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[Tank]

I feel like the fact there is an Aquaman movie at all is further proof that this is a whack timeline.

[Metropolis]

If Aquaman is a success, and Shazam is a success, I get the Green Lantern I've always wanted. Probably going to see it tonight.

[Brando]

I feel like the fact there is an Aquaman movie at all is further proof that this is a whack timeline.

And it looks better than the recent Superman and Batman.

[Iceheart]

I feel like the fact there is an Aquaman movie at all is further proof that this is a whack timeline.

 

The fact that Jason Momoa is playing Aquaman within a year of The Shape of Water winning the Best Picture Oscar and The Pisces being the most buzzed-about book of the summer, this is just a really great timeline for fish ****ing.

 

You'd think Kanye would be having a better year.

 

[NumberSix]

 

I feel like the fact there is an Aquaman movie at all is further proof that this is a whack timeline.

And it looks better than the recent Superman and Batman.

 

It very much is.  It's basically Fast and the Furious Goes to Sea World, which actually turns out a super fun approach to a comic-book movie. There's nothing cerebral about it, just well-choreographed melee, underwater spaceship wars, creepy monsters, tracking shots, Super-Friends homages, and beefcake.  It's not the best super-hero movie of the year, but it's among DC's better efforts from the last ten years (still edged out a hair by Wonder Woman).

 

With the MCU turning increasingly toward Super Serious Super-Heroics, serving up Aquaman as big dumb fun was a bold counterprogramming move.

[Metropolis]

Finally saw it last night. The ending might be a little anticlimactic, but man it was fun. Of course it's the freshest in my mind, but you can say the the hero was taylored around the actor.

[Tank]

Translation:

"We need a water-Thor!" --some WB exec.

[Metropolis]

They didn't tailor Thor to fit Chris Hemsworth. Hell Thor today is vastly different from the original Thor movie. There is a lot of Jason Mamoa in Aquaman. I'm watching and thinking yep that Navarro from "Johnson Family Vacation".

[Tank]

No, I mean they looked at Jason Mamoa and Thor and applied it to the Aquaman concept.

[Metropolis]

You mean current Thor's sense of humor?

[Tank]

I mean an over the top superpowered bro that lives in a futuristic but arachiac world, is royalty, and punches

[zambingo]

Paraphrased:

Embrace all aspects of Aquaman, the edgy to the ridiculous. He is a Thor, a Klingon, a Big Fish Storyteller... Ash from Evil Dead.

Now DC needs to make an Ambush Bug film to answer Marvels Deadpool.

Its unfortunate that I was never Barbra Streisands hairdresser, I could be rich and entrenched.