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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9266147" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>Aquaman, as a character, pretty much sucks, so Aquaman, as played by Jason Momoa, and as appearing in the pre-Aquaman films, starts off as a really good idea.</p><p></p><p>DC then apparently jumped in and said that Aquaman doesn't suck enough and it's important that the movie version suck more, and so we got the movies where he gradually starts turning into the dork in the orange and green uniform and everything is weightless and doesn't actually even resemble the gritty realism of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or the Little Mermaid.</p><p></p><p>In Superman's case, the core character is great and messing with it too much hurts the movies, starting with Deadbeat Dad Stalker Superman in Superman Returns.</p><p></p><p>The Aquaman character was ripe for reinvention and making him a Pacific islander instead of yet another Silver Age white guy with blond hair (I assume DC Comics got a good deal on yellow ink in the 1960s) was a really good start. Them grafting on the North Atlantic lighthouse stuff makes even less sense than it ever did. Hopefully Gunn will just give us an Aquaman-free new cinematic universe until sanity prevails at DC Comics. (And then they'll reboot the universe five years later, bringing back the dumbest parts of the Silver Age, as always.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9266147, member: 11760"] Aquaman, as a character, pretty much sucks, so Aquaman, as played by Jason Momoa, and as appearing in the pre-Aquaman films, starts off as a really good idea. DC then apparently jumped in and said that Aquaman doesn't suck enough and it's important that the movie version suck more, and so we got the movies where he gradually starts turning into the dork in the orange and green uniform and everything is weightless and doesn't actually even resemble the gritty realism of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or the Little Mermaid. In Superman's case, the core character is great and messing with it too much hurts the movies, starting with Deadbeat Dad Stalker Superman in Superman Returns. The Aquaman character was ripe for reinvention and making him a Pacific islander instead of yet another Silver Age white guy with blond hair (I assume DC Comics got a good deal on yellow ink in the 1960s) was a really good start. Them grafting on the North Atlantic lighthouse stuff makes even less sense than it ever did. Hopefully Gunn will just give us an Aquaman-free new cinematic universe until sanity prevails at DC Comics. (And then they'll reboot the universe five years later, bringing back the dumbest parts of the Silver Age, as always.) [/QUOTE]
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