Wonder Woman 1984

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Something tells me I shouldn't do this..... I feel like I do when I'm going down a hole with another guy who posts some disconnected nonsense here now and again, but here goes.....

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I feel this movie has a lot going against it even ignoring the whole covid situation:

- Steve Trevor is back alive. I really think this is a bad move and he should have stayed dead.

Fair enough. This is maybe the only opinion in the post that isn't misfounded.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

- Cheetah is hard to take seriously in live-action due to the connection people will make with the awful CATS movie and stage show...and the whole furry community. So they're in an uphill battle here

This is a stretch observation that.... well.... it's not very cogent. "Because... she's a cat and... you know the movie cats didn't do well.... so you know..... this movie will also not do well because cats and cats... you know...".

Seriously dude, it's two different genres completely. Cats went away silently, Wonder Woman has a good-will coming from it's audience.... and furries? Dude that's only a regular point of conversation here on this weird fu(k!n& community, but the rest of the normally operating world most people don't even give that consideration. Good God, man. I've barely scratched *ahem* the surface explaining why this observation...ugh, brother.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

- Sequel-itis. Sometimes movie franchsies are a one-hit wonder where the first is the best and the sequel can't recapture what made the first one good (see: Matrix movies, or Jurrassic Park, even Predator and Alien, etc)

If it fails I doubt it will be from this as a causal factor. This was one of the more highly anticipated sequels to be released in recent years. I would say a more valid reason might be disinterest because too much time has passed for both the DCEU and this franchise as a connecting-tissue movie.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

- Trump-isms.

I'm going to try and talk about this one simply for what it is. I think, "Trumpisms" is the wrong word because it implies a Trumpian, right of center message in the movie that may turn people off. Simply put, it's the wrong descriptor.

I think taking it for what it is, and whatever side you fall on, the more accurate word would simply be "politicized" or maybe saying that they've taken a political-satirical angle that might turn some people off.