Star Spangled Bikini
Sep. 4th, 2008 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaNot to diss any Green Lantern fans out there, but when the hell are we going to get a proper Wonder Woman movie!
Newsarama reports on the conceptual look of the up coming Green Lantern movie, and really all I can think is that DC should spend some time on the Third party of the Big Three, instead of trying to promote a character who is much more esoteric to non-comic book aficionados.
Superman Returns wasn't the box office success Warner and DC thought it would be (bad plot and eh characterisation) and the new Batman's are everything they wanted and more.
Where are the women?
I know there's lots of eye-rolling when it comes to this sort of argument, but is it really too much to ask that super heroines be produced with the same gumption as the heroes. That they get the same kind of hype like The Dark Knight and Spiderman got?
Is it too much to ask that someone I can actually identify with on more than just the ideal level appear before me in all her glory?
Why must my idles be relegated to this:
Not that these are bad in any way, I'd buy these for my nephews and niece if I had the cash to splurge on a Mattel Barbie doll.
But seriously folks, the girls can do more than just be a plot prop or the hero's helper. They can actually be the plot, move the action along, a protagonist extraordinaire.
What is mainstream Hollywood's fear, exactly? That men will actually identify with women, or that women will identify with women?
Both are obviously bad for Business.
Newsarama reports on the conceptual look of the up coming Green Lantern movie, and really all I can think is that DC should spend some time on the Third party of the Big Three, instead of trying to promote a character who is much more esoteric to non-comic book aficionados.
Superman Returns wasn't the box office success Warner and DC thought it would be (bad plot and eh characterisation) and the new Batman's are everything they wanted and more.
Where are the women?
I know there's lots of eye-rolling when it comes to this sort of argument, but is it really too much to ask that super heroines be produced with the same gumption as the heroes. That they get the same kind of hype like The Dark Knight and Spiderman got?
Is it too much to ask that someone I can actually identify with on more than just the ideal level appear before me in all her glory?
Why must my idles be relegated to this:
Not that these are bad in any way, I'd buy these for my nephews and niece if I had the cash to splurge on a Mattel Barbie doll.But seriously folks, the girls can do more than just be a plot prop or the hero's helper. They can actually be the plot, move the action along, a protagonist extraordinaire.
What is mainstream Hollywood's fear, exactly? That men will actually identify with women, or that women will identify with women?
Both are obviously bad for Business.
