﻿{"id":23948,"date":"2018-12-23T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23948"},"modified":"2018-12-23T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T09:39:52","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-super-hero-movie-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23948","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new super-hero movie &#8220;Aquaman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After two brief previous appearances in earlier movies in the DC Extended Universe, Aquaman (aka Arthur Curry) &#8211; played by Hawaii-born Jason Momou who has real physical presence &#8211; now has his own feature film in the form of the traditional origin story for super-heroes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unusual environment of the undersea world of Atlanta provides some novel visuals with giant sea horses as marine cavalry and a drum-playing octopus (I kid you not). But I found the whole thing someewhat disappointing &#8211; a messy plot and action that is often just too fast and furious (director James Wan was responsible for &#8220;Fast And Furious 7&#8221;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid that all that hanging around in front of green screens was not fully rewarded, not least for an under-utilised Nicole Kidman as our eponympus hero&#8217;s mother Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two brief previous appearances in earlier movies in the DC Extended Universe, Aquaman (aka Arthur Curry) &#8211; played by Hawaii-born Jason Momou who has real physical presence &#8211; now has his own feature film in the form of the traditional origin story for super-heroes. The unusual environment of the undersea world of Atlanta provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23949,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948\/revisions\/23949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}