The idea that anyone in Hollywood would give Richard Kelly another dime is laughable. The guy has been sitting in a bar for the past 15 years talking about the good old days and he isn’t even 50. He has made nothing but terrible movies, one of which inexplicably became a cult film.

That was surprising to me too. I thought they were going to be an hour long.

Current thinking is that you can survive about as long as you can survive under water (unlike underwater, you have to full exhale - but that doesn’t change things much). So probably about 2-3 minutes if you are healthy. Average person will probably pass out around 1-2 minutes depending on how well you can deal with…

This is a perfect example of the monetary desires of TV wrecking a book adaptation. They had one simple job: Take the book and convert into two 10 episode seasons. Beginning, middle and end. They would have made a mint and people would have watched it multiple times. But instead they tried to stretch it out into an…

The technical failures of this whole enterprise is so infuriating that I have half a mind to write a secure-distributed-twitter-in-a-box just to show these idiots how to do it. Twitter itself is one of the most ridiculous tech companies in existence, so hurting them would be great too.

The original holds up incredibly well. Fantastic testament to editing. The film does everything it needs to and doesn’t waste one second of it’s running time.

I hated the Steve-in-another body, but I was thinking they were going to say the guy died in his apartment and Steve took over the corpse a moment later. But the whole thing was a mess. He should have just materialized. If they wanted to have a meet up at the party, they could have just had him appear in Diana’s…

The middle east stuff also led to the logically problematic travel parts of the movie.  I understand that they want the movie to have an international feel, but it just didn’t work.

I don’t know if anyone else had this experience, but at the beginning of the end when people are wish renouncing they show a clumsily edited flashback of Max’s life. At first I didn’t realize it was a flashback and I thought they were expected some kid that wished his dad didn’t beat his mom to renounce his wish. That…

As bad as the execution was, it had some great ideas.  I loved that they tried to have a non-violent end solution.

The story problems completely scream: written by a committee the day before filming - don’t worry we’ll fix it in the editing room.

I know the Lasso is by definition magic but the variable and infinite length thing really bothered me.

That whole flying bit would have been time much better spent exploring how Diana learned from Steve and Barbara that she needs to become part of the world to be it’s hero.  I could actually give 0 shits about her learning to fly.

I know they wanted to give it an international flavor, but the whole Egypt thing was a complete mistake. It added a ton of unnecessary plotting.

They even set up an answer! The lasso showed Steve the past, it could have shown Max and the people that wished what the consequences of their wishes would be BEFORE IT HAPPENED. And then they could have rejected it, nothing actually happened and it pays off the dichotomy between the Lasso of Truth and the Crystal of…

The real kicker is, the idea of someone wanted to be like Diana and inexplicably getting Wonder Woman’s powers is such a stronger idea in the context of the story. They should have just gone with that. No one cares about Cheetah.

Was that supposed to be her fur? I thought she was wearing a furry coat!

The movie really seems like it was written by committee, during production and it was massively edited.  My key piece of evidence is the Steve-in-another-body bit.  That was a complete unnecessary mess..unless there was some payoff that was cut.

No way to fix it without major reshoots. And that was pretty much impossible with Covid. I think this is a great example of how Hollywood should pre-vis entire movies now, hire writers to look at it, and rework a “finished” product. The ideas were there. Laid out better, dropping things that didn’t work and expanding…

It was too late to fix the problems without major reshoots. I think it only could have been fixed by a complete rewrite once they had the script we saw shot. As I’ve said, I think it had a lot of great ideas, but the way they were laid out were really poorly done.