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wilhelm scream said:At least the effects look good this time.
TM2YC said:I had a thought:
Well, at least if it's gonna be bad, it's gonna be hilariously bad and not boring and po-faced.
wilhelm scream said:At least the effects look good this time.
Really? I thought they looked fake as hell, the FX assets themselves and the green-screen backdrops but it's just a trailer, so they have the rest of the year to work on them some more.
Zamros said:I'm impressed.... this is way more awful than I ever could have expected
musiced921 said:Wow, I can't believe how much hate this is already getting. Damn!
I think it looks like a lot of fun and I liked the CGI, so I guess I'm just easy to please.
Zamros said:They seem to just have taken him down the most generic route possible, with this movie.
Canon Editor said:Frankly, I’m not satisfied with “generic, pop-corn flicks”. To ask Shyamalan to not “Shyamalan it all up” is like asking Hitchcock to not put his fingerprints all over it. One may or may not like the personality or style of one particular artist, but to ask him (even if only on a forum board) not to is going against the very idea of what I call “expression in art”… or else, go to the more and more popular route.
Zack Snyder, who is no impeccable storyteller in my opinion too, has a very distinct style of representation in the art of film. The popular point many people on discussion forums seem to make is that his style is the fault in his storytelling - mistaking form (style) with content (narrative structure/storytelling). That is the biggest fault in today’s critiquing of filmmaking: the misunderstanding of style - which is entirely subjective just like cinematography (that too can convey what is on screen to a larger extent, but visually speaking it’s different) with narrative, that may or may not be effective not depending on style. That is why many people who claim Marvel’s superior form of atorytelling make me angry. It is bland, generic and without any distinctive element (cinematically speaking, not in its contents.
Back to “Aquaman”, this is to say that this trailer makes me afraid this film may be that, but other DC films/trailers have been making me think otherwise, as James Wan’s direction.
Gaith said: