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12/10/2018 5:47:40 AM
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Does anyone like Aquaman?
I admit that the Jason Momoa Aquaman came closest to being an interesting character in Justice League, but I don't get the need to make an Aquaman movie.
Okay, I get the monetization part, but the character just isn't interesting enough. If they had gone with the old clean-cut Aquaman of the original DC comics, maybe they could have done something, but it would have to be weird and perverse. This is because Aquaman just isn't interesting enough for his own franchise, no matter how much you dirty him up.
Aquaman is basically a combination of Superman and Tarzan underwater. I guess it's cool that he can command whales and manta rays. He can also make his own fortress of solitude out of coral. Apart from that, what does he have going for him? Political strife among mer-people? Defeating a giant octopus? Saving oil tankers?
Okay, maybe you could do something with all that. The more I think about it, the better it gets. However, it doesn't work if you make Aquaman a lowlife, which is what he is in the new "realization." I like Jason Momoa as a bad guy. He's an excellent bully/villain, but why make Aquaman look like a convict? Why make him a drunk? How can he even be an alcoholic underwater?
I don't buy all this darkening of superheroes. It's lame. Batman was a troubled kid who overcame his problems by devoting his fortune, skills, etc. to crime-fighting. He stood for truth, justice, and the American Way by becoming an inventor, scientist, and detective. Why turn him into a psycho always on the edge of becoming a villain? It doesn't make sense.
Why make Aquaman a Hell's Angel? What is it with these people? How long can they go on with this idiotic shtick about dark sides and identity confusion? It stopped being interesting with The Dark Knight in 2008.
To me, the only DC movie that ever really worked was Suicide Squad. I know this is an unpopular position, but conceptually it was the best of these misguided movies based on the muddled "new" comics. The principals were supposed to be unnatural and have wackadoo disorders. They were supposed to be deviants, reprobates, drunks, and violent criminals. They were performing their mission under extreme duress. Granted, the villain queen was stupid and the whole plot was just Ghostbusters redone, but the characters were correctly imagined. I liked it.
The problem with the present DC "good guys" is that there's no difference between them and the people in Suicide Squad. And you can't do that in something as dumb and elemental as a comic book universe. It simply doesn't work.
Therefore, Aquaman won't work . . . unless he gets into a good rehab program. He should also cut his hair and get a job. Clark Kent has a job. Diana Prince has a job. Why can't Aquaman get a secret identity and go to work somewhere? Sea World would hire him on the spot.
