Saturday, December 22, 2018

Aquaman




After Roman Reigns played Carl Dragon on the hit Cinemax series the Throne Games he quickly signed on to play Aquaman in the sequel to the 1998 classic the Waterboy, starring his bitter foe the Big Show. In Aquaman we get a at times cheesy DC film that can resemble a 90s superhero flick, it starts off a bit eye rolling....and lasts that way for about two acts. it picks up once they get to Italy, which leads to the last act which has a good yet over bloated battle scene. Visually it is a stunning film, and Jason Momoa is a charismatic lead and Amber Heard does a fine job in her role too(Aquababe) and deserves to be a bigger star, hopefully this does the trick. While Man of Steel felt like a restrained Zack Snyder, and BvS was him going all out, Suicide Squad was a cluster of want to be Snyder, DC finally got it right with Wonder Woman, a film that plays it safe. Justice League felt so light that this in comparison felt like the event film, especially coming a year after the last DCEU film. On that note, because of DC's track record this truly didn't feel huge. Most Marvel films feel like media spectacles but don't truly feel like events either, other than the Avenger films, but atleast there is a sense of event in the air. This here felt like, welp, it's a DC winter blockbuster, might as well go. I miss the days where comic films were far & few between they felt important, they may not have felt like events but as a teen i loved for em. This here atleast felt important. DC, release the films far apart, and please keep them in stand alone franchises. WW and this worked, keep it up. It may not have been great, at times it was pretty bad if i'm being honest but it wasn't a cluster fuck.It was fun, the film is a big budget 90s superhero film, i'll see more of this, keep it up.

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