Wonder Woman

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Posttrack showed that women over 25 (37%) led the charge into theaters, followed by men over 25 (35%), then men under 25 (15%) and women under 25 (13%).

Well this is awkward, after 50 years of action movies for men it turns out women like them too? Who knew? Why didn't they say something?

I thought that the new Ghostbusters was pretty crappy. But then I am fairly sure that if I rewatched the original (which I haven't seen since I saw it in the cinema long long ago) I'd think that was a bit crap too. Slapstick style comedies are usually pretty awful IMO. The attacks on it were unpleasant.

There were a lot of angry comments under the trailers for Rogue One too. Female lead, multicultural team, not enough white guys (who weren't villains), how very dare Disney be so PC etc etc. Didn't stop the film from being very successful of course. Although that was another film with a female star and virtually no women at all in any of the rest of the cast. Which really took something away from the watching experience for me as soon as I noticed.

We saw this last weekend and all loved it. Our 9 year old was fine with it, though the war scenes and gassings were quite strong. DH said repeatedly how much he'd enjoyed it, more than he was expecting. We both discussed the fact it had proper plotting, likeable characters, humour, pathos and a heart, unlike many noisy superhero films.

We also discussed the island scenes in the car on the way home, especially how it was good to see a film dominated by female characters in a reversal of the usual pattern where the film is totally male-dominated with a token woman - LOTR/Hobbit films, I'm looking at you! Agree with whoever said it was great to see older actresses in such strong, leading roles. It was a shame it so quickly reverted to exactly that once they were back 'in the real world.' However, DH agreed it was interesting in the island section to see how most action films must be experienced by women.

I thought Gal Godot was OK but found her a bit robotic. Maybe it's the accent, but she reminded me of Arnie in the first Terminator film.

Although that was another film with a female star and virtually no women at all in any of the rest of the cast

This is where I get annoyed actually - like in Doctor Who last week - there they are, moralising and being progressive, then there's one female guard in the big group of male guards on the ship, and who's sent to the kitchen? Yep her. Contrast with something like Black Mirror who used a mix of women and men in all parts in the cast.