00:00Wonder Woman 1984 was truly a missed opportunity.
00:03Whereas the first Wonder Woman was set in the dark and dramatic atmosphere of the First World War,
00:07Wonder Woman 84 opts for a colorful aesthetic and a much lighter tone, rooted in the 80s.
00:13This stylistic shift demonstrates the ambition to pay homage to vintage comics and pop culture during its golden age.
00:18But this approach was not unanimously accepted, simply because it is merely a visual artifice to ride the wave of popular works of the moment and adds nothing to the narrative.
00:25The film fails to recapture the flavor of the first one, although it begins with a sequence on Temiskira, but which still sorely lacks inspiration.
00:31And what's with this idea of having events that the spectators in the stadium can't see? It's stupid.
00:35This Wonder Woman 1984 is flat, it has no flavor in my opinion.
00:39The sequence in the shopping center is quite ridiculous, almost as if cables were making the characters take off.
00:44I'm not even going to mention the chase scene in Egypt, which is visually hideous, but above all extremely sloppy in its effects and staging.
00:50We are on a straight line, the chase must have a progression.
00:53Watch Furiosa and you'll see what I mean.
00:55And what's with all these DC Comics characters running around like crazy?
00:58And what's this? The models, honestly?
01:01For a production that costs a fortune, it's absurd.
01:03Gal Gadot doesn't seem to believe it much anymore either.
01:05It no longer has the bite of the first film.
01:07She acts poorly at times, and her character is badly written.
01:09It makes no sense to emphasize the loneliness of a character mourning someone she knew for 6 months 70 years ago.
01:15We keep emphasizing this, but it's silly.
01:17Like, she hasn't met anyone interesting enough to become her friend in all this time.
01:20We have a feminist icon who can't move forward in life because one of her crushes died so long ago that he would have died anyway if he had been alive.
01:27I don't know if you're following me.
01:28The other characters have potential, but it's going to be wasted.
01:31Minerva is a character who is insecure, who wishes to become like Diana and who will end up transforming into a Katz cosplay.
01:37We are led to believe that this person is ugly, by giving them a somewhat clumsy appearance and putting glasses on their eyes.
01:43Then all she has to do is take them off and put on a dress to suddenly become beautiful.
01:46I mean, at what point is she not?
01:48Once again, I find it a bit excessive to limit beauty to simply wearing heels.
01:52And I think it's a bit of a stretch to limit ugliness to people who wear glasses.
01:58What ?
01:59But the biggest controversy is the return of Steve, who will come back after Diana's wish, but in the body of another man.
02:04So first of all, this whole wish thing makes no sense.
02:06We play on the mythology of the classic fairy tale with a sort of genie in the lamp.
02:09Except that the genius here is Pedro Pascal in Donald Trump cosplay.
02:12The film attempts to adopt a moral interpretation.
02:14We must give up our illusions in order for the truth to triumph.
02:17But this moral lesson turns into pathos when Diana addresses the whole world with her 5G lasso.
02:22So that the guy who asked to have bigger biceps or the one who wanted a nicer car.
02:26He renounces his vows and saves the world from a nuclear attack.
02:28The more I talk about it, the more I realize that the film makes no sense.
02:31In short, it turns into a moral lesson as our dear heroine abuses a man's body without his consent.
02:36Because that's the most ludicrous thing in the film.
02:38Steve's spirit returns to the body of a man who did nothing to deserve this.
02:41Whose mind has disappeared somewhere and whose private life will be tainted.
02:45Nothing could have prevented the writers from having Steve appear in his own body.
02:49Because the rest of the wishes make anything and everything appear without justification.
02:52So why this extremely bizarre choice?
02:54And director Patty Jenkins will justify this choice by the homage paid to the 80s film like Big.
02:59Where Tom Hanks plays a child in an adult's body.
03:02A child who has sexual relations with an adult woman.
03:05Okay.
03:06In short, it's still quite strange for a film that aims to be socially conscious to make such controversial choices.
03:10In any case, with $170 million in revenue against a $200 million budget, the film was a failure.
03:15Released in December 2020, it was hit hard by Covid.
03:18And Warner's stupid strategy of releasing the film on its HBO Max platform at the same time as in theaters.
03:24So yes, it became the most popular streaming movie of 2020.
03:27But also the most pirated.
03:28And Warner doesn't care.
03:29It decided to release its entire 2021 programming on HBO Max on the same day as their theatrical release.
03:34Attempting to kill an entire industry and spitting in the face of operators worldwide who will suffer the consequences of this choice.
03:40The cinematic experience is important to fully appreciate a film.
03:43When you go to a movie theater, you have a different approach.
03:46We approach the work from a different perspective.
03:48James Gunn would also be subjected to this strategy with his Suicide Squad a year later.
03:52which will also be in deficit due to piracy.
03:54Put a 4K movie online, and it will be on piracy sites a few hours later.
03:58That seems logical.
03:59Today, cinema seems to have more or less regained its rights.
04:01Thank you Tom Cruise, Nolan and Barbie.
04:03And in 2023, Warner was going to try to bring people back to the theaters with the sequel to its biggest hit, Aquaman.
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