![]() ![]() He was recruited by Batman, and for the rest of the movie, he was just there. ![]() Having been introduced in JUSTICE LEAGUE, viewers had no clue as to what Aquaman's story was. It's a notion that still hasn't quite gained traction.īut with this JAMES WAN film starring JASON MOMOA as Aquaman, more and more people may begin to realize that Aquaman isn't just a hero - he's very, very cool. It took decades before comic writers began to realize and communicate that Arthur Curry, King of the Seas, was a being who could withstand the pressures of the bottom of the sea and move fluidly in that environment, making him a veritable superman when on land. And the same is true now for AQUAMAN - not even rated nearly as high as third-tier, and somewhat of a running joke of a superhero because his marketing has always been "breathes underwater and talks to fish" - hardly impressive when you have a land-based catastrophe. Even JUSTICE LEAGUE, which gave us our first glimpse at several of the DC heroes on the big screen, together for the first time, bore the scars of reviewers who knew the world of these heroes could deliver more.īut the DCEU also gave us WONDER WOMAN, which was an unadulterated success for the DCEU - a third-tier character, sales-wise, on which there were fewer expectations, allowing director PATTY JENKINS to knock it out of the park. MAN OF STEEL and BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE should have been fanboy blockbusters, yet scored dismally across the board. While they didn't have the licensing restrictions, with Warner Brothers holding all the rights to all the characters, the films with their flagship characters when trying to build a unified universe were met with less than applause. The same philosophy can be applied to the DC Extended Universe films. There was literally nowhere to go but up with these guys, and so that's where they went. It's hard to imagine it now (and for longtime comic boom fans, it was even hard to imagine it then), but at the time all this was going down, Iron Man, Hulk and Captain America were not top-tier characters for the House of Ideas. How could they have a successful franchise, when their top selling titles - Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men - were already franchised out to other production houses? ![]() When the Marvel Cinematic Universe was being birthed, there were labor pains. ![]()
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