NS: DC Fandome - New Wonder Woman 84 trailer

[icon_uk]

What more needs to be said!

Watch on YouTube

 

Comments

[iamrman]

I am so ready for this. 80's culture is my jam. Cheetah is giving me Cats vibes though.

[deh_tommy]

At least this Cat’s supposed to be scary.

[iamrman]

Fair point.

[janegray]

Not gonna watch the trailer.

I already know I will crawl through glass to watch this movie, so I want it to be a completely spoiler-free experience.

Can't wait!

[dan_ingram]

Just to be evil, I'll spoiler something super important.

Fanny-pack!

My evil is unmatched!

[janegray]

You monster!

[bradygirl_12]

I already know I will crawl through glass to watch this movie, so I want it to be a completely spoiler-free experience.

Can't wait!

Ha, ha, me, too! I peeked at the trailer, but mostly I'm a spoiler-free gal. :)

Looks good to me. I think it will be a lot better than people expect, but we shall see. :)

[deh_tommy]

Please be good, please be good, please be good...

[mazway_75]

Wiig looks better than I thought, I admit wary on her casting but hardly the first time a "this will never work" ends up being great.

Just jealous of the folks in the alternate universe without the pandemic who already got to enjoy it, Black Widow, Tenet....

[bruinsfan]

This and Antebellum are the two I've been impatiently waiting to see.

[zenfrodo]

As someone who grew up in the '80s -- grade/middle school in '70s, hs & college in '80s -- that trailer has the look & feel of being done by folks who didn't and are just relying on the TVTropes page and misdated YouTube vids for research. None of those people look anything like 1980s, nor even 1970s-hangers-on. (Want a real example of what a 1970s person looked like when they were trying to be 1980s-modern? https://youtu.be/WhkeAEAJLcw). The 1980s generation are the early GenXers and the last wave of Boomers -- early Baby Boomers were our parents, and their parents were those who survived WWII. If this WonderWoman & Trevor are supposed to be WWII folks, that's my *grandparents*, the "Greatest Generation", not these grinning folks acting confused over parachute pants.

They forget that decades aren't separate. A decade is attached to and grows from what came before -- things cross over, continue, are still popular and take forever to fade. Folks hang on to the styles they're used to, old tech takes a long while to fade because people can't/won't replace what they've already got until it's no longer viable, etc. Early-to-mid '80s still had a lot of late 1970s in it!

For example, CDs & digital recording splashed into the mid1980s -- but they weren't made in the US until 1984, and were still mostly imported from Japan/Sony; radio stations boasted about their small collections of CDs as a selling point because of "no skips, great sound quality"...but all the radio stations I worked at (actual live DJs! Who got to select their own music within the station format!), up through the mid1990s, had massive vinyl collections & turntables & reel-to-reel tapes as the backbones of their programming. I bought '45s and vinyl LPs & cassettes all thru the '80s. I didn't get my own CD player until 1989, when the prices were finally cheap enough that I could afford a player and the CDs, and even then, I (and everyone I knew) had my records & cassettes up through the late 1990s.

1984? MTV was still playing almost all music. New Wave music was still big, but MTV was finally allowing black artists into its playlists, mostly those accepted by mainstream white audiences (Prince, Micheal Jackson, Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Whitney, el DeBarge, Ray Parker Jr). Outside of MTV, Duran Duran, Def Leppard, Journey, the Police, Culture Club, the Pretenders, Billy Joel, Elton John, Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Alan Parsons, Van Halen -- those were the mainstream radio artists. Band Aid was that year, too. Oh, and "Happy Days" was finally cancelled in 1984 -- y'know, the popular 1950s nostalgia sitcom.

MC Hammer and his "parachute pants" weren't until **1990**, when "Can't Touch This" hit, and rap & hiphop were all over the airwaves . In the 1980s, no one I knew wore parachute pants -- not even at the state college I went to, sure as HELL not in 1984. Granted, I'm in the Midwest; maybe it was different in NYC & DC. Imitating Michael Jackson's buckles & zippers was the fad fashion in 1984 (or Boy George, if you could handle getting assaulted for being gay -- homophobia was still accepted then), along with safety pins & massive back-combed, permed & feathered hair, and rock-concert t-shirts, and blue-jeans (cropped, stonewashed, dyed teal and pink and turquoise), loose turtlenecks, legwarmers, tights, spandex, satin jackets, etc etc.

So...what's this old person saying? That trailer ain't no 1984.

[toby_wan_kenobi]

...I've been around for at least a decade less than you have, fellow old, and I'm not sure why you're expecting historical accuracy from Hollywood.

If you'd like an off-the-cuff in-universe explanation, the cultural development of Wonder Woman's Earth was accelerated by the malevolent influence of Darkseid, who wanted the "Greed is Good" speech from "Wall Street" to happen earlier.

[zenfrodo]

I'm not asking for nitpicky historical accuracy, but anything billing itself as "Wonder Woman 1984" should at least make an effort of getting in the ballpark of what the 1980s actually looked/sounded/felt like.

Nothing about that trailer looked "1980s". Hollywood tosses history out the window, but it's done much better jobs of portraying the look/feel of various time periods.

[deh_tommy]

The first film’s WWI setting was basically just WWII with a trench, so par for the course really.

That being said, Patty Jenkins actually was an ‘80s kid, so I’d like to wait and see.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, the parachute pants confused me a little, but as my fashion memories are filtered through living in rural Scotland at the time, I looked them up.

They apparently were a thing as early as the early 80's, but they looked very different.

They were called parachute pants because of the nylon fabric, not the voluminous fit, which MC Hammer made famous, that's a much later iteration and are "harem pants"

[raspberryrain]

Not whatever Hammer was wearing.

Parachute pants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_pants

ETA: I'm a little younger than you, and I think they did OK. Maybe some of Barbara's wardrobe is a little temporally off one way or another. But the costume design, so far, all seems at least reasonable to me. There was a lot of variation in how people dressed in different regions and subcultures at the time.

[leahandillyana]

Man this will be shit. So disappointing.

[icon_uk]

If I might ask, what makes you feel that?

No hassle to answer and no judgement, just curious.

[leahandillyana]

I find every single DCEU film other than the first Wonder Woman to be absolute worst, and from the trailers alone I can tell that WW84 lacks the strong narrative arc of the previous film. Plus, the imaginery is so silly, like, this is something that might fit a classic magical girl series, not a PG rated movie.

[lordultimus]

I'm predicting this will be a "Frozen II" in that it's a sequel to a popular film that, while not widely hated, will generate a LOT of discussion due to the impact the first one made.

(Not that there aren't people who hate Frozen II, I just mean that opinions are all over the place with that film.)