{"id":5687,"date":"2018-12-30T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T05:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2018-12-30T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T05:39:57","slug":"aquaman-a-science-fiction-fantasy-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/30\/aquaman-a-science-fiction-fantasy-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaman \u2013 A Science Fiction &#038; Fantasy Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Camera Girl and I took grandsons Primus and Secundus to the local multiplex and watched a double feature of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ralph Breaks the Internet<\/li>\n<li>Aquaman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Between tickets and popcorn this went for about a hundred bucks.\u00a0 And it was horrible.\u00a0 Having to twice sit through the interminable coming attractions and other advertising video was pure torture.\u00a0 Ralph Breaks the Internet was mildly amusing but twice as long as it needed to be.\u00a0 Plus, at the end I found out that Sarah Silverman was one of the voice actors.\u00a0 By the time Aquaman began I was bored and queasy from eating greasy popcorn.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t bad.\u00a0 There was a little too much girl power being pitched and of course none of it made any sense at all but taken as a whole it wasn\u2019t bad.\u00a0 The plot was ridiculously contrived and the evil half brother motif might as well have had Thor and Loki\u2019s names filed down to protect DC from being sued by Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>The special effects are, of course, spectacular.\u00a0 Due to his human\/Atlantean hybrid ancestry the title role is performed as a regular guy who just happens to be a super hero that can breath under water and control the denizens of the deep.\u00a0 The rest of the Atlanteans try to sound like some kind of quasi-medieval nobility, sort of like how the Asgardians in the Thor movies do.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little silly but not terrible.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never followed the Aquaman character before.\u00a0 I figured he was just the DC version of Submariner who was the lamest of the Marvel superheroes.\u00a0 From the ending sequence and the way these superhero franchises are handled it\u2019s certain that there will be sequels.\u00a0 Not that I think there need to be any.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, the movie has plenty of action and drama.\u00a0 The main character is likable and fulfills the function of a superhero by being heroic.\u00a0 And finally, the grandsons thought it was very good.\u00a0 So it fulfills its primary role, it amuses kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Camera Girl and I took grandsons Primus and Secundus to the local multiplex and watched a double feature of Ralph Breaks the Internet Aquaman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,237,4,243],"tags":[45,43,38,44,1631],"class_list":["post-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-movie-reviews","tag-comic-book","tag-movie-review","tag-review","tag-sci-fi","tag-superhero"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aquaman \u2013 A Science Fiction &amp; 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