Samtemdo8 said:
Seen the movie, it was good......but it was WAY too safe like it feels like anyother Superhero movie. And I think it could have been alot better if it was in WW2.
At the very least this movie make me love Gal Gadot Wonder Woman.
I think safe is what DC needed right now. The last three films have all been relatively risky, and it obviously backfired on them based on the critical reception.
WW2 is debatable. I mean, yeah, Captain America basically got there first, but it's more than that. WWI had a sense of both moral ambiguity - neither side was really morally justified - and just brutal pointlessness; the war ended with nothing that could rationally be called a victory. The film deliberately exploited that to make the point that war is kind of pointless and destructive. That point would've been blunted if it was set during WW2, because we were fighting the fucking
Nazis, like...the
definition of "bad guy." They were racist shitheads in all-black uniforms with skulls on their fucking helmets, for Christ's sake. It's hard to justify
not fighting guys like that! How the hell would Wonder Woman have been able to say "I SEE NOW THAT VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER" in that context?
And anyway, it's still possible that a later Wonder Woman sequel will take place in the mid-century rather than the modern day. Wait, I just realised: if they do that, people will refer to the Wonder Woman sequel as WW2. That's hilarious, and must happen.