StevenG

I loved the trailer. Seems like a very charming film. I could see this breaking out.

Oh...you are one of those. That explains a lot...

And yes...Haddish is truly playing her Girls Trip character again. I liked that character, but I would not be surprised if audiences' patience was tested by another two hours of her loudmouth harpy. Oh well...

Mary Poppins Returns will underperform. Suspiria will overperform (at least I hope so with all my heart. The teaser looks a million times better than the original movie)...

If Cheetah's powers in the film are of divine origin, they can definitely hurt Diana ("only a god can kill another god")...so I suppose only a god[ly power] can hurt another god. I bet those cuts are a result of the claws of the Cheetah.

The golden lasso of truth was also, for the longest time, something that a large segment of fanboys considered lame as fuck, and many claimed that Wonder Woman would be laughed off the screen because of the lasso and the jet. By now, we should be well acquainted with the notion of "it's all about the execution." I can totally see a jet with a cloaking device that allows it to be "invisible" being a really cool gadget to introduce in a superhero movie.

Hmmm, the other Marvel troll gets his claws ready...

http://hollywoodpipeline.com/Gallery/ShowPhotos?token=4353169c-5289-4a86-b215-4f5fbebaad24&AUTH_TOKEN=QVVUSF9LRVlfT1JHQU5JWkFUSU9OX0lEPTF8LXxBVVRIX0tFWV9VU0VSX0lEPTM3NTI1OHwtfEFVVEhfS0VZX0lQPTEwLjE4Ny4xODYuNXwtfEFVVEhfS0VZX0NPT0tJRV9OQU1FPUZBTl82MzY2NDg3Njc1NDM1NzAwMDB8LXxBVVRIX0tFWV9DT09LSUVfTlVNQkVSPTk1MjZ8LXxBVVRIX0tFWV9ET01BSU49ZG9tYWluTmFtZXwtfEFVVEhfS0VZX1RJTUU9Ni8xNy8yMDE4IDExOjU5OjE0IFBNfC18QVVUSF9LRVlfQ09OU1VNRVJfU0lURV9JRD0xfC18&galleryPage=1&feature=true I see animal print!!! Barbara Minerva!!!???

First Man? 200 million? Worldwide, right?

I am dying to know what the context will be for Diana to don a more armor-like ensemble. I wonder if at some point Cheetah will become mega-powered somehow. I think I recall a John Byrne WW issue in which Diana fought some sort of "super Cheetah" creature. I could be totally misremembering, though....

Please gods of Olympus, let the battles between Cheetah and Wonder Woman be practical as opposed to CGI. Can they simply choreograph most of the physical fights and have them go at it on a set instead of making them fully CGI (and just "enhance" them and tweak them with CGI)? I know that full-body makeup for Cheetah is most likely an impossibility, but there has got to be a middle ground that helps the fights be more realistic and less Black Panther-vs-Killmonger-ish...(or less Wonder Woman-vs-Ares-ish)... I know I sound like a broken record, but I wish Wonder Woman fighting Cheetah "feels" more like the fights between Uma Thurman and Vivica A Fox/Uma Thurman and Darryl Hannah in Kill BIll (or any of the fights in Atomic Blonde) than anything else. I want to see scratches and punches and kicks and shoves that don't feel weightless...

Just curious: what makes you think this (such a specific idea)?

As much as I love superhero films, I am not blind to the suppposed "more options" that CBMs gives writers. Ther are an infinite number of superheroes and supervillains for them to fight, but there is truth in what he said: once you have seen a world domination/world destruction plot in CBMs, there is not a whole lot you can vary. Let's not act as if each CBM has been incredibly distinct. I feel that everyone gives them a pass nowadays because audiences are still in the honeymoon phase with CBMs (yes, even after all these years). They are still a shiny new toy...and therefore, it's easier to overlook their flaws.

Gorgeous (as always)!!!

Wow...this has got to be trickery from some villain, right? If whomever is pulling the strings breaks Diana's (and the audience's ) heart all over again... 😰

So happy that Book Club proved the naysayers wrong.

I was reading that the first time that Steve Trevor died in the Wonder Woman comics, it was at the hands of Dr. Cyber (in "1969's Wonder Woman" # 180). Maybe the screenwriters have taken that as a starting point and are bringing it full circle by indeed 'resurrecting' Steve in robot form thanks to Cyber. I like that, and I definitely love your suggestion regarding Minerva being a geneticist who wants to help cure AIDS and uses animal/human splicing in her work towards that goal. Can those two threads be combined? Maybe Cyber promises Minerva to fund her experiments? Or something... I think it would be a nice break from all magical/gods stuff to have technology and science be at the core of this film's villains... Then for the third film they could bring in mind control, psychology, and gender roles/gender tropes/self-image issues with Dr. Psycho and Silver Swan. LOL

Interesting! I am looking forward to see how they "translate" that look (which I love) to live-action.

I don't know if I like Pascal (potentially) playing Deimos or Phobos. I wish that they stay away from any Ares-related shenanigans. As much as I like the concept of Enyo, the Greek goddess of "war, destruction, conquest, and bloodlust" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enyo , who has been associated with Ares... ....I feel that she might best be introduced in a Wonder Woman prequel TV show (yes, the one that we were promised ---Amazon---but never got).

Yes, I love me some Donna Troy, and nope, I had no idea about her appearing in the Titans show. Thanks for the heads up! Any clue as to how this iteration of Wonder Girl (is she even going to be called Wonder Girl?) will be related to DIana? Donna's origin has been changed/modified/rebooted so many times!!!

That is part of the fun of anticipating highly anticipated movies.

There are some interesting theories out there for Steve Strevor being "back": beyond the expected "it is Circe's witchery!" and "it is Dr. Psycho playing with Diana's head," some people are theorizing that it could be how the film introduces a shape-shifting Martian Manhunter who wants to lure Wonder Woman for whatever reason. Other people are saying that he could be a super realistic robot doppleganger created by uber-advanced technology courtesy of [Dr.] Cyber.

Is Kim Possible a live action film version of the TV cartoon?

I do hope that you are right about the whole AIDS thing, although it will be tricky to include it in a substantial way that doesn't trivialize it or make it an afterthough. Then again, it will also be tricky because of time constraints in a 2 hour film that needs to, first and foremost, focus on the characters and their stories as they pertain to the plot. I liked that the first film attempted to briefly touch on tricky subjects like colonialism and racism (through the characters of Chief and Sameer), but I know that some people felt that those topics should have elicited a more substantial reaction from DIana. Anyway, I cannot wait to see this sequel.

Theatre is also nothing without an audience. Theatre without an audience is not theatre; it's just people talking out loud and acting out scenes.