In many ways, for better and for worse,Wonder Woman 1984plays like a throwback film.
), but to previous eras of DC filmmaking.
It is without exaggeration that I believePedro Pascaldeserves an Oscar nomination for his work in this film.
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But it aint all melodrama and cheekiness from Pascal.
Pascal jumps on these shades with verve, with excitement, and with triumph.
The character plays on paper, and Pascal makes it soar even more.
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So… what does Wonder Woman get to do?
Telling a young girl Shh?
More c’mon!).
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The final, active decision to stop the big bad is made by the big bad himself.
And you know what?
Im just not seeing that in what she does (or more accurately, doesnt do).
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The math has crapped out for me, and its because the mathematicians left their most thrilling variable undefined.
Heres hopingWonder Woman 3gives Diana more of a fighting chance.
