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Half in the Bag: Wonder Woman 1984

Mike and Jay are back at Mr. Plinkett's house and take advantage of his new 125 inch TV to watch the biggest movie event of two weeks ago, Wonder Woman 1984! The movie that eeeeveryone loves!

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Matthew Gladney

Nice. Am super curious to hear what you boys think of this.

Michael Parker

I'm so happy ya'll are tackling this movie.

Ken Kopacki

It's a Christmas miracle!

Manuel Johnen

The beginning gives me serious "Dead Ringers" and "Multiplicity" vibes...

Nathan Smith

Thank you for saving me from the early-January blues!

Yvonne Hicks

Wohooo! I was waiting for this!

Heather Sejnow

Low key... The noisy home while watching a movie is some of the best writing you boys have done.

Brandon Perna can eat my ass anytime

All those streaming services listed off and no mention of Criterion Channel. Mr. Plinkett is missing out on all that Ingmar Bergman action.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

"We're back, baby!" Hell yeah! It's great how far you guys have taken your pre-show skits lately. They've become short films and I'm lovin' it. Now, to watch the actual review...I'm assuming you didn't talk about this for 50 minutes because you just had to point out all of the smells that you enjoyed from this turd-film.

Dendo Star

I am at 9 minutes, where Mike says “Do you want a beer?” This is sublime.

Maniac

Da boiz are back! Thank god!!!

Adam K.

All I got out of this review is that you guys don't like female characters in leading roles

Brady Holek

Shoutout to my public library streaming service, Kanopy.

Kim Luu

Mascara, Jesus, Jay! 😂

Mike St Louis

About what I suspected. I’ll keep a copy of WW’84 in my sock drawer.

Alpha Scientist Javo

For a little bit I suspected this was another prank review and it would be an hour of listing streaming services

LB876

She does renounce her wish as she walks away from Pine. Her wounds heal as she walks away from him. So she IS back to full strength by the time she puts on the Golden Suit of Plot Armor.

Rattslinger

This is an awesome episode, thank you!

Tyler Doty

*slaps arm* hit me, fam.

Rick Drake

So was that power outage due to riots or chance?

Jason Cooley

"Somebody wished for a translator, I don't know."

QB

Now we need a RLM movie with more Rich Evans acting against himself.

USS BATTLESHIP

That was the most laugh-out-loud, gut bustingly funny long open sequence EVER. Rich vs Rich into the schtick was PRICELESS. Imma increase my monthly donation just for that. ♥️ you fools.

Kellic

She didn't renounce her wish midfight. She did it while running away from Pine after he was out of screen. She says I love you, I renounce my wish. That is why she was crying as she lassoed away. Forced emotion that doesn't work.

Rachel Snead

I agree with Jay about the lack of an authentic 80s feel. I don't understand how you can have a "fun" action superhero film set in the 80s and not have at least SOME 80s songs in it. Especially when that decade is so distinct with it's music, at a time when pop culture was really starting to take over. It makes no sense. I pretty much agreed with everything else they said. Honestly I could have listened to them talk about it for longer, haha. What a mess of a film.

Reid Josephson

Too bad Mr Plinkett never got the General Mills streaming service, he's really missing out! Hilarious episode guys, thanks so much!

Panda S

There’s a decent horror novel called Body Rides about a guy who uses a magic bracelet to hijack other people’s bodies and after using it for good, he essentially turns into a giant creep by using it to enter women’s bodies without them knowing. Maybe they should have just based the script for Wonder Woman on that

Dave Chin

What happened at the end irl? I don't think it was a complete power outage cuz some (but very few) of the lights are still on.

Rhea

Maybe we should just pretend the lack of big-budget superhero movies extends into 2021. You guys look so tired of this shit. Or maybe you're just tired, which like, same.

Bort Ward

37:27, they follow 'Battlefield Earth' logic where an old jet is fully fueled and ready to go. To let loose my aviation background: The plane is modeled on the F-111 Aardvark which was built to fly from the US to the Soviet Union non-stop (so Cairo is feasible). However, to Mike's point, those suckers are loud, very very loud. Also, they tend to take the engines out of museum pieces.

Ian Stewart

I'm surprised Mike didn't like it more. He loves Schlock the most. And this movie was ALL Schlock. Which worked for a while and then became unfathomably bad.

winky

Guarantee Patti Jenkins saw Wish Upon and was inspired.

Marvin Falz

First, I love that HitB feels like HitB again, you know, with skits, an over-arching story-line, mystery, foreshadowing and such, all done in a silly, fun, entertaining way. Second, maybe the writing of WW84 is like the writing of the book "Laura's Ghost." While reading the introduction and the first interview (Sheryl Lee) I got the feeling that the writer would have loved to go full feminism, but had to restrain herself. So what Sheryl Lee had to say about her experiences with acting and about her own life was really interesting, but when they talk about women and men in general and in the context of abuse, it becomes stereotypical and dogmatic, but it's still subdued enough to not feel like woke garbage. The writer of "Laura's Ghost" supposedly wants to inspire debate about abuse, so she excludes all the men, and seems to say that all men (except for David Lynch?) are abusers by default. It's not like there has been no debate whatsoever about these topics ever before. Therefore I suspect that this is another attempt to take over a beloved franchise and use it and the influence of actors to further an agenda.

Andrew

Can someone explain “this movie is the cinematic equivalent of the blues mobile” analogy?

Andrew

I’m quite familiar with the movie, I didn’t know they were referencing just it’s demise, but that makes total sense. I was also remembering how blues mobile can also flip backwards, jump bridges, and fly sort of...it’s been years since I’ve seen it

AllGoodNamesRGone

You guys really hit on every single complaint about this movie. The movie was just too much. RLM 10 years in and still killing it with great content and deep, intelligent analysis.

Mike Verta

The first Wonder Woman begins with her talking about what a great fuck she is and then they go shopping.

Stephanie Anderson

Minutes 8-10 perfectly capture the experience of trying to accomplish anything of importance at home, including recreation. Thank you again, RLM.

Kelly Nguyen

Mike unclipping his microphone and walking off set to grab a cold beer is how I want to live 2021.

TheWetCat Strangler

Truly... An instant modern day classic. Keep hitting them home runs DC!! In you we trust

William Billings

I truly enjoyed this review .....and the first fresh "Oh My God" from Rich was a huge treat. Two things that bother me about Gail G's acting .....>1< I am well aware that she can't help her accent, but, during the brief, brief snippet of another amazon tlking to a young Wonder Woman, does the voice of that other woman have a similar accent ? - as if to retrofit Wonder Woman's speech pattern to growing up on the amazon's island ? ( ie: do they all speak English with similar accents ? ) and >2< Was Patty Jenkins trying to imply thar Ronald Reagan was a hawk, ready to blow the world up with Nukes ? - because, as he progressed in his presidency, he and Gorbachev nearly came to an agreement to eliminate many nuclear weapons - but then I'm expecting that the same person who wrote what sounds like a huge, sloppy mess of a movie would actually know that much detail about the 80's ......which consisted of nothing more than "New" Coke, Bananarama, Fanny Packs, Members Only Jackets, shopping malls, "Back To The Future" sequels, Pagers, and Donald Trump's acting debut .....

Chris L

A few have mentioned this already, but yes Diana does in fact renounce her wish right after she leave Chris Pine behind in the alley. Though I don't blame you guys for not noticing it, as you mention in the review, it's hard to understand without that visual cue of Chris Pine disappearing/her suddenly only seeing the other guy/whatever. I had to go back and rewatch myself multiple times during my first viewing because I was so confused, but you do actually see her wounds heal when she says her renouncement out loud. It's hard to pick up on cause the scene, like much of the film, is so visually chaotic. Also, pretty sure she runs way faster and jumps way higher right after that than she should be able to without powers (to say nothing of her learning to fly in mid-air). But really it's part of the bigger problem you touch on in the review, that being that the film is badly inconsistent/unclear about how/when/what is "taken" when the wish's "price" is extracted. I mean, we see Diana get wounded by a bullet in the Egypt chase scene, and I guess we're supposed to realize it then, but I was thinking at that point - is she supposed to be bullet-proof? Like, Superman bullet-proof? If she is, it really deflates that whole famous no-man's-land scene in the first movie. Unless she gained the power to be bullet proof later in that film and I forgot like I did most of that movie. But even still, she's kicking over cars and lassoing around like Spider-Man even after that, so is she gradually losing her powers? This is not a nitpick - it goes to the core of the film and the supposedly "agonizing" choice she has to make regarding Pine. Had more clever writers been involved, they could have played up the angle of Pine having to inhabit the innocent guy's body, and the repercussions that has (why did he need a living body? does the guy have a family? co-workers? anyone wondering where he's been the last few weeks?), which leads Diana to have to make the agonizing choice because, you know, heroes aren't supposed to hurt innocents for their own selfish gains. And yes, it makes her going back to retrieve the gold armor before confronting Max completely pointless, instead of just mostly pointless.

Lisa

My biggest takeaways from this much-welcomed comeback were clones (!) and that a Hallmark movie guy plays the man who gets possessed? inhabited? by Steve at the end.

Mike Verta

This movie is a piece of shit. They're all irredeemable pieces of shit. We make the mistake of regularly watching classic, great movies in the house, and it makes 99% of modern stuff cringe-torture.

Lou DiMarzo

I couldn’t believe I was watching a movie with a plot like this. How did they say, “ this is gold jerry, gold!!!”