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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 349299" data-attributes="member: 23">Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) A.K.A. WW84 <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-tuR90VeZkaY%2FXPg__evFifI%2FAAAAAAAC4mA%2FMq__Mv36V0oCEfqu4ZopJhNQ4D-WwmzdACLcBGAs%2Fs1600%2FWONDER%252BWOMAN%252B1984%252BJune%252B2019%252BPoster.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b80227fd22b9c95a4ed88749deca37106b3fa0749635999e68159492740daa32&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 492px" /> [USER=33]@Angela Christmas[/USER]'s comments below sum up my own experience with the film: Well, I can't say I actually loved it, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching. Frankly, I'd expected to dislike this film and wasn't even sure I wanted to watch it at all. I knew it had been poorly received and I'm also a former comic book reader who regularly subscribed to WW's title, so I have a very specific vision of a number of characters. Perhaps the timing was good for me to watch this film. Had I watched it back-to-back with the original film or around the time I was watching some of the better MCU films it might have fared a lot worse. In isolation, I found it entertaining enough. I liked the little nods to the comics and the Lynda Carter series with the invisible plane and Gal Gadot's styling as Diana Prince (very Carteresque at times with the flowing designer clothes and long ponytail). Cheetah is my all-time favourite WW villain (one of the first WW comics I bought had Debbi Domaine's first appearance in the role. Years later, it was Barbara Minerva's first outing as Cheetah that got me to buy George Perez's version of WW, and I didn't miss an issue afterwards for many years). I was never going to love the version presented here. Barbara Minerva is very clear in my mind as a frail, dark haired British archaeologist, so the quirky blonde American with Hollywood white teeth and annoying vocal fry was never going to float my boat. However, accepting her as a completely different character, I found her arc watchable enough, though when she finally showed up in her Cheetah guise, I did find myself reflecting (even as I watched) that it should feel far more exciting than it did to fulfil a childhood wish of seeing one of my favourite villains in live action. Instead it felt rather like watching a video game. The backstory was fine. Steve Trevor coming back to life was fine (how many times has he died and been reincarnated in the comics? It's kind of his thing and so completely in character). Maxwell Lord was fine (I know very little about the character beyond that infamous neck-snapping moment. The actor who played him reminded me of a bizarre cross between Justin Whalin and Gordon Thomson). The Eighties fashions were fun. Yes, it was a pretentiously long film, but I've sat through MCU films of similar length that felt far longer. To balance things out, after sitting quietly through the film my partner (usually happy to take films on face value without thinking too deeply about them or voicing opinions) pulled the film to pieces for being overlong, boring, making no sense and having no plot. My own biggest gripe with the film is a weird and pedantic one that I'm not even sure is valid: the superlative "amazing" was used. A lot. There's one scene where Diana and Steve say it back and forth around four times in succession. I might be misremembering (and I'm not American anyway, so I'm only basing this on what I would have seen and read on film, TV in books and comics of the time), but the way I remember it,  the word "amazing" was rather unfashionable as a superlative during the Seventies and Eighties (other than on a certain Marvel Comics title, where it felt very much like a Sixties throwback), and didn't really make a comeback until the early-to-mid Nineties. I found myself wondering if its use was somewhat anachronistic here.</blockquote>

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