My main issue with Wonder Woman is how they spent the entire movie setting up that there is no Satan character controlling humanity and war happens because we're all just kinda assholes, and then we have the amazing scene of Wonder Woman realizing killing Ludendorff didn't end the war, but then Ares just pops out and turns out to be real and we get a big punch fest. Like yeah you can probably still find ways to excuse his existence but still it feels like it cheapens the movie's theme.
IMO they should have just made that Ares isn't real (but they don't have the balls to do that) and that humanity isn't as simple as Diana thought it was, which would make Steve's sacrifice even more emotional as it shows men are still good.
Other than that it's great.
I both agree and disagree with you. I don't think Ares being real really shoots the message.
I mean, think about it, what does he do in the movie? Basically nothing. At worse he gives some ideas of weapons to Poison and other people and that's it. He doesn't mind control them. It's the equivalent of making several people sitting next to each other then putting some gun on the table and then sitting behind them while saying nothing. True, he influences them but he never truly forces them or manipulates them to kill each other, it's up to them to decided wether or not they'll use his ideas, in fact, he even gives everybody a chance to be proven wrong in the movie since he proposes a peace treaty. If you think about it, the real villain is Ludendorf, its him who created the superweapon and wanted to use it. It's actually kind of clever. Yes, there's the part where suddenly all soldiers around him stop fighting but aside from that (and even then it can be excused by his nature as the God of War so he would passively influence events), his role is not directly influencing the movie. I thought it was quite clever, Ares exists but he's not the source of the problem, he barely gives a "push" in a bad direction but that's it, because mankind doesn't need a supernatural bad guy to cause problems (there were other wars before WWI and Ares was too weak at the time to act) and just because he's not there to cause problems doesn't mean humans will stop killing each other, as we all know unfortunately.
I also really liked his powers, in ten minutes he shows a rather spectacular display of abilities even some people who have had several movies don't have and his telekinesis is perhaps the best and most impressive form I've seen in a live-action movie (since he uses it for something else than toss shit at them), it literally goes to transmutation levels. And his music is excellent as well.
My real problem with Ares is that they introduced him
way sooner than they should have. Ares is the equivalent of Darkseid for Superman or Ra's for Batman, you don't see him often but when you do, things are taken to a whole different level of bad. He's not supposed to be some starter villain, he should have been the final antagonist of a trilogy, a villain buildt up through several films, maybe first as a mythological being in the first one then we continue to hear about him in the second and he finally appears in the third in a grand finale to be the ultimate challenge he should have been.
Green (Will)
Red (Rage)
Orange (Greed)
Yellow (Fear)
Blue (Hope)
Indigo (Compassion)
Violet (Love)
️ Black (Death)
️ White (Life)
