>Jeff Snieder, host of Popcorn Talk's Meet the Movie Press, says early buzz around Aquaman is good — and its action scenes reportedly "put Wonder Woman and Justice League to shame."
They hired a new CGI team or something?
>Jeff Snieder, host of Popcorn Talk's Meet the Movie Press, says early buzz around Aquaman is good — and its action scenes reportedly "put Wonder Woman and Justice League to shame."
They hired a new CGI team or something?
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Nah, super underwater fight just looks cooler.
And WW and JL had mediocre fight scenes.
Yeah big deal, they made the water effects look better. How about a solid script?
How can one company be so ashamed of their characters? Especially Aquaman being treated like shit trying to make him "cool" over the years.
No one ever tthought any movie would have worse action scenes than Justice League
Justice League CGI was literally unifnished when they released that
Test-screening spoilers.
From the recent test-screening.
Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) is the son of human lighthouse keeper Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison) and Atlantean queen Atlanna (Nicole Kidman). She was forced to abandon them and return to Atlantis, where she had another son, Orm Marius (Patrick Wilson).
As a child, Arthur learns that he can telepathically communicate with marine lifeforms and is trained by Atlantean elder Nuidis Vulko (Willem Dafoe), but is rejected by the Atlanteans for being a part-human and leaves them behind to travel the world, helping people in need.
Orm becomes king of Atlantis and plans to destroy the surface world for polluting the oceans. Mera (Amber Heard) decides to stop him and recruits Arthur to help her find a magic trident belonging to King Atlan (Graham McTavish).
During his travels, Arthur killed a pirate, Jesse Kane (Michael Beach). His son, David Kane (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), becomes obsessed with avenging his father. Orm recruits Kane to stop them and provides him with an Atlantean armor. Kane then becomes Orm’s enforcer, Black Manta.
The Atlantean army commanded by Murk (Ludi Lin) is loyal to Orm. Mera’s father, Nereus (Dolph Lundgren), also supports him at first, but Mera eventually convinces him to help Arthur prevent the war.
During their quest, Arthur and Mera fall in love and uncover Atlantis’ origins. The trident is guarded by the Trench, amphibious monsters averse to sunlight, and a monstrous octopus called “Topo”. Arthur is able to communicate with Topo, who is surprised to learn that Arthur can understand him.
Arthur reclaims the trident, becoming the rightful king of Atlantis, and leads his forces in battle against Orm and his followers, leading to their defeat.
... How exactly are they treating Aquaman like shit exactly?
This is actually a trait they stole from MCU formula, changing the comic characters to be more smug and depressed
Better than Snyder though who made everyone Jesus
Arthur is known to the public as a member of the Justice League, and Mera references Steppenwolf’s invasion.
At one point, Arthur is approached by a group of townies at a local bar. They recognize him and ask him if he's the "Fish-Boy". Arthur points out he's the "Fish-Man". They keep pestering him for a selfie, and it appears Arthur will beat them up, but it immediately cuts to them all getting drunk together. Mera then arrives in search of him, and when one of the townies tries to hit on her, she swiftly throws him across the bar with her powers.
At one point, Arthur and Mera must hide from Orm’s forces in the mouth of a giant whale. Mera later finds a copy of “Pinocchio” and chastises Arthur for borrowing their escape from a children’s book. Arthur points out he never knew about the book and stole it from the movie instead.
At one point, Arthur devises a plan. Mera kisses him, and Arthur is so captivated that he forgets what the plan was.
Early on the movie, Atlanna vows to return to Tom during sunset at the beach where they first met. Tom goes there every day to wait for her. They are reunited in the end.
Arthur wears an Atlantean armor, which is later replaced by his classic golden and green tunic when he reclaims the trident and becomes king.
There is a flashback to young Arthur discovering his powers by communicating with a shark.
The movie ends with Arthur and Mera together, and Arthur accepting the throne and embracing his legacy, proudly declaring “I am Aquaman!”
Its still a DC live action movie and I'm still not going to waste my money on it.
that's not much of an achievement to be frank.
So we're getting a more Brave and the Bold Aquaman?
Outrageous!
I'm hyped. It seems that they are following John's Aquaman.
Is Manta the asshole we hope him to be?
I hope so.
didn't someone who saw the screening debunk these?
>DUDE I HEARD YOU TALK TO FISH LMFAO
>Aquaman now has tattoos, isn't even blonde or white, acts like a surferbro, and drinks vodka or whatever.
I wish I could blame the DCEU and Snyder but this has been going on for years.
I doubt this and the Dark Phoenix test screening are real
>acts like a surferbro
More like a metalhead from the early 00s.
Surfers are chill.
Really don't like the idea of Manta getting his tech from Atlantis & being a minion.
True
Snyder 100% asked Mamoa to fuck him doggystyle.
I can't believe i would miss the mid 00's cgi. fuck everything
Well as someone who actually reads Aquaman Jason seems fine.
The underlying parts of the character remain and are used more strongly than merely being a blonde white guy.
>Arthur wears an Atlantean armor
Is it A3?
I'm going to be deeply fucking angry if that garbage is his main outfit in the film.
Based Momoa, based Wan. Was there ever any doubt
Nope. It's all from that guy.
Probably a way to put him in all the trilogy, similar to what they did to Harold Osborn
They are. Blockbusters screen early.
No one ever says "Man, this movie sucks balls!!"
>They hired a new CGI team or something?
Or they're just stepping over a pretty low bar.
More dudebro than outrageous.
They said it about Justice League
>9fag
That isn't the point I'm trying to make. You can clearly see that Justice League was a committee movie made by people desperately trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
>Is it A3?
Yes.
No is not, they said is identical to comics one
People say “Meh, better than BvS” about Justice Leagie
The test-screening reactions were positive. The "unwatchable" cut was apparently screened to producers only.
The same producers who gave BvS a standing ovation.
How many times must we go through this?
Fuck yes!!!
He wears A3 for most of the movie and then uses this when he gets the magic trident in the third act.
No one said this
Dude that sounds great
Watch and see.
Is the final outfit made out of the same material & patterning as M2?
First Two jokes sound good but that kiss and forget gag is horrible.
I hope they only have a few jokes though. Too many and the film loses focus.
>The same producers who gave BvS a standing ovation.
Jl must have been really bad then.
I fear they are blowing their wad.
What is left to do for a sequel now?
Maybe if this & WW2 are successful they will do a team up movie, fight Poseidon.
Justice League isn’t hard. But Wonder Woman? WW had a semi simple plot compared to Aquaman. I’d have to believe it to see it.
Modern Aquaman isn't this try hard
Why couldn't they just use this version? He was absolutely perfect
Forgot pic
kek I'm not going to see it
That's not exactly a high bar. The action in both those movies is godawful.
>'Wonder Woman'
Doubt the (((critics))) will agree
>'Justice League'
That's a low bar
They are clearly taking some inspiration. It would be I'll fitting to use him exactly as is.
>At one point, Arthur and Mera must hide from Orm’s forces in the mouth of a giant whale. Mera later finds a copy of “Pinocchio” and chastises Arthur for borrowing their escape from a children’s book. Arthur points out he never knew about the book and stole it from the movie instead.
Heh
I mean the movie sucked but I could easily change this to
>Avengers was a committee movie made by people desperately trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Only difference was it was a success.
Only difference is that Whedon was a sucessful director while Snyder never made any actually sucessful or praised movie in his life.
Whedon record is 100% critical and commercial sucess while Snyder record is a bunch of critical and comercial failures
And no, making 5 reshoots don't make him the director of JL, Snyder created 99% of this shit
TL DR: Whedon is good while Snyder is a hack trying to steal Nolan style and fandom
Anything on if Mera had the lame looking powers in JL?
well that sounds fucking awful
Yeah it was a pretty good one, too bad I will already know about this one before he makes the joke
>Snyder never made any actually sucessful or praised movie in his life.
I mean Watchmen & 300 weren't 10/10, but at least those are enough to disprove your point.
Maybe they've written the plot to not take too much time underwater or something so they don't have to rely on weird cg too much. That was always going to be a major risk even if JL were actually successful.
Watchmen got an extremely weak overall score and flopped
300 got a nice box office when compared to the budget but was hardly a blockbuster with only 400 million dollars and a shitty reception from critics
Like you wouldn't
> Aquaman is good — and its action scenes reportedly "put Wonder Woman and Justice League to shame."
I mean, I'll save full judgement until the trailer comes out, but I'm seriously doubtful that this film would be THAT good. On one hand, I want this film to succeed so Aquaman can finally get some well-deserved respect, but on the other fuck this edgy ass pandering portrayal and all it represents.
>Whedon was a sucessful director
Prior to Avengers the only movie Whedon directed was a long episode of Firefly. He was more known for being a writer and showrunner, not directing. And it showed because Avengers is directed like it's a SyFy movie.
Stop reading spoilers on the internet then.
>300 got a nice box office when compared to the budget but was hardly a blockbuster with only 400 million dollars and a shitty reception from critics
You're comparing 300 to today's standards. It was a surprise hit in 2007, before Summer blockbusters were expected to make 800 million. It was also rated R and considering it was on a $65M budget that's a really good return.
Some 2008 movies after that
>Iron Man 1: 585 million
>Hancock: 625 million
>The dark knight: 1 billion
300 was a tiny movie, just make a profit because it was a small budget movie, snyder never directed anything that made a good number of people get interested and watch nor anything that critics called good
By no measure snyder can be considered a scuessful director, he was simply a stupid choice for directing and producing a extremely big bdget project with an already huge competition(X-men,MCU)
What we got was the most likely outcome, a bunch of movie hated by critics and ignored by the audience, just like Snyder entire career before that
>puts Justice League to shame
Set that bar nice and low.
>Surferbro
You mean from Brave and the Bold?
Is it bad I don’t give a shit about this movie? I love capeshit so maybe it’s the DCEU being underwhelming, maybe it’s because Aquaman is lame, or maybe it’s just capeshit fatigue? I just can’t bring myself to care about this.
>DCEU being underwhelming
Can't speak for you, but this is it for me. BvS, Suicide Squad and Justice League all took any enthusiasm for the franchise out of me. If this was released before Justice League I could get hyped, but now I really couldn't care less about this film. Wrong place and wrong time.
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no not a single person gives a fuck about this movie or really about DC in general
Watchmen is his worst film you faggot.
300 and sucker punch are the good ones.
If Arthur doesn't act like Arthur I am just going to tell myself it's ok because it makes normies like him but I will know deep in my heart it's not ok.
I am fine with tweaking him a bit though.
At least he still has both his hands.
>And it showed because Avengers is directed like it's a SyFy movie
Calm down, DChad. Your butthurt is showing.
There's no way you can actually defend the way Avengers was shot and edited. It's as amateur as it gets, and Joss' JL reshoots stood out for the same reason. Just look at his movies compared to the rest of the MCU.
It was a Massive sucess,both avengers it was praised, critics loved and audience loved
Snyder movies in the other hand?All failures, MoS and BvS hardly made enough money not enough to make a seguel, JL was a giant flop
And don't even try to imply that snyder movie have any more artistic value, they are cheap style over content movies that try to look like TDK trilogy and bait Nolan fans
Snyder is not a visionary, he didn't changed anything, he tried to ride on Nolan sucess,fame and style and take part of Nolan credit for "changing superhero movies to a more serious tone"
I'm not talking about success dickweed, I'm talking purely visual. You know there's more to a movie than how much money a bunch of suits make right?
Not him but Avengers also had people in charge that actually cared like Whedon and Feige. You can't say it was a movie made by a committee, really.
>They are clearly taking some inspiration.
>the dillusion of the common Dceu fan
They weren't inspired by anything user. They changed the character because they're desperate. Same with the Flash, Supernan, and Batman.
>Make shit movies
>Run some photoshop filters on them
>Sup Forums will defend your shit for a decade because you used filters.
What's the problem?
>You can't say it was a movie made by a committee, really.
Not the other idiots you're arguing with, but ALL the MCU movies reek like they are made by committee. And I'm saying this who found chunks of both Avengers entertaining and don't have the hate boner that people have for Dark World.
Avengers and AOU are the only movies I've seen in theater and I went with a group of friends who wanted to see them, but otherwise Strange was the only other movie I've seen theatrically of anything recent (too much going on last fall/winter to catch Ragnarok and not enough interest in Antman or GotG #1/#2, although I've seen discs of all three)
They all have a certain blandness and sameness as of late, like products from another committee style corporation, MickeyDs.
The fact that they are the best selling chain of burgers on the planet and that people like them doesn't mean they are good quality, much less the best tasting burgers.
So you're saying that iron man felt like a comittee movie? There's a clear difference between avengers and post avengers.
It's pretty funny that people are pissed that they are getting his characterization wrong when aquaman has been pretty inconsistently characterized in the comics for years. He's been a goofy cape, a responsible monarch, an edge Lord with a hook for a hand and a beard, Conan underwater, for awhile he was a cop protecting SUB-DIEGO (remember that shit?) And for awhile the comic was a fantasy adventure.
As long as the action scenes are good this means more into the realm of fantasy, I think it will be pretty good.
Iron Man and TIH are the only ones that didn't feel made by committee and Edward Norton had to fight to make sure TIH didn't end up that way, which is why they replaced him.
take Whedon's cock out of your mouth user. Whedon is a more successful director than Snyder but Buffy is way too fucking over rated.
Those were pretty bad too, he fucked up Watchmen and 300 is more shallow than Bayformers
Might I ask what is made by committee supposed to mean specifically? Or is that just some sort of buzzword when it's well known that shit like Suicide Squad and Justice League were complete ass specifically because they were meddled with by higher ups. I think even BvS was kind of fucked with in some ways, some say it wasn't Snyder's idea to go with a versus movie right after MoS but was forced into it by executives, don't know what that whole story is though. And there's the Turkish Airlines thing I guess which seems dumb for two cities that are literally a few minutes driving distance from each other over a bridge.
Okay I believe you
>Aquaman is lame
his current run is one of DC's best books
SAVE US WAN
THe MCU already existed in the 90s? Aquaman became an edgy one handed man
>made by committee
only AoU had that problem. Yes, a lot tap into some similar ideas like FUN and jokes, some too much for their own good. But The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy are very different movies that were clearly heavily influenced by the director they got. GoTG and Thor 3 may feel similar but that's cause they are in the same Kirby universe and both directors have a similar weird sense of humor.
they are made by committee just as much as the comics are