addiesin said:
Zarius, when you don't like a movie you can just say "I didn't like it", and move on. Don't let it consume you.
This is a fanediting site. We always let the idea of 'fixing' a movie, good or bad, consume us
My frustration comes largely from
wanting to love it, but finding so much wrong with it that I just couldn't.
I see @"musiced921" refer to films like
Batman and Robin, and
Ghost Rider as examples of when we have it
really bad and can't distinguish between a cape film is good and when one is the worst ever anymore...but having edited
Batman and Robin, I have come to find there is a good movie buried somewhere in there. If it were exposed to a modern audience sans so much of the camp, then
Batman and Robin is
exactly the kind of films both Marvel and DC are making
now!
I don't think the reception to this film is hyperbolic at all, nor does it come from simply being frustrated with 2020 as a whole. If we're going to use that argument, I could easily say the same for all the 'Phantom Menacing' of this film...frustrations with our daily lives and a lack of any real superhero action means we have to settle for just about anything that lifts our spirits
People simply recognise that the movie is all over the place, messy, sloppy, riddled with plot holes, has no real stakes, and has questionable ethic approach to it's romantic angle. People recognize all those problems and more, as an editor, as a storyteller, I can see these problems clear as day also, and I do intend to do something about them in due course
I watched
Disney's Soul on Christmas Day on Disney+, a film that, at 90 minutes, suffered from having a wealth of incredible ideas being given very little time, and an unclear ending, but it was also a much better constructed film than this one at over two and half hours.
WW84 wasn't even the only Wonder Woman movie out this year, there was also
Bloodlines, the animated DC movie released over the spring, and it is a far worthier, structured and engaging feature than this was, and I'm not so much a fan of the DC animated movies or it's version of Diana, so that's saying something.
I did not mean to be so consumed with playing Mr. Contrarian to everyone who have expressed positive thoughts about this film, it came out of a love of this site and it's community...I just could not believe some truly skilled editors and storytellers found so little wrong with this movie when everyone else can see what needs to be done.
Just because it's presently 2020 does not excuse a bad movie from being called out for what it is. This would have been received badly whether it had made it's intentional theatrical release date or not. It's just bad.