re: Wonder Woman Movie ***SPOILERS*** Thread

quote:

---

Weren't those teraform things all over the world though?

---

Nope. The main ship was over Metropolis. The terraforming platform was over the Indian Ocean.

Seeing as how Wonder Woman was getting around via commercial airlines in BvS, she would've had to have been very close to Metropolis or in the middle of an ocean to get there in time.

Saw it last night, and really enjoyed it. I came away thinking "see DC, that wasn't so hard, was it?"

Going forward in the DC films, I don't see how she's NOT the de facto leader of the JL....

1) her power level, if not exactly matching Superman's, is clearly very close. He has bullet-proof skin, while she doesn't... but you can have multiple machine guns trained on her and not get past the bracers and shield.
No pure flight, but she's got the leaping thing on a par with at least the Bana Hulk, or as the old Superman intro said, "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound".
Superman has heat vision and ultra sharp senses... she has the bracers and ultra sharp senses (was watching bullets casually move by).
Batman, in terms of power- need not apply.

2) She seems to be the only one with a moral compass in this. Her initial conflict was due to naivety on the complexities of mankind, and she reached a suitable conclusion to that by the end of this film (1918). Batman has been Batman for a long time by BvS, and he's cynical and paranoid with psychotic tendencies, regardless of his current POV. He still needs to redeem himself, because it was his actions that led to Superman's 'death'.
Superman is/was overwhelmed by the magnitude of his actions and their consequences, he never embraced any duty to mankind other than "I'm strong enough to, so I guess I should". Luthor and Doomsday never offered him a choice to join that he had to reject (like Ares did with Diana), and for that matter, neither did Zod. They all wanted to kill him.

Diana didn't follow Steve Trevor around blindly, and she was more naive then. She tagged along to get to the war, but her focus remained tight. Trevor was more noble than Bruce, and arguably fighting for a greater cause. I can't see her, after 100 yrs of gained wisdom and experience, just falling in behind Bruce now; she may join in, but not follow.

I can't wait to see this movie

quote:

---

One question I had leaving the movie is why did Diana's mom tell her that once she left the island, she could never come back?

---

She actually said you MAY never come back, I took it as a mother trying to scare her daughter into staying in safety as opposed to she might die fighting Ares.

There have been times in the comics where Diana would lose her immortality by leaving the island, and also times where she couldn't find the way back home.

Finally got around to seeing it. I liked it a lot. The pacing was a little bit off at times, but Gadot was great. I liked Chris Pine more than I thought I would, too. I liked this a good bit more than Guardians 2.

quote:

---

She actually said you MAY never come back

---

After all is said and done, I took it as Diana having a bigger responsibility as the God Killer. Once her destiny is revealed to her, she's no longer just an Amazon and her responsibilities are on a much larger scale than that of defending Paradise Island.

quote:

---

The scene in which Ares creates an illusion and asks her to join him in conquering mankind pretty much exactly mirrored the scene in Man of Steel between Zod and Kal while on the ship, where at the farm where he ends up on a bed of skeletons. It struck me the first time watching Wonder Woman how closely these two scenes paralleled each other.

---

Yeah, I just plain forgot that one.

Random question about this film- why do the German rowboats make it to the shore, while the larger ship sinks?
If you watch that scene, the ship begins listing heavily to starboard, and is almost capsizing the last time it is shown.

I assumed it was already sinking since they started off in row boats...
But I have no clue. The pacing of that fight was weird to me..

quote:

---

I assumed it was already sinking since they started off in row boats...

---

I figured those were landing craft.. they were all armed and ready to find the pilot. If you're abandoning ship, you're not going to be that organized.

quote:

---

I suppose you could say the lagoon or whatever is hazardous and full of sharp reefs to take out larger ships... but they never say that. It's left open to speculation.

---

In the comics the waters of Themyscira are protected by Megalodons (300 ft Great White Sharks) and Zeus's Giant Golden Eagles. That would have been cool as shite to see.