regmcfly wrote:

It's superman, who I made a thread about. He's the best superhero when treated right, so I'll absolutely give it a chance. I like the family dynamic aspect as that brings about one of Superman's weaknesses - firstly his unshakeable faith in humanity and secondly the fact that laser eyes can't change a person's mind.

g.man wrote:

So, Wonder Woman 1984.
Let's cut to the chase, because having lost two and a half hours of my life watching this absolute dumpster fire, I'm not prepared to waste a lot of my remaining time on this earth writing about this Christmas turkey.
This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the single worst DC Universe movie they've made yet, and fuck me, but it's a pretty low bar to start with.
This is worse than Suicide Squad.
This is worse than Batman v Superman.
This is worse than The Justice League.
It's insultingly bad. It's incredibly boring. The acting is wooden. The direction is non-existent. The writing is nonsensical. Honestly, the list of cinematic crimes on show here is fucking endless, and to crown it all, I'm genuinely staggered that this movie was written and directed by a woman, because I thought the whole thing was really quite insulting to the female of the species. Yup. It really is that bad.
None of it makes a lick of sense, and no-one comes out of it smelling of roses. In fact I'd go as far as to say that if Pascal didn't have The Mandalorian on his CV, this could well have ended his career.
Wiig also gives a career worst performance, and let's not forget she has Ghostbusters 2016 on her CV. Pine phones in his unnecessary reprise of the Trevor character, and even Gadot is oddly charmless this time round.
I gather when they made this that it quite understandably tested really badly with preview audiences, and some re-shoots were done. Whatever the case, it must have been the cinematic equivalent of bowel cancer in it's original form, for this to be considered an improved version.
I'm speechless that because of the pandemic, this film has sat on the shelf for the best part of a year, yet in all that time, nobody at Warner Bros thought, "you know, maybe we could use this down time to maybe lick this into some kind of watchable shape."
I fully expect this to absolutely tank at the box office. It really is that bad. What is annoying, is that WB will undoubtably use the pandemic as the excuse for it's failure, when the truth is, it's just one of the worst superhero movies ever made.
Consider yourselves warned then. It's two and a half hours of your lives you will never get back, and if you still want to see it out of some sort of understandably morbid curiosity, then I'll leave you with this. Get it from the high seas, and for the love of God, do not pay money to see it. Go give a tenner to a homeless person instead. You'll both get more out of that, rather than wasting your hard earned cash on garbage like this.

fool me once

g.man

mannaboy wrote:

Hard to believe the guys behind the CW DC shows also make Doom Patrol. I still watch The Flash, even though that nosedived in quality after season 1. I’ll give Supes & Lois a chance, but haven’t high hopes for it.

g.man wrote:

Highlander 2.