Kind of a guilty pleasure but I was really looking forward to this.
I'm not really into all the progressive "isms" but I thought the first WW film was simply a decent movie.. and the "no man's land" scene, along with the subsequent battle, was downright flippin' epic.
So, it pains me to say it but the new one IS as bad as all the smug reviews by "haters" say it is.
Setting aside one particular issue for the moment, the entire movie is just a dumpster fire of random events, paradoxes, coincidences and really bad CGI and stunt work.
It starts off slow and, to be charitable, you think "okay, it's a long movie so it's okay that it's taking it's time" but then it just doesn't improve.
It's more like a 3-hour episode of Dynasty than a superhero movie.
And then there's the "Steve Trevor" thing, where he comes back from the dead and his spirit inhabits some random guy's body... and then WW takes this rando' on a dangerous adventure (and, apparently, sleeps with him) without the consent of the guy who's body Steve Trevor is inhabiting.
I kind of feel like that would be considered in very poor taste if it'd happened to a female character.
I really, really wanted to enjoy the movie but it's just... terrible.
I'm not really into all the progressive "isms" but I thought the first WW film was simply a decent movie.. and the "no man's land" scene, along with the subsequent battle, was downright flippin' epic.
So, it pains me to say it but the new one IS as bad as all the smug reviews by "haters" say it is.
Setting aside one particular issue for the moment, the entire movie is just a dumpster fire of random events, paradoxes, coincidences and really bad CGI and stunt work.
It starts off slow and, to be charitable, you think "okay, it's a long movie so it's okay that it's taking it's time" but then it just doesn't improve.
It's more like a 3-hour episode of Dynasty than a superhero movie.
And then there's the "Steve Trevor" thing, where he comes back from the dead and his spirit inhabits some random guy's body... and then WW takes this rando' on a dangerous adventure (and, apparently, sleeps with him) without the consent of the guy who's body Steve Trevor is inhabiting.
I kind of feel like that would be considered in very poor taste if it'd happened to a female character.
I really, really wanted to enjoy the movie but it's just... terrible.