Today after Thanksgiving dinner with his parents, Jim and I
went to see the new Justice League
movie, and boy, was it bad. The plot was hard to follow, but we’re 78% sure it involved
a Steppenwolf concert. (Jim made this joke, but I’m stealing it from him. We’re
going to be married soon so his jokes are my jokes now. That’s how it works,
right?)
Seriously, though, Jim and I thought it would have been a
much better movie if the Justice League had fought the band Steppenwolf. Hollywood,
get on this.
I have to say, I was disappointed in the Aquaman character.
I’m not a big a comic book person, and I know people shit on Aquaman, but he commands
the seas, right? I’m just saying that I feel like Aquaman should have been able
to handle this third-tier villain on his own, or at least put up more of a
fight. I guess Steppenwolf was just born to be wild.
And, maybe it’s not for me to say, but Victor needs to see a
therapist, like, yesterday. I mean, sure, it’s hard to be almost killed in an
ambiguous accident, lose your mother, and wake up as a robot with half a face,
but the man needs some coping skills. I was really worried about him when Steppenwolf
just ripped his leg off like it was a drumstick, but I didn’t realize that he
was made out of Legos and that Batman would be able to just snap him back
together. NBD, right? Wrong, because you can’t just snap back together your feelings, guys.
So, you know how I just said the plot was hard to follow? I
lied, it wasn’t. A big ugly guy with horns on his hat shows up, starts f*cking
sh*t up with his flying zombie bugs, and then Superman makes a miraculous
recovery from death to stop him, because only Superman can stop this evil from taking
us all on a magic carpet ride, even
though Aquaman is literally right there. Okay, I just read some of Aquaman’s
Wikipedia page, and here is a list of things he can do:
- He has superhuman strength;
- Can breathe underwater, duh;
- He once picked up an 8,000-ton Soviet sub from the ocean floor and threw it two-and-a-half miles through water to the surface!!!!!
- He can swim at speeds of up to 3,000 meters per second!
- And can see in the dark, which doesn’t sound that impressive next to the other stuff, but
- He can fly
- He can communicate telepathically with marine life, creatures that live on the sea, and probably creatures that evolved from sea animals, including humans;
- And don’t forget, HE CAN CONTROL BODIES OF WATER, INCLUDING THE SEA ITSELF!
