Hosers! Sorry to make a post that's not about Frank or football but wanted to see how everyone was doing today? In my world, today is day 2 back at work after vacation aka OMFGgetmeoutofhere Day. Today is also day 6 of Princess not having a phone (long story involving rocks, salt water, stitches and xrays while on our cruise). The dog is still not talking to me after we all left him for a whole week and I've got a to do list a mile long for house and yard maintenance. I think I need another week off.
Finally going to see Wonder Woman tonight
I saw it last month. Looking forward to hearing your review. I'll reserve mine until you've seen it.
So here's a very quick review. Probably shouldn't worry about spoilers at this point, but just in case, I won't say anything specific.
There were a few things that didn't quite work, a few plot holes that bugged me - no movie is perfect, of course - but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's over 2 hours but it didn't feel long at all. It managed to feel uplifting without being overly corny. And the choreography of the fight scenes was fantastic. I would definitely watch it again.
My take - I was so looking forward to seeing this after so many of my friends (both male and female) hyped it as the best super hero movie ever, empowering for women, loved it loved it etc, even my mom wanted to see it! I thought it was good (not great) but there were a few times when I was a bit bored. I love super hero movies and have seen just about all of them and I would have to rank this below most of the Iron Man and Spiderman movies, for me, as far as entertainment value goes. The plot was boring - could have been so much better! The fight scenes were cool but to be honest that is probably the least important thing about these type of movies for me. I really enjoyed the scenes on the island and wish they had paid more attention to that part of the origin story.
Having seen the new Spiderman movie the week before may have contributed to my disappointment in Wonder Woman. I loved the humor and goofiness of Spiderman. WW had a few attempts at fish out of water scenes when they got to the real world but they didn't work, IMO. I thought Chris Pine was good and the woman who played Wonder Woman was excellent - I read that she was 5 months pregnant during filming and had to wear a green screen on her baby bump that they then CGI'd - you would never guess that from the final product. I'll definitely watch it again when it comes out on HBO or whatever but all in all, disappointed because I expected more based on all the hype.
See, I'm really not into superhero movies very much. I enjoyed the first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies, and I think I also saw the first 2 Batman movies (Michael Keaton played a much better Batman than I ever would have expected.) Oh, and the "first" Spiderman with Tobey whatshisface and Kirsten Dunst.
But otherwise? Meh. So I can't really compare Wonder Woman to the other DC comic reboots. I did catch part of...I dunno, maybe it was Thor...on tv once? It was okay. I also caught the second half of another movie...I have no idea which one. It had a bunch of the heroes - Iron Man, Thor, the arrow guy, the Hulk, Captain America, and Black Widow (?) - I think they were fighting Loki. Again, it was okay - it held enough of my attention that I didn't immediately change the channel, but not so much that I felt like I had to sit and watch instead of just having it on while doing other chores. And it didn't really make me feel like I wanted to rent it so I could watch the first half that I missed.
So no, this latest bunch of superhero movies really aren't my thing, which meant I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this one.
I found the plot itself to be no more or less compelling than other superhero plots, but I very much enjoyed her character arc, moreso than, say, Thor has to redeem himself, or Superman needs to figure out how to be stronger than villians who have the same super powers. I felt her development and the build-up throughout the movie was much more interesting.
As for the action scenes - well, I figure if I am going to bother watching an action film, then it had better be some good action, and I really enjoyed those scenes in this movie. I felt they went on long enough but it wasn't labored and overwrought like it is in some others, where the scenes just go on and on and on.
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