Wonder Woman Does Not Suck!

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And today I want to talk to you, yes you, about why Wonder Woman did not suck. And this is gonna be both a follow-up of a video I did about rumors that Wonder Woman was gonna suck and That video wasn't derived from me. It wasn't my opinion. It was supposedly going around from a credible source who had had early pre-screenings to it, but I never believed the rumor, and I spoke a lot about why I didn't believe it and why the exact opposite would happen. This is also going to be a review, spoiler-filled at that. So guys, before I get into this, I know Wonder Woman has been out pushing about a week now. That's given quite a few people a chance to see the movie. And if you haven't seen Wonder Woman yet, don't like to be spoiled, please go see the movie first. You can always come back later, watch my video on this, hit the subscribe button so you'll know where to find me. And you can get the full story of why Wonder Woman doesn't suck. So what we'll do, we'll give you a few minutes to get out, but come back later so you can hear why it didn't suck. And again, guys, this will be, you know, content field, you know, about why it didn't suck. That's why I don't want to spoil the movie. Some things may come up. That you won't like me if you're not surprised with the movie. So I'll give you a moment to get out. And 3, 2, 1. Okay, so guys, let's talk about why Wonder Woman didn't suck, why on Rotten Tomatoes it received such a high score, and why it might very well be not only the best DC film to date, but one of the best superhero films to date. And I'm going to touch on some reasons why I believe that to be the case. So let's get into it. So Wonder Woman and the DC Legacy. So, you know, I have been saying, guys, from the last video— and if you haven't seen the last video about Wonder Woman, be sure and check that out. But I was saying that Gal Gadot's portrayal of Wonder Woman pretty much, in my opinion, saved the entire Batman v Superman movie. And I thought she did such a great job. She was my favorite part of that movie, and I just knew going into this I was gonna get more of that. At how she owned the role of Wonder Woman, I just knew that she was gonna do great because I understand the importance of character-driven film. And Gal Gadot, you know, shined as the character of Wonder Woman very well. And this is something that DC where the, um, DCEU is able to do quite well, and that's, uh, do these kind of character-driven superhero films. And, uh, I don't think, uh, Marvel— Marvel is really good at, um, pulling off very difficult superhero films, very fun films, very enjoyable films, and entertaining films. But in my opinion, Marvel has never really been able to reach the pinnacle like DC as far as getting this very realistic human feel to a superhero movie, you know, that DC has been able to achieve. And some examples of that have been the Donners, the first Superman, the original Superman by Donner, by Richard Donner. and some people are comparing Wonder Woman to that movie. The very human element of that movie, the very emotional parts of that movie. And there's also scenes in Wonder Woman that pays homage basically to that film. But the depth of that film, the actors in that film, and how they were able to reach us emotionally and basically create this very well-done, character-developed film. It's something that a lot of superhero films just haven't been able to touch. You know, they just haven't quite been able to get there with them, and Wonder Woman comes very close to doing that, very close to doing that in this film. You know, she's this, uh, she lives in this rural, uh, the sheltered world on the island of Themyscira, and she, and she's very— has this very naive, uh, uh, view of her purpose in the entire world. And it kind of harkens back to— again, I, I, I, I'm excited about how Patty Jenkins did Wonder Woman because, uh, I— this is what I was looking for And just not just, uh, you know, about getting DC back on track and, you know, in their, uh, situation with Marvel Universe and trying to copy Marvel. Not just getting them back on track to finally do a good film, but just getting back on track to doing an overall good superhero film like they did used to do back in the days overall, you know, where you got this full developed movie, um, and it just reminded me so much of this scene back in the original Superman when he's being interviewed with Lois Lane and he goes— she asks him, you know, what's he stand for? He goes, he's here to fight for truth, justice, and the American way. And that same very simplified view of the world is what I got in the character of Wonder Woman. I just love how Gal Gadot brought that innocence. She did just an excellent job at it. Just had me drawn so well into the movie. But yeah, I mean, the film itself, you know, of course we got to see how the origin story of Wonder Woman— that's another thing I want to talk about, is You know, basically how Wonder Woman came to be, you know, in this— we got that. Or I'm sorry, rather, how well DC is with doing standalone films. They're much more better at that than I think Marvel is. And in this film, you got to see And that's a story we had never really seen told on the silver screen, Wonder Woman, you know. So I think going in, that intrigued us a lot too, that we get to see Wonder Woman on the silver screen for the first time. And they just really did a very excellent job at doing it. But, you know, we open up in Demaskera, and we got to see Wonder Woman growing up in the first act of Wonder Woman. And of course, the cinematography looked great. It didn't look too over-CGI'd. When it got to the end, it really, you know, did all that CGI stuff, but it wasn't so bad. I kind of, you know, it wasn't as bad as when they did Batman v Superman at the end when they were fighting Doomsday, you know. Even though I didn't so much mind, even if it would have just been overfilled with CGI, you know, towards the end, because I saw what Wonder Woman did in Batman v Superman. Again, her part was a favorite part of mine for that, her action sequences. So the cinematography was good, but also the fight sequences were good. I thought they were well done. All the action scenes, I thought awesome. And that's something too that I don't— that I think Man of Steel failed at. I didn't like all the action sequences of Man of Steel. They were just over-CGI. I didn't like them at all. But in Wonder Woman, it just really worked well. So, you know, we got this film that was just great to look at. It was really good cinematography. All of the action sequences were awesome. They weren't exhausting, you know, like some movies. And just the way the plot moved along was also great. And you know, in the beginning, we got this story about how Themyscira was created, how basically the world of man had been turned against the gods through Ares. And I found that kind of interesting because They're telling the story of Aries, how they're— and it kind of sounds like the story of Satan, the devil, in Judeo-Christian belief. And, uh, you know, where he's, uh— it's not so much that Aries was about, um, uh, this evil, just this evil force that, uh, that consumed mankind and was making them do these things. He was more like the devil with details, or he kind fell under the umbrella of the devil made me do it, whereas he was— the world was more under the influence of Ares, but still in their own scope of free will to make their own choice. And I just, I just loved how they set all that up to where Wonder Woman had to come face to face with the, you know, the truth that it wasn't so much Ares that was making the world the way it was, but it was mankind and his own free will that was doing it. And she had to basically drop her naive state of mind from Themyscira and accept that, but at the same time accept all the good things that mankind was capable of. And I really like— I really love that part of the film. And that's what I'm trying to get at, guys. The action sequences were good, but I think what really made this movie good was just all those little details like that in the good— in this good— this good storytelling. And, um, you know, not to knock Marvel, I, I like Marvel, I enjoy Marvel movies, I really do, but I, I feel like Marvel movies don't quite reach the pinnacle of the storytelling with DC. And the reason I say that, because, you know, Marvel, Marvel movies to me are very, uh Their stories are very thin layered, you know, this is— it's very comic booky with a lot of Marvel films, with some exceptions. But for the most part, with the direction Marvel's going in now, I believe we're gonna deal with a lot of thin layer, very comic booky things, not deep driven plots like we got with Wonder Woman. Because we got a lot in Wonder Woman, we got a lot about questioning from a philosophical standpoint, is man evil? Is he good? Is there some outside force that's driving him to be evil? Or was it just man all along? And I love that part. And I loved Eros in this film. We got to see that, and it was something about Danny Houston's character that just had me going in, even before I saw the movie, just the entire movie just had me going, I don't think he's going to be Ares. I kept thinking that he was somebody who was an operative of Ares, you know, which is basically that's revealed he was, you know, the area he was under influence of Ares. But We got to learn that he was not Aries. Through the movie, that didn't surprise me because as he was inhaling the chemicals that were created to make this ultimate weapon to stop the armistice from being signed, his character, I believe his name was General Ludvan or something like that. You know, he would have to inhale this chemical and it seemed to give him some type of power or strength. And I was like, hmm, this seems kind of weird that, uh, if he was the god Ares, he would have to be powered by something of that, you know. I, I just didn't make sense to me. And I really started to think that, yeah, he's not going to be Ares. And I was wondering how they were going to do Ares, if Ares was just going to kind of appear as an energy form or in the background, but we got to see Ares in his full glory, the comic book-y Ares in the nice armor wielding his intense power. And of course, you know, he was the knighted person, I forget his name, sir, was it sir? I can't remember, but he was working for the Parliament and The movie did a great job of, you know, making us feel like he was on their side. And I kind of like that because it did kind of give us that reveal at the end, you know, of, you know, that— or I'm sorry, give us that surprise, little surprise twist at the end, which I was kind of expecting. But where they did surprise me is how they did it. And just, it was just a very— they They really got us to care about the characters. Like I said, I knew I wasn't gonna have a problem at all with this film because Gal Gadot had already drawn me in, made me care about her Wonder Woman. So I knew going into this movie I was gonna always care about her character, but everybody else's characters I cared about as well. I cared about every, every character and what everybody did in this movie, and that was, that was awesome. Even her Even her mom, Hippolyta, on the Island of the Amazons, her fear not to have Wonder Woman discover who she was, you know, this fear that a real mother would have for her child with a destiny. And what I liked is she never revealed it. She never— now, you know, for better or worse, you know, whether that was good or bad for Wonder Woman or not, She never revealed to Wonder Woman that she was the daughter of Zeus. She was a god herself and that she was actually the God Killer. Now, I don't know if they knew if that weapon, the sword that they made a big deal about, was really the God Killer or not. I don't know if Hippolyta knew that or the Amazons. My assumption is they didn't. But, you know, we got to find out that it was really, you know, Diana, of course. That was the God Killer. And like I said, guys, everything in this movie is just done excellent, excellent job. Yes, guys, this movie does not suck. 110%, it does not suck. In fact, I'll go on record and say it's one of the best superhero films ever created, bar none. It's up there with the first Superman, uh, definitely would fit somewhere, maybe like the top 3 or for Wonder Woman. And I like that because we kind of had this male-female division where we got a lot of these— even in the comment sections I've seen some people who have tried to kind of divide Wonder Woman's heroism up because she's a woman by saying she's an instrument of feminists and things like that. But this movie didn't play into any political arena. And I appreciated that about the movie. I looked at Wonder Woman like a regular superhero, and it was just like I look at Superman or Batman or any of them. Her being a woman just kind of came secondary to her being a hero for me. And I say kudos to Patty Jenkins for being able to pull that off and not make her this girl power tool where they just got to keep displaying and expressing that, oh, she's a powerful woman and look what she's doing to this guy and she's breaking them and she's bending them. And that wasn't necessary. The story of Wonder Woman was so great on its own as a hero. It didn't have to play into any political arena. And that also was awesome. Just a great movie, guys. A great, great movie. I agree 100% with the Rotten Tomatoes score. I'm trying to think of something that put me off about this film. And, uh, you know, I mean, Chris Pine, uh, who played, uh, Captain, uh, Trevor, um, you know, I like him, you know, as he plays Captain Kirk and things like that. And I've grown, uh, he has a way of pulling off humor and being charming with it. And things like that. And that didn't really— this is just to try to find something wrong with the film, you know, because it was really good and I really don't have any really bad things to say about it. But it was just certain parts of his comic relief sometimes that for me would make things a little bit, uh, you know, uh, just a little bit, uh— I thought he could have toned down the comic relief just a little bit, just a tiny bit. I mean, because you need that. You need a little break from the film. You need a little humor. They can't just go through serious all the time where the movie's not enjoyable. But like I said, DC stories, they tell a more compelling story to me that's more realistic with what would happen if a— or the closest, in my opinion, is to what would happen if a person with this psychology, a person with these abilities, were to enter the real world and what the effect would be on the rest of us and in them as well, provided that they kind of come from a human psyche somewhat. And I'm gonna assume that they would have to just tap it by being in a human world. But anyway, guys, awesome movie. No, this movie does not suck. I have to say it again, I really enjoyed it. One of my favorite superhero films. The action sequences were awesome. Ares was awesome in the movie. Great film. And because of this, I'm looking forward to seeing what Gal Gadot is going to do in the Justice League. But here's what I'm trying to hope won't happen. I hope that Justice League for me doesn't become like Batman v Superman became. And what that was, was I only really liked that movie because Wonder Woman was in it. So I hope Justice League doesn't become, I only like Justice League because Wonder Woman is in it, because right now with everything I've seen, that's about the only character I've liked in the movie. But anyway, guys, give me your opinions. I have to give a resounding confirmed movie doesn't suck, one of the best superhero films to date so far. Give me your opinion in the comment section. I know on the last video you guys had a lot to say about, you know, the rumors this is gonna suck. And there are some people still trying to say it sucks. And I don't know, I think they're gonna have a hard time with that argument. I think they're gonna be— I think it's gonna be worse than Man of Steel was, because it would— Man of Steel couldn't hold a candle to this movie. I just have to say that. It did not. Man of Steel had a very divided audience. You know, it was almost split down the middle. And so it was kind of easy for people to really not like the film. But with Wonder Woman, I see a few people trying to say it wasn't a great film and ranting that it sucked and things like that. But they're gonna— I think they're gonna have a hard time pulling that off because this movie was, I think, was just too well done. But anyway, guys, that's my thoughts on it. Uh, give me yours, uh, in the comment section. And guys, if you like content like this, don't forget the either like, dislike— doesn't really matter if you like or dislike because I just want to put this out there. If you don't know that YouTube treats likes and dislikes the same, so you hit a dislike on there, it's going to push— YouTube's going to push the video to the forefront. Just want to let you guys know that. Who keep— if you really dislike something, probably best not to comment at all, you know, if you really, you know, if you really want, you know, just something to think about. But anyway, guys, uh, until next time, take care.