(Gal Gadot in the latest incarnation of Wonder Woman) DC's Suicide Squad led me to swear off superhero movies until I don't know when, ad indefinidum . Friends who recommended DC's Wonder Woman film (along with some free tickets), prodded me to give the latest film adaptation of comic book superhero a chance (though I did happen to see Logan in the meantime--but that's another story). Does this latest film save DC's film franchise? Does it even provide an excellent story fans can rally behind? (By the way, numerous spoilers about the movie are in this post, though down a bit.) I don't actually care very much about my first question. Or I should say my feelings are quite mixed as to whether I actually want both Marvel and DC to be cranking out superhero movies in a vast array, each and every year. I actually hope they don't and superhero films become rare events. So I shouldn't even try to answer that. As to my second question--"was thi
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