All the rubbish we dump in the ocean...

Rating: 4/10 (20 January 2019)

... finally ended up in a movie.
It's entertainment, so really, people are going to like all sorts of things. But this one was big, loud, colourful and not great (to me).
Everyone is commenting on how Jason Momoa is having fun. I'd be having fun too if I was paid a couple of million $ to basically do nothing. Plus, when the film is a bad as Aqauman, what else was he going to do?
Aquaman probably worked as a comic but on the big screen, no so much. The story is okay, but drowns in the ludicrousness of being, you know, underwater. The film drowns in CGI. There's lasers underwater, armour underwater, flying around underwater - you get the idea. Admittedly, what else could you do with a character as lame as Arthur Curry? At least James Wan had a go at it. He failed, but whatever. It made a billion $, so he wins and the rest of humanity pays the price.
I think that it proves that CGI wins the kiddies over every time, regardless of how lame the story is, or even how lame the premise of the film is. Without the CGI, this film would still suck, it just wouldn't look as good.
The acting is okay, if the acting equivalent of watching wet fish are your thing. These days in films like this, you don't really need to act. You just stand there. You may have to jump around a bit, but that's all. The 'acting' part is not really required.
The story is bleached like today's coral, lifeless and cliched.
The CGI is numbing, like your eyeballs getting slapped with a million tiny wet fishes.
I'm sick over CGI, over-hyped comic book hero movies. Every Marvel film is the same. DC are at least different: they eschew even the semblance of story for bloated CGI.
Hey, I mean, I paid to go and see it too. But the difference is that I regret it.