DankeSchoen Reviews

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Shame!

[7/10 · 17 January 2021]

Such a wasted opportunity! I gave it a 7 to be polite! It's too long by about 30 minutes. I enjoyed the beginning with a young Diana. She was excellent and they should do a prequel with the Amazaons and young Diana. Not enough fight scenes with Diana, she is a superhero after all! The ending was rushed and a bit anticlimactic! Why? What!?

There is going to be a third one apparently. Leave Steve in the past and move on! Go back to the feel of the first one and make Diana the WonderWoman she should be!

The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)

WTF!

[1/10 · 12 September 2020]

Lasted 20 minutes before switching off! I might give it another go if I'm bored. From the 20 minuets I saw Lisbeth has been completely miss cast! Nobody could hold a candle too Noomi Rapace. Casting her would at least have added some continuity.

Tales of the City (2019)

Good effort

[7/10 · 9 June 2019]

Having read all the books several times I was looking forward to this series on Netflix. I'm so glad Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Paul Gross and Barbara Garrick came back. Shame one of the original 'Michael' actors didn't return. The story was ok but hardly resembled the story in the last 3 books that would be appropriate for the passing of time for the characters. Anna's flashback story was a good addition however but the ending was quite underwhelming. I feel that it missed an opportunity to tell the real story of the characters as there was a wealth of story available from 'Michael Tolliver Lives' 'Mary Ann in Autumn' and 'The Days of Anna Madrigal' to make a brilliant season. Shame they got the timing wrong! Michael and Mary Ann should be in their 60s now! It would have sat better if it was set in the late 90s yearly 00s.

Also a shame they didn't keep the original theme music. It would have helped to retain some of the magic of the original. Netflix seem to have aimed the series at a new audience but forgetting the existing fans of the books and first 3 series.

A good watch that filled a rainy day.

We wait now for the next book by Maupin about Mona as he announced on Radio 2 last week.