the Cunning Linguist wrote:
Wow... Did you pay full pop for that? Haven't heard any good things about it.
We rented out the theatre for a work function. Frankly it was dirt cheap given how many people we had in it. Obviously we had to come in with masks and did the whole social distance thing, but it was still fun.
Honestly, I appreciated the wildly ambitious plot. It was unwieldy and led to some bad moments but I've sat through FAR worse movies (Man of Steel is still a giant pile of overwrought, directionless shit, and WW84 was still much better). Also, there's some weird over-analysis of the plot that I find annoying. I get the whole notion of an Israeli actress beating up on nondescript Arab soldiers is not great optics, but fucking hell people I don't think it was meant as some overt political statement. If nothing else the unnecessary Cairo sidebar was just an elaborate excuse for Wonder Woman to break out the Invisible Jet. Also, people don't like the fact that WW has sex with Steve Trevor while he's in another man's body. This isn't real life people, we don't need to make some weird rape culture reference here...Jesus H. Christ.
Also, I think the over-the-top vitriol is coming because it's a female-centric superhero movie directed and co-written by a woman.
All I'll say is that it is at worst, a mediocre film. Usually I mean that as a damning statement, but in this case I just thought the movie was...okay. I don't regret seeing it. Believe me, I'd say so if I thought that, because lately I've watched a lot of horseshit films that make me wish I had that 2 hour span back.