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minoanmissWD and I saw Atomic Blonde. I liked it (stylish, pleasantly violent, great period piece, great soundtrack) with a caveat.
The one negative review of Wonder Woman which I read cited the deaths of Amazons in the battle with the Germans as proof that the people who made the movie "hate women". I thought this was a very shallow view of the deaths of warriors in battle and the kind of statement that people latch onto as proof of the other side's ridiculousness when deriding efforts to make female characters matter.
Meanwhile, though, in Atomic Blonde a female character is killed in part to fridge her to give her love interest angst, and even though she fought back well enough to be plot relevant (she injured her murderer enough for various other bits of plot to happen) it still left a bad taste in my mouth, what with her being sexily half naked and dying a lingering death with her murderer atop her as he kills her.
So that's my caveat. Astute viewers will see that death coming from a ways off, but/and may not want to watch that death at all. OTOH, both before and after there's lots of Charlize Theron beating up many many people to an awesome soundtrack, so, minuses and pluses.
The one negative review of Wonder Woman which I read cited the deaths of Amazons in the battle with the Germans as proof that the people who made the movie "hate women". I thought this was a very shallow view of the deaths of warriors in battle and the kind of statement that people latch onto as proof of the other side's ridiculousness when deriding efforts to make female characters matter.
Meanwhile, though, in Atomic Blonde a female character is killed in part to fridge her to give her love interest angst, and even though she fought back well enough to be plot relevant (she injured her murderer enough for various other bits of plot to happen) it still left a bad taste in my mouth, what with her being sexily half naked and dying a lingering death with her murderer atop her as he kills her.
So that's my caveat. Astute viewers will see that death coming from a ways off, but/and may not want to watch that death at all. OTOH, both before and after there's lots of Charlize Theron beating up many many people to an awesome soundtrack, so, minuses and pluses.
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Date: 2017-07-31 01:58 pm (UTC)I'm hoping this will be a perfect half of a double-feature with "Proud Mary" (have you seen the trailer? I have GREAT HOPES for that movie and I hope they don't fuck it up.)
I am absolutely here for middle aged women kicking ass and taking names and wreaking great havok.
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Date: 2017-07-31 09:08 pm (UTC)CHARLIZE THERON'S BACK MUSCLES. I made an involuntary noise of awed delight when they focused upon them.
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Date: 2017-08-01 09:08 pm (UTC)I really really need to watch the trailer for Proud Mary. I am aquiver with anticipation!
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Date: 2017-08-02 09:43 pm (UTC)I have finally seen the trailer for Proud Mary, and I think they would indeed make a splendid double feature of awesome. WOOT. :D
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Date: 2017-08-01 05:26 pm (UTC)Women kicking butt -- there's nothing like it. ;-)
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Date: 2017-08-02 09:42 pm (UTC)WOOT. (Oh, she's so glorious. And her BACK MUSCLES.)
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Date: 2017-09-08 08:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, true. As you said, you can see it coming: Watsonianly speaking, she had no business doing what she was doing (although I'm sure that "heavily undertrained and emotionally unsuitable people being thrown into the spy pool to swim with the sharks" wasn't/isn't unheard of), but in Doylean terms she could've just sent Lorraine the photos and disappear (heck, she could've helped her in Paris later) instead of being fridged by the Spy Ferret. It's not as if Lorraine didn't have enough reasons to kill him anyway, what with him having read the list.
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Date: 2017-09-14 08:53 pm (UTC)I was v. v. angry about the fridging in A.B. I would have much rather her have outright betrayed the main character so that at least there was a "good" reason for it, but J. MacAvoy's character was a bit of a Gary Stu, so yeah. The fridging was gross. Which was too bad because I just want to watch Charlize kick all the ass in all the action movies, ever.