Wonder Woman made over $223 million worldwide over opening weekend. That's big. About $100.5 million of that came from the States. That's huge.
It's #4 overall within the DCEU, but I think it has the potential to make another $500 million and surpass #3's Man of Steel.
And no. I had no idea that was Princess Buttercup.
Meanwhile, GotGv2 has made over $816.5 million worldwide.
That puts it at #5 in the MCU franchise, and beats the firstGuardians by about $40 million.
That's all I've got today. Sorry about the inconsistency in posting, but we're in the middle of selling our house, moving to a smaller apartment, and Adorkette beginning the college application process.
LOVED the look of the lasso. Seems to act more like a whip than a lasso, but the glowing? F**KING BRILLIANT!
I've mentioned before that I understand why they went with WWI instead of WWII. It totally works to separate it from Captain America. Especially since she's also using a shield.
Her using a shield. It may be shaped like Captain America's, but that's it. She uses hers in a totally different way. Like a sled...A F**KING SLED!
And how about those fight scenes. It feels like Captain America meets 300, but I'm not complaining. At all.
Two words: Etta. Candy. They had Diana. They had Steve. They didn't have to have Etta. They did anyway. Awesome.
I didn't see an invisible plane...but that doesn't mean there isn't an invisible plane. Get me?
Where is Lynda Carter? (*ahem*) I said...WHERE? IS? LYNDA? CARTER?
I've mentioned before how I think Wonder Woman will be introduced into the DCMU (that's DC Movie Universe by the way) but seeing as how this is a hot topic for discussion, I decided to throw my two-cents in...
The strongest argument...to which I agree...is that Hollywood (specifically Warner Brothers, but Hollywood in general) needs to make a 'good' comic-film with a strong female lead and Wonder Woman should be that project.
The problem isn't that they don't know that...the problem is that they don't know how to do it.
Looking back, many people like me can come up with lists of examples showing what movie-makers have done wrong. But how many movies can make the list of films done right?
In my opinion, these few successes fall into one of two categories:
Films with Strong Female Lead(s) (which WW should be) would include Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, Nikita (1990), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Thelma & Louise...
...and Films with Strong Female Character(s) in an Ensemble Cast (which is most likely how WW will be introduced) such as A League of their Own, Alien, Aliens, the first Star Wars trilogy, and Marvel's The Avengers.
It's well known that Alien was based on the novel...which never mentioned the gender of main character Ripley...and the script kept the character gender neutral until casting. While that philosophy could work on other projects, with Wonder Woman certainly not.
Another approach that's been mentioned is for writers to simply come up with a script featuring a strong male character like Superman or Thor and then switch out the names for Wonder Woman, but since Wonder Woman has her own supporting cast, beginnings, abilities and...well...history, there'd have to be a lot more changes to the story than just the name for it to make sense.
Hollywood needs to take a look at what's worked and incorporate those elements into this growing genre, because Women Love Movies, Women Love Comics, and (Wonder) Women Deserve Good Comic-Movies.
Tim joins with many other heroes (and some villains) in
mourning Diana’s passing, ready to end the War of the Gods.
I have this issue.
Superman gives the eulogy at Diana’s memorial service, where
everyone gathers to pay their respects and prepare for the upcoming final
battle.
Notes of Interest:
1) This is Part 24 of the War of the Gods storyline.
WTF? Moment: Tim
makes an appearance on the last page of the book, and doesn’t say a word. Now -
the last page is a splash page, with the gathered heroes and villains shouting
“For Diana!” I expect Bruce to stay quiet. He’s Batman…but Tim? He’s young,
energetic, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with many heavy hitters. Why wouldn’t
he be pumped? My guess is that Bruce told him not to. It’s more dramatic and
brooding that way.
The War of the Gods
continues as Tim makes less of an appearance and more of an afterthought.
I have this issue.
Batman meets Wonder Woman…on another Gotham
rooftop…sans Tim…to explain what he
discovered about the Themysciran Goblet. Tim can be seen in all of two recap panels
“standing by” as Bruce checks out the Goblet.
Notes of Interest:
1) This is Part 19 of the War of the Gods storyline.
2) Needless to say, there’s no character development here.
WTF? Moment: I understand
why Tim was put in the back seat here. It’s a Wonder
Woman issue, tying into a larger universe-spanning epic story. My question
is – why was he even there? I’d rather see him (or any character for that matter) either involved in the given story,
or not there at all.
...it's a nine letter word, starts with s, and rhymes with 'hexuality'.
Case in point, here's what a Wonder Woman television show would have looked like back in 1967...
...and yes, that is the same announcer as the classic Adam West Batman series.
Wrong direction, but a decent effort considering the time frame.
Then there was Linda Carter's win in 1975...
...which was also a product of the times, but worked on all levels.
Then there was the botched 2011 series...
...notice anything?
Pants.
Never mind the color, WW had pants.
She never did in the comics (back in my day)...except when she went all mod back in the sixties:
But now there' s a new image on the net -
Here's a costume that is faithful to the comics, is worn by someone with a striking resemblance to Diana, and looks like it would work on the screen...
...except the woman in the picture is Kimberly Kane.
A porn star.
And the pic is from a currently-in-production porn parody.
I saw The Avengers three times in the theatre. Every time, the one spot where there's an unintentional murmur/laugh was when Black Widow is talking to Loki. He's in the cell and her...umm...back is to the camera.
You know the scene I'm talking about. Everyone does.
It's okay for Hugh Jackman to run around onscreen looking like this...
and Chris Evans looking like this...
and no one has an issue with Superman's private area wrapped in red...
...but for some reason, a PG-13 film can't have Wonder Woman showing too much leg.
This is ridiculous. I'd like to think that with Nolan involved and a well-written script, there will one day be a Wonder Woman film, but my point is that we should be able to have good films made with talented female actors playing popular comic book heroes (and villains) without getting all bent out of shape over proper film-ratings and suggestive outfits.
The one obvious exception being Power Girl, but you get my drift...
I want a Wonder Woman film. A good one.
I also want a good Black Widow film, a good She-Hulk film, a good Bat-Woman, Huntress, Black Canary, Black Cat, Catwoman, Supergirl, Tigra, Mockingbird, Rogue, Shadowcat, Phoenix,Power Girl, (insert name here) film.
I know I'm not alone in this.
And before you mention it, I liked Elektra. Jennifer Garner did a great job. It was the writing/plot of the thing that hurt.
So get on it Hollywood! Or else there's going to be more and more nerds/geeks/dorks putting their money into the other film industry.
Tim makes his first official appearance in the “War of the
Gods” storyline.
I have this issue.
The War of the Gods comes to Gotham,
and Tim looks on as Bruce and Wonder Woman have a chat.
Notes of Interest:
1) This is Part Eleven of the “War of the Gods” story.
2) Tim doesn't say a word…
WTF? Moment: …and
he’s in all of two pages! Two panels
technically since the first page is the splash page. You’d think that given the
cover, there would have been more confrontation, conflict, heck…conversation.
WTF? Moment #2: I
say “official” above because while Tim doesn't appear at all in War of the Gods #1 (aside from a mini poster...which isn't that good), he does appear on the cover of War of the
Gods #1. He’s in the background behind many other characters. He’s not even
next to Batman for crying out loud.
There's another attempt to bring Wonder Woman to television.
W...T...F?
Look DC/WB, stop it.
You've got this Arrow thing in the works, and I hear it's not bad, but you can't grow a television universe while trying to get a movie universe going.
To be fair, going the other way is just as dicey...unless you bring back Coulson...but we're not going there.
Plus...what's not to love about this picture?
Star Trek Into Darkness is the current title of the sequel to J. J. Abrams' well done reboot.
Not sure I like the title, but this pic hurts my head. I'll give Uhura trumping Bones' rightful place a pass...and Spock looks like he sat on something...but is that's supposed to be Scotty on the far left? It doesn't look like Simon Pegg, it doesn't look like Scotty...and I think my soul is burning.
New Characters...
New Characters?
New Characters!
Uh, Joss?
BRING BACK THE OLD ONE!!!
And the WTFN? Award of the Week goes to... ...Zazzle.com for offering this little morsel of goodness:
Apparently nobody over there at DC or Warner Brothers took my advice about how to get their movies going because they've gotten talent from such works as Gangster Squad...and Green Lantern...to (re-)write the Justice League and Wonder Woman projects.
W...T...F...?
Look guys...as I've said before...just focus on getting one really good movie made. Maybe tie it in with GL, maybe not. Just do one goddamn movie right! (Outside of Nolan's work.)
I still believe that DC and WB should part ways. There's at least five different film projects at various stages of development over there right now...not including JL and WW.
SLOW YOUR GODAMN ROLL!!!
I'll give you the fact that Marvel Studios were rushed somewhat to get The Incredible Hulk out...Kevin Feige said as much...but it did what it had to do, and was a better movie than it probably should have been.
But you haven't even gotten to THAT point with Green Lantern.
DC...say goodbye to Warner. Warner...say goodbye to DC. Just cut your losses and move on...
Meltzer does a great job tying past events into this story. Here, Oliver makes a passing remark about Batgirl getting shot from Alan Moore's The Killing Joke. He also touches the Blue Boy Scout joke very nicely.
I also like it when the cover of a given issue has meaning within the story, which is another nod to The Killing Joke. You never fully see Diana in the issue, but once you've read it, you understand the perspective from which you do see her on the cover. Sets the tone for Infinite Crisis in a way, doesn't it?
I must confess that I HATED Hal becoming the Spectre. I understand the need to shake things up and move things along in the DC 'verse and changing heroes' personas is one way to do that. But I didn't see the need to make Hal the Spectre. It takes away the special uniqueness that made him the greatest GL, like a movie franchise that ran too long.
Don't have any WTF? moments in this one, but I'd probably have one if I knew more about the villains shown this issue. Gotta get on those Who's Whos...
Adorkification - the process of becoming adorkable.
There are three examples of Adorkification:
1) A dork becomes adorable.
2) The adored get dorky.
3) The simultaneous development of adorable and dorky characteristics.
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