re: Wonder Woman 1984 Official Thread **SPOILERS**

Wonder Woman 1984 Pitch Meeting

this was terrible, I had to fix a fire stick setting for the picture to show. 1/2 way through I wished that setting stayed broken

Worst movie I have seen in a while - follows the DC trend of boring.

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people wear parachute pants"

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Diana suggests parachute pants and Steve says, "Does everyone parachute now?" He's clearly confused by them.

The pop tarts thing was after he'd been alone, not when he was brand new to his non-Steve body. He was in awe of confused at everything he saw, including parachute pants.

Effective or not, they wrote this as a direct inversion of the fish out of water arc in the first film. They understandably spend less time on it, as Steve is only in this movie for right around 80 of the very busy 151 minutes.

I liked the first one. Haven't heard good things about this one and don't plan to see it.

Finally got to watch this. A few things.


1) this is not the dumpster fire many exaggerate it to be. Yes it’s an average to below average movie, but calling it the worst ever is a bit nutty. Why do we always speak in extremes?

2) CGI was embarrassing. The lasso moves were awkwardly bad and the general use of it was goofy. And what’s up with WW falling from losing grip of her lasso only to have it on her side the very next moment lying amongst the armored trucks? Laffabull

3) Steves character was a decent plot device but was not deftly handled. The cliche lost with tech stuff was not good.

4) Cheetah was all wrong. While the overall premise of her story was ok, it just wasn’t cheetah. It is the problem too many movie productions fall into: creating their own backstory to force a plot they want to push. Rarely this works.

5) Mando’s character was the most interesting of them all, but everything happening to him made little sense. It was as if they had ideas without any logical way to get there, so they did it anyway and hoped we as an audience would just accept it.

6) The main flaw with this though is that we had no true villain. The gem was the villain, while the two “villains” were sympathetic characters corrupted by the gem. This is lazy and way overdone.

Yes the movie was boring. Yes the Cheetah fight scene was short and a major let down. However, it was still a decent enough story with good character developments and nothing as stupid as “Martha is your mom? She’s my mom too bro!” As in BvS. It was a lazily conceived story of an interesting plot point that they never could get right. They focused too much on the character development that they forgot they were making a fun superhero movie.

It’s a big miss, but it’s not the worst thing ever. We need to stop speaking in superlatives all the time.

4/10 rating from me, and that’s quite fair.