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Originally Posted by Locke
I remember watching it the first time and it took forever. It just wasnt very interesting.
James Wan did the best he could, but you cant make bricks without clay. It just wasnt great. I've certainly never felt the urge to go back and watch it again.
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I went back and read the New 52 storyline where a lot of this was lifted from, and there were two things that irritated me immediately. 1) the shoehorning in of an origin story. Imagine no unnecessary training montage, no weird CGI de-aging, and difficult to explain mythology. They could have just jumped right in and explained that he has been exiled. 2) eliminating the throughline of all of the humans dismissing Aquaman as a joke as he lives among them, even as he saves their lives. It's so entertaining, and Aquaman tries so hard. At one point Mera is arrested on a suspected misdemeanor and she spends a few hours being horribly irritated.
Jamming many stories into one movie is such a Snyder move, too.
The Trench storyline, and going to find the original Kings weapon, while his absence leads to the loss of Atlantis and his brother attacking the surface world. Movie #1.
Movie #2, can start to get crazy, but there's no reason to go into it because about half has been ruined by the first movie, and the other disjointed half will show up in the sequel, and there's no reason to tell too many spoilers.
I'm guessing that they left out the politics in the story because they thought that it would be boring, and instead plunked in a octopus drummer and two random space battles underwater. So very frustrating. The actual story as written in the comics was very charming. And taking out some of the fantastical elements in favor of some Games of Thronesy intrigue over the control of the Throne would have been so easy.
Anyway, DC leaves a lot of money on the table.