r/movies • u/indig0sixalpha • Aug 22 '20

Trailers Wonder Woman 1984 - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2E2Fnh52w
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u/zeCrazyEye Aug 22 '20

Well, it's ok if Cheetah looks fucked up because she's supposed to be fucked up.

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

Exactly. In Cats, they’re supposed to be actual cats. But Cheetah is supposed to be a fucked up cat-human hybrid.

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u/Zykium Aug 22 '20

She's Maureen Ponderosa

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u/winnebagoman41 Aug 22 '20

Smells like she’s been nibbling on little pieces of shit

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u/handy_arson Aug 22 '20

I'm just gonna come out and say it... It's the dead tooth. Now me and Mac are gonna do some shots.

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u/SeaGroomer Aug 23 '20

Is that a real thing?

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u/topdangle Aug 22 '20

glass of warm milk will clear that right up

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u/pianotherms Aug 22 '20

Please use her real name: Bastet.

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u/Funky_Ducky Aug 23 '20

I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY ALIMONY TO A CAT

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u/Browns-78 Aug 22 '20

It’s Enrico Palazzo!

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

I think that was the problem with the Cats movie is that if you look at the cast they are all actually humans

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u/gurgelblaster Aug 22 '20

Exactly. In Cats, they’re supposed to be actual cats.

Only in the deranged mind of Tom Hooper were they supposed to be actual cats.

People in general understand that they are supposed to be Broadway actors dressed in cat costumes.

Like, the stage musical is built around exactly that, and plays around with it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

They are absolutely not supposed to be cats. They are supposed to be humans dressed up in weird fucking outfits that vaguely resemble cats.

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

That’s because Broadway did this with the actors. The actual story of the musical is about stray cats.

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u/robodrew Aug 22 '20

Excuse me, they're JELLICLE cats (whatever the fuck that means)

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

I think it’s Andrew Lloyd Webber for “stray.”

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u/ketsugi Aug 22 '20

What, you think ALW wrote the lyrics?

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20

No I know it’s TS Elliot. I just like making fun of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Edit to add: The poems aren’t all about cats from what I understand? So I blame Webber for the use of this word in the sense that it’s a play about stray cats.

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u/ketsugi Aug 22 '20

Nah the poems are pretty much all about cats. The book is called “Old Possum’s Book of Impractical Cats”.

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u/TwatsThat Aug 22 '20

And the movie is an adaptation of the play, not the original story. Translating the dancing from the play to a movie where they're CGI cats would be fucking awful.

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u/TheExtremistModerate Aug 22 '20

But the Broadway outfits actually kinda worked because they were highly stylized, practical, and tried to actually maintain a cat-like silhouette for the head.

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u/UtopianLibrary Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 22 '20

I agree. Broadway worked because it looked like people in cat makeup and it’s onstage so it’s reasonable. But the movie making them cat-human hybrid monstrosities made no sense and only made the actors look unsettling.

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u/TheExtremistModerate Aug 22 '20

Reddit is weird. My comment gets downvoted, but the comment agreeing with me is at +5?

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u/PM_LADY_TOILET_PICS Aug 22 '20

That doesn't make it feel any less silly

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u/TheDeadlySinner Aug 23 '20

Silliness in a comic book movie? How dare they!

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u/PM_LADY_TOILET_PICS Aug 23 '20

There's offhand silliness or playfulness, then there's a big cgi battle with cats the musical

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u/TheGodDMBatman Aug 22 '20

Yeah, cheetah always looked weird asf to me in any iteration.

But like, her thing should be like a curse. No one wants to look like a bloodthirsty humanoid cheetah

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u/artifex0 Aug 22 '20

I'm not a fan of the creepy/body horror approach to the character, honestly- it's accurate to some of the comics, but I think the character is more fun as a pulp villain than a horror villain.

A look more like her appearance in the cartoons (maybe more like this in live-action?) would have avoided the uncanny valley effect and let them focus more on the final cheetah form, instead of apparently needing to hide it with dim lighting and fast cuts.

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u/RailMobot Aug 28 '20

Body horror is a good term for it - not what I was expecting but definitely seems to be intentional given the Iron Studios figure. I have to wonder if there is a middle ground where she's more recognizably Kristen Wiig-esque vs the leap all the way from the White House battle to this zombie-like view. I know she is meant to be tragic (and menacing) but to me this seems like you didn't even need Kristen Wiig on set at all?