A lot of people love Wonder Woman 2017 but definitely not for her own character development. She just kind of wants to do whatever she wants, escapes the island and does it, and then they shoehorn in a twist villain at the end.
I think what makes it work is the refreshing grimdark take on the war and that the character who does the development and experiences a magical adventure is this sidekick pilot dude and gets to bear witness to the antics of a goddess.
I have similar feelings about the Aquaman Sequels.
Wonder Woman also manages to make great humor out of how she’s basically in the wrong place, wrong time. That contrast works and makes all the interactions and characters themselves around it more interesting than they would be in a different plot. The ending really is the greatest weakness of the movie; a clearly way easier and better ending would have been that there was no big bad guy, that it was just the humans being humans. Now it just fell flat instead of having some slightly deeper and way more interesting insight.
I’d say it’s what usually fails most action films in general though. Big bad evil, hero fight evil, evil beaten yayy but heavy cost. Even otherwise good action films like John Wick end up repeating the cliché. It’s very disappointing every time they do it and has ruined so many movies already. Do people really want to see the boring end fight that you know is coming and will always go the same way over and over again?
A lot of people love Wonder Woman 2017 but definitely not for her own character development. She just kind of wants to do whatever she wants, escapes the island and does it, and then they shoehorn in a twist villain at the end.
I think what makes it work is the refreshing grimdark take on the war and that the character who does the development and experiences a magical adventure is this sidekick pilot dude and gets to bear witness to the antics of a goddess.
I have similar feelings about the Aquaman Sequels.
Wonder Woman also manages to make great humor out of how she’s basically in the wrong place, wrong time. That contrast works and makes all the interactions and characters themselves around it more interesting than they would be in a different plot. The ending really is the greatest weakness of the movie; a clearly way easier and better ending would have been that there was no big bad guy, that it was just the humans being humans. Now it just fell flat instead of having some slightly deeper and way more interesting insight.
I’d say it’s what usually fails most action films in general though. Big bad evil, hero fight evil, evil beaten yayy but heavy cost. Even otherwise good action films like John Wick end up repeating the cliché. It’s very disappointing every time they do it and has ruined so many movies already. Do people really want to see the boring end fight that you know is coming and will always go the same way over and over again?