06-03-2017, 12:59 PM
As usual, when we reached the theater, Lady Cranefly asked me, Did you remember your hearing aids? I gave my standard answer: Fuck.
We went with another couple who bought the tickets for all of us ahead of time, for the back row of the ground-floor seats, which was perfect -- except that they interpreted the layout wrong and we found ourselves in the first row, front and center. A wall of white going straight up and out. Maybe okay for My Dinner with Andre, but for an action movie? Oh my.
Superhero movies really aren't my thing. There's the usual problem of near indestructible beings tossing each other endlessly all over the place. It's hard to feel any emotion or sense of suspense over such shenanigans. Still, this is a very decent movie.
As for Gal Gadot, who plays Wonder Woman, I had to pause the movie every now and then -- much to the chagrin of the rest of the audience ("Cranefly, would you stop doing that! Just let us watch the effin' movie!") -- to gaze up at her 25-foot face, or 25-foot figure. Because, my god, she's an incredibly good-looking woman. I mean, just awesome.
Lynda Carter set the bar for Wonder Woman long ago. There were several attempts to resurrect the character, but always with horrendous actress choices. What were they thinking? And then again, What were they thinking this time? And yet again, What were they thinking even now? I know there's been controversy over Gal Gadot getting this part, though I haven't heard the reasons (because I refuse to look at the effing news during the Horror Clown's act). But I'm blown away by her. She's five foot ten (twenty-five foot tall on screen!), very athletic, with just the right valence to her face and expressions.
I wouldn't recommend watching this from the front row. But if you go see it two or three times, make one of those times from the front. Gal Gadot's close-ups are more mesmerizing than Cthulhu.
We went with another couple who bought the tickets for all of us ahead of time, for the back row of the ground-floor seats, which was perfect -- except that they interpreted the layout wrong and we found ourselves in the first row, front and center. A wall of white going straight up and out. Maybe okay for My Dinner with Andre, but for an action movie? Oh my.
Superhero movies really aren't my thing. There's the usual problem of near indestructible beings tossing each other endlessly all over the place. It's hard to feel any emotion or sense of suspense over such shenanigans. Still, this is a very decent movie.
As for Gal Gadot, who plays Wonder Woman, I had to pause the movie every now and then -- much to the chagrin of the rest of the audience ("Cranefly, would you stop doing that! Just let us watch the effin' movie!") -- to gaze up at her 25-foot face, or 25-foot figure. Because, my god, she's an incredibly good-looking woman. I mean, just awesome.
Lynda Carter set the bar for Wonder Woman long ago. There were several attempts to resurrect the character, but always with horrendous actress choices. What were they thinking? And then again, What were they thinking this time? And yet again, What were they thinking even now? I know there's been controversy over Gal Gadot getting this part, though I haven't heard the reasons (because I refuse to look at the effing news during the Horror Clown's act). But I'm blown away by her. She's five foot ten (twenty-five foot tall on screen!), very athletic, with just the right valence to her face and expressions.
I wouldn't recommend watching this from the front row. But if you go see it two or three times, make one of those times from the front. Gal Gadot's close-ups are more mesmerizing than Cthulhu.