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I feel like a **** heel just making this thread but... I like the film immensely.
Seeing the piling on of Gal for the past few years it is nice to see the tide turning so dramatically. Still as much as I appreciated the way Jenkins and Co.
realized the dream of making a live action Wonder Woman and doing it as well as it was done... Is the hype surrounding this film actually warranted? Sure, people that love the film even admit to reservations about certain aspects, the villains and finale seem to be the consensus elements that people were not on board with 100%
Still though I have a bit of whiplash going on with the praise the film has gotten given the vehemence of opinion and the feelings of so many online concerning the super hero films of WB. Much like my view on those opinions being over dramatic, hyperbolic and over the top... I am feeling the reaction to this film is the opposite side of the coin. I am of the mind that, no, the previous films by WB with DC characters was not "hot garbage" with no redeeming qualities (and if you think that's a straw man... you haven't been paying attention to the discussions on the Hype since 2013. Sorry but don't piss in my ear and tell me it's rain that such sentiments have not been seen a plenty posted in almost every thread, even the ones with no relation to the world of CBMs), and yet I cannot, for as much as I enjoyed the film call it some transcendent piece of film making or even some game changing (though it will be so for Female led tent poles I think) and top of it's class all time great super hero movie. It's very solid, both in entertainment and in realizing a favorite character of mine in live action. But there's a confluence of things online and off that I think is getting the film and all aspects a strange over praising.
I know this sounds like a purely contrarian rant. If you want to think so, fine,
but those that know me on the Hype know I have simply an allergic reaction to "hyperbole" in our conversations about CBMs. Thus my positions on the DCEU not being hot garbage from top to bottom as well as pointing out that lots of product from Marvel Studios is also not unquestionably always the best and most artfully done.
I hope no one misinterprets this as a slam against the film. Just as my criticisms against Marvel product that I find wanting isn't actually calling anything (outside of Agents of Shield) trash, neither is saying that WONDER WOMAN is getting over hyped online saying it's terrible or similar.
Thoughts? Anyone else agree? Disagree? Have at it, but please, let's be civil,
as well as understanding that the intent is for this not so much to be a skepticism thread or a place where the Hypesters that must trash DCEU films to live come to congregate but a place to talk about how the reaction to the film may now be over the top, and such reactions won't stand the test of time once the sugar high of seeing Wonder Woman on screen in her own film wears off.
Seeing the piling on of Gal for the past few years it is nice to see the tide turning so dramatically. Still as much as I appreciated the way Jenkins and Co.
realized the dream of making a live action Wonder Woman and doing it as well as it was done... Is the hype surrounding this film actually warranted? Sure, people that love the film even admit to reservations about certain aspects, the villains and finale seem to be the consensus elements that people were not on board with 100%
Still though I have a bit of whiplash going on with the praise the film has gotten given the vehemence of opinion and the feelings of so many online concerning the super hero films of WB. Much like my view on those opinions being over dramatic, hyperbolic and over the top... I am feeling the reaction to this film is the opposite side of the coin. I am of the mind that, no, the previous films by WB with DC characters was not "hot garbage" with no redeeming qualities (and if you think that's a straw man... you haven't been paying attention to the discussions on the Hype since 2013. Sorry but don't piss in my ear and tell me it's rain that such sentiments have not been seen a plenty posted in almost every thread, even the ones with no relation to the world of CBMs), and yet I cannot, for as much as I enjoyed the film call it some transcendent piece of film making or even some game changing (though it will be so for Female led tent poles I think) and top of it's class all time great super hero movie. It's very solid, both in entertainment and in realizing a favorite character of mine in live action. But there's a confluence of things online and off that I think is getting the film and all aspects a strange over praising.
I know this sounds like a purely contrarian rant. If you want to think so, fine,
but those that know me on the Hype know I have simply an allergic reaction to "hyperbole" in our conversations about CBMs. Thus my positions on the DCEU not being hot garbage from top to bottom as well as pointing out that lots of product from Marvel Studios is also not unquestionably always the best and most artfully done.
I hope no one misinterprets this as a slam against the film. Just as my criticisms against Marvel product that I find wanting isn't actually calling anything (outside of Agents of Shield) trash, neither is saying that WONDER WOMAN is getting over hyped online saying it's terrible or similar.
Thoughts? Anyone else agree? Disagree? Have at it, but please, let's be civil,
as well as understanding that the intent is for this not so much to be a skepticism thread or a place where the Hypesters that must trash DCEU films to live come to congregate but a place to talk about how the reaction to the film may now be over the top, and such reactions won't stand the test of time once the sugar high of seeing Wonder Woman on screen in her own film wears off.