Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, Dec 25, 2020) Movie • Page 20

It's faint praise, but compared to other DC movies, where we see Superman decimate entire cities and Batman mow down people with a gun, it was kind of nice to see Wonder Woman show care for others, even the villains when she's fighting them. Of course, like almost everything in the movie, it betrays that in the end when she tries to drown Cheetah at the end. But before that, I liked that touch.

 

I was reaaalllyyy expecting the mall scene to cut and it was actually Wonder Woman filming a TV show that was meant to be super whacky and over the top cheesy. Oof. Those first two scenes were rough, I'm glad this on HBO and I could just switch to something else.

Not for me I guess, I did like the first movie though.

 

When Max Lord's kid wished for his dad's greatness (I think that's what he said?) I thought he was going to inherit the wishing stone powers and that was going to be a whole thing. I don't know whether to be thankful or upset that they didn't go that route.

By far the stupidest part is Chris Pine being dropped into some other guy's body when no other wish worked remotely like that. Wouldn't that dude be, like, wanted by the FBI for being involved in a shootout at the White House?

 

We're also never really given any true motivation or endgoal for Max - he just is amassing all this power... for what? to impress his kid?

 

Yeah, I could not get past the Steve in a random guy's body plot point. Poor dude just went to bed one night and then wakes up like a week later (not quite sure on the timeline) in the middle of a nuclear war? And he's perfectly fine and well adjusted only a few months later? What?

 

I don't want to go into real spoiler territory but we're given a whole scene that explains exactly why he is doing what he's doing. He wants to be a "somebody".

 

I mean, I'm still left with the same questions - how does "being a somebody" end up at "whoops the nukes are in the air"? max isn't even like "oops I messed this up!" he's still excitedly doing his thing for... reasons - as the world is about to be incinerated.

 

That's fair - and side note, hopefully my first reply didn't seem too dick (re-reading it to myself, it sort of sounds like it!) - but I also took his character as one where he felt like he could fix whatever problems arise by obtaining more power. Sort like that story of bringing in snakes to kill rats, then mountain lions to kill the snakes, etc... (or whatever the hell animals it was hahaha) - it was just going to continue escalating as he thought he could handle it.

 

No worries - and yeah, that definitely could have been his plan, I just... would have liked some clarity to what it was exactly. To be fair, I tuned out major chunks of this movie when it just turned into exposition dumps so I probably missed the scene you were talking about lol

 

Honestly, I can understand that for sure. I watched this twice this past weekend. Once solo and the second time with my girlfriend and daughter and both times I took a break about half-ish way through. I think this is a movie where just about every sequence could've been likely trimmed down a bit to tighten up the whole thing and keep folks more invested.

 

His plan was to become the world's sole oil tycoon, until it suddenly wasn't and he was trying to cause a nuclear war in order to obtain the ability to give everyone in the world a wish regardless of what that wish entailed (i.e. if someone somewhere in the world was in a dark place at that moment and wished for the Earth to be destroyed, oops).

 

Also - and this criticism applies to other superhero movies too - they really need to find a way to add “weight” to fight scenes. This one seemed especially bad in terms of the characters just floating around weightlessly.

She looked like a glitching video game character in some scenes.

 

DC seems especially awful at CGI in general

 

Bafflingly so. Looks like outdated video games generally.

 

All scenes of her running and flying were pretty hard to watch for me personally. Extra cheese

 

DC is bad at CGI but Marvel isn't that much better. All superhero movies kinda suck at it.

 

I see issues with it here and there in Marvel films for sure (hello Black Panther train fight), but they overall have a good handle on things. Sony was pretty good with Venom too, they just made everything way too dark

 

cmon

 

Thanos was the best CGI character ever made. Stop with the slander

 

all cgi is bad/good

 

Thanos is way better than any full CG character DC has done. Remember how laughably, ridiculously bad Steppenwolf looked lol

 

hilarious post, thank you

 

What is the best CGI character ever made? Honestly curious about everyone's opinion lol