mecegirl said:
Zhukov said:
Wonder Woman: Ummm... what the fuck? That looked good. What witchcraft is this? What strange world have I stumbled into? There was colour. The action looked really cool. The gender stuff was lighthearted and fun rather than ham-fisted. Somehow having Godot striding around WWI blocking mortar shells with a shield looks totally baller instead of ridiculous.
The thing is if you get that impression that means that they are doing Wonder Woman right. She and Superman aren't like Batman. There has to be light and hope for them to work. For a very long time the prevailing wisdom has been that Wonder Woman would be too hard to translate into film.
Oh, I'm not surprised at being impressed at a
Wonder Woman trailer. I'm surprised at being impressed at a DC movie trailer.
(Although I think
Suicide Squad is also looking vaguely promising.)
Kibeth41 said:
Zhukov said:
Justice League: Ahhhahahahaahhahahaaaa. They are trying so hard with Aquaman. And it's so bad. Everything else looks very... grey. Like, literally every frame of the trailer is grey. Well, bluish grey. At least someone in charge seems to have been reminded that humour and levity exist.
Why is it bad though? This is one thing I never got about the Khal Drogo flak.
Like, would you be calling it bad if that exact character design was tied to any other character? For example. If Jason Mamoa was being put into the DCEU with that look, but he wasn't Aquaman, would you still think it was bad? Or is it simply the idea of Aquaman not being the joke character he initially was?
I'm not attacking your opinion. Just wondering why you think Aquaman's design is bad.
Like I said, it just looks like they're trying too damn hard.
"Okay people, we need to people to take Aquaman super seriously! Any ideas?"
"Make him angry!"
"Baaadaaass tattoos!"
"HAVE HIM CHUG DAT BEER YO!"
I mean, someone else posted this earlier:
I know nothing at all about that guy and I already like him three times as much.
I don't feel strongly one way or the other about Jason Mamoa. I thought he was okay as Khal Drogo.
Dragonlayer said:
... and I hope it turns out good, but for that it should be about Wonder Woman's first exposure to humanity in a time of industrialized self-slaughter, not her flying to Berlin to give Wilhelm II a thump.
I'm hoping for something like this too.
In BvS she says something along the lines of "A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind and a century of horrors." I don't know how consistent DC are going to be about this, but that's clearly a reference to the 20th century and if there was ever a war to make someone decide that mankind wasn't worth saving then WWI would be it, at least as it exists in popular memory.
Personally I actually really like the idea of a superhero who once saw too much shit and just went, "Nope, nope, FUCKING NOPE", and then of course gets dragged back into The Good Fight a century later. It could give her character a distinctive perspective and outlook in the team-up movies.
That said, as much as I love the idea, having the hero go, "To hell with you boys and your toys, go kill each other, I'm going back to my island", would be a very unconventional way to end a superhero movie.