BoloOfEarth Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 RE: the Amazons' new clothes -- maybe Snyder watched Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 1 hour ago, zslane said: I'm also not a fan of the muscle-bound female body-builder look, to be honest. Amazons were warriors, yes, and they would have been in peak physical condition. However, they would not look like these women who have clearly been juicing on steroids. They look entirely too masculine. Wonder Woman herself looks completely out of place among them, which is a real conceptual as well as aesthetic problem in my view. As if we ever discuss the build and musculature of male comic characters this way, but anyway, I disagree. I would expect a race of warrior women who apparently spend all day every day training for Ragnarok to look more buff and masculine than anyone posting on this board. They would at least look more like Serena Williams than Kim Kardashian. If WW herself sticks out, it can be explained by her relative lack of training and/or her unusual heritage. The costume change is disappointing. assault, aylwin13, bigdamnhero and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 It's as if Snyder looked at the costumes from the Jenkins movie and said, "Those aren't authentic Amazonian costumes, I know what real Amazons looked like -- I've seen Xena: Warrior Princess!" Joe Walsh, assault, aylwin13 and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 11 hours ago, Starlord said: Blech. Perhaps it was casual Friday on Themyscira in the JL movie? No? Okay, then yeah...blech. PS: Anyone noticing a common denominator re: the faults in all these DC movies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Old Man said: I would expect a race of warrior women who apparently spend all day every day training for Ragnarok to look more buff and masculine than anyone posting on this board. Well, sure, but that's because most of us don't have much of a physique at all, never mind a hypermasculinized one. Given the biological norms for our species, Amazons would look like olympic heptathletes, not modern female body builders who dose themselves with steroids to give themselves an unnaturally masculine physique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 29 minutes ago, zslane said: Well, sure, but that's because most of us don't have much of a physique at all, never mind a hypermasculinized one. Given the biological norms for our species, Amazons would look like olympic heptathletes, not modern female body builders who dose themselves with steroids to give themselves an unnaturally masculine physique. The heptathlon is a track and field competition. Maybe, Amazons don't spend all that much time running away. Have you looked at the physiques of female boxers and MMAs. A lot of them have some serious muscles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 None of the women from that article look like they're on steroids to me. They all look like crossfit trainers to me. The girls at my gym that do crossfit certainly aren't juicing, they're just in really good shape. Good muscle tone, less than 5% body fat, just like Serena Williams and some other tennis players I've seen as well. Matt the Bruins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Most performance athletes, including boxers and MMA fighters, don't juice up on steroids the way body builders do. Surely I'm not the only person here who recognizes the impact of routine steroid use on the human body and can see that Snyder's Amazons look more like body builders than boxers. Look at Ronda Rousey versus the women on American Gladiators. No comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 25 minutes ago, zslane said: Snyder's Amazons Seems like they're the same Amazons, different costumes. Or at least some of them. There was a featurette about the Amazon training that they went to that had blurbs on the extras playing the Amazons. Some of them were body builders, some crossfit trainers, some fitness models, some mixed martial artists, some models and actresses by trade. They were all sent through boot camp which looked like cross fit stuff (like I'd know, my sport is un-fit) to me. A few of them were pretty muscular, but mostly they were just fit-looking, with a little added body mass and low body fat from the boot camp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Is it possible that the amazons shown in the previews are from a much earlier era than shown in WW's movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Quote I'm also not a fan of the muscle-bound female body-builder look, to be honest. Amazons were warriors, yes, and they would have been in peak physical condition. However, they would not look like these women who have clearly been juicing on steroids. They look entirely too masculine. Wonder Woman herself looks completely out of place among them, which is a real conceptual as well as aesthetic problem in my view. I agree completely. But the look probably appeals to Snyder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Note how most of the women's bodies look. BTW the costumes of the Amazons when they're just casually dressed are much more practical and realistic looking than the JL outfits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Its possible that not all the actresses from WW were used in JL, but obviously the WW amazons are not juiced-up bodybuilders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Well, I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of the most muscular ones were. But they're clearly the exception. OTOH anyone looks more buff when they start layering on armbands, vambraces, and breastplates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: Note how most of the women's bodies look. That's the featurette I was referring to! Thanks LL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 1 hour ago, Starlord said: Its possible that not all the actresses from WW were used in JL, but obviously the WW amazons are not juiced-up bodybuilders. The muscular lady in the linked article was one of the named Amazons from the WW film. I think she's the one that triggered the muscularity discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 Maybe it was beach day at Paradise Island when they were attacked? Which would explain why the Amazons are not wearing their armour. bigdamnhero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 22 minutes ago, Bazza said: Maybe it was beach day at Paradise Island when they were attacked? Which would explain why the Amazons are not wearing their armour. Thats it! Maybe it was the day they choose a new queen by pillow fights...thats what caused the invasion, a few naughty amazons lit the grail sign.... bigdamnhero, assault and drunkonduty 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 Is my memory playing tricks on me, or did Wonder Woman have a bunch of early reviews before it came out. Justice League comes out Friday and there still hasn't been a single early review. That doesn't seem like a good sign, I want this movie to be good. Heck, I want it to be awesome, but I am not going to go see it unless it has a Rotten Tomato score of at least 70%. I have Friday off and I could certainly take in a movie, but I have this uneasy feeling that I will spending Friday binge watching The Punisher on Netflix instead. Hope I'm wrong about that. bigdamnhero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrinku Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 9 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: It's as if Snyder looked at the costumes from the Jenkins movie and said, "Those aren't authentic Amazonian costumes, I know what real Amazons looked like -- I've seen Xena: Warrior Princess!" This is what they really look like: bigdamnhero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 5 hours ago, Ranxerox said: Is my memory playing tricks on me, or did Wonder Woman have a bunch of early reviews before it came out. Justice League comes out Friday and there still hasn't been a single early review. That doesn't seem like a good sign, I want this movie to be good. Heck, I want it to be awesome, but I am not going to go see it unless it has a Rotten Tomato score of at least 70%. I have Friday off and I could certainly take in a movie, but I have this uneasy feeling that I will spending Friday binge watching The Punisher on Netflix instead. Hope I'm wrong about that. apparently, they are not allowing any reviews until 1 day before release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 They're are allowing critics to use social media, but no official reviews. Supposedly it is mixed. The kind of reviews you get after a studio makes a bunch of bad movies - "Well, its certainly better than those others!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 Most of the reviewers' social media comments I've been reading are of the "flawed, but good" variety. There's quite a bit of commonality to them, actually. Strengths: fine visuals, good action sequences, great characterizations and chemistry among the Leaguers, drama well balanced with humor, an overall fun experience. Weaknesses: story is unoriginal, plotline is rather incoherent, main villain is underwhelming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/warner-bros-says-the-viral-story-of-gal-gadot-refusing-to-be-in-wonder-woman-2-if-brett-ratner-is-involved-is-false/ar-BBEUXbz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted November 14, 2017 Report Share Posted November 14, 2017 Compelling villains seem to be the weak spot for most superhero movies and tv shows. Here's hoping Thanos can change all that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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