Originally posted by Darth ThorNo, I said this was the best quality wise not box office. I was correct. I am a seer. You who called for a reboot are wrong. How does it feel to be stupid? Do you often fall and lose your balance in your day to day life. I imagine so.
Laughably Ironic. Given thats all you care about too.
wow! 2 Fun Aquaman Movies out at the same time!
Originally posted by Estacado
Black Panther has an extremly slow startup the characters are uninteresting the story is boring. The villain is ok at best.Its not a bad movie but its far from being great.
It took me 2 views to watch the whole thing.
Personally I was really disappointed by it.
In Civil War I thought BP was awesome and I couldnt wait for the solo movie. I kept hearing how good it is. After watching it I didn't get it why people loved it.
The hype around it ridiculous.....
I really like Black Panther, had a blast watching it opening night.
However, you are spot-on with your comment about T'Challa in Civil War vs. BP: he was force to be reckoned with in Civil War that had me hooked the whole way through. Easily my favorite character from that movie, and I was blown away by the Russos making him far-and-away the most captivating thing about that movie even when MCU Spider-Man was being introduced in the same film.
In BP, I liked that he is another stoic, no-nonsense MCU hero like Steve Rogers, but man his arc was a big step-down from Civil War.
Again, I really like BP, but 97%? No way. Same with Wonder Woman, what I've seen in no way deserves a 93% rating, let alone dudes like Marc Andreyko saying it is the best DC movie ever. Ridiculous.
As of right now, Aquaman slips into my top five films of the year (different thread) over Panther.
Also, observation: Ocean Master and Black Manta are essentially two halves to Killmonger from BP. Orm wants to take over the world for mankind's transgressions against his people, and Manta wants revenge for his father being killed by the main character.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
Merry Xmas Cage. May Aquaman make triple today as your X-Mas present 😛
Can it hit 1B?
By the end of the first week of January 2019, Aquaman will probably be the third-highest grossing movie of the DCEU library, behind only Batman v Superman and Wonder Woman. I expect it to eventually reach north of $900 million and probably hit $1 billion, off the continued strength of massive foreign totals plus strong holds on both the domestic and international fronts.
Originally posted by playa1258
It depends on how much it can get domestically.
It would need something like this:
$280M DOM
$300M China
$420 OS-China
$ 1 B WW
It's projected to have a strong hold next weekend:
Weekend Box Office Predictions for Dec. 28 - Dec. 30, 20181. #Aquaman - $52.0M
2. #MaryPoppinsReturns - $29.0M
3. #BumblebeeMovie - $19.0M
4. Spider-Man: Into the #SpiderVerse - $18.5MFull Top 10 Weekend Predictions Chart: http://www.boxofficereport.com/predictions/predictions20181226.html …#BoxOffice
Originally posted by Darth ThorIn one thread you praise a film to possibly make a billion but dismiss a film making 1.3 billion because your standards change. You are a hypocrite. Your hatred for Star Wars will not be tolerated.
Wow crying on every thread now trying desperately to defend TLJ.I think ive broken Quan.
Originally posted by quanchi112
In one thread you praise a film to possibly make a billion but dismiss a film making 1.3 billion because your standards change. You are a hypocrite. Your hatred for Star Wars will not be tolerated.
You are denser than I thought if you think that Aquaman being the first DCEU film to hit the billion mark is the same thing as the new Star Wars franchise drastically dropping from the 2billion dollar mark down to the 1.3billion dollar mark.
There is absolutely nothing hypocritical in my stance. You are just crying because I called out your blatant hypocritical stance with Star Wars and FB.
But take it up in the FB thread and stop derailing all other threads due to your butthurt.
Originally posted by Darth ThorThe movie will at best case make less than 300 million than TLJ but you claimed total disaster. It grossed more than any other film that year. No one expected it to make 2 billion as there has always been a drop off for the mid film. You ignore all of this in your quest to attack Star Wars.
You are denser than I thought if you think that Aquaman being the first DCEU film to hit the billion mark is the same thing as the new Star Wars franchise drastically dropping from the 2billion dollar mark down to the 1.3billion dollar mark.There is absolutely nothing hypocritical in my stance. You are just crying because I called out your blatant hypocritical stance with Star Wars and FB.
But take it up in the FB thread and stop derailing all other threads due to your butthurt.
I loved TLJ and it did twice as well as FB2. Both better quality wise, success wise, and the critics loved it more. You hypocritically think the lowest box office for a Potter film is a great place to be because you are so biased you refuse to admit the obvious. TLJ is not the lowest box office of any Star Wars film either so I win on all fronts once again.
I accept your Star Wars hating concession. Long live Disney Star Wars.
Saw this last night, and will avoid spoiling much of anything that wasn't in trailers...
Yeah, it's not very good at all. It's not a terrible movie, not at all. It has its plus points, but it has enough negatives that I honestly have no desire to watch it again.
Firstly, I'm going to get the obvious out of the way: It is a BAD adaptation. Like, pretty bad. Well past the point of "well, we need to adapt this for the big screen because it doesn't work in the comics" to the point that they're either unfamiliar with the source material, or they just thought they could do it better. Either way, the movie hurts for it imo.
What does the movie do well? For one, the cinematography. It is beautifully shot at times. Wan knows how to frame a shot, and though I have my issues with the CGI stuff, it is all, for the most part, incredibly well-crafted. They spent big money, and it shows in a lot of ways that they got their money's worth. The oceans look sublime at times.
Patrick Wilson is the best thing about the movie. He's just hamming it up the entire time, but he's such a good actor that you tend to go with it, regardless of his dialogue.
Black Manta was cool. I don't like how he got his tech, but otherwise, I was pretty happy with his introduction to the universe.
Fair-play to them putting in
Spoiler:too. There's an inherent ludicrousness to the setting that the movie really should have dipped in to more, but in this at least, that was a nice touch.
sea-horses
And that's kind of how the rest of the movie is when it comes to the positives: Stuff dotted around the movie that made even me sit up and go "huh, that's actually pretty cool". There just wasn't enough of it to balance out the weaker stuff.
The bad?
The biggest offender is the script. It's not a terribly well-written film. There are plots that go nowhere, and the overarching story is weak as ****. Aquaman and Mera themselves are not well-written, though Momoa does his best with what he's given to be the tryhardiest dude-bro cool guy that ever cool-guyed, who also happens to be some sort of idiot. And the humour is like someone decided to ape the worst aspects of the MCU's whole "let's undercut dramatic moments with a joke" tendency.
Amber Heard is just... Bad. Like, acting wise, costume wise. Her ****ing wig. Everything about her that isn't her powers (which are ****ing cool) is just bad. She's a real weak-link in the picture.
Willem Dafoe is wasted. He could have done so, so much more.
There's no real weight to anything. Pardon the pun, but the movie is in a lot of ways incredibly shallow. I could see when I was watching it these guys sitting in a room going "and this is the big epic moment" etc, but they don't actually build up to it in the movie. At all. And it happens more than once.
The score, which has been pretty bad in other WB/DC movies, is just as jarring here at times, and does nothing to illicit the kind of emotional response that they want it to.
Anyway, to summarise: Did I come out of the movie hating it? No. It's a perfectly harmless summer blockbuster that just happens to be released during winter. It's a half-hour too long, but not unbearably so. The action scenes (bar the final one, but that's almost to be expected) are all really well-put together (be it one-on-one fights or big battles). Patrick Wilson gets more to do than those around him, and he embraces it.
Will I watch it again? No, but if it was on the background I wouldn't switch it off, like I would many other movies.
TLDR: It's kinda meh.