I’ve been watching most of the DC stuff on Netflix and next to the Damian Wayne movies this is my favorite.

Kudos to Jenkins for having the strength to recognize the larger potential damage to her career and Marvel films of making a Thor film in which she didn’t believe and taking the risky move of walking away then and there, not knowing where her next film would be.

Ya’ll suck. Thor 2 was a tragedy, a really mind-bendingly bad movie in the Marvel universe. Patty’s idea sounds great and I would be lining up for this one. Thor is my fave and they really let him down with movie #2.

I’ve got a story about the Great Emu War of nineteen tickety two. I wanted to take the ferry over to Australia, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days the nickel had a picture of a bee on it. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Anyway, the…

They need to hurry up and clone these guys and re-release them.

Glad you agree ;)

The American response will likely be something to the tune of “ weeeeee go lady kill kill kill boobs woooooo”

“Plain”... HAHAHAHA!

As a historian, I wish I could give more than just one star to that a mount of deduction.

Yes

Where I think the parallels lie today is in the Bismarckian complexities of intertwined and conflicting alliances, motivations, and incentives. Each combatant was also faced with more complicated ethical and practical dilemmas, and virtually nobody seriously questioned war as a concept or practice beforehand.

I’d argue it’s more relevant than WWII. The threat to global stability is not from an axis of evil empires looking to concur the globe, the threat is from colonial (effectively if not literally) powers being griped by revolts in their territories stoking isolationism and nationalism. In WWI the sparks of this friction…

Well, whether WWI or WWII, I’m certain Patty Jenkins would have shown us the same scenes of Wonder Woman’s shock and empathy. Good scenes, by the way, especially for the new young fans who are going to see this.

Then you take a god with a moral compass and a moral belief system, and you drop them into this world, there are questions about women’s rights, about a mechanized war where you don’t see who you are killing. It’s such a cool time.

...which facilitated the biggest and final push toward women’s suffrage.

Something to ponder for sure ...

Snyder does get story credit

CLEARLY talking about the experience of making the film, and not the war itself.

Sure it was. There is no time period or war that wasn’t/isn’t filled with awfulness, but this was a very cool moment in world history — terrible and amazing and absolutely the defining event of the 20th Century. Without that war happening when it did, how it did, and with the consequences it left behind, nothing that…

I thought it was a smart move from the first time I heard about it, for all the reasons mentioned above. It really fits the iconography of this version of Wonder Woman very well, and the pointless slaughter of the Great War fits Ares as a villain perfectly.