 Okay, Thursday night, the 15th, June 15th, 2017, I went to see the live Rift Tracks show at a local cinema, and it was great fun. I was feeling down, I wasn't in a great mood, and the Rift Tracks show was great. I laughed out loud all the way through it. It picked me right up. I was glad I went. I was feeling good, I was feeling enthusiastic about things in general, I guess. It was 10.30 at night by that point. The Wonder Woman movie was starting in half an hour or 20 minutes or whatever, so I said, I'll go ahead and see the Wonder Woman movie. I haven't paid money to see any of these superhero movies in years, years. But I thought, you know, this one has more significance than just another superhero movie. I'll go ahead and do it. Problem number one, the ticket for the Wonder Woman movie was $12. $12. $12 goddamn dollars. Why did I pay that? I don't know. I guess I was just feeling good. Let's see, this is what I've talked about in my reviews before. This is why I don't like going to the cinema. This is why I don't enjoy the movie-going experience. Because every step of the process of seeing movies in the cinema is a rip-off. You get ripped off repeatedly. Before you've even sat your behind down in the seat to see the movie, you've been ripped off three or four times. The ticket price, the cost of food, the quality of the food, and then you have to see television commercials for cars, for army recruitment. $12. $12. $10.30 at night when there was hardly anyone in the building. So anyway, the movie starts and immediately I'm saying to myself, this is bad. This is really bad. I'm not exaggerating that within the first minute of the start of the film, within 60 seconds I was shaking my head and saying, this is bad. When you have a movie that in the first minute of the film is overusing CGI and overusing slow motion, in the first minute of the film, you've got a movie with a lot of problems. It's not a good movie. In fact, I thought it was terrible. I understand that the people who are thrilled about this movie, the audience that doesn't include me or my demographic, which is women and young girls, I understand what they're getting out of just the existence of this movie. What I don't understand is why people in general are saying it's a good movie or that it's even an okay movie or that it was exciting because I didn't think it was. The acting was terrible. Gal Gadot is awful. She's a terrible actress. She's really, really bad. Everybody around her was mostly bad, especially the Amazons. God, there was some bad acting. Hippolyta, her mother was just a dull, lifeless, uninteresting, unenthusiastic performance. All of the other Amazons were putting on fake accents, really bad sounding, phony accents. They're trying to sound like Gal Gadot because she can only talk with the accent. Man, really uncomfortable. And then Chris Pine showed up. I don't like Chris Pine. I don't like him. I've never liked him. But he was the best actor in the film. His acting performance was fine. I didn't have any problem at all with his performance. The script was terrible. The plot of the film was dumb. Why is it World War I? He takes her to London and to England. And then she's having to follow him around with him telling her what to do and where to go. And this is going on and on and on. And I'm saying, where's Wonder Woman? This isn't Wonder Woman. What is this? This is not Wonder Woman. The one thing about London that I liked was Etta Candy. I liked the Etta Candy character the minute she showed up. I liked her dialogue. I liked her character. I asked the right type for the character. And of course they did nothing with her. They did nothing at all with her. Once she got into France onto the battle front and she actually went, she threw off her cloak and went running into battle. It started to get kind of interesting. I wish I had been thrilled by it. I wasn't. There was no interesting music to accompany her debut as Wonder Woman on the battlefield. Just this generic dark swells of music that they have in all the movies. There was no Wonder Woman theme music. Where was it? There was so much slow motion. So much slow motion. So much overuse of slow motion. And when she was jumping around the town kicking German soldiers, swinging her rope, picking up tanks and throwing them what should have been thrilling looked so awful. The CGI was so terrible. It looked like something out of Roger Rabbit. It looked like Roger Rabbit. The CGI was so bad. I haven't even talked about the lackluster villains. Who cared? The third act of the film started to get interesting. There were a couple of things that happened in the third act that surprised me that I didn't expect to see. But it was too little, too late. And then the final fight, it made no sense. The conclusion of the film made no sense. What was the message of the film? I don't know. It was vague. I put on a thumbnail of the thing here. I call it the Sailor Moon movie because it ended just like every magical girl anime cartoon ever. She was on the verge of defeat by the big bad villain. And then there was a burst of love coming from her heart. She flew up into the air. There was a blast of light and the villain died and there was a big explosion. Just like Sailor Moon, the end. So Lift Tracks lifted me up out of my mood and Wonder Woman put me right back down. Awful, awful movie. I wasted a lot of time and way too much money on it. It was two and a half hours long. It was a full two and a half hours long. I have to say that it didn't feel long. It didn't feel like it was that long. So somehow it was moving me along even though I wasn't liking it. And then by that time it was too late to catch a bus or the train. So I had to call a lift. That cost me more money. Just a bad film. It makes me glad that I've never seen Batman v Superman or any of the recent Superman or Batman movies. I'm not going to see the Justice League film in no way. So yeah, look at the mood that I'm in. Yeah, that's Wonder Woman. Ah, who cares? A lot of people apparently. Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen. And then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction, book, TV and movie reviews all the time. And please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.