Ok soooo..... DC is not Marvel. Has anyone, you know, told them that?
This is a good time to mention, Ben Affleck is the only Batman I've ever seen. Pretty sure Man of Steel (2013, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe) was my first Superman movie. Not that I've seen any since.
So basically here is my take: DC movies are kind of terrible. The one really good one was Wonder Woman (2017, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine). You know what made it good? Women. When I saw Batman v Superman (2016, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill), I kind of thought Gal Gadot's character was bland and boring. I was excited for Wonder Woman before I saw it but not because of her entrance in Bruce and Clark's shadow. I was excited because it was a girl superhero movie written by women. That it wound up being really good was kind of just a bonus.
Apparently, we were all right about those women writers though. Which makes me a little sad. Diana Prince was plenty sexy in her feature film but she made herself sexy. She wasn't filmed particularly sexually. She was just filmed. There was no male gaze. There were superhero power poses, the same ones the men take. Compare that to Justice League (2017, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa). So many hip pops. SO MANY HIP POPS. WHY SO MANY HIP POPS. SHE STANDS AND SURVEYS DAMAGE AND POPS A HIP. WHY DOES SHE DO THAT.
Full disclosure, yes, it is a standard way for women to stand. Yes I do it too. It is very possible that if I go through Wonder Woman I will find plenty more Diana hip pops. However. WW hip pops will not have Diana standing next to male superheroes who got 99% of the one liners who are definitively not popping their hips.
I will give some credit for not as many butt shots as they could have done. They didn't have any of those Black Widow sashaying away from kicking ass shots. That's a plus. I guess. But the standard is clearly unbelievably low.
As for the rest of the movie? Yawn. It was DC very blatantly pretending to be Marvel (energy boxes that have to be separated or else doomsday? Check. Evil villain who they knew was coming from a mysterious and slightly explained other plain/world/realm/thingy? Check. Rich guy with cool gadgets bringing together some people with an odd assortment of talents? Check and check). It didn't work super well. They're just trying so damn hard. They've done one thing better than Marvel: they've done the feminist woman superhero. They should keep that up because oh dear heavens nothing else seems to work for them.
***Obligatory special shout out to Lord Nicholas Devereaux because I still think it's hilarious to think he was cast as Steve Trevor so that Marvel couldn't have the full set of Chrises***
This is a good time to mention, Ben Affleck is the only Batman I've ever seen. Pretty sure Man of Steel (2013, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe) was my first Superman movie. Not that I've seen any since.
So basically here is my take: DC movies are kind of terrible. The one really good one was Wonder Woman (2017, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine). You know what made it good? Women. When I saw Batman v Superman (2016, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill), I kind of thought Gal Gadot's character was bland and boring. I was excited for Wonder Woman before I saw it but not because of her entrance in Bruce and Clark's shadow. I was excited because it was a girl superhero movie written by women. That it wound up being really good was kind of just a bonus.
Apparently, we were all right about those women writers though. Which makes me a little sad. Diana Prince was plenty sexy in her feature film but she made herself sexy. She wasn't filmed particularly sexually. She was just filmed. There was no male gaze. There were superhero power poses, the same ones the men take. Compare that to Justice League (2017, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa). So many hip pops. SO MANY HIP POPS. WHY SO MANY HIP POPS. SHE STANDS AND SURVEYS DAMAGE AND POPS A HIP. WHY DOES SHE DO THAT.
Full disclosure, yes, it is a standard way for women to stand. Yes I do it too. It is very possible that if I go through Wonder Woman I will find plenty more Diana hip pops. However. WW hip pops will not have Diana standing next to male superheroes who got 99% of the one liners who are definitively not popping their hips.
I will give some credit for not as many butt shots as they could have done. They didn't have any of those Black Widow sashaying away from kicking ass shots. That's a plus. I guess. But the standard is clearly unbelievably low.
As for the rest of the movie? Yawn. It was DC very blatantly pretending to be Marvel (energy boxes that have to be separated or else doomsday? Check. Evil villain who they knew was coming from a mysterious and slightly explained other plain/world/realm/thingy? Check. Rich guy with cool gadgets bringing together some people with an odd assortment of talents? Check and check). It didn't work super well. They're just trying so damn hard. They've done one thing better than Marvel: they've done the feminist woman superhero. They should keep that up because oh dear heavens nothing else seems to work for them.
***Obligatory special shout out to Lord Nicholas Devereaux because I still think it's hilarious to think he was cast as Steve Trevor so that Marvel couldn't have the full set of Chrises***
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