Wonder Woman Thoughts
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iariaI enjoyed it.
+ The entire No Man's Land/village battle sequence was amazing. I think my favourite part of it was actually Diana making that decision to fight. She saw the suffering around her, was asked for help and even though that wasn't her mission she refused to walk past it. She knew she could help so she did. But also just watching her fight was a delight. Her unveiling and slow walk across No Man's Land was one of the best hero moments I can think of. Her fight in the town showcased how badass she is really well. I loved it. I loved her straight up barrelling into the tank before throwing it into a wall. I loved Steve remembering Antiope's shield trick and using it with Diana and her completely demolishing the tower.
+ Diana was wonderful. I love the little moments of wonder/pleasure we get from her - her joyful cry of 'a baby', her happiness at the ice cream and surprised awe at the snow. I enjoyed all the little moments of Diana learning about 'man's world'. It reminded me a lot of Thor in the first Thor movie. Her trying on clothes was fun. Diana vs the revolving door, lol! I love how compassionate she is.
+ Young Diana was adorable. I loved her jumping over the edge of the wall and when her mom catches her smilingly asking "how are you today" as if she hadn't just been caught. I also loved the way Diana says "no sharp edges" when trying to convince her mom to let her train. So cute.
+ I loved Themyscira and the Amazons and everything about that part of the movie. Themyscira was beautiful. I thought the Amazon's look was pretty great. I really loved their completely extra fighting techniques. Which, fair enough, considering they've been stuck on an island with nothing to do for thousands of years. Antiope was amazing, I liked Hippolyta and their relationship was great. I also loved the implied Antiope/Menalippe (I had to look up her name).
+ I really wish we could have spent more time on Themyscira and that the movie had developed the Amazons more as characters. Give us some actual names! Show us some of their personalities, have Diana interacting more with women who aren't her mom and aunt. What we got was great but it could have been better.
+ I liked Steve and Steve/Diana overall. I liked Steve's arc and his choice at the end was really heroic and made sense. But at the same time I felt like his role was a little too big? IDK, I think my issue here isn't so much Steve and Steve/Diana in themselves but that this is the first real female superhero film so it annoys me in that context not in the film itself.
+ I like that Diana is the one who kissed Steve. It made it feel less 'naive woman/experienced man'.
+ Steve's "I love you" goodbye to Diana was a bit too much for me. They've known each other a week.
+ Diana's aghastness at Steve lying to his bosses made me lol.
+ I liked how she couldn't hear what Steve was saying during their goodbye but then was able to recall it later during her battle with Ares and how that helped her.
+ I loved the reveal that Diana was the God Killer. Her being a god herself, okay fine. I'm not so sure about that moment at the end of her battle with Ares where he throws a lot of projectiles at her and they burn up harmlessly before reaching her. That was a little outside of her established set of revealed powers so it bothered me.
+ The movie was too male heavy. For all that we get the lovely sequence on Themyscira after Diana leaves it's mostly men she interacts with and who surround her. Etta (she was great) and Doctor Poison (pleased she was woman) had only small roles and I wanted Diana to interact more with other women more. Why couldn't some of the Amazons have accompanied Diana when she left Themyscira?
+ I wish Diana had made more mention of the lack of women in the war meeting and as soldiers.
+ I love that Maru is a full on Evil Scientist. Her being so enthralled watching her gas work that she almost got caught by it was a great little character moment. I wish she'd been given a bigger role. The fact that she didn't share any scenes with Diana before that final one was a missed opportunity.
+ I loved that little moment when Ludendorff and Maru giggle madly together after gassing the German high command.
+ The movie kind of made nods to how complicated everything is (with Napi mentioning that Steve's people killed his people, Steve calling himself a thief/murderer) and to how everyone in the war is messed up in their own ways (Charlie's PTSD) or has their own dreams (Sameer's wish to be an actor) and that the British side aren't automatically the 'good guys' (the whole "soldiers die it's what they do" line) and yet we still get Diana mowing down random Germans like faceless mooks without any thought on her part that they're people too. They're just black and white bad guys that she doesn't even consider caring about nor any need to learn more about. I think the movie really fell down here.
+ Super meh on the whole Amazon backstory and specifically how the Greek Gods were used. 'Zeus created humans in his image - fair and good, strong and passionate' .... are you kidding me with this nonsense? And then it was Ares's who corrupted humans out of envy and 'poisoned their hearts'? And all the other Gods are basically non-entities that Ares handily defeats? ...They basically just made Zeus the Christian God and Ares Lucifer and I am really annoyed about it. Everything about this back story is terrible.
I'm also not fond of the Amazons being created to 'influence men's hearts with love'. I could have done without the love theme in the movie. Oh, and how does it go from them bringing peace to Hippolyta leading a revolt to free the Amazon's from slavery? There's a piece missing there.
+ The entire No Man's Land/village battle sequence was amazing. I think my favourite part of it was actually Diana making that decision to fight. She saw the suffering around her, was asked for help and even though that wasn't her mission she refused to walk past it. She knew she could help so she did. But also just watching her fight was a delight. Her unveiling and slow walk across No Man's Land was one of the best hero moments I can think of. Her fight in the town showcased how badass she is really well. I loved it. I loved her straight up barrelling into the tank before throwing it into a wall. I loved Steve remembering Antiope's shield trick and using it with Diana and her completely demolishing the tower.
+ Diana was wonderful. I love the little moments of wonder/pleasure we get from her - her joyful cry of 'a baby', her happiness at the ice cream and surprised awe at the snow. I enjoyed all the little moments of Diana learning about 'man's world'. It reminded me a lot of Thor in the first Thor movie. Her trying on clothes was fun. Diana vs the revolving door, lol! I love how compassionate she is.
+ Young Diana was adorable. I loved her jumping over the edge of the wall and when her mom catches her smilingly asking "how are you today" as if she hadn't just been caught. I also loved the way Diana says "no sharp edges" when trying to convince her mom to let her train. So cute.
+ I loved Themyscira and the Amazons and everything about that part of the movie. Themyscira was beautiful. I thought the Amazon's look was pretty great. I really loved their completely extra fighting techniques. Which, fair enough, considering they've been stuck on an island with nothing to do for thousands of years. Antiope was amazing, I liked Hippolyta and their relationship was great. I also loved the implied Antiope/Menalippe (I had to look up her name).
+ I really wish we could have spent more time on Themyscira and that the movie had developed the Amazons more as characters. Give us some actual names! Show us some of their personalities, have Diana interacting more with women who aren't her mom and aunt. What we got was great but it could have been better.
+ I liked Steve and Steve/Diana overall. I liked Steve's arc and his choice at the end was really heroic and made sense. But at the same time I felt like his role was a little too big? IDK, I think my issue here isn't so much Steve and Steve/Diana in themselves but that this is the first real female superhero film so it annoys me in that context not in the film itself.
+ I like that Diana is the one who kissed Steve. It made it feel less 'naive woman/experienced man'.
+ Steve's "I love you" goodbye to Diana was a bit too much for me. They've known each other a week.
+ Diana's aghastness at Steve lying to his bosses made me lol.
+ I liked how she couldn't hear what Steve was saying during their goodbye but then was able to recall it later during her battle with Ares and how that helped her.
+ I loved the reveal that Diana was the God Killer. Her being a god herself, okay fine. I'm not so sure about that moment at the end of her battle with Ares where he throws a lot of projectiles at her and they burn up harmlessly before reaching her. That was a little outside of her established set of revealed powers so it bothered me.
+ The movie was too male heavy. For all that we get the lovely sequence on Themyscira after Diana leaves it's mostly men she interacts with and who surround her. Etta (she was great) and Doctor Poison (pleased she was woman) had only small roles and I wanted Diana to interact more with other women more. Why couldn't some of the Amazons have accompanied Diana when she left Themyscira?
+ I wish Diana had made more mention of the lack of women in the war meeting and as soldiers.
+ I love that Maru is a full on Evil Scientist. Her being so enthralled watching her gas work that she almost got caught by it was a great little character moment. I wish she'd been given a bigger role. The fact that she didn't share any scenes with Diana before that final one was a missed opportunity.
+ I loved that little moment when Ludendorff and Maru giggle madly together after gassing the German high command.
+ The movie kind of made nods to how complicated everything is (with Napi mentioning that Steve's people killed his people, Steve calling himself a thief/murderer) and to how everyone in the war is messed up in their own ways (Charlie's PTSD) or has their own dreams (Sameer's wish to be an actor) and that the British side aren't automatically the 'good guys' (the whole "soldiers die it's what they do" line) and yet we still get Diana mowing down random Germans like faceless mooks without any thought on her part that they're people too. They're just black and white bad guys that she doesn't even consider caring about nor any need to learn more about. I think the movie really fell down here.
+ Super meh on the whole Amazon backstory and specifically how the Greek Gods were used. 'Zeus created humans in his image - fair and good, strong and passionate' .... are you kidding me with this nonsense? And then it was Ares's who corrupted humans out of envy and 'poisoned their hearts'? And all the other Gods are basically non-entities that Ares handily defeats? ...They basically just made Zeus the Christian God and Ares Lucifer and I am really annoyed about it. Everything about this back story is terrible.
I'm also not fond of the Amazons being created to 'influence men's hearts with love'. I could have done without the love theme in the movie. Oh, and how does it go from them bringing peace to Hippolyta leading a revolt to free the Amazon's from slavery? There's a piece missing there.
