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PLANNING ON HEADING out to the cinema this weekend?
There are a few new movies out, but which is a must-watch, and are there any you should avoid?
We take a look.
What we know
This trashy big-screen version of the TV show is all about boobs, pecs, and trashy jokes.
What the critics say
What’s it rated?
What we know
In a sea of male superhero films comes Wonder Woman (played by Gal Gadot). The DC movie sees Diana of Themyscira being tasked to help fight in World War I, surprisingly.
What the critics say
What’s it rated?
What we know
A stop-motion Swiss film about a little boy (nicknamed Zucchini), who’s sent to an institution for orphans after accidentally killing his abusive mother.
What the critics say
What’s it rated?
Which one would you go see first?
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The critics feel the need to approve Wonder Woman cos it’s so ‘refreshingly’ female-centered, but really it looks bloody awful
@stephen kavanagh: Maybe it’s actually just a really good movie, unlike the last few DC universe films.
@Heroin Chic: It could never compare to the 80s TV series though, that wonderful tacky spinning effect when she was changing into Wonder Woman, it’s stayed with me always
@stephen kavanagh: have you seen it?
@stephen kavanagh: to be honest Stephen the trailers are all high quality – despite the absolute, unmitigated, embarrassing train wrecks that were Superman and Suicide Squad this actually looks good.
And surprise surprise – it’s getting very positive reviews with an RT score of 8.5.
So “it looks terrible” is really code for “I don’t like it”.
@Stephen Adam: Yeah sorry I’m basing my opinion on the Guardian review which absolutely trashed it, but everyone else seems very positive about it so I think I’d better shut up!
@stephen kavanagh: Oh yeah… it’s great like Ghostbusters. People are never mean about Women-centric movies.
@Titus Groan: Yeah ghostbusters got absolutely slaughtered, as it should have. So it’s unfair to say that Wonder Woman is only getting good reviews because of the female involvement.
@Heroin Chic: I know! They just conveniently forget things that contradict their opinion around here. No matter how recent.
@stephen kavanagh: Have you seen it? I have and it’s actually fantastic! 99% of films are about men, why do some guys have be all butthurt when there’s a female centered one? Grow up.
@Rui Firmino: the irony! “You’re so butt hurt – grow up” – what kind of grown up says that?
Wonder woman and Baywatch – the state of cinema today.
@An_Beal_Bocht: pffft what’s wrong with Wonder Woman?
You’ve also chosen to ignore the animated movie dealing with some pretty serious topics. Not to mention La La Land, Fences, hacksaw Ridge and other Hugh quality oscar winners and nominees.
“State of cinema today” indeed.
@Stephen Adam: La La Land was shite
@Shaun Hogan: I think you mean you didn’t like it. They’re not the same thing.
And suggesting that cinema today is in a poor state at a time when there’s a huge diversity of movies of enormous quality being made is just silly. Particularly in a country when our movies are getting such recognition.
@Stephen Adam: La la land, Hacksaw Ridge and Fences, that’s your comeback? Over-polished over blown over-sold Hollywood muck. Your right about one thing though, Irish films have been some of the best of the last 10 years but I don’t know how much commercial cinema attention they’ve garnered other than some of the McDonagh boys stuff
@An_Beal_Bocht: A jaysus , give it a break
Go to the cinema , switch off the brain , relax and just enjoy
That`s what movies are about
If you want a deep meaning message forget it
@An_Beal_Bocht: Mmmmmhmmmm. Right. You’re problem is that these days all Movies are overblown Hollywood muck? You’re yearning for the days when Hollywood was a simple place, without the glamour, Money and publicity? You’re a Purist eh?
Silly.
Apparently Wonder Woman is the highest rated comic book movie in rotten tomatoes history?
Thats enough for me to see it . Well that, plus Gal Gadot is stunningly beautiful.
@sup: the dark knight has 94% so nope
@Gareth Miskelly: spider man 2 93%
@sup: dark knight 94%
Just went to see it,, wasn’t bad at all, big improvement on D.Cs last two.
@gordon larney: I heard it was good alright and it’s DC so that can do what they want with it , but this Baywatch nonsense and similar re-hash projects has too shop. Starsky and Hutch was a classic but then they tried to do a film and it was dyer, there’s even a planned ‘Chips ‘ movie. WTF is next ?? Simon and Simon, Jake and the Fatman or Petrocelli anyone
@Nucky: I really enjoyed the rehash of Starsky&Hutch, they didn’t try to remake it like the series but went down the comedy route instead, 21 jump street was the same and i really enjoyed that too, that chips movie is already out and has been hammered by the critics, just like bay watch has been, so will give them two a miss, but at the end of the day it’s your money, go see, don’t go see, whatever floats your boat I suppose….
@Nucky: planned CHiPs movie? It’s come and gone.
Opened a couple of months ago
@William Clay: good glad I miss it
Wonder woman 92% on rotten tomatoes after 150 reviews sounds good to me!
@Gareth Miskelly: Guardian gave it two out of five stars and they’re normally reliable
@stephen kavanagh: peter bradshaw also gave spectre 5 stars so wouldnt always go by his ratings tbh…will be interesting to see what mark kermode makes of it….
@Gareth Miskelly: Very true!
@stephen kavanagh: then maybe don’t go see it! Free will and all that.
Seen Wonder Woman really great movie .. everybody should go see it
@James Reilly: can’t wait to see it on Saturday.
What film should you go to see*?
*provided you’re not banned from the cinema for being the wrong sex
@Lorem Ipsum: it’s tough to be a man
@sup: Pretty much equal level of toughness to being a woman, yet only one sex is worthy of legally dubious safe spaces from which the other is banned
@Lorem Ipsum: oh dear lord! Do fellas really give a shite about this? Honestly? And people call liberal women snowflakes, Christ!
@Will Phillips: The same reason women being banned from golf clubs bothers me. On this occasion I’m also bothered by the hypocritical, mewling response to any objections
@Roisin: If they can’t handle sharing a cinema with different kinds of people then ‘snowflakes’ is the least of what they deserved to be called
@Lorem Ipsum: of course they can handle it, it’s one night it’s not a cinema for women only unlike say some golf clubs. I’ve also seen men tweet the cinema saying they’ve bought tickets & the cinema has not said one thing about refusing entry only thanking them for their donation. I just don’t understand all the aggravation over one night, seems an absolute complete waste of energy & time.
@Lorem Ipsum: ah bless. There theee, pet
@Roisin: If they can handle it then why are they banning men? Seems like a waste of time and energy
@Bridget O’Hanlon: Your sarcasm would be more cutting if you could spell and punctuate. Or had a point.
@Lorem Ipsum: women didn’t ask the cinema to ban men. The cinema (a business) see Wonder Woman as an iconic female role model through the decades and thought it would be nice to have a female only showing with drinks. No doubt to make more money. I don’t remember this issue when they did it for Sex and the City!! You can still go to see it not that I’m convinced you ever were.
@Deborah Behan: You talk about “women” as if they were a hive mind. They aren’t. Some women (and some masochistic men) obviously support this sexist policy, since they’ve bought tickets for it. Others obviously support it since they’re indignantly defending it on twitter and in the media, and smearing anyone who disagrees as “sexist” (as per yesterday’s indo)
Saying you “[think] it would be nice” really doesn’t get you off the hook for supporting discrimination. It makes it worse. Why is it “nice” to rearrange the staff’s rosters so that no man sullies the projection room with his presence? Why is it “nice” that the theatre isn’t polluted by Y chromosomes? If that improves your enjoyment of a movie then you’re the sexist.
@Deborah Behan: Whether you’re banning gays from your bakery, women from your bar or men from your cinema, discrimination – however transient – is discrimination and anyone whose leisure time is enhanced by exclusion is pathetic.
Maybe you want the freedom to be pathetic? Fine. But that should apply to all discrimination and not just feminist approved forms
@Will Phillips: Men are banned, even the staff. I know of know “Ladies Night” promotion that bans people because of ascriptive traits like sex or race
@Lorem Ipsum: not banned, keep seeing this word again & again, it’s a female showing for two nights, that is all. I don’t remember all this uproar when there was female showings of sex & the city in Dublin, must be because you didn’t have enough social media to moan on.
Bay watch was crap. A couple of funny moments but goes to crap once they try to develop a third rate plot.
They’ve turned a supherero into a weaponised Smurfette.
Wonder Woman will become a camp classic.
Personally speaking im going to boycott
Wonderwoman, as gal gadot, the main actor is a zionist.
as a zionish she supports the illigal occupation of palestine. Most actors and singers are boycotting apartheid israel.
I’m looking forward to wonder woman. That’s my Monday afternoon sorted.
Wonder Woman was sh!t. Nearly 3 hours I’ll never get back!
@Mark Gerard Lochlain: poor plot? Storyline, acting, directing? What do you think it failed on?
Wonder Woman booked for Sat morning :)
Hopefully a nice quiet cinema………
FFS
Only the idiots here could turn a movie review into a feminist , zionist and social arguement
They are only movies
Escapism at its greatest
You have a choice , pay to see it or don`t but Jaysus give us a break with the constant drivel and shite
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