{"id":47580,"date":"2020-12-28T20:49:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47580"},"modified":"2020-12-28T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:49:24","slug":"i-wish-for-the-2-5-hours-i-lost-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47580","title":{"rendered":"I wish for the 2.5 hours I lost back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-47581 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ww84notogood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ww84notogood.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ww84notogood-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">My job put me in a shitty mood today, which sucks, but for the sake of writing out a post of criticism, it\u2019s actually kind of advantageous.\u00a0 I tend to believe that intent is sharpest when paired with an emotion that rides along the same wavelength, so when I\u2019m in a pissed mood, lighting into something might be the right mindset for doing such.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Frankly, I knew what I was getting into when I sat down to watch <em>WW84<\/em> because making a title card \u201cWonder Woman 1984\u201d would have been the hardest thing to do for this day and age where people can sparsely be expected to use vowels when writing their shorthand bullshit, even in a professional working environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But I had already heard that this movie wasn\u2019t good, and I\u2019d seen the memes, my favorite of them being the title of this post because I felt the exact same way after watching it.\u00a0 However, out of one part morbid curiosity and another part simply because Gal Gadot is gorgeous and I could probably put up with watching <em>Boys Don\u2019t Cry<\/em> or <em>The Boy With the Striped Pajamas<\/em> if had Gal Gadot in it, I decided to watch it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Despite knowing that it probably wasn\u2019t good, and despite knowing that it was 2.5 hours long and I could have done a myriad of things with 2.5 hours instead of watching WW84, I did something stupid and watched WW84.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And it sucked.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly.\u00a0 Frankly, in spite of the praise of the original <em>Wonder Woman <\/em>received, I didn\u2019t think it was particularly close to as good as the praise it was getting, and I hate to sound completely sexist, but I think films like it and shows like <em>Jessica Jones<\/em> get a bump in credit solely for the fact that they\u2019re stories about strong female leads with mostly female production crews.\u00a0 Frankly, the gender of casts and crews are irrelevant to me, and I\u2019d rather not know it at all as long as captivating and entertaining stories and presented to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Regardless, it goes without saying that the original Wonder Woman was easily the strongest DC property film since the Christopher Nolan <em>Batman<\/em> trilogy, and easily the best DC flick in the supposed Justice League universe they\u2019ve tried to cobble together with most notably a Ben Affleck Batman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But ultimately, that\u2019s like saying the least stinkiest turd in the punch bowl because for whatever reason, DC Comics can\u2019t seem to get their shit together when it comes to translating their properties into film.\u00a0 Wonder Woman was alright, which makes it the strongest DC film in their respective universe, but honestly, I\u2019d rather have watched episodes of the lowly <em>Iron Fist<\/em> or the fairly mediocre <em>Defenders<\/em> shows than DC\u2019s top film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I kind of feel bad for DC comics.\u00a0 Because in the actual world of comic books, DC has plenty of quality properties and capable writers and some legendary stories told.\u00a0 Batman alone carries DC comics way more than any single Marvel property can take credit for carrying Marvel Comics.\u00a0 But no matter what, they just can\u2019t seem to make good movies, and it\u2019s almost as inevitable that a non-Batman DC movie is going to suck as much as the Braves will always collapse in the most embarrassing or heartbreaking fashions possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">So needless to say, a sequel to a marginal quality film was bound to be a downhill ride no matter what, and to WW84\u2019s credit, they basically lived up to expectation.\u00a0 Thank goodness this never made it to theaters, because I already want my money back for it wasting 2.5 hours of my life, despite watching from the comfort of my own home on 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