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Mekkin B. (122 KP) rated Wonder Woman (2017) in Movies

Sep 11, 2017  
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
2017 | Action, Fantasy, War
7
8.2 (517 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Wonder Woman is visually beautiful, fairly well paced, and delivers great action. If you like superhero movies, it's definitely one to go see. Gal Gadot plays the bright-eyed and slightly alien Diana with aplomb. The plot is definitely weak in places. This movie has one or two moments where things would be solved much more swiftly if the characters weren't keeping secrets for very flimsy reasons, and also fails to give answers to some things, such as Diana's wrist guards. All in all, though, this movie had heart and I appreciated it for refusing to fall into grit and darkness. It's hard to craft a character who is brave and honest and quintessentially good and also make them not incredibly boring. This movie did that very well.
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated Identity Crisis in Books

Jan 28, 2019  
IC
Identity Crisis
Brad Meltzer | 2006
6
7.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Superman.

Batman.

Wonder Woman.

Green Arrow.

The Flash

The Elongated Man?

If, like me, you'd no idea who the latter character is - even though he has recently shown up in the DC TV series 'The Flash' - then this might seem a risky proposition. A few pages in, however, that decision pays off: unlike the 'big name' characters of DC (for whom you know nothing bad will ever really 'stick'), by making a relatively-minor character the initial focal point of the story, the tragedy that strikes (with the murder of his wife) really hits home.

That tragedy then being the reason why other members of the super-hero community start investigating her death, with it eventually coming to light that there is more going on here than meets the eye ...
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated Flashpoint in Books

Jan 28, 2019  
Flashpoint
Flashpoint
Geoff Johns | 2012
6
8.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
So, Flashpoint.

One of the most famous Flash stories - recently covered (briefly) in the DC TV series of the same name, during season 2.

In which Barry Allen wakes up at his desk to find the world he knows has changed drastically: there's no 'Man of Steel, nobody has ever heard of The Flash, and Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war with each other.

All of which, over the course of the story, eventually comes to be because of a single change in the past, with that oen chagne leading to a domino effect and creating this world.

Reading this, it's also not hard to see why it is one of the more famous Flash stories and is (currently) rumoured to be the foundation for The Flash's upcoming Big Screen debut ...
  
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Jpb (34 KP) rated Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) in Movies

Feb 2, 2021  
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
2020 | Adventure, Fantasy
6
6.1 (42 Ratings)
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Easy watch (0 more)
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DC step it up
Besides the fact that this film is badly written, full of plot-holes, has watered-down characters (some of whom are more caricature than character), is full of questionable decisions, and somehow looks worse than the previous film--besides all of that--this film is possibly the most anti-feminist thing I've had to sit through in recent memory. Which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of what they are supposed to go for.

Wonder Woman seems less intelligent, morally dubious, and extremely reckless in this film. You also have a WW1 piolet get into a up to date fight and fly it, it just that so happens to be primed and ready to go.

Come on DC you can do better
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated JLA: Earth 2 in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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JLA: Earth 2
Grant Morrison | 2000
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I've been watching the second series of the Grant-Gustin starring 'The Flash' TV series, and they've introduced the concept of the multiverse: the concept of worlds alike, but slightly different, than our own separated by a slice of reality.

This is one of the cases where that idea came from - in this, we have evil counterparts of <quote>Earth's Mightiests Heroes<unquote> Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Superman who are the 'Crime Syndicate of Amerika' (note the 'k'), with the JLA (that's the Justice League of America) travelling between realms when the good Alexander Luthor (i.e. the good counterpart of 'our' Earths evil Lex Luthor) finds a way of traveling between realms and looks for their aide in his constant battle against the CSA.

And if that all sound confusing, trust me: it is.