The Birds of Prey Movie Has Found it's Villain

Mar 20, 2019 12:52:00 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

Mar 1, 2019 19:41:15 GMT General Kenobi said:

I trust Patty Jenkins choice. And Kristen has a lot of time to get in shape. Plus comedians have a rich history of giving surpringly serious and dark performances.

Oh. You are right. There have been a number of actors who have been mostly known for their Comedy roles that have done great jobs of playing serious and scary roles and Kristen might do a good job as Cheetah and I will give her a chance but I am just hoping they don't play down her fighting skills or make her a crappy fighter 'cause a lot of superhero movies and TV shows have done that with female characters or depowered them. We have all seen how much of a useless fighter the 'Arrowverse' made the Black Canary when she was one of the best martial artists in DC and they de-powered Saturn Girl down something fierce when she is meant to be the most powerful psychic superhero and can go inside people's minds and control their bodies. I am looking forward to finding out more about the movie but I am even more interesting in hearing more details about 'Wonder Woman: Bloodlines' since we know next to nothing about it and it is coming out this year. Hopefully we get an update about that soon.

Thing is a lot of the times those performances are done by comedic actors who also show a great skill even in their comedic roles, Williams even in his comedies could pull out some moving scenes, I have not seen enough of Wiig to comment on whether she has or hasn't done that herself, but I mean her co-star in several comedic films Melissa McCarthy just got nominated for a shitload of awards for a serious role, so who knows.

I would say though maybe don't expect a comedian to put on a serious performance in a comicbook movie in which she becomes a anthropomorphic cheetah, the depowering thing all depends, if Wiig cant do the stunts and it's too difficult to insert her double for fight scenes it's beyond their control at that point, the BC thing still annoys me and I blame the fans more than the show for that, people bitched about Laurel for 2 seasons, I mean they set her up in S1E1 I think as being able to already kick guys butts but because people moaned S2 saw her not develop this, more focus went onto OTA, Laurel had the addiction storyline, but again people bitched because they didn't get that Laurel was meant to be a bitch in S3 that's why they had that rare scene of Oliver sacking up and calling her on her shit, it wasn't accidental douchebaggery like Felicity, so then Guggy got control and made Laurel an overpaid extra and just rushed through her shit, so really blame the fans for being fuckwits on that one, as for Saturn Girl eh that's common sense really, if she was a main cast member or a 1 off guest star they could full power her because she was either not going to be around all the time or she was going to be a mainstay, you make her a reoccurring guest star that naturally means they need to devalue her as otherwise she would overshadow the lead and when she left it's like wait what the best character is leaving? fuck you!!

What are your thoughts Deb about the recent comments about WW 84, where it was said it's not a continuation or a sequel but a new story where we see where Diana goes from where we left her after WW1, which sounds like a sequel to me, one thing I kind of thought is what if the tone of the films takes inspiration from a different age of Wonder Woman, like ok that was bronze age Wonder Woman,  then we did modern age Wonder Woman now lets try silver age Wonder Woman, like the core of the character remains the same but each film kind of highlights more of a certain age's nuances to the character, but it's probably just hyperbole anyway and WW84 will be just a sequel, Hollywood types, I tell yah they just talk to talk sometimes.