Wonder Woman 1984 .

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#WonderWoman1984

So, a wish that gives you everything you want in the short term with a bunch of unintended consequences destroying everything you love in the longterm…but enough about the Warner straight-to-streaming release strategy, let's talk about the movie🤣!

Fun old-school romance/action-adventure…with a tiny side of comic-book superhero-CU IP-world-building fate-of-the-future-of-cinema-hanging-in-the-balance.

Nice work, again, by Jenkins by focusing on the human elements of the story, and for letting the DP give us such wonderful, bright, saturated colours. It's always a relief nowadays to see something not colour-graded to within an inch of its digital life.

Nice work, too, by Wiig, fun as a tongue-in-cheek super-villain, and Pascal making up for all that non-emoting he has to do in #TheMandalorian by doing *all* the emoting. But, yeah, the day is saved, again, by that tremendous chemistry between Gadot and Pine😍. Boy, if I had a Dreamstone I'd wish for them to be reunited for WW3…

"I'm already gone!" 😭😭😭😭








[Spoiler Alert!] Yo! That was gutsy of them to wade into touchy geo-political territory…that, too, in the Middle East😬!

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#PattyJenkins #MatthewJensen #HansZimmer
#GalGadot #ChrisPine #KristenWiig #PedroPascal #ConnieNielsen #RobinWright
#WW84 #WonderWoman #DC @wonderwomanfilm @hbomax @wbpictures

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