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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
The sooner superhero films die a slow death the better.
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I'm quite sick of them too, but WW is different. This is a character that should have been one of the first to get a movie, perhaps after only Superman and Batman. Yet, it took 77 freaking years, AND the most superhero-dense cinematic environment in the history of the universe.
I agree, we don't need to see X-Men part 15. We don't need to see Spider-Man ver. 3.1 (though Homecoming does look kinda fun!). We don't need five Avengers movies, or trilogies of every D-list hero in Marvel's canon.
But this is different.
You do yourself a disservice by writing WW off before you see it because of your (very understandable) superhero fatigue. It's sitting at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. That only happens for the kind of superhero movies that actually qualify as good movies in some way. Deadpool was a good comedy. Logan was a good horror-drama. The Dark Knight is one of the defining fucking cinematic achievements of our time, obviously (
), and Wonder Woman is a glorious kind of warped fairy tale. The words "Wonder Woman" are never uttered.
It's also timely. The world need a good piece of populist feminist fiction right now. At least, the US does. I'll bet Trump thinks it's "overrated," aka terrifying.