Wonder Woman 1984

A forgettable woke sequel to Wonder Woman (2017).

There was a forgettable sequel to a forgetable but over praised and over-criticized franchise. It came out during COVID, and had great early reviewer praise, while audiences didn't like it. Then with some political meddling, that flipped over time. But utimately, it wasn't a good sequel -- and it bombed at the Box Office and lost a lot of money.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2021-12-18

Box Office Bombs

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	Wonder Woman 1984 - Reviewers loved it, audiences didn't. Then Rotten Tomatoes doctored the process -- and over time it supposedly flipped with audiences loving it in reviews, while reviewers didn't. But the true measure is that globally it bombed at the box office and was one of the biggest losers of all times (≈$140M under water).

There was this early drama in the reviews of the movie because the Reviewers were praising it (89% Certified Fresh), but the viewers thought it stank on ice (59% Rotten).

Rotten Tomatoes felt the viewers complaining, disliked it for political reasons before even seeing it, so blocked the viewer complaints and doctored the results. But it's just as true that the people that liked the original (and this Sequel) were praising it because it was a chick superhero, or they liked Gal Gagot's abnoxious wokeness.

In the end the reviews kept sinking (to 58% which is Rotten), while the Woke Mob was allowed to inflate it (to 73%) -- while when you look at the box office take? It cost like $200M to make (not counting promotions) and lost $143M globally. So the real audience review is that the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.

Of course the woke claim that it's because it came out during COVID that it bombed -- and while it's a valid point that didn't help. I don't think it can be brushed off that it wasn't that good.

From my point of view? The movies wasn't as bad as detractors claimed. But the plot was silly. The battle of Gods and granting wishes to all humans, and trying to get all humans to renounce their wishes? And clichés about Presidents just wanting more Nuclear Weapons, and so on. The movie was watchable if you wanted to suspend belief -- but less than a year later, I couldn't remember it without looking it up -- and thinking, "oh yeah, that was dumb".

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