Great comic book interpretation

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2018)

If I wrote all day I might not finish telling how much I liked about this movie. I've heard several times in the last few years that the character of Aquaman from the past was lame. I realize maybe I'm not the average audience member because I liked him a lot in the animated Justice League of my 70's childhood. And my youngest who strongly preferred "bearded aquaman" and I both agreed that this was an excellent updated Aquaman and both thought this would work for very nearly any type of audience.
The movie making ensemble that made this fab show did far better than many superhero movies do in not frustrating or confusing people who actually like comic books or previous screen interpretations. It showed just what's so great in comic books which we refer to in our house as the Moments. This had good writing, acting, directing, editing, etc. There were grand visuals. And the whole thing just swung along from one great moment to another with good (and sometimes awe inspiring) transitions.
And here's my own odd bit: I have a weird quirk where even though I like certain types of action movies in recent years I tend to accidentally tune out fight scenes. It's truly not intentional but its sometimes so thorough that I miss something just after a fight that mattered. I guess they often bore me and often seem to me to have pretty ridiculously poor choices in how they are filmed. But I actually didn't have that problem in this movie. My family would say that was a Very positive commentary on the movie.
It's not that there are no criticisms that could be made by those who seriously enjoy critiquing but from my point of view, just wanting movies to entertain me and this movie reaching a very high level of entertainment value, it just isn't worthwhile to do anything other than to focus on the positive.