Godzilla wrote:Aquaman - 8/10
What the strawberry float ! This should have been crap. I was promised a crap DC film but instead they actually did it.
I've seen people compare it to Black Panther but it's more of it's own thing.
So here goes.... Firstly the effects are stunning, really well filmed action and all used to further the plot.
Amazing creature design too.
Music is very good and some very random music choices.
Cast are all great with the best being some of the support, Dolf, Dafoe and Kidman.
The action scenes are really well done, comic book but grounded. Black Manta is awesome and has a very good origin story too.
The best thing about the film is it's so proud of what it is. If you look at GI Joe (first film) or Transformers, they act like they are ashamed of the source material. X-Men movies do this too changing the suit colours as they can't embrace it.
This is the opposite.
The tone is similar to The Mummy, fun, silly, serious, scary and very well filmed.
It's worth seeing on the big screen too.
The third act of the film is excellent, unlike Wonder woman or black panther which loses something in cgi chaos. This has a big cgi sea battle, but it's well done. Very well done.
After Spider-Man - into the spider-verse, this is the biggest surprise of the year.
DC actually did something right. I'm going to see it again soon and I'm looking forward to it. Big, bold, fun, exciting, original, world building and different.
Only real negative is a few killer shots are in the trailer, but a lot of good stuff is left out. And I would have liked more of a link to DC universe but I think keeping it out was intentional.
Did we see different films? I've never rolled my eyes as much as I have watching a film as I did at Aquaman.
There were so many parts of it that were incredibly cliché, or treated the viewers like idiots or just flat out didn't make sense.
That strawberry floating flashback to him talking to the shark as a kid right at the end of the film, strawberry floating so dumb, made me laugh out loud it the cinema.