« We’re gonna have another movie, so who knows? Maybe the next one, » says Gal Gadot, star of the 2016 hit superheroine film « Wonder Woman »
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Even though “Wonder Woman” was one of the biggest movies of 2017 with more than $400 million in domestic receipts, it didn’t manage to garner any Academy Award nominations when those were announced on Tuesday — a fact that drew the ire of a lot of devoted fans of the Gal Gadot-starring comic book flick. In fact, a few hours after the nomination announcement, “Wonder Woman” was the highest trending movie title on Twitter in the U. S.
Gadot herself isn’t sweating it, but she did talk about that whole thing to Entertainment Tonight at a Revlon event Wednesday night .
“I was very moved and touched by the feedback of all the people that were disappointed that ‘Wonder Woman’ wasn’t nominated. But we certainly never did the movie for that,” Gadot said. “I think that you can’t have it all. We’ve done this movie and it was received in such an amazing, wonderful way, and we want to stay humble and grateful, and we’re gonna have another movie, so who knows? Maybe the next one.”
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Maybe the next one, indeed. There are many factors to consider here, of course. First, it wouldn’t be surprising in the least if “Wonder Woman 2” lands a nod or two at the Oscars in technical categories. Second, it would be surprising if it got more than just technical nominations — “Logan” was the first superhero comic book movie ever to get a nomination for its screenplay. Even “The Dark Knight,” considered by many to be the high watermark for superhero movies and which garnered a whopping eight nominations, only got one that wasn’t in a tech category (Heath Ledger for Supporting Actor, which he posthumously won).
This is the part where I point out that while the Oscars are an exciting and fun celebration of cinema, it’s totally okay if the movies you think are the best of the year are movies they didn’t pick — and it’s also okay for them to pick things that aren’t what you think are the best of the year.
Every DC Comics Movie Ranked From Worst to Best, Including ‘Justice League’
The DC Comics universe hasn’t flooded the big screen quite the way Marvel ones have, but the DC brand has been hitting the big screen longer in the modern era. We ranked all those modern flicks, from « Superman: The Movie » to « Wonder Woman » and « Justice League. »
32. « Jonah Hex » (2010)
Despite the efforts of Josh Brolin and Michael Fassbender, this is one of the worst comic book movies of the modern era.
31. « Superman IV: The Quest for Peace » (1987)
Christopher Reeve is by far the best Superman. But « Superman IV » is a bomb in every sense — partly because of its heavy-handedness about bombs. Nuclear bombs. The film finds Superman trying to eliminate the world’s nuclear threat, but his best intentions run afoul of a silly, badly dated villain named Nuclear Man.
30. « Supergirl » (1984)
We had a female-superhero movie in 1984, and it was pure cheese. But hey, at least they tried. The best thing I can say about it is there are worse things in life than this movie.
29. « Suicide Squad » (2016)
Less a movie than it is a fever dream of unrelated sequences and montages that somehow end up using more than two hours of your time. Totally incomprehensible experience.
And, no, the extended cut doesn’t do anything that warrants improving its standing .
28. « Steel » (1997)
Best known as « the one Shaq was in back when he tried acting, » « Steel » is pretty bad. But the fun kind of bad.
27. « Justice League »
Warner Bros has continued to innovate in how to make bad DCEU movies, with « Justice League » managing to be terrible in a totally different way from « Batman v Superman » and « Suicide Squad. »
26. « Man of Steel » (2013)
Could have been worse, I guess. But it’s still morally gross and has a plot that doesn’t make sense. That it’s very pretty to look at doesn’t override those things nearly enough to make it watchable.
25. « Catwoman » (2004)
Thoroughly horrible, but somehow amusing even so. Sad that it’s seemingly been swept into the litter box of history.
24. « Batman & Robin » (1997)
Rightly hated, but it’s tremendously entertaining here and there. Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwarzeneggar are going so far over the top I can’t help but admire them.
23. « Superman III » (1983)
Featured a brilliant corporate rip-off — one later referenced in « Office Space » — but the attempt to funny things up with the addition of Richard Pryor didn’t gel. There was also a weird bit about a weather satellite creating bad weather, which isn’t what weather satellites do. Seeing Clark Kent fight Superman was pretty cool, though.
22. « Green Lantern » (2011)
Overreliance on cartoony visual effects during a period when big blockbusters were moving away from that aesthetic meant this was a movie nobody liked. Not that it was especially horrible. It just looked like a dumb cartoon and is hard to watch.
21. « The Dark Knight Rises » (2012)
Probably wasn’t intended to be a grim and gritty Shumacher Batmovie, but that is indeed what it is. This is Nolan going full Hollywood, smashing plot points into place by sheer force of will rather than because they make sense. An extremely theatrical Tom Hardy as Bane is amusing front to back, and a nuke with a countdown clock on it will never get old.
20. « Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice » (2016)
A total mess that hates Superman and turns Batman into a total maniac. None of those things are good. Ben Affleck can’t save the thing, but he’s excellent nonetheless and gives it a huge bump it probably doesn’t deserve.
19. « Watchmen » (2009)
I have no particular affection for the revered « Watchmen » comic the way a lot of other nerds do, so my distaste for this adaptation isn’t personal. It just doesn’t add up to nearly as much as it thinks it does.
18. « Batman » (1989)
Fondly remembered mostly because it was the first Batmovie in a couple decades. It isn’t actually very good, though. The reveal that a younger version of the Joker killed Bruce Wayne’s parents is as hamfistedly dumb as it gets in a « Batman » movie.
17. « V for Vendetta » (2006)
Felt nothing watching this. I tried, OK. It’s impeccably made, though, and very watchable.
16. « The Losers » (2010)
Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Zoe Saldana. How was this movie not amazing?
15. « Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition » (2016)
Giving this its own slot because it fundamentally changes the narrative of the movie and the character of Superman in the DC Extended Universe. This version is still not great (especially at three freaking hours), but it’s a monumental improvement over the theatrical version.
14. « Red 2 » (2013)
Did you even know these were comic book movies? Whatever, it’s a great cast in a serviceable action movie and everybody’s having a good time. Hard to remember, but fun.
13. « Red » (2010)
Better than its sequel, but they’re basically the same.
12. « The Dark Knight » (2008)
Should be way shorter, but Heath Ledger ‘s Joker is far and away the best villain in any of these movies. Ledger elevates what would otherwise be just another self-indulgent Christopher Nolan exercise into an endlessly watchable picture.
11. « Batman Forever » (1995)
Hits just the right tone for what Joel Shumacher was trying to do with the two films he directed. Tommy Lee Jones, as Two Face, is doing stuff in this movie that is hard to believe even today, given his perpetual sour face in nearly every other movie he’s been in.
10. « Superman Returns » (2006)
Actually a pretty decent attempt by Bryan Singer to do a Christopher Reeve « Superman » movie in the present day, but Brandon Routh couldn’t pull off the charisma it takes to be the Man of Steel.
