Kevin Smith has officially given his seal of approval to DC’s Aquaman movie.
Kevin Smith uploaded a new video to his YouTube channel reviewing Arthur Curry’s first solo outing on the silver screen and he loved every bit of it. If you’ve seen his reviews, he’s brutally honest about what worked and what didn’t in superhero media. First, he praised the way the movie was made as a whole and even said that “Aquaman is everything a movie is supposed to be”. You can check out what Kevin Smith said below.
“Can you believe, this movie is at about $750 million right now. Aquaman’s going to make a billion dollars. Go back in time and tell somebody that. That Aquaman‘s going to make a billion dollars. Makes sense now, because my God, it’s visually sumptuous. Aquaman is everything a movie is supposed to be. When you put down your two bits or 10 bucks or 20 depending on where you go, you want to escape. Take me somewhere. Show me some s*** I’ve never seen before. That’s what you want in a movie. I never made movies like that, I was like I’m going to show you a convenience store, something you saw probably right before you went to the cinema.”
Then he even praised Director James Wan for creating a whole underwater world and ultimately doing what James Gunn did with Guardians Of The Galaxy. Kevin Smith also went on to mention how much he loved the accuracy of all the costumes in Aquaman.
“Talented filmmakers like James Wan take you diving into the ocean, showing you a world you’ve never seen before. Same way James Gunn, Marvel, owned outer space, took us to space with Guardians of the Galaxy and claimed outer space as their own, James Wan and DC, and Warner Bros. now claimed the seas for themselves with Aquaman. James Wan holy s***. F*** this kid’s talented, I talked to him on the IMDB yacht, the IMDB boat, if you will, for Comic-Con last year just when they dropped the trailer. He credited Wan at the time for bringing so much of Aquaman’s characters from the comics to life on the big screen exactly like they were in the books. I said ‘dude, you make Orm look like Orm. Ocean Master looks like Ocean Master,” Smith said. “Black Manta looks like Black Manta, and I saw, at that point, we hadn’t seen the footage yet of Arthur in his full regalia, but there was a LEGO sculpture of Arthur wearing the orange shirt, and I was like ‘word is he wears the orange shirt in this movie. Like what the f*** happened? How did you get away with this?’ And he said ‘there was no point in changing the designs.’ He said ‘those designs have lasted decades. Classic, wonderful designs, so we kept with what it looks like.”
You can check out the full review from Kevin Smith below.
Aquaman has now surpassed Wonder Woman in the box office and its well on its way to becoming one of the most successful movies in the DC Cinematic Universe. Films like this show us that Warner Bros. and DC have learned their lesson from other movies like Batman v. Superman or Suicide Squad, capitalizing on the formula that made Wonder Woman great: good storytelling, relatable characters and showing how gorgeous the DC universe can be.
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Aquaman is in theaters now. Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an acition-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be… a king.
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