Posted on 12/31/2020 5:58:32 PM PST by Rummyfan
It’s the single question that haunts all Americans as they turn the page on a dreadful year: Why is “Wonder Woman 1984” so bad?
Why did this eagerly anticipated follow-up to the delightful 1917 “Wonder Woman” — starring the same stunning Gal Gadot and directed by the same Patty Jenkins and released for our homebound viewing on HBO Max as a Christmas Day gift to its subscribers — have to stink up the joint like no comic-book movie has since “Howard the Duck” in 1986?
You know things are going wrong at the outset, when we find Diana Prince, Wonder Woman’s alter ego, working at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1984.
In the comics and on TV, Diana worked for the Department of Defense, which made sense, because she is supposed to be the world’s greatest warrior.
But in 2020 Hollywood, with President Trump in the White House, no movie with its heart in the right — by which I mean the left — place could possibly install our heroine in proximity to US militarism. Because, of course, Pentagon bad! Guns bad! (“I hate guns,” says Wonder Woman as she crumples one, which is generous of her, since she has magic bracelets that deflect bullets.) Oh, and since this is 1984, every third scene features someone walking around with a “No Nukes” sign.
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I expect to see at least one picture of Gal Gadot posted here. Folks, don’t disappoint me!
I am glad it fails. For so many reasons.
I’m not a fan of the super hero genre, but my wife said it is unwatchable.
[Can I tell you about more dumbfounding stuff? Wonder Woman wishes for her dead boyfriend to come back to life, and he does, in the person of Chris Pine, who’s the best thing in the movie. He’s been gone since World War I, and so the world of 1984 fills him with awe — especially when she takes him into the subway and he marvels at the train coming through.]
OOOOF! Right between the ribs!!!!
Done with marvel and DC comics
My son wants to watch it. From what I’m seeing here and elsewhere, I’m not really sure I want to!
They just had a lousy story line. The character of Stagg came from the comic, but the story just fell flat, especially the unbelievable end. If they were going to pull from the comic, lots better stories. Glad I didn’t pay theater prices.
Not guilty
Hollywood is a disaster.
JoMa
WW84 is a fascinating movie and really a perfect vehicle for the era in that so many different people can focus their wokeness, triggers, and gripes on the movie and claim that their own particular gripe is the singular worst thing about the movie.
From the “wonder woman raped a guy” trope, to the fashion, to various aspects of air flight, to the indignity of allowing an Israeli actress to touch Arab children and oh so much more. Every twitter addict who hates the movie is so eager to showcase their ideology and WW84 lets every one of them be right. It’s a masterpiece of failure. If only it were a halfway good movie.
It was filled with anti-anti-Communist tripe--and a terrible faux pas in geography. When Indy is packing to leave the university after the KGB tried to abduct him and his son, he is asked by Marcus Brody where he will go. Indy responds that he is going to go teach at the University of Leipzig.
Leipzig was located in East Germany.
I realized that the screen writers simply had no real grounding in the actual Cold War.
Did they include all those celebrities without makeup singing Imagine to us peons in the movie soundtrack?
Of which, Gal Gadot, took part, as well.
As the article says, HBO is streaming it for free. That’s the only positive thing I can say, having watched it
It was definitely my favorite Lea Thompson and Jeffrey Jones movie.
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