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This movie lost me in the first 10 minutes.


I can’t quite understand how the Amazon society works.

Apparently Amazons are mostly Nordic White women mixed inexplicably with blacks and no Asians since when they are excluded from movies they don’t riot, kill and rape white Women like blacks.
Given the location of the island (close to England) and when it was settled there is no explanation how blacks could live there, Whites + Asians on the other end could be possible.

That being said since there are no men, how is it possible for the Amazons not to go extinct ?
If they don’t age how come there are women of all ages ?
Who and where are the dads of all the women living on the island beside Wonder Woman ?



After Chris Pine arrives on the island the Amazons instantly attack German sailors. No warning, no declaration of war nothing.
Unprovoked they just rain arrows on them and execute the survivors. How they dealt with the warship and the rest of the German forces is unknown.

Since Wonder Woman is apparently immortal why did the pretty White woman took a bullet for her and in fact why Wonder Woman even has “body armor” and a shield ?
I mean she’s pretty much Superman since bullets, shrapnel nor poison gas can harm her and she more or less flies as well. Plus since she has the shockwave thing and super human strength why does she even needs a sword she could just punch people.



It was surprising seeing Wonder Woman at end of movie execute the unarmed and knocked out German general.



In the end this was just the nth shitty superhero movie that made a trillion dollars thanks to paid for positive reviews and wall to wall brainwashing/advertising. If the lead had been a man instead of a completely unattractive woman my opinion would be the same.


PS. This is the kind of movie where all Germans speak English and apparently Amazons speak English as well among them instead of say Greek.

Ah the 3D Blu-Ray thanks to Warner Brothers crippling the 3d effect and audio isn’t worth what it costs new.

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Since Zeus created Wonder Woman I believe that all Amazons are made by him.

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Just a quick comment on one of your points. Immortal does not mean indestructible
or unkillable. It just means they do not die in the course of living. (Note, I did not say it means they don't age. There is a famous Greek myth that addresses that.)

So, depending on the being, of course, an immortal will never die of old age. But if you shoot one in the head, they will die. (Again, depending on the immortal. Amazons would die. Greek gods would not. Centaurs, probably would die. Satyrs, maybe. )

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OP, I am comforted and soothed that a toad like you is unhappy. I imagine there a lot of things that lose you in the first 10 minutes, female companionship being 1 of the first of them.

Have fun choking on your own bile.

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You don't deserve fun movies.

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I definitely do not endorse the specific arguments of the OP, but I do find this film to be a reckless mash up of cultures that don't belong in the same story, unless it were done much more artfully. This is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies territory. (Not that I have seen these two particular films, but the concept alone ! ...)
And WW seems to want to be taken seriously, at least to a degree, but it seems incredibly silly, like it was written and supervised by a teenager. Sorry !

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I will put it this way: I think that this movie was as artful and sensible... as a movie about immortal Amazons and Gods faffing about during WW1 could be!

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and think it's a shame you didn't do so as well. It's better to have fun than not to have fun, you know?

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I see your point. It does look like one could simply consider it for it's fun value, but at some point we end up being chuckle-heads who will enjoy anything.
I don't absolutely hate it; it just seems silly to watch this comely lass in hot pants and bright colors bounding around this bloody, dreary landscape.

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I am happy to be a person who can thoroughly enjoy stupid movies, while knowing that they're stupid! That way I get the benefit of both believing in the acuteness of my critical facilities, and the enjoyment of watching stupid movies that aren't meant to make sense, as well as camp movies or weird movies or cheesy movies. Life is more fun when you laugh, instead of over-analyzing things that were never meant to be taken seriously.

You probably have reason you like being the way you are, but I don't want to change.

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That's just a sillynsuperstition.

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If the lead had been a man instead of a completely unattractive woman my opinion would be the same.

Gal Gadot is "a completely unattractive woman"??

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clearly op is gay.

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Must be!

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