Two movies, unrelated

This morning I watched Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
then this afternoon I watched Wicked.

Aquaman was very underwater whoosh booms, but I thoroughly disagree with the theme thing where they were all
family is important, forgive your brother, you can rely on family!
I mean personally I feel that when someone has done a bit of murder and has attempted to kill you, you are allowed to leave him in prison. Not torture prison, that was not okay, but a general prison shaped future seems reasonable.
I am also not a fan of the thing where characters 'earn' their freedom by killing the right people this time. That seems of the bad also.
So I cannot say I liked this movie.
It did do the whoosh booms a lot with interesting visuals though. Points for effort.
... rereading this I realise I might be having problems with the genre conventions of both superhero and royalty movies. someone else might be better able to review it for what it was actually doing then.


Wicked didn't work for me. I do not usually watch musicals and I think I am not good at it. Like, Defying Gravity made me have many feelings, but basically all the rest of the movie my feeling was
why is this a singing
silly singing people.
... this is not a flaw of the movie musical, obviously.
So all I can conclude is I haven't got the hang of watching musicals
which is not actually surprising given how often I give up on sound and just watch with the subtitles on.



But I tried two new to me things so the day is not wasted.