Is the “WW got good reviews because feminism” argument dead?

Is the “WW got good reviews because feminism” argument dead? Mar 18, 2018 19:00:59 GMT DC-Fan likes this

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Post by thisguy4000 on Mar 18, 2018 19:00:59 GMT

Mar 18, 2018 18:47:49 GMT damngumby said:

Mar 18, 2018 18:13:36 GMT thisguy4000 said:

So who or what else have they been taking pity on? Being condescending doesn’t suddenly make your argument clever.

The DCEU. I thought that was quite clear in each of my posts on this topic. I mean, how the hell could you have missed that?

I think it also benefited from some pity reviews. You know, like when the dumb kid finally scores a C+ on a test and receives a disproportionate amount of adulation from the adults. DC is that kid. Wonder Woman is the C+.

Sure. Just browse through the Wonder Woman reviews. All the positive reviews that commented on how the DCEU finally got one right and hoped that WW was a sign that DC had learned from their mistakes, are reviews that were influenced by a sense of pity toward the sorry state of the DCEU after the BvS and SS disasters.

You're not exactly instilling a lot of confidence in a round five.

I don’t really see how that changes anything. If anything, that’s even more ridiculous of a notion than this idea that critics would take pity on a single movie. If critics thought that BvS and SS were bad (which they did) why would they take pity on the franchise that spawned those films?