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I saw 2 movies 2 nights in a row.

A sneak peak of AQUAMAN last night and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” tonight.

Aquaman- eye candy for the ladies.  A superhero who doesn’t need a rubber muscle suit. The movie reminded me a bit of THOR  and the LOTR films….  epic conflicts between royals and the outsider upstart…  So much of Aqua Man felt fake.  Every scene felt like it was in a studio set or green screened, even scenes that would not seem to need to be fakes. Sitting on a boat, walking through an Italian town, walking on a beach.  And I never felt all the numerous underwater scenes looked like they were really underwater.

Visually,  it reminded me of  “Finding Nemo”  The Star Wars prequels ( in a bad way)  and, sad to say,  the dozens of other super hero movies of the past twenty years.  I would say of Aquaman what I would say of the many other superhero epics:  Bazillions of dollars in special effects that are no longer a rare thing. I can’t feel fear or concern for what the characters are going through if I don’t believe they’re really going through it.

People complained that the Star Wars prequels looked to cgi and artificial. It was a great relief, they said, that “The Force Awakens” and “Rogue One”  used so many natural locations and minimal CGI.

Aquaman is CGI from start to finish, its almost like Roger Rabbit, live action characters inserted into animated backgrounds.

Good set up of the rivalry/ conflict between Black Manta and Aquaman.   Black Manta was actually…. Black. Well why not?

Amber Heards awfully wigs! Yuck!