Wonder Woman: 10 Reasons It's Actually Overrated

10. The CGI Is Pretty Damn Awful In Places

Superhero movies have a hit and miss relationship when it comes to CGI. For the most part, of course, we're watching things that could never happen in real life and so we're always going to know it's computer generated. In the cases of giant monsters and swirling beams of cosmic energy, what can you do? They don't exist, so we're never going to fully buy into the notion that they're really there.

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But the worst CGI in Wonder Woman isn't glimpsed during the fight scenes, necessarily, or when things are exploding. It's during shots of people jumping off cliffs, or falling, or riding horses; moments where it's suddenly super obvious that the actors are on a green screen. And we're talking Attack of the Clones bad.

Cases in point: When Diana dives into the sea to save Steve at the start it's blatantly obvious we're looking at an entirely CG human. When Diana falls off the side of a cliff as a kid and is saved by her aunt, the use of green screen is glaringly obvious.

With a budget of almost $150 million, you'd think the studio could've found a way to make these shots a lot less jarring. It's a film - especially in its first act - that legitimately has you questioning whether CGI is actually getting worse.

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