Aquaman (2018) - Yeah I never got arond to watching this until now, I think I watched a clip from it and it didn't really make me want to watch the whole thing. But now that I've watched it...well, I can see why I thought that but it has good stuff too. It's very silly and it plays that silliness straight, if that makes sense. Like silly things are happening all the time but nobody's laughing or making jokes about it. It's an earnest silliness. At some points this worked for me, mostly in the action scenes and especially if those action scenes happened to be underwater. It's not scared to go full on comic book craziness and I do appreciate that. Sometimes, though, it's just too silly, mostly in the scenes where characters actually have to talk about the plot (don't ask me to recap the plot, I can't.) Momao is...pretty good? He doesn't really have a huge range of stuff to play here, he's pretty much the same throughout, but he's good at the cheesey stuff. I didn't feel much chemistry between him and Amber Heard's Mera though. (It's funny that she looked and sounded completely different in Snyder's Justice League? I think I prefered her look and sound there, but I guess this is the cannnnnnnon version.) I got bored at points, it's too long, they spend ages introducing Black Manta and only has one pretty pointless chase scene. Again though, I did appreciate the craziness: there's an octopus playing drums, lots of people riding giant sea creatures, an insane final battle which does become hard to follow at times. There's probably more CGI than in any movie in history and even the stuff on the surface doesn't really look real? I don't know, somebody do an edit where most of the talking is removed please.
Aquaman: it's silly.
