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Wonder Woman (2017)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 15, 2018, 8:53 am
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[center]Wonder Woman (2017)
5 Stars out of 5
Trailer
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZ8X5FKl78
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I've been waiting a long time to finally get the chance to sit
down and watch Wonder Woman. I've pretty much stayed spoiler
free the entire time, but it was really hard because of all the
praise that was floating around out there. Wherever I turned it
was another article or an interview where someone was gushing
about the flick. I gotta preface this by saying that I've always
been a fan of Lynda Carter as the the standard for Wonder Woman.
Having just watched this movie, the torch has clearly been
passed to Gal Gadot. Yeah, she was in Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice, but she had such a small role in the movie that I
really couldn't make an opinion about her other than "she looks
the part".
With Gal getting her first full movie to carry in Wonder Woman,
I can't think of a better actor to assume the mantle of Diana
Prince. Just as important as her performance of course is the
Direction by Patty Jenkins who did a fantastic job crafting the
look, feel and pace of what turned out to be fast movie that
flies by. Love the nods that Patty threw into Wonder Woman to
pay homage to Superman: The Movie, which for me has always been
the Gold Standard for Comic Book movies. So, to see this little
Easter Eggs really was a delight. Diana/Wonder Woman has a great
origin story and shocking has a great character arc from the
beginning to the last shot in the movie. There is a clear change
for her that you just don't see in most Comic Book Films and
that has been the biggest fail in why those movies just don't
connect with me on an emotional level, Logan being the lone
exception in years to get it right.
Chris Pine was great in his role as Steve Trevor and really
played off Gal to great effect. Hated to see him go at the end,
but it's his sacrifice that actually propels Diana to become who
she was and is destined to be and it's very exhilarating to see
her transformation complete at the most pivotal and critical
time in the film. There is a lot to like in Wonder Woman. Yes,
the action sequences involving Wonder Woman will have you
grinning ear to ear in their awesomeness. They look so damn
good. But more than that, we finally get a DCU movie that
doesn't suck. Not every movie has to be dark and brooding to
tell a story. That has been the biggest problem so far with the
other DCU flicks. Wonder Woman went in the opposite direction
and succeeds and it still feels like it fits in nicely in that
Universe. I highly recommend this as a Buy. It's definitely a
movie that I'd come back to again and again in the future. 5
Stars out of 5.
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