Warning: spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984 follow. Wonder Woman 1984 has come to the end of a strange year for the cinema. If you've seen a big-screen blockbuster after March 2020, you're more or less in the minority; The pandemic has hit the industry hard, from the way movies are made to the way they look. But after a rocky 12 months, having a new DC Comics adaptation on HBO Max in the US. UU. And on the big screen elsewhere it should have marked a welcome end to 2020. However, it does not appear that the launch was a success. Some outlets have covered what is considered a negative or at least mixed reaction from fans to the film, something I find impossible to measure when the angriest voices are always amplified around big pop culture moments. However, I agree with the general feeling that the film is disappointing. But I think that's only part of the film's fault: time is a factor here, too. Wonder Woman 1984 sees Diana (Gal Gadot) living a secret life decades after the end of World War I. She is still mourning Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) but has a successful career as an anthropologist and is a criminal jerk. leisure. She befriends Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), a kind but insecure co-worker who wants to be more like Diana. Soon, the two work through a self-explanatory mythical item called the Dreamstone, which gives Barbara a newfound desirable status (largely by changing her outfit and removing her glasses) and super strength, though clearly at some moral cost. Meanwhile, Diana's subconscious wish is for Steve Trevor to come back from the dead, and it works, despite occupying a different body now. The Dreamstone also attracts the attention of television personality and oil baron Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) who has plans of his own to change the world of artifacts. Compared to the original Wonder Woman, a flawed movie that cleverly brought Diana out of the sheltered life of Themyscira to intervene in The Great War, this is a surprisingly throwaway follow-up. He has one thing to say: be careful what you want. And it makes that point come up again and again, so obviously, that it seems strangely naive and outdated, and perhaps targets the film at a younger audience than the original. The problem is that the movie isn't funny enough overall to make up for that. Wonder Woman 1984 is a painful 151 minutes long, and it really feels that way, despite some wordy sets that wreck everything. The last hour of this movie is hard work. Despite committed performances from Pedro Pascal and Kristen Wiig, as Maxwell Lord and Cheetah, respectively, the film's two villains are frustrating for different reasons. Even the best part of the movie, Steve being a fish out of water in the '80s and meeting Diana, won't be fun for more than a few minutes of this full length.
A movie made for another era?
mindless optimism that seems shocking. I also found Diana's vague ideology of superhero hope a little frustrating here, and wonder if the filmmakers really have any idea what sets her apart from, say, Superman, aside from the fact that 'she's Amazonian. Still, I can't help but think that the tone of Wonder Woman 1984 would have seemed less boring in a normal year when it would be sandwiched between so many other blockbusters. It wouldn't make a good superhero movie, but being the only game in town at the moment puts an extra burden to impress, especially when used to support a confusingly branded (but pretty good) American streaming service. Again, I don't think I would have minded Wonder Woman 1984 feeling overwhelmed or simplistic under normal circumstances, but coming up short seems to matter more since every other blockbuster is on the line right now. frozen. This movie also has a bit of a setting issue. The '80s backdrop offers some fun colors in terms of fashion and cultural reference for the first hour, but the rest of the movie does little except for its use of the Cold War as its base. 'a third act nuclear war drama. There's also no ensemble piece that comes close to the power of the No Man's Land scene in the 2017 original, though that was always hard to beat. Steve and Diana flying over the 4th of July fireworks display is a really nice and romantic moment.
Why is this movie so long?
Unless your superhero movie is a character-filled team-up picture like Avengers: Endgame, which I still think is too long, please don't make it longer than two hours. I got to the 90 minute mark on this movie and really wanted it to end. I have no idea why Wonder Woman 1984 had to be 151 minutes long, and it's interesting that Warner Bros. wanted director Patty Jenkins to cut one of the film's two intro sets: one an overly long run from the Olympics of the Amazonas, the other a well-executed mall brawl that gives us our first glimpse of Diana as a vigilante in 1984. Both established story and character threads that will pay off later, but the Olympics streak was too long, not very interesting to watch, and it felt like it existed mainly to remind us of the cool Amazon characters we met in the first movie. - Antiope (Robin Wright) and Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen). Still, the first hour of this movie isn't too bad. However, as mentioned, once Chris Pine's Steve Trevor returns to the frame, one can't get enough of his and Diana's status quo in this new world: the idea that Diana is physically weakened by Steve's resurrection, however. it's an interesting notion, and it definitely lands when the two inevitably have to say goodbye later. The bad guys bite into race time too much for me. I didn't quite get what the filmmakers were going for with Maxwell Lord, a classic '80s guy who's utterly classy and without substance, I guess, in a kind of vague Trump coat. But I found the Lord's scenes very difficult to watch, although I do appreciate how Pascal launches into them. There's nothing sympathetic about him other than the fact that he has a son, and he spends a good part of the movie sweating in front of powerful men, vowing to make his dreams come true. It's just not very fun to watch, and the film's twist of becoming the Dreamstone after wishing for it is conceptually confusing. I almost wish they had recreated that very famous and controversial moment from the comic, where Diana snapped Lord's neck. It was highly controversial, but more dramatically satisfying than anything that happens in that movie:In the comics, the conflict between Wonder Woman and Maxwell Lord ends with her neck. (I support this with all my heart, fight me). So here's my question: Do you think Diana will break her neck in WWII? pic.twitter.com/OMUFJSL2qSS September 5, 2020 Once again, the film prefers to make us believe in the power of people to make wise decisions and be good in their hearts; did nothing for me. When we first met Diana in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, she was cutting pieces of the apocalyptic mutant Doomsday. Here, she's a much more passive figure, and I think the movie is a little too scared to let her get its hands dirty. I wonder if this is an overreaction to criticism that these superhero movies were getting too dark. Similarly, the movie has waited a long time for Kristen Wiig's Cheetah to become a full-blown villain, and trailers have already spoiled parts of their final encounter. Barbara's obsession with protecting her appearance and perception of her is ultimately the reason she turns on Diana, but it seems too late in the movie to have an emotional impact. Like many other people, I'm also into superhero movies that do this with their villains:
It's the weirdest and most specific comic book movie trope. # WW84 pic.twitter.com/CTLhZc67SAD December 27, 2020