By Hera! Come anticipate WONDER WOMAN 1984 with me!

I have HBO Max so will be watchin it later

I hope someone got fired for this.

May the person who wrote this become a better person in the future. They have some catching up to do.

Did those albums come out later or something?

(Whoever here watches this first, pls. let me know how “kid-friendly” it is... thx)

Age of Quarrel was 1986

Someone definitely needs to be fired from the set of this movie that wrapped long ago! (If there’s a Repo Man reference, all will be forgiven)

yeah, it's a shocking mistake from an industry that up until now, had never seen an anachronism

Not the most egregious DC punk timeline error in the film.

Does Good Charlotte show up as the villains

Still watching, maybe if the climactic battle takes place in Waldorf.

At least they didn’t depict the One Last Wish 1986 album

let's get outraged at a random tweeter for making a joke by pretending to be outraged

batman v superman is imo the best dc movie though

here is a complete ranking of all the good DC movies:

1) Batman Returns
2) Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
3) The Lego Batman Movie
4) Batman (1966)
5) Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (probably)

it's possible that A History Of Violence is okay too

Teen Titans Go to the Movies was amazing

I think we’re joining in the fun, sic

Suicide Squad had an hour’s worth of good bits, more than the other modern DCs or Nolan movies.

making a joke by pretending to be outraged

more like manufacturing an excuse to show the world how perceptive and knowledgeable they are about stuff so trivial it lives in a basement bedroom of trivia's parents' house.

sic you know i meant dc cinematic universe not any dc movie ever

who bumped the batman returns thread today????? bitch it was me

I didn't, but I also don't know what is and isn't part of that

so trivial

if only the reliable Steven Mnuchin had stayed on board for this sequel to his masterwork, nobody would have been able to undermine it with trivia

_making a joke by pretending to be outraged_

more like manufacturing an excuse to show the world how perceptive and knowledgeable they are about stuff so trivial it lives in a basement bedroom of trivia's parents' house.

This is worse than when Elton abandons Cher at Circus Liquor and then drives north, for some reason

lmao

i have to give DC/Warners credit for continuing to find new ways to fuck it up

We saw it this week - the first one wasn't fantastic but with so few movies in the theaters we'll basically see anything. Started off slow but picked up about a third of the way in. The story was more imaginative and touching than I was expecting, and I liked Kristin Wiig's and Pedro Pascal's characters. Still left with the sense that it should have been shorter and funnier, and probably stronger if it had been in Marvel's hands. The few fight scenes were terrible, people jumping around for no reason and very tough to follow visually

might watch this cause bored but also cause it seems like it might be at least an iron man 2 level clusterfuck

just got out of Wonder Woman: 1984 and it's a triumph! I laughed, I cried - a masterpiece only slightly marred by the cinema's utterly flavourless coca cola and "salted" popcorn. Not sure if they've lost their magic touch during these trying times, but I couldn't taste a thing.

— TOM (@tomwalkerisgood) December 26, 2020

oof

this was ok. Wiig was completely wasted. due to competing with screen time with Pascal (Max Lord), she disappeared for long periods of time, her character arc was ridiculously rushed and broad-stroked. even her transformation is over in a matter of moments. which frankly sucks, cos I like Wiig!

the movie kept name dropping Monkey's Paw, which was the obvious reference. but it really felt more like a fucked up horror version of Aladdin instead, as told from the POV of the genie

this opening sequence is...extensive

How was Pascal?

I was playing on my phone during all of it and still knew what was going on and didn't feel like I missed much.

felt like it had Spiderman 3 syndrome - multiple baddies in one story works fine in the comics, not as well in a 2 hour movie.

xpost I liked him! pulled off a slimy con man fairly well.

(i wasn't on my phone the whole movie, just the opening)

I really like popcorn movies and I loved the first Wonder Woman movie.

This was really dumb, in all the bad ways

Taking a break from Wonder Woman to say that this movie is so dull and dumb. Even my wife and kid have been complaining. Daughter: "I thought this was supposed to be an action movie, not a rom-com." Wife: "When is Wonder Woman going to do some world saving?" Me: "Wait, this movie is seriously driven by a magic wish-granting artifact?"

Jinx!

I got embarrassed and stopped it

Like, it starts okay and Wiig is actually very good at portraying Barbara’s growing addiction to power and then after two hours of buildup the movie decides that what the viewer really needs is 45 straight minutes of the movie shitting directly in your face

Gal Gadot is not especially interesting at any point in this Also this movie has the weirdest denouement where *** just walks the heck away, after *** and everybody is cool with it?

Also, what a horrendous Reagan. I was really hoping he’d stand up and be wearing the sweatpants.

And also also Kristin Wiig is upstaged by Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance from thirty years ago.

It did not occur to me to compare Wiig to Pfieffer as they are playing different characters in tonally-different realizations of the DC universe

One of the many things about this I don’t understand is why you’d at least attempt to include Washington DC period detail like Bad Brains and Commander Salamander but then have a distracting, pseudo-Ronald Reagan.

OMG – I was gonna jokingly ask (during that earlier riff) whether Commander Salamander showed up!

As a child of the 80s from the DC area, I think I’m gonna have to check this out just for those reasons.

Lots of DC deep cuts. And also a buncha bullshit.

But holy shit, when she lassos the rocket and hitches a ride? That was like Quest for Peace stupid. This movie is pretty much straight garbage.

Maybe I’m wrong, but It’s not so dumb:

Act I:

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https://img.cinemablend.com/quill/6/b/d/e/f/4/6bdef40c479423235e869de5ce51e3458f8fd99a.png

Act II:

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https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Catwoman-Pfeiffer-Batman-1992-movie-i.jpg

Act III:

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(WW84 scene w/ catlady and electricity)

I'll say this much, it was kinda fun to listen to my wife and daughter (other daughter made the right choice and skipped it) make fun of this, but joke was ultimately on us, because, this movie is two and a half hours long!!!!!!!

at some point, the stakes kinda don't feel real high when all it takes to undo to escalating events on screen is a dude saying "I RENOUNCE MY WISH". this might as well have been the show Wish Kid (featuring MacCauley Culkin)

so is this set in 1984? or does that mean something else?

also, why?

This was...well, it was. I actually liked a lot of the quieter parts -- the flying moments were at points almost visual tone poem stuff. Kinda glad I did just see it at home, though, breaks were needed for sure. Also great use of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" though I'd love to know what crazy DJ was spinning that at THAT party.

The credits scene was pretty fun -- I remember wondering (re the character played in her earlier cameo) "I wonder why the one closeup on her eyes" and all was clear at the end.

Best superhero movie, that

there goes a lot of diligent avoidance of Rise of the Skywalkers spoilers

“people audibly groan” / “an eye-roll for some” doing a lot of work in that... amusing analysis. Guess she’s not a Star Wars fan!

she's been an entertainment reporter for The Verge and Polygon for the past five years with a specialty focus on Disney; i daresay she's watched and knows more about star wars than you or i do!

I’ve only read the paragraphs you quoted but they don’t seem to make sense (the jibes at SW aside). Disney is investing hugely in new content for D+ specifically because “the library” alone doesn’t retain members. The library is thin... if you’ve had D+ for a year and have kids, you’ve seen it all already!

you know who really has that D+? Steve Trevor, amirite

Steve Trevor's hapless 80s avatar, you mean

so like if he took over someone else's body, were they just along for the ride, with no body autonomy?

if so, I guess the only enjoyable parts were sexxin' with Wonder Woman, the rest abject terror.

lmao I would also watch that movie

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH oh hey sexy time AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Seriously. Body swap victim dude probably woke up with some really impressive bruises.

"I had this really weird dream where I was getting the shit kicked out of me by... Rumpleteaser?"

Steve Trevor's hapless 80s avatar, you mean

I didn't even make it to Trevor getting mentioned, but if she's still pining for the D after one ride on it 70 years ago...

Hey, come on, D+.

It's D+ now

I see some factions have started to insinuate people who don't like the movie are sexist.

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, January 3, 2021

saddest stans

lol i didn't realize Maxwell Lord was in this. is he a presence in the JLA movie too?

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, January 4, 2021

nah they use his name for no obvious reason and burn him to the ground in this one

Solo is basically the only good Star Wars movie made post-1983

― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Monday, January 4, 2021

won't FP bc i'm sure you meant Rogue One

I’ve only read the paragraphs you quoted but they don’t seem to make sense (the jibes at SW aside). Disney is investing hugely in new content for D+ specifically because “the library” alone doesn’t retain members. The library is thin... if you’ve had D+ for a year and have kids, you’ve seen it all already!