When it's okay to be bad
Now, I don’t really do what you’d call reviews, it’s more of what captures the popular imagination and what I’d recommend but movie reviews are often based on the visual language of a film ( the director ), the screenplay ( the writers ) and the performances of the cast ( the actors ). Now, Aquaman succeeds in the visual department and a lot of praise has been garnered towards Director James Wan. Some of the action set pieces in this movie are incredible and how he manages to track them without cuts is quite an achievement.
With Venom on the other hand, I can state that if a movie is measured based on these 3 factors, it is objectively a bad movie but I’ve to be honest I thoroughly enjoyed both of these movies and they’ve both gone on to become box office juggernauts. Now, Venom was sold as this anti-hero movie but it’s more akin to Jim Carrey’s Mask than it is to any Superhero/ Anti hero movie. It’s a comedy actually and I don’t know if this was intentional but it works in a weird way. If it wasn’t a blockbuster already it’d probably have a cult following anyway. No scene captures this better than when the symbiote Venom reveals to Eddie Brock that he’s a loser in his own planet much like Eddie which was a very tender moment.
In the case of Aquaman, it’s being touted as a masterpiece but it’s really not despite DCEU’s best efforts. It’s Jason Momoa being Jason Momoa while doing Aquaman things and it works. It’s an extremely cheesy movie at times and has a terrible soundtrack. Whose idea was it to have a Pitbull version of Toto’s Africa ? And the song was not in sync with the mood of the scene at all. It was just thrown in there but that’s Aquaman. An Octopus banging the drum for the final battle in Atlantis is also Aquaman.
These are two movies that are so ridiculous but they embrace their ridiculous nature and it actually makes for a very fun watch and I’d take that everyday for edgy and very cringey Batman v Superman or last year’s Ant Man and the Wasp which was extremely bland. Let’s hope the sequels are just as fun.
Now, I don’t really do what you’d call reviews, it’s more of what captures the popular imagination and what I’d recommend but movie reviews are often based on the visual language of a film ( the director ), the screenplay ( the writers ) and the performances of the cast ( the actors ). Now, Aquaman succeeds in the visual department and a lot of praise has been garnered towards Director James Wan. Some of the action set pieces in this movie are incredible and how he manages to track them without cuts is quite an achievement.With Venom on the other hand, I can state that if a movie is measured based on these 3 factors, it is objectively a bad movie but I’ve to be honest I thoroughly enjoyed both of these movies and they’ve both gone on to become box office juggernauts. Now, Venom was sold as this anti-hero movie but it’s more akin to Jim Carrey’s Mask than it is to any Superhero/ Anti hero movie. It’s a comedy actually and I don’t know if this was intentional but it works in a weird way. If it wasn’t a blockbuster already it’d probably have a cult following anyway. No scene captures this better than when the symbiote Venom reveals to Eddie Brock that he’s a loser in his own planet much like Eddie which was a very tender moment.
In the case of Aquaman, it’s being touted as a masterpiece but it’s really not despite DCEU’s best efforts. It’s Jason Momoa being Jason Momoa while doing Aquaman things and it works. It’s an extremely cheesy movie at times and has a terrible soundtrack. Whose idea was it to have a Pitbull version of Toto’s Africa ? And the song was not in sync with the mood of the scene at all. It was just thrown in there but that’s Aquaman. An Octopus banging the drum for the final battle in Atlantis is also Aquaman.
These are two movies that are so ridiculous but they embrace their ridiculous nature and it actually makes for a very fun watch and I’d take that everyday for edgy and very cringey Batman v Superman or last year’s Ant Man and the Wasp which was extremely bland. Let’s hope the sequels are just as fun.
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