Matt the Bruins

Up until 10 years ago, decent superhero movies weren't done all that often and Hollywood either.

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

That's what it was reminding me of! I couldn't quite put my finger on it! Tho fortunately (my childhood crush on Joan Severance notwithstanding) Annable is both a better actress, and a much more convincing athlete. (And/or has better stunt double and better fight choreography.)
 
And Brany's hair didn't bug me so much as his makeup job. I'm sure it was done that way on purpose, but to me the uneven coloration just made it look like...well, a bad makeup job.

I have to say Reign's costume is giving me Black Scorpion flashbacks.

Nobody knew anyone wanted to see an Iron Man movie, until we saw it. Same with Captain America, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, and Dr. Strange.  Most people hadn't even heard of those characters. Whether a Black Widow movie will fly will depend on how they do it, and how the general movie-going audience will react. But the Marvel brand, the character, and the actress all have serious name recognition and credibility now, which will go a long way.

IMO, the UI designer and whoever signed off on the project are more at fault. It's possible neither of those is still around. Not scapegoating the poor bastard who got stuck with a poorly implemented UI seems reasonable to me.

That Disney saw Warner Bros. rake in somewhere between a half billion to a billion dollars on Wonder Woman merchandise and stopped listening to whatever twit in their ranks kept insisting that no one would buy toys and such featuring female heroes?

They showed the preview on Saturday Night Live.

To be honest, around here the person getting the blame is the guy who fumbled foreign policy so badly that we have to have missile alerts in the first place.
 
I usually dismiss conservative publications like the National Review out of hand, but this particular article is especially laughable.  It starts with the bald faced lie that military officers are always held accountable for failures on this scale, and then goes into an irrelevant tangent about Japanese business culture.  (One wonders if that tangent would have been included if the director's last name was Smith.)  It complains about a supposed lack of accountability in public service but conveniently forgets that corporations are even less accountable.  Accountability for this particular fiasco will in fact occur this fall, on Election Day. 
 
Meanwhile, what actually happened was that in less than 12 hours, the public officials in charge figured out what happened, took immediate steps to prevent it from happening again, disciplined the poor bastard who chose the wrong option on the pulldown menu, and went on camera to take personal responsibility.  There was exactly zero finger pointing.  That's pretty damn refreshing when the rest of my news feed is full of politicians banding together to elect child rapists while shouting "no collusion!" loudly and often, hoping to convince themselves it's true.
 
But by all means, take the opportunity to smear public unions!  Even the article didn't go that far.
 
 

Not trying to argue, one reason for the self shooting is Control. Many spree criminals/shooters seem to be reacting to a perceived lack of control in their lives. Shooting gives them a feeling of power and control, and they don't want to surender that, they'd rather die. That is often why If they can be talked down they do surrender, it's a sort of emotional storm that is driving them.
 
Curing That is real challenging. My own perceptions of society is that indiviguals  are less and less valued, creating even more alienation.

I think the best comic book villain on television by a wide margin is Aubrey Plaza as the Shadow King on Legion. Which also gets my vote for best comic book show, although it's almost nothing like the source material.

I think the best comic book villain on television by a wide margin is Aubrey Plaza as the Shadow King on Legion. Which also gets my vote for best comic book show, although it's almost nothing like the source material.

Atlantis is one of the things they actually could get away with. It's under the sea. It has advanced tech and magic to hide its presence even more.

There won't be burnout as long as Luke and older characters are still alive.  If its bad, it'll still do at least $1.5 billion.  If its actually good...wow.

Agents of SHIELD was a failure from the first episode, but that was by the very design and concept of the show.  Instead of being about SHIELD it was about yet another Joss Whedon super waif and the team around her.  Instead of being about an international organization dedicated to keeping peace and fighting international bad guys it was about dumb little meaningless plots vaguely related to a superhero world.  Agents of SHIELD was used as Disney's Animatrix, stuff that sets up later movies rather than stories for themselves.  They even made me dislike Agent Coulson, the most likable guy in the Marvel cinematic universe.  I tried and tried to give that show a chance, and while it had a few entertaining bits, it was overall dreary and just completely missed the target. Like, facing the other way from where the target is.

The only major character I care about less than Batman is Squirrel Girl.

And the last Nolan Batman movie wasn't that great either.

Every subsequent DC movie trying to emulate Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is IMO a big part of what brought DC to this state.

Please Lord, if this happens let them convince Ed Asner to reprise the role in the live action film! He'd be perfect!
 
It occurs to me that Flashpoint rewriting everything since Barry was 9 would have basically zero effect on the events of Wonder Woman, allowing them to keep the one film almost everyone approved of in continuity with no changes...
 
Mostly in agreement with your rankings. I'd set it almost a dead heat with Age of Ultron, except for some crappy CGI and production values. And the use of the Harley Quinn BootyCam® from Suicide Squad for a lot of Diana's scenes. In the pro column, I like Wonder Woman and Superman better than any of the Marvel characters.
 
It was good enough that I mostly enjoyed myself watching it, and there was nothing so bad it made me want to jump either director with a crowbar—something I can't say about the previous two DCEU team movies. I'd actually be more or less satisfied if Warner Bros. could maintain roughly this level of quality moving forward, though they'd probably need to cut their production budgets by about 60% to make the movies fiscal successes.

Yeah, I tended to agree with Ebert way more than Siskel as well.

...I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not? You just described the top five things that ruin a movie for me. Those aren't exactly minor technical points; they're the minimum qualifications for Not Shitty.
 
As for reviews, I only listen to the handful of reviewers whose opinions I trust. It's harder now that Roger Ebert has left us - whether or not *he* liked a movie, I could almost always tell if *I* was going to like it from his reviews.

Eh, critics thought the other two DC movies were bad and they were.  They thought WW was good and it was.  3 outta 4 IMO.