/WB don't have some sort of sinister pro-thin agenda. They just underestimated how much people would care about the name of a product that they partnered with.