re: Wonder Woman Movie ***SPOILERS*** Thread

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Diana is still alive in 2017.

Really a near perfect comic book movie. The tone was just serious enough and the dialogue was just corny enough. You could enjoy it as a superhero film without the hero seeming out of place in the real world or the entire thing taking place in a ridiculous reality.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Gadot in BvS and in Keeping up with the Joneses. I was still nervous about her carrying this film, but Jenkins directed her perfectly. It was like watching Christopher Reeve as Superman for the first time. You could tell that he wasn't the best actor in the world, but, damn, he was Superman.

Whoever had a problem with the CGI was off there rocker. And I thought that we got just enough of the General, Dr. Poison, and Ares. They didn't put the entire load on one villain and it kept us from having a singular bad guy to get tired of.

Some of the plot was predictable, but enjoyable. And the one big reveal took me by surprise. I'm guessing that some were expecting a Darth Vader "I am your father" moment or something like that.

Another huge plus for me was that there wasn't a single moment in the film that made me wince or that took me out of the movie. No Stan Lee or Lynda Carter cameos to cause a record scratch. No mention of Atlantis or Apocalypse as a wink to Justice League. A great stand-alone film that took itself just seriously enough.

I did gasp audibly when they mentioned Edgar Rice Burroughs. That really set the time frame for me. A really nice touch.