{"id":13454,"date":"2019-08-09T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:29:40","slug":"aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/08\/09\/aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2247,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boxd.it\\\/MyGfR&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/djwudi\\\/film\\\/aquaman-2018\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxd.it\/MyGfR\">Aquaman<\/a>: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>Completely ridiculous, and in the constant-eye-rolling sense, rather than the this-is-fun sense. Admittedly, it was nice to see a DC film that wasn\u2019t as dark (thematically and literally) as most have been, there were occasional gorgeous images, and I did get an occasional laugh. But there were just so many things that didn\u2019t work for me, from the weird underwater effects to the soundtrack \u2014 the first time a character gave a dire pronouncement and it was immediately followed by a literal \u201cbom-bom-bommmmmm\u201d, I laughed, but when it became a recurring theme, it went from a sly wink at the audience to simply annoying \u2014 that this just ended up continuing DC\u2019s nearly uninterrupted streak of uninteresting and unsatisfying superhero films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquaman: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; Completely ridiculous, and in the constant-eye-rolling sense, rather than the this-is-fun sense. Admittedly, it was nice to see a DC film that wasn\u2019t as dark (thematically and literally) as most have been, there were occasional gorgeous images, and I did get an occasional laugh. But there were just so many things that didn\u2019t &#8230; <a title=\"Aquaman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/08\/09\/aquaman\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aquaman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[3479],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-aquaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}