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AUTHOR's NOTE: This is a sandbox intended to be for a major revamp of the article for Wonder Woman 1984, with the BQ and GQ sections being mostly redone... despite me having never seen the movie. I will not revamp the article until I feel that it is ready.

Wonder Woman 1984 is a 2020 American superhero film, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot in the starring role. It is a sequel to the 2017 film Wonder Woman and the ninth installment in the DC Extended Universe. The film was simultaneously released in theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max on December 25, 2020.

Plot
Diana Prince lives quietly among mortals in the vibrant, sleek 1980s — an era of excess driven by the pursuit of having it all. Though she's come into her full powers, she maintains a low profile by curating ancient artifacts, and only performing heroic acts incognito. But soon, Diana will have to muster all of her strength, wisdom and courage as she finds herself squaring off against Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah, a villainess who possesses superhuman strength and agility.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The tone of the film is rather jarring; compared to in the previous film, Wonder Woman 1984 seems to be more campy and lighthearted in a way it loses all sense of purpose and importance, sort of like the difference between mh:greatestmovies:Batman Returns and Batman Forever, or mh:greatestmovies:Superman II and Superman III.
 * 2) It seemingly tries so hard to be all "fun and games", but this results in the plot losing all sense of purpose or importance, resulting in it becoming rather boring; for example, the prologue is centered around a younger Diana taking part in this Olympics-style event, most of which seems to be rather pointless, as none of this is paid off in the later events of the film, aside from a brief set-up regarding the theme of "lies", and even that fails in terms of execution as Diana never even specifically lies in the prologue.
 * 3) * Whereas the previous film was quick to establish as to what the heroes are fighting and why one should root for them, here there seems to to be absolutely no clue as to what the story even is fourty minutes into the film; and when those clues come and WW84 begins to repeat some of the same things that occurred in the previous film, it fails in terms of execution as at this point it seems rather unimportant.
 * 4) * After Steve Trevor is brought back by the Dreamstone, a series of fish-out-of-water mishaps occur, reminiscent of in the first film; this does not work, as whereas in the original it occurs during the mission to save the world, here there is no mission at all and the sequences seem to happen only for the sole purpose of "fun".
 * 5) * The film eventually arrives at the point where it is discovered the Dreamstone holds dangerous powers which Maxwell Lord is already utilizing, and only there does the film transition into the journey to stop him; the fact that at this point the audience are already halfway through the film and that Lord's motivations are basically nonexistent to the point where they merely boil down to what can only be described as "assumed evil" does not exactly help.
 * 6) * The excessive attempts at being light-hearted also result in the characters becoming rather shallow; for example, the pairing of Diana and Barbara is fantastic on paper, as the former's experiences had rendered her a recluse who pushes everyone else away whereas the latter was a recluse herself who has always been pushed away by others, it results in Diana's character flaw forcing her to push Barbara away and the latter's character flaw forcing her to take that rejection as "proof" that the former is apparently just as bad as everyone else, and thus in, as Filmento describes in his analysis, "this deeply personal and multi-layered conflict," but the film's apparent desire to be light-hearted undermines that by having Diana go against her character flaw and become best buddies with Barbara, seemingly because, also as Filmento states in his analysis, "that's what the role model heroes like Diana do!", essentially turning their relationship into a rather flat rivalry in which the ultimate conflict is motivated by the existence of a third-party character rather than being personal.
 * 7) * To further the point of how destructive this apparent desire is... Barbara takes a liking to Diana due to her popularity, which the film does not really expand upon; for example, the film lacks scenes where Barbara notices Diana gaining attention from males she does not, nor scenes where some guy Barbara is becoming close with ultimately rejects her in favor of Diana, anything like that to solidify Barbara's envy, apparently because that would shine a negative light on Diana, for example; instead, Barbara seemingly just assumes Diana is popular because... she is hot. After Barbara makes her wish to become as popular as Diana, she begins wearing tighter dresses, and... that's apparently as deep as it goes, it isn't like, as a result of the wish, she becomes confident to let out her legitimately funny personality or anything like that, she just becomes... hot, with everyone beginning to like her; at the very least, it's funny and understandable, wearing tight dresses and no glasses at all apparently makes you more attractive. ... (AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm at the 10:58 mark of Filmento's video. When I return to editing this page, I'll finish off from there and add more pointers from that video.)

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