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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:59 pm
It was cheesy, sure. But I kind of liked it. I mean, if you just go with the fact that "Arthur Curry" is just pretty much Jason Mamoa in real life I liked it. If you let that go it was a good, escapist romp like the old B movie days... starring Jason Mamoa as Jason Mamoa.
I like the design of the old world machinery. The vehicles looked like they were right out of Jonny Quest, with the tentacle design. Very cool. And I like the fights. The trident fights in this one and the last Aquaman were cheesy, cool, and rough at the same time, like Thor Ragnarok. I liked it.
Like I said, definitely cheesy, and not as visually interesting as the last film, especially the Trench part, but it was fun enough for me. Hate away, but it kind of gave me a John Carter feel, which is enjoyable in my book. Well, that's a wrap on the DCEU. Let's see what Gunn cooks up.
I like the design of the old world machinery. The vehicles looked like they were right out of Jonny Quest, with the tentacle design. Very cool. And I like the fights. The trident fights in this one and the last Aquaman were cheesy, cool, and rough at the same time, like Thor Ragnarok. I liked it.
Like I said, definitely cheesy, and not as visually interesting as the last film, especially the Trench part, but it was fun enough for me. Hate away, but it kind of gave me a John Carter feel, which is enjoyable in my book. Well, that's a wrap on the DCEU. Let's see what Gunn cooks up.
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 8:01 pm
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Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:16 pm to BigAppleTiger
No
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:31 pm to JinFL
That's your choice and you're entitled to it. What did you think was bad about it? Cheesy dialogue, cheesy humor? There's more to choose from. 
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:34 pm to BigAppleTiger
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John Carter
Aquaman and John Carter do not belong in the same breath. Disney intentionally shite on John Carter, which was a fantastic movie.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:39 pm to Oates Mustache
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Disney intentionally shite on John Carter, which was a fantastic movie.
Facts!
Posted on 1/24/24 at 11:42 pm to Oates Mustache
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Aquaman and John Carter do not belong in the same breath. Disney intentionally shite on John Carter, which was a fantastic movie.
Fantastic score. Great pacing. A bad guy who was easy to hate. Some comedy mixed in with some drama. A satisfying ending. Acting was okay and some of the stuff was cheesy, but it had a charm to it. Solid flick tbh.
ETA: Talking about John Carter btw
This post was edited on 1/25/24 at 10:45 am
Posted on 1/25/24 at 7:48 am to BigAppleTiger
I posted a thread on it last month. My thoughts from then:
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Short version: It should have been called Aquaman and the Time I Lost Watching This Dreck.
I feel bad for putting the spoilers warning up because it assumes enough people will go to watch it when I know they already aren't (if, at least, the less-than-a-dozen-people in our theater this afternoon is any gauge).
The story itself was pretty uninspired, you could glean more than enough from the trailers to understand the plot and then guess the ending. Manta returns to kill Aquaman, finds some sort of power to enhance himself in some way to be able to do this, Aquaman has a child now so the child is going to be threatened, Aquaman defeats Manta and saves his baby.
...and that's pretty much what we get. Toss in some global wa... err... "climate change" fear-mongering (along with the plot-logic-fail of how Antarctica became an ice sheet only because of magic and that was somehow not a catastrophe which impacted all life on the planet, but "climate change" melting it is), some buddy-movie'ing (because Oram wasn't really a bad guy, right?) and the obligatory comic-relief-pet-friend-thing and you have the movie.
The "rousing" speech he gives at the end of the movie ends with what I could only describe as an attempt to badly parody Tony Stark's "I am Iron Man" moment from the first Iron Man movie. And it worked about as well as a steel balloon.
I don't know how many here are old enough to remember when Conan O'Brien was doing Late Night on NBC back in the 90's, but he would have "Bill Clinton" on. "Bill" was just a headshot of Bill Clinton on a TV monitor with the mouth cut out and someone else's mouth would be super-imposed over it( LINK). That person (who was off-stage) would converse with Conan (and it was usually pretty damned funny). The scenes in this Aquaman movie where they are underwater... it looked like their faces were super-imposed over CGI heads in the same way. Some of the CGI was good, but these scenes were pretty much all poorly crafted.
Don't even bother watching this for free if it ever goes to a streaming service you subscribe to.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 7:55 am to BigAppleTiger
The more slop people find 'acceptable' the more they will get.
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