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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Lynda shows what Gal is missing : )
Oy! Such a nice Jewish girl!
I started to watch this before it left prime video. The first one was ok (It’s the only Marvel movie I’d seen in years) so I thought this might be too.
I could immediately tell it was garbage. I didn’t last 20 minutes (so I left during the first scene after a too long childhood flash back). Then I read the plot and it’s some wonky crap. Truly bizarre, some nonsense about a wish machine.
Chris Pine comes back to life in some other guys body...so technically Gal Gadot rapes that guy not that he’s aware of it.
Just garbage all around. Seems like everyone agrees. Staring at the wall for 2 hours is probably a better use of your time. I don’t know what is wrong with these hack writers. Some idiot could write some fan faction and would be better than this horse crap. They spent 200 million dollars making this.
The same cretins who would be terrified if someone to the right of Mao decided to write/produce something.
She is ridiculously gorgeous, but that movie was just a lumpy mess of idiocy. It was ghastly.
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