This script should not have gone into production. Certainly the studio could have read it and said, “Hey, so why can’t Chris Pine just appear when she wishes for him? Why does he have to come back in some random guy’s body? When he disappears later from wish canceling, it will be so powerful when he disappears!”
We are right near the end now.
Did she just electrocute the main female-villain? Why doesn’t that affect Wonder Woman? Because she is stronger?
She can swing from lightning or something dumb like that. Isn’t she Zeus’s daughter?
Well, she is Zeus’ daughter. In the first movie, in the climactic fight with Ares, she seems to be able to channel lightning. It actually seems consistent that she could channel the electricity instead of being electrocuted. But, yeah, that could definitely be a lot clearer in the movie. Like just about everything else…
So, Josh Gates had this to say, which I think is a pretty good summary:
Yes. Why wouldn’t a WWI biplane pilot be able to fly an jet? Just because the technology was invented 30 years after he died? It’s like riding a bicycle. And then applying those skills to riding a Ducati racing motorcycle.
OK, we are done.
It actually has some great work in it, but that script is so terrible, no one can save it without a major rewrite, which it obviously did not get. Patty Jenkins did a good job making the movie from the script she had(and sadly, helped write).
Pedro Pascal is in a good movie. I mean, the movie he filmed seemed fine. He gave a great performance and everything he is in is working. I could see him leaving the set figuring the movie is going to turn out pretty good. Hey, his part was fine.
The rest is a huge mess. Honestly, kind of embarrassing in parts.
Not just the writing. The soundtrack got pretty lazy too. Like when whoever decided instead of having Hans Zimmer create another one of his iconic movie themes at a pivotal moment of character development, let’s just toss in John Murphy’s Adagio in D Minor from the ‘Sunshine’ soundtrack.
Wonder Woman 1984 Soundtrack | Diana Flight Music | (John Murphy - Sunshine) - YouTube
At the end when Lord’s character cancels his wish and goes to find his son, Alistair, and his son tell’s him that everything was okay because he would love him no matter what because he was his dad…I kept thinking that Lord was going “Damn it!!!, I didn’t need to cancel my wish, I just should have come and found the kid!”
Great theme, I didn’t know the original piano part. I told my wife during this theme, “The composer showed up to work. Shame the music is being wasted on an ineffective moment in movies.”
Funny thing is, I didn’t much like Sunshine the one time I saw it, either.
Edit: I just realized all of it was from another movie, not just the piano portion. I guess they just licensed it for this movie instead of making something new.
I’m about 90 minutes in and wondering if I’ll make it to the end or just give up and read this thread. My thought process right now is, “Good Lord, I have another hour of this shit to watch?!?” It’s so incoherent.
BTW, I thought early on that the Wiig character might actually be crushing on Diana, like romantically, which would have been pretty neat, original and unexpected, therefore was never going to happen.
PS: I signed up today and HBOMax’s web player is lame as hell: no way to skip forward/backward/adjust volume with the keyboard, and what the hell is with the movie volume being so low? I have to turn up my speakers to like 90% to even hear the dialog. If another app beeps it might shatter my monitor.
Heh well now I feel silly. That was the track that I would have bet money was from Inception. I knew I had heard it before though!
OK, I’m just skipping around now. Looks like this got pretty Lathe of Heaven or something.
Sucked donkey balls.
Gal Godot was abysmal. Last movie she needed Chris Pine to carry her, this movie she needed him, Wiig, and Pedro Pascal, and it still wasn’t enough.
Silly plot, uneven direction, lacking anything resembling proper editing.
I hope Patty Jenkins re-discovers the film-making talent that brought Monster and the original Wonder Woman to our screens, otherwise, I am worried for Rogue Squadron.
I actually thought it was mutual. Diana seemed actively jealous of Max Lord when she found him flirting with Barbara. But then the movie just kind of forgot about it.
Just like Barbara and Max went from flirting to making out in her office, and then…both characters seemed to just forget it. I get that Max was just using Barbara to get to the Wishstone, but Barbara just also seemed to forget about the whole the next time they met.
The Lathe of Heaven was a much better movie.
I added a poll into the Op; to rate this movie. Please check it out and vote.
I felt it lacked the overwhelmingness (is that a word? It is now!) of the theatrical experience, which made the problems with the movie… and, really, most superhero films… obvious from the outset. In the theater, everything is bigger and larger and louder than life, you don’t recognize the obvious plot holes and silly characters because the movie never stops (unlike at home, where you can rewind to that part which you had questions about), you don’t get a chance to pause and ask ‘does this make sense’, and you definitely don’t get that post-theatrical ‘glow’ which comes with the movie theater experience.
In short, had it been a theatrical release, the above 75+ posts would be more positive.
nope - we didn’t pause or rewind - had several family members all watching it - sound system, 75" TV, etc - and the movie still sucks.