{"id":145341,"date":"2021-01-01T01:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/one-last-disaster-in-2020-wonder-woman-1984\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T01:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:26:33","slug":"one-last-disaster-in-2020-wonder-woman-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/one-last-disaster-in-2020-wonder-woman-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"#One last disaster in 2020: \u2018Wonder Woman 1984\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#One last disaster in 2020: \u2018Wonder Woman 1984\u2019<\/strong>”
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It\u2019s the single question that haunts all Americans as they turn the page on a dreadful year: Why is \u201cWonder Woman 1984\u201d so bad?<\/p>\n

Why did this eagerly anticipated follow-up to the delightful 1917 \u201cWonder Woman\u201d \u2014 starring the same stunning Gal Gadot and \u00addirected by the same Patty Jenkins and released for our homebound viewing on HBO Max as a Christmas Day gift to its subscribers \u2014 have to stink up the joint like no comic-book movie has since \u201cHoward the Duck\u201d in 1986?<\/p>\n

You know things are going wrong at the outset, when we find Diana Prince, Wonder Woman\u2019s alter ego, working at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1984.<\/p>\n

In the comics and on TV, Diana worked for the Department of \u00adDefense, which made sense, \u00adbecause she is supposed to be the world\u2019s greatest warrior.<\/p>\n

But in 2020 Hollywood, with President Trump in the White House, no movie with its heart in the right \u2014 by which I mean the left \u2014 place could possibly install our heroine in proximity to US militarism. Because, of course, Pentagon bad! Guns bad! (\u201cI hate guns,\u201d says Wonder Woman as she crumples one, which is generous of her, since she has magic bracelets that deflect bullets.) Oh, and since this is 1984, every third scene features someone walking around with a \u201cNo Nukes\u201d sign.<\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan bad!<\/p>\n

Yes, the Gipper is in this movie, although weirdly; the actor who plays the 40th president doesn\u2019t really look like him but has his hairline and suits. And because this one is the Reagan of Hollywood\u2019s berserk fantasies, he wants more nukes.<\/p>\n

No matter that in point of fact, Reagan hated nuclear weapons and proposed their complete abolition in his first face-to-face meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Reagan of \u201cWonder Woman 1984\u201d wishes for hundreds of new \u00adnuclear weapons in the presence of an overleveraged reality-TV businessman \u2014 guess who he is supposed to remind you of \u2014 who has turned into an evil genie.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not kidding.<\/p>\n

There is a stone that grants wishes. It ends up in the back room of a mall jewelry store \u2014 who the hell knows why. The Trumpy guy wishes to become the stone, and all of a sudden he\u2019s Barbara Eden giving Reagan nuclear missiles Reagan didn\u2019t actually want.<\/p>\n

Look, I know 1984 was 36 years ago, and I know that Hollywood is full of illiterate, know-nothing, self-infatuated morons who can happ<\/a>ily spend $250 million on a film so awful it makes the \u201cCats\u201d movie look like \u201cThe Marriage of Figaro,\u201d but, um, maybe do a Google search, Patty Jenkins?<\/p>\n

Would that have been so hard to do on one of your breaks from swimming in your Scrooge McDuck pool full of the $10 million you were paid for co-writing and directing this atrocity?<\/p>\n

Can I tell you about more dumbfounding stuff? Wonder Woman wishes for her dead boyfriend to come back to life, and he does, in the person of Chris Pine, who\u2019s the best thing in the movie. He\u2019s been gone since World War I, and so the world of 1984 fills him with awe \u2014 especially when she takes him into the subway and he marvels at the train coming through.<\/p>\n

Hey, Patty Jenkins? Your first \u201cWonder Woman\u201d movie took place in Europe in 1917. There were subways on the Continent then. In fact, the London Underground made its debut in 1863. It\u2019s probably fair to say if a man from 1917 suddenly woke up in 1984, the one thing that wouldn\u2019t blow his mind would be .\u2009.\u2009. a subway.<\/p>\n

And how about the amazing and brazen plagiarism here? Kristen Wiig does a turn as a mousy and awkward lonely person who undergoes a transformation into a feline supervillain named Cheetah. If this sounds familiar, that\u2019s because you saw it, beat for beat, in 1991\u2019s \u201cBatman Returns\u201d \u2014 in which \u00adMichelle Pfeiffer did a turn as a mousy and awkward lonely person who undergoes a transformation into a feline supervillain named Catwoman.<\/p>\n

To sum up, \u201cWonder Woman 1984\u201d is just awful. And yet .\u2009.\u2009. I kind of loved it.<\/p>\n

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