You’ve been waiting. Are you ready for the first Aquaman trailer?
In case you were wondering, Nicole Kidman and Temuera Morrison are his parents, so that’s two poorly-adjusted well-loved kids Jango Fett is responsible for:
That’s… a lot of CGI creatures. But it’s pretty! And Patrick Wilson makes for the oddest ice blonde you’ve ever seen.
Looking forward to this. Looks good.
At least they got the “talks to fish” joke out of the way early.
Couldn’t they find a _real redhead_ for Mera?
Didn’t they have a movie set in Africa just like this?
I am going to watch this for my man Dolph and Amber Heard.
But thats about it.
Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? The trailer ALWAYS looks good (so good, so gorgeous) the the movie… never does. Not with DC. And why does everyone sound like they let George Lucas write the script?
Your Jango Fett comment was honestly funnier than anything in the trailer. Still, looks worth renting, at least.
It’s very paint-by-the-numbers. A dash of Harry Potter at the beginning (though kudos to them for not shying away from the “you talk to fish” line in order to get that out the way), and lots of Aragorn the Reluctant King throughout. I guess it looks pretty, but even the Star Wars prequels looked pretty in the trailers but the look grew tiresome. I dunno – not really excited for this one, but will probably end up giving it a try (@5’s perceptive comment above notwithstanding – we are gluttons for punishment, I guess.)
DC movies need to emphasize CHARACTERS, not creatures and way-out there settings and CGI.
I hope there are some better jokes in the movie. Some okay ones there, but very cliché.
Does look pretty. With nice eye candy for everyone. My son will love the war sharks.
The under the sea scenes look nice, but the dialogues and humour are weird.
Vis-à-vis plot and visuals, I see a lot of commonalities with the DC animated movie Throne of Atlantis (2015), which in turn adapts a comic book arc (2012 to 2013, by Geoff Johns). Arthur’s parents; Mera recruits him; his half-brother Orm taking the throne; the war against the landlubbers; Black Manta’s role; the spikey humanoids critters. But this version probably won’t feature the rest of the nascent Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Captain Marvel) — although given the direction of the DCCU, there might be some hooks.
#10, yes sadly, this movie continues the entire DC Films unwarranted use of Johns origin stories or elements of same for their films, the one complete exception being MoS. Some of them were more charmingly used (such as the ice cream line in the live action movie, which was made cringe-worthy in the animated adaptation with Diana waving her sword around and pointing it at the ice cream seller (‘maker’) for example, an element taken directly from the comic as written by Johns. Likewise, from the trailer, it appears they toned down the angry, loner ass&%_# aspects of Billy Batson in adapting Johns Shazam! re-imagining from the Nu52 reboot, which was already slightly toned down in the animated adaptation. You’re right, save for removing the Justice League and apparently adding more about the seven undersea kingdoms, this is a lift of Thrones (which again was also an animated adaptation), and losing the JL characters is probably an improvement.
Jason Momoa is an incredibly charismatic Aquaman and makes me ashamed that I ever laughed at the idea of Aquaman on the big screen even if filmed by James Cameron ;)
But too much of the battles look like crowded and confused CGI-fests to me, and I am tired of that.
I also think that a large part of DC’s movie failures come from Geoff Johns’ influence. He clearly has a deep, deep love for comics and characters’ history but I think that fandom sometimes blinds him to how they can be modernized and kept relevant. At the same time, he often grim-n-gritties things that don’t need it. To me, he will always be a comics super-fan and not a stellar writing talent, and that is what the DCEU needs more than anything.
@2: Movies never find real redheads.
I’ll go see it. Aquaman sitting on Diana’s Lasso of Truth was one of the more amusing portions of Justice League. Plus, I’m interested to see more of Jason Momoa’s take on Arthur Curry.
@8: Games Workshop’s are better…