{"id":133740,"date":"2017-06-27T21:39:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/movie-re-review-wonder-woman-2017.html"},"modified":"2017-06-27T21:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T03:39:22","slug":"movie-re-review-wonder-woman-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/movie-re-review-wonder-woman-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Re-Review: &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went this afternoon to see the movie again, this time in company of my mom. I walked out a lot more impressed in retrospect by both Gadot and Pine as actors.  Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>4.5 out of 5, with a heart<\/p>\n<p>Full review: <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/wonder-woman-2017\/1\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/wonder-woman-2017\/1\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/wonder-woman-2017\/1\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zoUVDuC2z_Lfvf-yJSjNJCW6H5GR9-cGzPPkS-H8s5BgFLjhJSy658STTM35x2qCMOKeX2d_VCWT6Wamm1Hc_ukCjJUBuPSRaI6o7PZog4qlpoXYLAi1b3TFQirJjW-FCBs8zondmXq4wKLrB4m7BtLu5dfmlT-6N8aQ96ac3aKoqqSAzOZBQ5VBVqdF=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/wonder-woman-2017\/1\/'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of Wonder Woman (2017)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWent to see the movie again, this time with my 81-year-old mother (summary: &#8220;bizarre, thought-provoking, enjoyable&#8221;), and found that I actually appreciate the movie as a whole the second time more than the first &#8212; both because of expectations, but also for meta reasons (e.g., knowing that the Steve\/Diana conversation on the boat just after leaving Themyscira was improvised between Pine and Gadot). I actually came away from the movie with much mo&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NNBR6J7GVqC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went this afternoon to see the movie again, this time in company of my mom. I walked out a lot more impressed in retrospect by both Gadot and Pine as actors. Good stuff. 4.5 out of 5, with a heart Full review: https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/wonder-woman-2017\/1\/ A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of Wonder Woman (2017) Went to see the movie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/movie-re-review-wonder-woman-2017.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Re-Review: &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; (2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133606,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/movie-review-wonder-woman-2017.html","url_meta":{"origin":133740,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; (2017)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Jun-17 9:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"DC and WB prove that they, too, can create an enjoyable, positive, dramatic-but-not-grim movie, with enough humor and positivity to make me want to watch the movie, and the character, again in the future. 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