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hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:32 pm Yeah, not too sure about that casting choice. To be honest, not to sure about the villain choice itself. There’s a wealth of other great villains to choose from. Going with catwoman light seems kind of uninspired.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:27 pm Well, this thread did derail into a mall discussion previously.

As to Cheetah... I don't know. I can see why they used her. If you do Batman films, you have to have the Joker eventually. If you do Wonder Woman, you've got to have Cheetah. I have no idea if it will work, but the first WW makes me give Jenkins the benefit of the doubt.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:50 pm Ok Ill say what others wont....isn't she a little old to be playing a lithe agile super villain? I mean she is 47. I creak and hurt all over. I cant immerse myself in that. I remember thinking Pfeiffer was too old for Catwoman. Of course I was young then and anyone much older than me was old...looking back she was the best. But still.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:16 pm Ok George Clooney was too old for Batman and he was just 36.

raydude wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:43 pmEthan Hunt

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:27 pm Well, this thread did derail into a mall discussion previously.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:57 pm Bond did get too old. Hunt and Ironman are old but they dont come across as old.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:32 pm Yeah, not too sure about that casting choice. To be honest, not to sure about the villain choice itself. There’s a wealth of other great villains to choose from. Going with catwoman light seems kind of uninspired.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:50 pm Ok Ill say what others wont....isn't she a little old to be playing a lithe agile super villain? I mean she is 47. I creak and hurt all over. I cant immerse myself in that. I remember thinking Pfeiffer was too old for Catwoman. Of course I was young then and anyone much older than me was old...looking back she was the best. But still.

Grifman wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 6:29 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:32 pm Yeah, not too sure about that casting choice. To be honest, not to sure about the villain choice itself. There’s a wealth of other great villains to choose from. Going with catwoman light seems kind of uninspired.

Cheetah is WW's classic opponent and she'd easily kick Catwoman's ass - she's anything but Catwoman light. I think the trailer looked great. I loved the first WW and was happily surprised by how well Gadot pulled it off. I am very much looking forward to this and am saddened that I won't be seeing it in the theaters

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:00 pm It was the patriarchy that created her. And a kinky one at that.

Feminist activist Gloria Steinem, who grew up reading Wonder Woman comics, was a key player in the restoration of Wonder Woman's powers and traditional costume, which were restored in issue #204 (January–February 1973). Steinem, offended that the most famous female superhero had been depowered, had placed Wonder Woman (in costume) on the cover of the first issue of the American feminist magazine Ms. (1972) – Warner Communications, DC Comics' owner, was an investor – which also contained an appreciative essay about the character.

Wonder Woman also appeared on the cover of the July–August 1997 issue of Ms. In the latter example, the retrospective issue depicts an illustrated version of the modernized version of Wonder Woman reading a copy of the original Ms. magazine, its cover showing the Golden Age representation of the character. As well, magazine covers formed a collage of Wonder Woman on the cover of the 35th anniversary issue of Ms. magazine in 2007.

Steinem once wrote:

"Wonder Woman's family of Amazons on Paradise Island, her band of college girls in America, and her efforts to save individual women are all welcome examples of women working together and caring about each other's welfare. The idea of such cooperation may not seem particularly revolutionary to the male reader. Men are routinely depicted as working well together, but women know how rare and therefore exhilarating the idea of sisterhood really is. Wonder Woman's mother, Queen Hippolyte, offers yet another welcome example to young girls in search of a strong identity. Queen Hippolyte founds nations, wages war to protect Paradise Island, and sends her daughter off to fight the forces of evil in the world... Wonder Woman symbolizes many of the values of the women's culture that feminists are now trying to introduce into the mainstream: strength and self-reliance for women; sisterhood and mutual support among women; peacefulness and esteem for human life; a diminishment both of "masculine" aggression and of the belief that violence is the only way of solving conflicts."