With Wonder Woman being the exception (and even then, Wonder Woman didn't escape some of the wider scale problems DC are having), DC just haven't been coming across as a consistently solid franchise.
Best Picture Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri There was a lot of crying that Mudbound, The Florida Project, I, Tonya and the much - touted Wonder Woman didn't make the cut.
Both are true but Wonder Woman didn't just meet that bar, it pole vaulted over it while doing a 360 spin and throwing a spear.
But I'll hand the relay baton over to Mark with this conversational prompt: Was there a movie this year that surprised you by blowing you away, the way Patty Jenkins»
Wonder Woman did to me back in March?
It's been over six years since War Horse left the world hungering for additional war - horsing content, and that one scene in Wonder Woman didn't cut it.
This often happens with sleeper hits indicating that word of mouth is keeping them buzzing but it's much much rarer with films that open as big as
Wonder Woman did.
Much like
Wonder Woman did last year, Black Panther is generating quite a bit of buzz on various social media platforms.
Wonder Woman doesn't fare much better.
Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman don't compare to Black Panther even if they have a longer comic book duration.
If Wonder Woman doesn't deliver a stellar moviegoing experience where I'm not cringing from any leftover Snyderverse «dark and tough» nonsense, it'll be the last DCEU film I pay money for...
Unlike Wonder Woman I don't worry about Boseman's acting chops because he's already proven he's got those in spades, but that aside, the two characters have a lot in common.
The facts are what is actually in the book — Superman punches a dude,
Wonder Woman does something boring, Spider - Man cries like a baby.
Not exact matches
After reading this study, I'm
wondering if perhaps
women entrepreneurs face very different social environments than the men
do, even outside of tech enclaves like Silicon Valley.
And with all of her impressive accomplishments, everyone wants to know everything about her, including not only how she got into «
Wonder Woman» shape, but what she
does to stay in shape, period.
The preparation for her role as «
Wonder Woman» got her into boxing and mixed martial arts; she was working out six hours per day
doing fighting choreography, horseback riding, cardio interval training, and strength training.
From what we can infer based on an interview Gadot
did with The Sun, she hopes to maintain her current weight and physique post - «
Wonder Woman» and «Justice League.»
Wonder Woman is
doing more than saving the world — she's rescuing DC Entertainment from itself.
Don't try to be
Wonder Woman or Superman.
«We
wondered if
women may think about things that men don't... You want to be an amazing employee.
Shockingly, Jenkins
did not direct another feature in the 14 years between Monster and
Wonder Woman — a gap that speaks volumes about the barriers faced by female directors in Hollywood.
«And it's funny and interesting that there's anything new about
doing Wonder Woman 75 years later.
And if it doesn't bother most
women that
Wonder Woman is beautiful, that should tell people like Cameron something.
Black Panther,
Wonder Woman, and Fenty Beauty didn't earn the respect and loyalty of their customers just because they showed up.
Wonder Woman can
do just about anything, from fly an invisible jet to deflecting bullets with her wristbands, but she can no longer be an Ambassador for the United Nations.
«All of the self - congratulatory back - patting Hollywood's been
doing over
Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
This is important, because unless we can get past the shock and
wonder of a
women - owned enterprise, we can't start thinking bigger, which we desperately need to
do.
Kind of makes you
wonder why he didn't believe the
women accusing him then.
When
women and men begin to
wonder, When He wrote Eros into our embodied selves, what
did God intend?
But what I've always
wondered is, if there is an ultimate truth, why doesn't God stick it smack in our faces, so we can't make these mistakes of whether
women can preach and teach men, whether blacks can marry whites, whether slavery is OK, and whether we can worship with instruments or not?
When she finally
did, Jenkins turned
Wonder Woman into an $ 821 million box office smash.
I
wonder is there a feeling of a need to speak up among
women to
do so resulting in men feeling under pressure to be afraid to appear to be anything other than «nice», in the light of how
woman have sometimes been mistreated by men?
By the way, just
wondering, after menopause,
do you think
women have any purpose?
From Katherine: I often
wonder if I actually believe in egalitarianism or if I embrace it because it is beneficial to me as a
woman, How
do you approach this dilemma?
Gender equality today would be a non-issue, as simply presenting the valued opinion of a
woman would have
done wonders for setting the healthy example.
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should
do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you
do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and
women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the
woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No
wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
Thanks to her superpowers,
Wonder Woman kicks a lot of male butt — it's a war, after all — but it's clear from the beginning that she's a goddess, not a girls - can -
do - anything - boys - can -
do «role model» (no spoilers here — the film drops hints early on that Diana is of divine parentage).
As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the love of God.But I to find the choice of religion somewhat suspiscious.As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one
wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to
do with her choice.Alot of
women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion!!
One almost
wonders if it could have something to
do with the fact that advertisers are forever marketing feminized versions of things to them that discourage
women from merely enjoying themselves and instead enforce an artificial cultural norm.
Later in the song, Sisera's mother is seen to looking out the window,
wondering what is taking her son so long to come home, and her maids basically say, «Most likely he is out raping
women and grabbing for their clothes; don't worry, he'll be home soon» (Judges 5:28 - 30).
For a peasant
woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he
did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a
wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?
What people don't realize is that the
women in these films have a family... and I
wonder if I was a father of one of these
women how I would feel knowing my daughter is
doing this... I'm sure I would feel just like any other father would... very an - «gry... and up - «set that this ind - «ustry still exist's.
One
woman suffers from a degenerative disease and was
wondering how to minister to people who don't know Jesus since she's become increasingly housebound.
It's no
wonder women feel like they have been made inferior to men and it doesn't help the church to shout scripture at them which appears to cast them as inferior while
doing nothing to improve what is ailing us in society.
They
wonder constantly about a
woman they
do not wish to see or touch.
But that
does not strike me as a problem, because mythic roles are not necessary if those
women who had their imaginations raised by
Wonder Woman simply went out and
did it... which they certainly
did.
Wonder Woman has shaped, freed, called and transformed the limits for more
women since her birth in 1941 than the Virgin Mary has
done in 2000 years.
Some years later, while navigating occasional attractions as a married
woman (wedding rings don't end that), I began
wondering if modesty applies to men:
Does a man's shirt, or lack of, ever send wrong impressions?
Why didn't you address the statement about married
women, you ball-less
wonder?
Katy - Anne asked: I am
wondering how you as a man feel about the treatment of Muslim
women and the root reasons why Muslim men tend to treat
women the way they
do?
I
did that weird thing — like Edna Mode of animated Incredibles repute — because I was certain that anything called International Justice Mission had to be just as awesome as The Justice Leagueexploits of Superman,
Wonder Woman and Aqua Man.