Spoiler question about the plot:
And who was in there shooting the torpedos LOL
Where did that second nuclear sub come from?
And who was in there shooting the torpedos LOL
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Coming in from the review thread...
Great movie. Flash Gordon and Uncharted had an unapologetically bombastic baby. Sea creatures do everything in this movie, from playing musical instruments to leading armies into battle.
Great movie. Flash Gordon and Uncharted had an unapologetically bombastic baby. Sea creatures do everything in this movie, from playing musical instruments to leading armies into battle.
I believe it's implied that it's the same sub from the Manta/Arthur fight. When Holo-Orm pays Manta in the North Sea, he says the sub was damaged, but enough to pull it off.
Maybe I'm misremembering but I thought that first encounter ended with showing Manta leaving the sub?
This sums me up. I wanted to leave, badly, but I was with a crew and toughed it out. It's just boring and bad and nothing connected other than the opening love story until it ended with the first of like 6 walls exploding to interrupt conversation.
Well he's been received pretty well so it looks like your the outlier in that :/
I guess I can accept this as a possible explanation. But why would
Black Manta agree to a war between the sea and the surface?
So we are left to assume that
the sub just kept going and going and the Atlanteans intercepted it?
I don't know if he agreed to that
It was a grab job, nothing else to him
I saw this in 4DX. It was one the most hilarious movie going experiences in my life. During the ocean scenes there were wind effects and rain and a mist effect. It got really cold in the cinema. And during the action scenes the seats would move very violently. When someone got swung around the seats would also swing around. During explosions the smoke machines turned on. And when Aquaman sped forward underwater the seats would also jolt backwards. It was more violent then most rollercoasters haha. I'm going to do this more often.
I thought the job would have been to dispose of the crew and leave the ship to be picked up.
The crew were cleared by Arthur anyway so i guess the job was still done.
With limited knowledge of the next arc, I'm happy Manta is already introduced. The movie can jump straight into Arthur wanting to introduce Atlantis to the world.
The crew were cleared by Arthur anyway so i guess the job was still done.
With limited knowledge of the next arc, I'm happy Manta is already introduced. The movie can jump straight into Arthur wanting to introduce Atlantis to the world.
this sums it up to me. There's a certain standard to be met after a decade of these being slapped in our face and aquaman comes close but no dice. They've only done WW justice.
Had a blast watching this. Enjoyable romp from start to finish. I think this should win the special effects oscar, some of the scenes were stunning.
Just got out of my screening. Thought it was a lot of fun and the best DCEU film to date. Didn't take itself seriously and embraced the source material.
One of the best comic films this year.
One of the best comic films this year.
Just saw it and I really enjoyed it! Especially the underwater scenes were really great, underwater Star Wars cought me a bit off guard but damn was it good. Same for the Trench scene and the Italy action sequence. I liked it more then Wonder Woman. I really hope Wan is able to direct a sequel.
Hijacking the sub. Are you saying he got his hands on a second NUCLEAR SUBMARINE?
I think this film is so bad that you could not even MST3k it. I wanted to walk out but I never walk out of a movie.
I loved the movie but that Pitbull song belonged in The Fast & Furious franchise where you would usually hear it lol
No, it was basically saying that the dude will become Black Manta since the insignia is a manta and his grand dad was called Black Manta or Manta something, can't remember exactly what.
The original job was given to manta and his Dad to clear out the sub, which I'm assuming Orm was then going to use against his own people to convince them of a war with surface..like we saw him do in the film. Orm then got back to Manta and gave him the gold that they presumably agreed on but by this point he just wanted revenge.
This was amazing fun. One of the best Imax experiences I've had. The visuals and creature designs were fantastic, it really is a feast for the eyes. I guess having a whole year of post-production to work on the CGI pays off as the only thing that looked 'off' were the de-aging effects during the flashbacks. The movie itself was just nuts. I mean, there were people riding laser sharks and there was an octopus playing the drums at one point! lol. I loved that it completely embraced the absurdity of it all and just went all in.
Of course, tonaly it was all over the place and some of the dialogue was extremely hammy and there was some pretty stupid plotholes but I can look past that given how much fun I had watching it.
It slides right behind Wonder Woman as DCU's second best effort.
Of course, tonaly it was all over the place and some of the dialogue was extremely hammy and there was some pretty stupid plotholes but I can look past that given how much fun I had watching it.
It slides right behind Wonder Woman as DCU's second best effort.
Cut 60 minutes and have a film that really moves and this would have been a very solid flick. By the end its just completely overstaying it's welcome.
Virtually everything involving Manta should have been cut imo. Not that I didn't like him but the film didn't need him at all. His presence does serve as justification for a certain thing but you could easily write around that.
Virtually everything involving Manta should have been cut imo. Not that I didn't like him but the film didn't need him at all. His presence does serve as justification for a certain thing but you could easily write around that.
That's what I thought since that blade was also able to stab into Aquaman, and only Atlantean steel could do it
Said as much upthread. Completely agree with everything you said, but it wouldn't be a comic book movie without sequel bait.
I have a feeling manta is gonna be petty as fuck in the sequel. Sure, probably gonna do some big bombastic bad guy stuff. But like I could also see him breaking into aquaman's place and leaving legos all over the floor. Maybe giving him splinters under his fingers while Arthur is sleeping. Move his car to tow away zone.
His motivation makes a lot of sense but manta is just all in on making him suffer.
"Honestly fuck this dude forever. I'll do anything to make him feel pain and anguish up to and including destroying the planet. Fuck Aquaman. Fuck this fucking dude." -Black Manta, probably
His motivation makes a lot of sense but manta is just all in on making him suffer.
"Honestly fuck this dude forever. I'll do anything to make him feel pain and anguish up to and including destroying the planet. Fuck Aquaman. Fuck this fucking dude." -Black Manta, probably
This is the first time I walked out of the theater to get myself some popcorn and drinks during a movie. The flashbacks are slow and pointless, the costume design is laughably bad and the final fight scene looks like Injustice.
Cross-posting from the RT thread:
Just got out of it. I have to say I actively hated it for the first 20 or so minutes but at a certain point I realized that the visual direction was actually really dope. Plus the underwater world that it created was really cool to me (the different kingdoms). Basically once I got over the script being high key T R A S H I actually had a lot of fun with it.
Also whoever was in charge of the licensed music needs to be fired. That pit bull remix of Africa and the weird slow romantic song that played during the Italy part were jarring as hell!
Just got out of it. I have to say I actively hated it for the first 20 or so minutes but at a certain point I realized that the visual direction was actually really dope. Plus the underwater world that it created was really cool to me (the different kingdoms). Basically once I got over the script being high key T R A S H I actually had a lot of fun with it.
Also whoever was in charge of the licensed music needs to be fired. That pit bull remix of Africa and the weird slow romantic song that played during the Italy part were jarring as hell!
The best visual scene was the flarelight dive into the deep with all of the trench monsters swarming. That whole sequence was cool.
It's too bad that the acting in this was so mediocre. Reminded me of Venom, without a Tom Hardy perfomance thrown in. The flirting scenes between Arthur and Mera were particularly bad.
you mean like in real life where people can have extremely different opinion? lol