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Wonder Woman (2017)

He fell down a well.

That was the movie.

Oh.

30 days till a bomb blows up?

WTF!? 8 million idiots just stood there for 30 days, watching the timer tick down.

Catwoman was wearing lulu lemon.
 
I'm taking MoS out of the equation because it didn't earn as much overall as I thought it had, but how, exactly, does an Opening Weekend profit of 166 million for BvS and 133 million for Suicide Squad equal "earning most of" their overall Box Office, which was 800 million plus for BvS and 700 million plus for SS, "on Opening Weekend"?
 
Reviews are in, and it looks... fine! Wow, I suspected it was going to be better than DC's latest efforts (which were very poor, of course), maybe as decent as Man of Steel, but it seems that the DCEU finally got his beacon of hope...
 
Again with the box officing? Who cares, I ain't worried for WB. :shrug:

Sorry some of you didn't like the previous installments, but arguing that "it should have made more" or whatever is so last year, and was pointless even back then... maybe move on? :p

Say, there's a nice new picture coming out this weekend that you can move along to... :D
 
only 2 rotten reviews so far on RT, well WB you dun n cracked it me old son. WW BO opening weekend projections were as high as $90 million domestic last I saw.
 
Awesome Possum said:
BvS opened with 420 million worldwide, which is half its entire box office gross.
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Sounds like it made a huge amount of money.

It's not unusual for a successful movie now to make a huge chunk of its money on opening weekend. It's nice if a movie has legs, but not necessary for it to keep piling up the cash for months in order for it to be a success - if its opening is big enough.

By your description above, BvS would have made over 800 million dollars worldwide. That's a big success.
 
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Man of Steel also made a BO income of just short of 3x times its budget. It would of been cheaper if Snyder could of controlled his inner Michael Bay at times and I say that as someone who regards the movie as just inside my top 10 though based of the year to come that won't last.
 
Christopher said:
They could always work around that -- maybe she came back but it wasn't documented. Or, heck, they could do what movie series have been doing for generations: just ignore the exact details of earlier movies and do whatever they want.
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I guess they could always have Steve show up and recruit her for some kind of secret mission that nobody can know about.

Tosk said:
People will always compare films. Just because someone says that X is the best film since Y, doesn't necessarily mean they didn't like any of the films in between. It just means that they think X is great.
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Exactly, I thought Star Trek Beyond was the best Trek movie since first contact, but I still really enjoyed Insurrection, and the first two Kelvinverse movies, I just happened to like Beyond more.

They're doing a bit WW digital comics sale this week in honor of the movies release. I managed to get the Celebration of 75 Years history/collection, Sensation Comics (the digital anthology, not the original series) Vol. 1 and Legend of Wonder Woman Vol. 1.
 
Serveaux said:
Sounds like it made a huge amount of money.

It's not unusual for a successful movie now to make a huge chunk of its money on opening weekend. It's nice if a movie has legs, but not necessary for it to keep piling up the cash for months in order for it to be a success - if its opening is big enough.

By your description above, BvS would have made over 800 million dollars worldwide. That's a big success.
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It made money, but I've seen it argued that it underperformed based on negative critical and audience reactions.
 
Jax said:
WW BO opening weekend projections were as high as $90 million domestic last I saw.
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That's nice. I hope it makes a ton of money to shut up the "female heroes don't work as leads" crowd.

Also, since we live in an age where Ant-Man can get a trilogy, if I don't get my Wonder Woman one there's gonna be hell to pay. :D
 
One thing most of the reviews seem to agree on is that the movie doesn't follow in the same style/tone as Snyder's films. It fits in the universe, but it has color and humor and its not dark grimness with brooding anti-heros. A different tone is what I was expecting based on things that were said, but some Snyder fans seemed fairly adamant that Wonder Woman wouldn't be that different style/tone wise from his stuff. I'm glad it seems to have worked out the way I thought it would, and I'm really hyped for the movie.
 
kirk55555 said:
One thing most of the reviews seem to agree on is that the movie doesn't follow in the same style/tone as Snyder's films. It fits in the universe, but it has color and humor and its not dark grimness with brooding anti-heros. A different tone is what I was expecting based on things that were said, but some Snyder fans seemed fairly adamant that Wonder Woman wouldn't be that different style/tone wise from his stuff. I'm glad it seems to have worked out the way I thought it would, and I'm really hyped for the movie.
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So are you saying Snyder's work just needed a woman's touch?



(this is just a silly comment, please don't take this seriously....)
 
It will be interesting to see what superhero movies look like in a few years if this, Black Panther, Aquman and Captain Marvel are all successful.
 
JD said:
It will be interesting to see what superhero movies look like in a few years if this, Black Panther, Aquman and Captain Marvel are all successful.
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Indeed.... certainly those following Black Panther are VERY excited about how the movie is shaping up...so we might have a lot of good hype for it, and with other Marvel successes, will be poised to be successful as well.

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Just going back to the debate about comparing it with Snyder stuff... I saw some scenes from MoS on TV the other night... the thing is , there are a LOT of good things about the movie...Henry Cavill is VERY well cast. He DOES give off the Superman vibe..it's just HOW he got to his place is what's messed up ...so is the pacing of Superman's arc.
It had a couple of good scenes, like Martha teaching Clark in a way similar to a special needs child, while Jonathan's talk after the bully was a good one. But then JOnathan dies in a stupid way -- sacrificing his life for a dog...and JOnathan sounds a little like government consipiracy theorist rather than helping Clark form a vision of helping people. Martha, by the next movie, sounds very bitter. it would have been better if she turned out to get a degree and was a professional therapist for special needs children, and told Clark he was her inspiration for it. Then Clark could banter back about her being a hero...and we could see the foundation of his upbringing. Marvel did a good job of that with the brief interaction of T'Challa & his father in Avengers:Age of Ultron

The mental anguish of killing would be dramatic on Supergirl, because we have had time building her character. For the DC FU, it kinda seems out of the blue.


And regarding the Captain America : Winter Soldier comparison... there is no doubt the world is dark and murky...but Captain AMerica himself is still someone we can believe in, and inspires not just the people IN the movie, but also outside. He gives off the vibe that Superman ought to.

Can't believe Wonder Woman is almost here...I am excited to give my own full opinion on it.
 
kirk55555 said:
One thing most of the reviews seem to agree on is that the movie doesn't follow in the same style/tone as Snyder's films. It fits in the universe, but it has color and humor and its not dark grimness with brooding anti-heros. A different tone is what I was expecting based on things that were said, but some Snyder fans seemed fairly adamant that Wonder Woman wouldn't be that different style/tone wise from his stuff. I'm glad it seems to have worked out the way I thought it would, and I'm really hyped for the movie.
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This notion is directly at odds with Patty Jenkins' own statements, so I'll take her word over the impressions of critics.
 
JD said:
It will be interesting to see what superhero movies look like in a few years if this, Black Panther, Aquman and Captain Marvel are all successful.
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What worries me is that advances in diversity never seem to last long. I was just thinking today about how in 1976-7, there were four simultaneous female-led superhero shows on live-action TV in the US -- The Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman in prime time and The Secrets of Isis and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl on Saturday mornings. But then the trend faded out, and when we got Buffy and Xena two decades later, it was seen as a novelty to have female-led action shows. And now another two decades later, it's still a novelty to have something like Supergirl or Jessica Jones or this movie (or Star Trek Discovery, while we're at it). I'd really like it if this time, the progress in equal representation finally stuck -- but the industry does have a tendency to backslide.
 
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