[unkn0wnx]

Not sure if my opinion annoys the hell out of people, but anyway.
Gal Gadot is too skinny. No chest no curves.

[TC2]

I agree. I mean, she still portrayed Wonder Woman in a way that was fun and engaging, but she definitely doesn’t have the Wonder Woman physique. Her amazonian sisters had the better bulk.

[unkn0wnx]

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/20-female-superheroes-who-deserve-their-own-movie/2900-1269/?ftag=ACQa2186e3&vndid=1861106511&nan_pid=1861106511&ad_id=6450898
She -hulk now (good casting please)!

[Nick Furry]

17 lbs she gained for WW movie. yeah, right! (max level sarcasm)

http://people.com/bodies/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-transformation/from-miss-israel-to-superhero

[stevexyz]

They don’t get it, and I fear they never will.

[AlexG]

They don’t get it, and I fear they never will.

Oh, they do get it. They just reject it as an archetype for superheroines – meaning a woman with noticeable, serious muscular development as a factor in her overall appearance.

This would be just as true if they made a movie featuring Thundra or She-Hulk as the central character of the story.

Most likely in the case of the latter, they go w/ a John Byrne interpretation – ultra tall, amply endowed gal w/o any degree of athletic muscle.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[stevexyz]

As Johnny Cash once sang, “I hang my head and cry.”

[AlexG]

As Johnny Cash once sang, “I hang my head and cry.”

Just the way of the mainstream movie making culture, currently speaking.

I had to think, when was the last time there was an actress with visible muscularity that had a leading role in a superhero movie? There probably are others, but off hand, the one that came most readily to my mind was Jessica Biel in Blade Trinity, which was came out in 2004 – now going on fourteen years ago.

Is the interest in the femuscular phenomena, I’m starting to wonder, if that it’s generational in nature? Late Baby Boomers and Gen Xrs that in the 80s and 90s were exposed to concept of femuscular females as a positive archetype in pop culture- such as American Gladiators, Cory Everson in the Hercules series, female bodybuilding contests being regularly aired on ESPN, also on ESPN, a number of workout programs with buffed fems like Bodyshaping, and especially FLEX magazine workout, which had a number of well-known FBBrs featured on the program.

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Have to make an add-in amended addendum to this post 4/18/2018

I should have given some mention to Kristanna Loken in T3 The Rise of the Machines (2003),
which came out @ about the same time.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-X

Loken had to gain over 15 pounds of muscle to portray the T-X.

Unfortunately, outside of her (mostly) nude arrival scene @ the beginning of the movie,
she was covered up by her outfit, so we never got to see her show off the gains in size/development w/ her physique.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[stevexyz]

Only two I can think of off the top of my head are NAPOLEON DYNAMITE and THE CELL, neither one a superhero movie, of course. Angela Basset had a muscle or two in WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT. Spice Williams in Star Trek, but that did nothing for me. Maybe it’s because Harry Winebeerstein tried to get them on the casting couch and they kicked his big butt.

[fasola]

[quote=”stevexyz” post=132009]As Johnny Cash once sang, “I hang my head and cry.”

Just the way of the mainstream movie making culture, currently speaking.

I had to think, when was the last time there was an actress with visible muscularity that had a leading role in a superhero movie? There probably are others, but off hand, the one that came most readily to my mind was Jessica Biel in Blade Trinity, which was came out in 2004 – now going on fourteen years ago.

Is the interest in the femuscular phenomena, I’m starting to wonder, if that it’s generational in nature? Late Baby Boomers and Gen Xrs that in the 80s and 90s were exposed to concept of femuscular females as a positive archetype in pop culture- such as American Gladiators, Cory Everson in the Hercules series, female bodybuilding contests being regularly aired on ESPN, also on ESPN, a number of workout programs with buffed fems like Bodyshaping, and especially FLEX magazine workout, which had a number of well-known FBBrs featured on the program.[/quote]

Yeah, Biel is the last one that comes to mind. We’ll have to wait and see how Evangeline Lilly looks in “Ant-man and The Wasp”

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