By Wonder Woman Movie Poster (#6 of 16) - IMP Awards, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51137764
Wonder Woman - (2017)
Why fight it, and who needs logic and common sense - this is a superhero movie. Straight from the computer graphics guys to us. Since I'd seen Batman v Superman I decided to check out the DC side of things, and not just limit myself to Marvel - after years of just shutting myself out of the whole genre. Curiosity always gets me in the end, and it's a big part of cinema these days - plus there are oodles of titles to occupy me. Last night was Wonder Woman, which looked nice (there's a limit though - with CGI) in a visual sense - running the spectrum from the golden greens and blues of Themyscira to the dark grey and green of our world. Nice evil character in Doctor Poison, with suitably horror-infused mask. I didn't even mind the story, with a young Diana (Gal Gadot) on a quest that takes her to the heart of the battlefield in a fictional version of World War I. I just thought occasionally the writers took the easy way out - such as when Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) fakes his way into a high-level conference pretending to have lost his ticket. Some reveals feel a little off as well - but I won't go into spoiler territory. Of the two big franchises, DC feels very much the weaker one. All up a decent, if very typical, superhero flick. Gadot was nice, and played her part well.
6.5/10
The Dark - (1979)
Good lord. I wanted to be able to be informed about this film when I mention it in my Tobe Hooper thread, because he spent a few days directing it before he was sacked - and I just have to say it's a shame, because maybe he'd have done a better job than John Cardos. Anyway, The Dark was the most boring film I've seen in years, and crept along with absolutely no suspense, no fun, no humour, no excitement and nothing much in it worth mentioning except for the final battle with the "alien" which had been a zombie during principle photography - before the producers decided to change direction. Plodding, dull and awful.
2/10
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