Wonder Woman 1984 by itself, is a competently made superhero flick. Wonder Woman/Diana goes about stopping crime and saving folks along the way, when the villain of the story, Max Lord decides to use a stone to prop up his failing company, and goes on a power trip. The action set pieces are well choreographed and shot, the plot is competent, the visuals look good, and the actors and actresses of the movie put out performances that keep you engaged.
While there are a few holes in the plot that made me question things (How does this wishing process work? How come no one noticed a woman in skimpy armor curb stomp crooks with a glowing lasso?), these were relatively minor nitpicks that I could come up with an explanation that I thought would work, and I would be relatively satisfied with the movie nonetheless.
If only the moral they put in for the flick wasn't presented in such a fucking obnoxious manner.
Keep in mind that the moral itself isn't bad on its own (greed can be bad for your wellbeing), but the execution is so incredibly ham-fisted and blatant that you may as well be listening to everyone that made the flick yell into your ears saying GREED BAD, over and over again while doing something you actually like. It's one thing to pick up some symbolism representing the Aesop the film wants to teach you, and see how it applies via scenes and character interactions. It's another thing to see characters deliver stilted, unnatural sounding dialogue about how they are being too greedy, are lying, and are cheating in life, and that it is bad. The audience already gets the message, and got it from kindergarten; trying to force it down peoples throats is the film equivalent to waterboarding, in that it does nothing but distracts them from what's actually going on in the movie, wastes their time, pisses them off and makes them wish that part wasn't there at all.
If you want to watch the movie, go ahead. My advice? If a character starts taking in a ham-fisted way about the moral, fast forward until it is gone. Or close your eyes and block your ears if you're in theaters.
Standard superhero fare with a message forced in at gunpoint and beaten into the viewer.
Wonder Woman 1984 by itself, is a competently made superhero flick. Wonder Woman/Diana goes about stopping crime and saving folks along the way, when the villain of the story, Max Lord decides to use a stone to prop up his failing company, and goes on a power trip. The action set pieces are well choreographed and shot, the plot is competent, the visuals look good, and the actors and actresses of the movie put out performances that keep you engaged.
While there are a few holes in the plot that made me question things (How does this wishing process work? How come no one noticed a woman in skimpy armor curb stomp crooks with a glowing lasso?), these were relatively minor nitpicks that I could come up with an explanation that I thought would work, and I would be relatively satisfied with the movie nonetheless.
If only the moral they put in for the flick wasn't presented in such a fucking obnoxious manner.
Keep in mind that the moral itself isn't bad on its own (greed can be bad for your wellbeing), but the execution is so incredibly ham-fisted and blatant that you may as well be listening to everyone that made the flick yell into your ears saying GREED BAD, over and over again while doing something you actually like. It's one thing to pick up some symbolism representing the Aesop the film wants to teach you, and see how it applies via scenes and character interactions. It's another thing to see characters deliver stilted, unnatural sounding dialogue about how they are being too greedy, are lying, and are cheating in life, and that it is bad. The audience already gets the message, and got it from kindergarten; trying to force it down peoples throats is the film equivalent to waterboarding, in that it does nothing but distracts them from what's actually going on in the movie, wastes their time, pisses them off and makes them wish that part wasn't there at all.
If you want to watch the movie, go ahead. My advice? If a character starts taking in a ham-fisted way about the moral, fast forward until it is gone. Or close your eyes and block your ears if you're in theaters.