So what are people’s thoughts on Aquaman?
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1. Unlike certain other DCEU movies, it actually feels like it has a coherent story with a beginning, middle and end. And it was overall fun if you completely switch off your brain.
2. The dialogue and some of the characterisation was dreadful. Horribly weak.
3. I enjoyed Mera though, so that was helpful.
4. It seemed soooooooo derivative of other, more successful franchises.
a) Atlantis shall henceforth be referred to as Wet Asgard.
b) Oceanmaster was basically Lokimandias but without any wit or depth.
c) Black Manta they tried SOOOOOO hard to make into Killmonger. But they missed. By a long-ass way.
d) The Fisherman King and his people were just a merger of The Shape of Water and Avatar.
e) The Deserter city was Goonies meets Indiana Jones.
f) The Atlantis vehicles felt like The Phantom Menace Gungan vehicles combined with pod racers (I swear they even had exactly the same sounds as The Phantom Menace pod racers)
It was like it lacked any individual thought or imagination.
5. They managed to make his costume not look too bad, which is something I really feared for in a live action version.