"I'm sure a whole bunch of CGI artists got paid to meticulously animate a giant battle that I closed my eyes during." What a great summary of modern block buster films.
4:42 - I worked as a background extra playing a Russian submariner in that scene, and TBH I was more excited about the possibility of a shot with me in it being incorporated into this HitB episode, than I was about it being used in the movie itself lol.
This comment is honestly more interesting than the film itself. Hope you make it into a RLM clip one day if you didn't this time, buddy. Can't wait to see you in Man of Circuitry, in which Cyborg finally gets a late and underwhelming origin film.
Mike’s so damn humble. He’s still doing Half in the Bag even after being paid 7 figures by Marvel on the reg for being a GINGANTIC SHILL! Verrry Cooool!!
man, people are so gullible. they were being sarcastic! seriously, does anyone really think Mike and Jay would need that shill money when they can easily make so much more with their super fast VCR repair company? jesus, use your brains for once, will ya!
i hate movies that try to explain fantasy cultures through exposition. if these cultures REALLY existed.. why would they explain their own ways to eachother?
with fantasy cultures there definitely should be more show than tell, especially when most of the CGI went into animating the visual clusterfuck that was atlantis
It's the obky scenario that ever works, bit under very specific circumstances i.e when the subject of the film is esentially exploring another culture. In this case show, don't tell is the better option.
@@Here_is_Waldo that's different, but is still an excuse for exposition dump. You can show apprehension between groups through their looks/avoidance, by showing adherence to social norms, and by culminating clear distinction between areas. There's so much you cam glean from visuals, and when you have a movie (a visual medium) dumping exposition is just not engaging or fun. You're having a short story picture book dropped on you instead of seeing the natural exposition on the design.
Saw it yesterday in 4DX, so the seats were moving, there was water, wind, lightning effects and more. It was pretty spectacular but it also was like a two and a half hour long roller coster ride. At the end, my whole body hurt.
Did you guys know all of Aquaman’s hair and facial hair was CGI? No, Jason *Moana* didn’t shave. They digitally removed all his hair and then CGI’d it back. Quite remarkable actually.
Hamdon Nut the trick is to render every wrinkle differently. Just like real life no 2 wrinkles are the same. Yes it is very time consuming but well worth it when you see the end product
if i had a nickel for every time DC had to digitally alter someone's facial hair, id have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
Followed in 2 years by the huge undersea spectacle Aquaman vs Batman vs Superman vs Wonder Woman vs Shazaam vs every Suicide Squad member ever vs 5 different actors playing Joker: -Civil War- War of SEAcession
How about the reverse, when the actor is "aged up" and then NOT shown as their normal selves later? Of all the questions I had about Prometheus, that was the biggest one.
Ad revenue is high in December (the whole fourth quarter, really) and drops pretty steeply in January. Even if they would get the same number of views, a video put out in December makes more money than it would in January, so they're pumping out as many videos as possible. I would expect to see a steep drop in their release rate pretty soon.
They actually film at a higher framrate to sneak in a frame of rich evans into every video without anyone noticing. This way we get contitioned to love and rever rich.
I think you guys missed Ocean Master’s actual motive. It’s not the pollution. Pollution is just the excuse. His real motive is that he wants to destroy humanity because he blames them and Aquaman for his mother’s death. That’s why he surrenders when he discovers his mother is alive.
Why wait 20 years? Why blame surface people who don't even know Atlantis existed? Why not kill the man who boned his mom and had a bastard kid? None of that makes sense even in that context
This movie is made up of the epic signature scene from every major film ever made. It goes beyond what they say here. It's Jaws, Splash, Indy Jones, Star Wars FM, Jurassic Park, Gladiator, Avengers, Robo Cop, Avatar, Perfect Storm, Das Boot, Alien, The Kraaken, Lord of the Rings, Black Panther, Merlin, Dr Strange, 20,000 Leagues, Treasure Island, Waterworld and the Lego Movie.
It really is. What I find weird, and thisnisnt a knock on them at all, but its funny to me that aloy of other people who said its bad are being pummelled in YT and called Marvel fanboys(and they may be I dont know thats not my call. I never liked the term fandoy or shill myself but whatever) but when RLM does it we all laugh and enjoy.
I literally just realized I hadn't subscribed to RLM yet for whatever reason after having watched hours upon hours of their content, and I am flabbergasted that they haven't passed 1mill subscribers yet. Like seriously, how is that possible?
Mike didn't mention the episode of Star Trek Voyager with the water planet once during this entire review? Did he finally drink all of the Trek knowledge out of his brain?
Saw it in theatres. I almost fell asleep lol Older guy took his kids to see it a row in front of me and he was very adamant about how angry he was paying for it lol Good times
I can imagine mike in his ear going *put the star trek reference in. put the star trek reference in. put the star trek reference in. put the star trek reference in.*
The guitar riff that played every time Aquaman posed for the camera reminded me of the Intervention episode of South Park. Kept waiting for a black slide and white text to pop up
I don't know if it was on purpose, but on at least 4 occasions a fight scene would start with an explosion next to two of the characters heads while they're talking, and I couldn't help myself from laughing from the 2nd time onwards.
It violates Hitchcock's doctrine on suspense vs. surprise. Surprise - Two guys have a boring conversation and five minutes later a bomb under the table goes off. Suspense - Same boring conversation only this time you let the audience know there's a bomb under the table that will go off in five minutes. The audience will be much more engaged for a longer period of time.
@@jacksonjennings8728 lol that movie's old as hell. If you hadn't watched it by the time you read that then you were never gonna watch it. He was sharing trivia, not being a prick.
Whenever Mike said, "I judge movies by how depressed I am" or whatever... that shit was so real. The whole point of entertainment is to distract us from the misery that is intrinsic to existence. Some of these fucking movies add to it! What the fuck, Hollywood?
Do you think movies can also teach or inspire? Can they show us a window into other lives and the human condition in general? Can they affect our perspectives and attitudes? Or are they really just mindless panacea? It feels like you have a very limited scope as far as what entertainment is.
@@Bakamatsu-GojiFanArchive the initial comment reads "Finally, I can have an opinion on Aquaman", meaning a person that doesn't have enough brainpower to form their own opinion but will instead wait for the opinion of a high status person so they can call it their own, usually known as the sheep herd mentality
Aquaman, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand Aquaman, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip Aquaman, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand Soaking up the thirst of the land Aquaman, can you see through the wonder of amazement at the oberman Aquaman, the crust is elusive when it casts forth to the childlike man Aquaman, the sequence of a life form braised in the sand Soaking up the thirst of the land Aquaman, Aquaman Aquaman Aquaman, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand Aquaman, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip Aquaman, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand Soaking up the thirst of the land Aquaman, can you see through the wonder of amazement at the oberman Aquaman, the crust is elusive when it casts forth to the childlike man Aquaman, the sequence of a life form braised in the sand Soaking up the thirst of the land Aquaman
most formulaic outline. you could literally time the moments where they were gonna wrap something up and then something would BREAK THROUGH the wall. you could cut up the movie into 5 parts with those 5 interrupting moments
Stop telling people that the comments a joke, let them bask in the false sense of superiority that comes with being right on the internet, and then we can just laugh at them. God, I need therepy
For some reason I actually laughed out loud when Jay went "we get so swamped during the holidays" and then stared into the distance like a haunted 'nam vet.
Yes! I just commented the same thing before I saw this. She mentioned it earlier in the movie. But I will say that I agree with Mike's point that it would have been interesting to still have a cutback from Aquaman fighting the monster to a quick line or two between Amber Heard and Nicole Kidman.
If it wasn't Mike having the stroke, it would really say something about the storytelling that they couldn't even remember those characters' names, much less their relation to each other.
Did they? Because it stands to reason that she was younger than Aquaman and Kidman had been banished for 2 decades. How would she have recognized her after all that time?
@@Not_Always Maybe cuz she was a Queen so im sure they had a photo or two laying around while they told stories of her especially if shes famous for going on land to flee from a arranged marriage to fall inlove & bare a son with a man who only breathes air lolll only to return to bare another kid then got banished/killed? Wait she was force to have sex n another son then they threw her to the wolves... holy shit They are horrible...Did Zack write that part? Anyway, they also made it clean in the justice league movie that the red head knew al about Aquaman & his family history, even where to get his mothers Trident .... thats if you remember that under water scene... which nobody does so lmaooo
The film was good popcorn fun with a healthy side of ham and cheese, but at least it was self-aware enough to appreciate how ridiculous it was which made it more endearing. It's not the best comic book film by some distance but it held a balance between serious and camp that made the time fly by for me.
I was a bit weirded out when Mera was complaining about the humans dumping their sewage into the oceans of the Atlanteans. If only the highborn can breathe air, this means most of the population has to poop in the water, and as we know, poop floats. They can't be doing that sitting down or else it would float up into their hair. So logically thinking, Atlanteans poop while they're swimming(probably at those high speeds) in order to dodge their own poop. So either they have grand arenas, let's call them "Poopariums", constructed so their people can swim in larger circles while pooping, or everyone just poops out there in the wild and they have no toilets at all(except maybe for the highborn). I thought about this a lot as you can see. I probably have to buy the movie and watch it again as I missed some scenes while thinking about this. Anyways, not many movies make me think about how people are supposed to poop, so I guess that's.. something.
Late reply I know but I always thought of this as a kid watching lord of the rings, I suppose they CAN most likely get their trousers off but do they just do it behind a rock or bush or something? Do they poop in groups? Goonies gave me an unrealistic expectation for portraying bathroom breaks while on an adventure. It would have been a good opportunity for Sam and Frodo of maybe Legolas and gimli to do some kissing shenanigans.
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@@TrekBeatTK Yes, you are correct, and there was also an episode of Voyager that had a similar race of aquatic people, though they were more realistic and less mermaid-y
@@MarcoLongoMusic My thanks to you. Now, the amusing thing is, I was not mocking you in the first place. On the opposit, I really liked your post; gave it a tumbs up and my comment hailed your joke as the second viwer/first one among the rest of us. But as that apperently went over your head and made you angry and defensive, I'll leave this conversation in peace from now on ^^
@@DaniloSantosVieira That was his last sighting, anyway XD Besides AVGN, what other channels has he been on? I did see him in a short film a couple years back
There’s so many ocean puns in this comment section by the time I got here I was wondering what it was about aqua man that you thought mike and jay couldn’t get it.
Jay's comment about being swamped while doing nothing was me last night when my store decided to stay open an extra hour on the day before Christmas and literally nobody showed up.
Yay! It has been a long and arduous journey but I've finally graduated to the level of mentally deficient adult. I just took this one as some high quality schlock. I was a bit surprised that this movie with Dolph Lundgren prominently cast, a villain constantly flexing and yelling that also preferred to be called ocean master, and sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads was taking itself too seriously for you guys
You guys are incredible. It's amazing to watch these movies and think about the same things you guys have the ability describe. You put these things into words I feel but can't put together.
@@DaniloSantosVieiraYeah, because THAT'S not thirsty XD I mean come on, maybe Suzy should have known better than to say that (it was indirectly addressing a person and just referring to a celebrity crush I guess, and if it was just a joke then that's fine) but so should you, this is not a dating site, and we don't need to put every impulse into words, especially so creepily!
Like that BP tweet about "take your climate pledge today!" and one guy pledging not to spill tens of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
Actually, funny enough, Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
factotum but that was an intentional and clever twist on that otherwise purely rational society. Unlike other generic fantasy crap that has primitive fighting scenes because people think it looks cool.
