{"id":6775,"date":"2022-01-30T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:07:05","slug":"review-wonder-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/reviews\/review-wonder-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2013 Wonder Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606<\/span>\n\n\n\n

I watched Wonder Woman<\/em> when it first came out but recently added it to my rental list to watch with WW 1984<\/a><\/em>. I wanted to have the movie fresh in my mind. Sometimes a sequel is so long behind the primary it becomes difficult to say if one was better than the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being old and a dude I don’t remember much of the Wonder Woman story. I remember some of the cartoons on television and Linda Carter in the television series back when we only had five channels and television oscillated between cheesy and ground breaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think we can all agree the television series aimed for and hit the cheesy bullseye. It was the 1970s after all. Television was simpler then. Put a couple of great looking actors in front of the camera, create a thin story line, sprinkle in and end on humor. People will stay for the commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To some extent the movie continued with the formula. This is a comic book character after all! Chris Pine was a surprising choice given he has made a bit of a name for himself playing Captain Kirk in the Star Trek<\/a> franchise. Gal Gadot is simply stunning. Twelve year old me was very pleased. Twelve year old me had fond memories of Linda Carter after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The storyline for the television series was naturally quite different from the movie. This did cause me a bit of stutter and sputter early on. It was really nice that they got female athletes and ramped up the action. I remember the “action scenes” being really cheesy in the television series. Then again, there has been 40+ years of special effects improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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