Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 22, 2022 14:25:27 GMT -8
As you know, I took a one month subscription to Sling TV in order to watch the baseball playoffs. I will dump it after a month.
But it has allowed to be watch the usual host of cable channels, including TNT. It was (I think) on that channel (or AMC) that I watched 2019's Pet Sematary with John Lithgow. I have seen no other version and have not read the book. And I'm no particular fan of Stephen King. But for a thriller to watch during the run-up to Halloween, it was fine.
I also watched about 40% of 2017's Wonder Woman with Chris Pine (way over-rated) as Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner was much better) and Gal Gadot (who?) as Diana Prince (aka "Wonder Woman).
I'm not the target audience for a movie that appeals to the type of people who felt the need to euphemize "comic book" into the term, "graphic novel." The best I can say about what I saw is that it is not completely insipid.
Robin Wright (Princess Buttercup) is actually good in her brief role in the beginning as the Amazonian general. And it's not that Gal Gadot (who?) is hard on the eyes. It's just that she has zero gravitas as Wonder Woman. She looks like the typical semi-anorexic model who flitted off the pages of Elle. She looks as natural with a sword in her hands as Michael Dukakis did riding on top of an MI Abrams tank.
As comic-booky and sometimes hokey as the original TV series was, Linda Carter looked much more like a warrior princess. And she had some knockers. You can't be Wonder Woman and be flat-chested as Gal Godot (who) is? And it doesn't help that she's not white. It just screams virtue-casting instead of casting to the character.
You thus can't even enjoy this movie as a no-taste idiot for whom a good rack is enough to see you through a movie. And she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag...a perfect paring with Chris Pine in this regard.
Also, I've been reminded once again why no one should spend a dime (let alone $35 to $50 a month) on these cable channels (however they are packaged..in this case with Sling TV). The commercial breaks on TNT (but not just TNT) were so long and frequent as to make any movie unwatchable.
But it has allowed to be watch the usual host of cable channels, including TNT. It was (I think) on that channel (or AMC) that I watched 2019's Pet Sematary with John Lithgow. I have seen no other version and have not read the book. And I'm no particular fan of Stephen King. But for a thriller to watch during the run-up to Halloween, it was fine.
I also watched about 40% of 2017's Wonder Woman with Chris Pine (way over-rated) as Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner was much better) and Gal Gadot (who?) as Diana Prince (aka "Wonder Woman).
I'm not the target audience for a movie that appeals to the type of people who felt the need to euphemize "comic book" into the term, "graphic novel." The best I can say about what I saw is that it is not completely insipid.
Robin Wright (Princess Buttercup) is actually good in her brief role in the beginning as the Amazonian general. And it's not that Gal Gadot (who?) is hard on the eyes. It's just that she has zero gravitas as Wonder Woman. She looks like the typical semi-anorexic model who flitted off the pages of Elle. She looks as natural with a sword in her hands as Michael Dukakis did riding on top of an MI Abrams tank.
As comic-booky and sometimes hokey as the original TV series was, Linda Carter looked much more like a warrior princess. And she had some knockers. You can't be Wonder Woman and be flat-chested as Gal Godot (who) is? And it doesn't help that she's not white. It just screams virtue-casting instead of casting to the character.
You thus can't even enjoy this movie as a no-taste idiot for whom a good rack is enough to see you through a movie. And she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag...a perfect paring with Chris Pine in this regard.
Also, I've been reminded once again why no one should spend a dime (let alone $35 to $50 a month) on these cable channels (however they are packaged..in this case with Sling TV). The commercial breaks on TNT (but not just TNT) were so long and frequent as to make any movie unwatchable.