Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom

[Andrew NDB]

20 scenes have been cut from the movie.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/aquaman...ty-scenes-cut/

[ZariusTwo]

[CyberCubed]

At least we can finally close the book on the Snyderverse for good with this movie. Hard to believe it really has been 10 years since Man of Steel came out in 2013. 10 years of this universe and its finally done.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

At least we can finally close the book on the Snyderverse for good with this movie. Hard to believe it really has been 10 years since Man of Steel came out in 2013. 10 years of this universe and its finally done.

10 years of edgy nonsense, promises and clumsy pivoting.

Its funny that all this real world stuff surrounding DCCU was more interesting than the movies. If WB had any brains in the collective heads, they would get rid of universe" crap ad just returned to making stand alone movies, especially with the fall of MCU.

[IMJ]

The killer is that after all of this drawn out nonsense and stalling, we COULD have still gotten the MoS sequel out there along with a truly great Batman movie.

But they took 400 years in between Wonder Woman movies to crap out 1984 instead.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

At least we can finally close the book on the Snyderverse for good with this movie.

Not if it does good.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Not if it does good.

I would say that given the state of things there is zero chance of this movie doing well at the theater. It might have had some excitement about it if there was no Amber Heard controversy.

The first one was solid, but it had the benefit of being the first movie to pull off an underwater superhero. So visually, it was something entirely new in many ways.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I would say that given the state of things there is zero chance of this movie doing well at the theater. It might have had some excitement about it if there was no Amber Heard controversy.

The first one was solid, but it had the benefit of being the first movie to pull off an underwater superhero. So visually, it was something entirely new in many ways.

It could very well tank to high heaven... but I wouldn't count it out just yet. Momoa really brought out female audiences and I think he can still command an overall audience since this is a "proven" franchise. That coupled with, well, there just plain not being very many movies at all coming out for a while, could be a big winner.

https://deadline.com/2018/12/aquaman...er-1202525963/

[IMJ]

I'd be fine with it doing well to be honest. But I think these are examples of where the "shared universes" fail studios - audiences have a hard time taking a single movie on it's own merits now (which is weird), and if they feel like it's going nowhere, they don't want to get onboard.

But yeah, I could see women bringing their boys to the theater to see this one. I thought the first one was really good, but I only sat through it one time.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Women might bring their boys the theater strictly to fawn over Jason Mamoa lol

[ZariusTwo]

Some details from the fan screening premiere

Spoiler:

-Amber still gets a decent amount of screentime as Mera, doesn't get involved in as much action though

-Black Manta is defeated fairly easily in the third act

-Nobody important dies, not even the baby

-Post-credits is Orm eating a burger with a cockroach inside of it

[MikeandRaph87]

Spoiler:

Do you suppose the original cut had Arthur Jr. killed and this isa responsetonegativereactionsrelated to it? It would have gone against the tone of the film and probably determined if I overall would enjoy the film.

[MikeandRaph87]

The one thing that dependent on my rooting for or against Aquaman 2 was the fate of Aquababy. Since it appears to be answered I was hoping it join the only other Superhero film I was invested in, Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 in being a success. This suggests it will go the way the other non-GotG have.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...155257437.html

[Andrew NDB]

Seems pretty chickensh** if they reversed course on the death of the Aquababy. Black Manta killing Aquaman's son is a huge part of the comics that resonated for decades.

[IMJ]

So was Aquaman I a box office success because it was a solid movie as well as the first true ocean-superhero flick (a newish experience), or was it a success on "Superhero mania" and nothing more?

Because it was a solid enough movie to warrant a sequel on it's own merits. I've still only seen it one time, but it was good.

I'd say that the bottom is falling out on this one, not out of superhero fatigue, but the confluence of events between Amber Heard and the rejection of the Snyderverse as a whole.

My gut feeling on it is that this movie doesn't deserve this level of rejection purely on it's own merits.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

but the confluence of events between Amber Heard and the rejection of the Snyderverse as a whole.

I don't think the moms that want to have sex with Jason Momoa are going to care about any of that stuff.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I don't think the moms that want to have sex with Jason Momoa are going to care about any of that stuff.

Hopefully there are enough of those mom's as big spenders to sell some tickets!

[ZariusTwo]

The reviews are coming in now that it's been released and they are brutal

38% so far

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aqu...e_lost_kingdom

[IMJ]

The crazy thing is that it is inexplicable that it is that bad of a movie when the first one was so solid. Whereas "The Marvels" was the zenith of woke $#!( messaging as well as the movie quality, here you really only have Amber Heard as the poster child for liberal lies, complaining and manipulation to be rejected.

You'd imagine after the first that James Wan would have churned out a good movie!

[Andrew NDB]

I think it's a bit more comparable to Shazam 2. There was a lot of good will leftover from Shazam 1, which people seemed to like pretty well... but Shazam 2 just looked terrible, and nobody saw it (rightly so). And it wasn't even woke, unless you count them making up from thin air a bunch of strong womyn characters to be the bad guys.