Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

The DC thread had only just been chatting about Gal Gadot and her "star power", such as it is (WRT to her apparent claims Wonder Woman 3 was still happening). Not like actors with notable physical appearances, but an absence of actual acting talent, haven't done well in the past but Gadot has seemed like an especially empty void. I had watched Heart of Stone's trailer, I think, but am not sure 'cos those Netflix "films" all bleed into each other after a while.

Dornan I think is a different matter: I think the problem is he's suffering from that "problem" where he's not a leading man but all he's getting offered are Leading Man roles 'cos of his conventionally handsome face & casting departments believing that'll suffice. Perhaps once Hollywood stops trying to Make Dornan Happen he'll get more interesting roles again.

Yup that's about the size of it: Gadot's leaden energy worked with the first WW film precisely because she was meant to be a naif, utterly bewildered by the 20th Century world & the cruelty within it. Plus don't forget the secret ingredient of that film was Chris Pine, who perhaps works as a counter-point to the Jamie Dornan question; that while Pine is a conventionally handsome man, he has exactly the kind of ineffable Leading Man charisma Dornan doesn't have.

It also helped that of all the DCEU flicks, it had the strongest script (til the inevitable falling apart in the CGI driven Last Act) for everyone to work off, not least the romance between WW & Steve Trevor, and Trevor's own arc (the less said about the contrivance to bring him back in the sequel, better)