From: jrs9jrs9@gmail.com   
      
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   I really enjoyed the movie; one of the better superhero films made and   
   certainly a redemption for DC for the tepid BvS.     
      
   Well written, for the most part, and acted with restraint; it would have been   
   easy to go way over board with the themes in the movies.  The Amazons are   
   powerful but not invulnerable, which was a bit of a surprise.  The   
   introduction of Diana to English    
   society and the overwhelming maleness of the war office could have turned into   
   a rant or a sorrowful display of misogyny but the interactions was handled   
   well and with humor.  That was a bit unexpected, all the humor, bordering   
   almost on slapstick at    
   times, especially Diana double-entendring question about Steve's watch.    
   One thing of interest: the label "Wonder Woman" is never used in the movie.    
   WW is called Diana, Princess Diana, or Diana Prince, and that's it.  I was   
   cringingly expecting that at some point Steve or one of his buddies would   
   having watched Diana in full    
   gear to say a la Lois Lane, "why you must be some kind of...wonder...woman" or   
   something to that effect. Thankfully no, and I hope the character is never   
   referred to by that silly name.   
      
   Now as the less-well written part: the finale.  I guess a movie like this has   
   to have a slam-bang blow-everything-up last act involving the main heroine and   
   the super villain and perhaps a sacrifice along the way for inspiration for   
   the heroine, but this    
   is rather boilerplate and WW just went along with it.  It was great to see   
   David Thewlis turn out to be Ares (especially as he is currently co-starring   
   in Fargo right now), but the writers just ripped off Magneto shamelessly,   
   right down to the helmet,    
   levitating, and ability to toss around heavy objects just with his mind.   
   Calling on lightning was his one big innovation.  And poor Steve's sacrifice;   
   I guess it was necessary to give Diana that final psychic energy to defeat   
   Ares, but still, there must    
   have been parachutes in the plane, they were in Belgium and the plane was   
   plenty stocked with fuel enough to take it over the North Sea and let Steve   
   parachute to safety, but nope he blows himself up along with the poison gas.    
   I do say though that Steve'   
   s expression when he knew he had the plane to himself and his initial   
   hesitation to destroy himself was played so well.  And Gail Gadot, i did not   
   notice this when I saw BvS but she could be Angeline Jolie's younger sister   
   and I bet if this movie came    
   out twenty years ago she'd have played Diana.  Gadot handled the role   
   carefully, her naivety of the ways of the human world and her slow initiation   
   to the fact that evil exists outside of any one individual came off as   
   believable.     
      
   Question:  Is Diana invulnerable?  We see her toss around many heavy objects,   
   like a tank, and destroy buildings and such, she could leap with the force of   
   the Hulk, she has the force to hold off with her shield the force of several   
   machine guns firing    
   at her, and I wonder if the forearm shields were more for show but she did not   
   know that.  She is not an Amazon per se and what powers did Zeus actually give   
   her?  I think we did not want to see bullets bouncing off of her like with   
   Superman but I wonder    
   if they could.       
      
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