Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-20 (Friday)

On Jun 21, 2025 at 10:32:49 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 6/21/2025 12:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

 Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

 

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (4K disc) 2023 movie set in the DCEU
 starring Jason Momoa as Lobo, I mean Aquaman.  Aquaman drives around on
 his motorcycle and does the haka dance.  Are we sure he's not playing
 Lobo?  Anyway, Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) returns to try and
 kill Aquaman which forces Lobo, I mean Aquaman to team up with his half
 brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to save the day.  The movie has issues, but
 it's watchable.  It's just annoying going in and being aware of all the
 behind the scenes issues.  For example, the movie originally had Batman,
 all the scenes were filmed, then they decided to edit him out of the
 movie.  And as far as I can tell, they replaced Batman with a CGI
 octopus.  And I just noticed WB released 4 DCEU movies in the same year,
 then had the nerve to complain about low box office returns.

 
 Who played the Batman?
 

It's unclear.  Both Keaton and Affleck are referenced as filming scenes.
  This is part of the behind the scenes nonsense that was taking place
where WB couldn't make up their mind if they wanted to go forward with
Keaton or Affleck.  They filmed an entire Batgirl movie using Keaton,
then scrapped it.  My guess is it would have been Keaton.  Don't even
ask about the ending of The Flash and how that affects who would be
Batman going forward.  The whole thing was a mess being played out in
front of the audience.  Even now, the Batman shuffle is still having
ripple affects with it being up in the air if Robert Pattinson's Batman
will be the new Batman in Gunn's rebooted universe or not.  As of now,
it's not Pattinson, but Gunn has also said he's open to the idea.

And at the same time, aren't they going forward with another standalone Batman
movie with Pattinson?