AQUAMAN

[mr.negativity]

[jellydonut25]

That poster is so bad, it's almost good?

Wait. No. It's just regular bad.

[lhb412]

AQUABRO

[O.Supreme]

The most head spinning thing was I was watching an online show where they said "wait what...I thought Aquaman could only talk to fish...why are there Killer Whales in that picture...??" , and they were being geeky-serious, not even joking. I know it is laughable, but it's always just been a "sea creatures" in general thing, as far as Aquaman's communication goes. People seem to forget that the taxonomy humans have given to all living things (Genus, species etc...), is not the end-all be-all to animal classification. Besides, I like this explanation better...

[canofhumdingers]

Neat. I think it looks cool. And those 10 “exclusive” photos make me more interested in seeing the movie (though that website in the link is AWFUL. like, I think my iPad needs a shower now...)

I was pleasantly surprised by Aquaman in Justice League. My only knowledge of the character previously was really from the superfriends cartoon when I was a kid. I can understand the “Aqua-bro” comment/complaint. And I get it if that’s not to some people’s liking. But I actually didn’t mind and found him to be a pretty fun and entertaining character. So I’m looking forward to this. And Wonder Woman ‘84. OMG I cannot wait for WW84!!!

[Dai]

[Gentleman]

It... could look worse, I suppose. Some of the FX look dodgy, but I've seen worse. They seem to be putting a lot of their faith in Momoa's charisma to carry the movie. He's been a bright spot in the ensemble work he's done, but I'm not sure he can carry a movie by himself. Not too bright of them to release this on the same day as Shazam, which I enjoyed a lot more.

[mrbluehair]

I liked Aquaman in Justice League....

This looks almost too cartoony. One step away from a Pixar film.

[jellydonut25]

Okay. It looks bad. But maybe in a fun way?

[canofhumdingers]

I think it looks pretty fun. It looks the most “Marvelly” of the DC films so far, which has me a little concerned. I don’t want DC aping marvel’s formula. I prefer them doing their own thing. But still, it looks pretty cool to me. I’ll definitely check it out in theaters.

[O.Supreme]

Black Manta's helmet looks ridiculous, (as in straight from the comics) and I love it. -Soldiers are riding sharks!, and Giant Seahorses! and Aquman on a Mosasaur at 2:09! I have to give it to DC, I know its early, but I think they may have finally figured something out. You can have a nice balance of serious and fun, keep it in that middle range, staying as far away form the extremes (Teen Titans Go! and Titans) as possible.

[The Shadow]

The trailer looks great to me, I continue to like everything I'm seeing from Aquaman and I'm definitely going to make time to catch this movie in theaters.

[lhb412]

The only thing I really have to say is how cool Black Manta's costume is!

[canofhumdingers]

[klen7]

looks like a few different recent Aquaman storylines in one movie, but I'm game with James Wan at the helm

[O.Supreme]

This made my day

[The Shadow]

That's awesome! I wonder if there's enough Aquaman scenes in Batman: The Brave and the Bold to do the trailer as well?

[UltraDada72]

[mr.negativity]

First Reactions to the ‘Aquaman’ Test Screenings Surface

[mr.negativity]

[jellydonut25]

So it's gonna be like...9 hours long?

It looks packed. One might say packed....to the gills.

[mr.negativity]

[lhb412]

^ Yikes!

[Benjamin Haines]

A domestic opening between $40m and $60m wouldn't necessarily be a death sentence for Aquaman in the holiday season. December releases tend to have longer legs as kids have several weeks off from school, a lot of adults are off work and families usually gather and have time to see movies together. Just this past year, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle opened to $36m over the pre-Christmas weekend and went on to make $404m in North America, an insane 11.1x opening-to-final multiplier.

A more mild comparison comes from the last time Christmas fell on a Tuesday, back in 2012 when Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher opened to $15m over the Dec.21-23 weekend but went on to top $80m domestic. If Aquaman opens to $40m-$60m, a similar 5x multiplier would lead to a domestic total between $200m and $300m. Couple that with a likely 33/66 domestic/overseas split and it would end up between $600m and $900m worldwide. While the low end of that could put it on par with Justice League ($229m domestic toward $657m worldwide), we're still talking about the very first Aquaman movie here so the bar for success is not the same. As long as Warner Bros. didn't spend an obscenely stupid amount of money to make Aquaman, it should be able to do just fine for itself if people like it.

A $25m opening for Bumblebee with a 5x multiplier could lead to a domestic total around $125m, in the same ballpark as Transformers: The Last Knight's $130m domestic. It would probably still top $400m worldwide in that scenario, so as long as Paramount spent significantly less on this character-specific prequel than the $217m they spent making The Last Knight, then Bumblebee can do fine too. Franchise lows don't have to be a bad thing.

[lhb412]

Always impressed by your command of stats Ben!