Watched it on HBO Nordic. Thought it was boring and nonsensical. Got so many problems with it, that I don't have time to go through them all.
With this being set in 1984, when everyone around the world started making wishes, I thought to myself "is there anyone who wishes for a cure for AIDS?" You mean that in year three of the AIDS epidemic, nobody wishes for people with AIDS to be cured? (That's what my wish would've been.) No parents wishing that their kid, who is dying from cancer, to be cured? No one wishing for an abusive partner to stop hitting them? No abused child wishing for their suffering to stop? Nope, it's all "I want a million dollars or a car". You expect all the people with noble wishes to renounce their wish? What about someone (ex. a massive racist) with an extremely horrible wish? Would that person be willing to give up their wish?
Speaking of 1984... why is it set in that year? Given that Lord reaches out to people via screens, it would make more sense for it be set in the present. Is it just to try to cash in on an 1980's nostalgia?
Getting Steve back comes at the price of Wonder Woman's powers. If one wants to read something into it... it could be read as the film suggests that being in a relationship (specifically with a man) weakens a woman. Robs her off her strength. Making the whole thing into an anti-love/romance thing.
The fact that Diana rapes the guy, whom Steve is possessing, has been noted by numerous people. And don't give me any "Oh, no man would refuse to have sex with Gal Gadot" crap. Not every man would want to have sex with her. If you think otherwise, you're wrong. All you can say is that YOU wouldn't mind having sex with her (and even then, you'd probably want to be awake during it. Thus being able to consent). You don't speak for all the billions of men in the world. Which includes groups like gay and asexual men, and men who are celibate (some for religious reasons) and so on. Maybe this dude only dates black or Asian women (which would mean that Diana is not his type).
Gotta say, in the first film, Diana says a line that implies that she might own slaves. In this one, she commits a sex crime. Don't think I like this incarnation of Wonder Woman. And will likely not watch the third installment.
With this being set in 1984, when everyone around the world started making wishes, I thought to myself "is there anyone who wishes for a cure for AIDS?" You mean that in year three of the AIDS epidemic, nobody wishes for people with AIDS to be cured? (That's what my wish would've been.) No parents wishing that their kid, who is dying from cancer, to be cured? No one wishing for an abusive partner to stop hitting them? No abused child wishing for their suffering to stop? Nope, it's all "I want a million dollars or a car". You expect all the people with noble wishes to renounce their wish? What about someone (ex. a massive racist) with an extremely horrible wish? Would that person be willing to give up their wish?
Speaking of 1984... why is it set in that year? Given that Lord reaches out to people via screens, it would make more sense for it be set in the present. Is it just to try to cash in on an 1980's nostalgia?
Getting Steve back comes at the price of Wonder Woman's powers. If one wants to read something into it... it could be read as the film suggests that being in a relationship (specifically with a man) weakens a woman. Robs her off her strength. Making the whole thing into an anti-love/romance thing.
The fact that Diana rapes the guy, whom Steve is possessing, has been noted by numerous people. And don't give me any "Oh, no man would refuse to have sex with Gal Gadot" crap. Not every man would want to have sex with her. If you think otherwise, you're wrong. All you can say is that YOU wouldn't mind having sex with her (and even then, you'd probably want to be awake during it. Thus being able to consent). You don't speak for all the billions of men in the world. Which includes groups like gay and asexual men, and men who are celibate (some for religious reasons) and so on. Maybe this dude only dates black or Asian women (which would mean that Diana is not his type).
Gotta say, in the first film, Diana says a line that implies that she might own slaves. In this one, she commits a sex crime. Don't think I like this incarnation of Wonder Woman. And will likely not watch the third installment.
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