Canadian Politics Today

Diversity in the superhero movie genre continues to explode!

In 2016, Harley Quinn and The Joker put Clown-Americans in the spotlight and may have even helped Donald Trump become the first Clown-American President.

In 2017, Wonder Woman was a massive hit, and so were **** Hats, the Women's March, and tearing down Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.

In 2018, Black Panther put a black hero in the spotlight and became one of the most successful movies ever.  Then Ant-Man And The Wasp put little-people in the starring role, for the first time since the Ewoks fought the Empire in Return Of The Jedi.

And later this month another huge step forward for diversity, as Aquaman arrives in theatres!  Finally a movie about fish-people, by fish-people, for fish people! It's amazing that this hasn't happened sooner, but it's happening now. And it is past time.

Of course this comes hot on the heels of last year's fish-people romance movie, "The Shape Of Water", but while that was a small release critically acclaimed art movie, this is a big budget blockbuster that will really bring the lives and stories of fish-people to the masses.

Jason Momoa stars as Aquaman.  He is best remembered as Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, as well as starring in a Conan movie a few years back, as well as this gif of course:



And yes, as the gif says, "dis gon be gud."

While Aquaman always seemed like the most weak-ass of the Superfriends, a guy whose powers were really pretty useless unless crimes were being committed near aquariums or on boats, one can be sure that with Jason Momoa in the title role, this is not going to be some wimpy loser.   People who have seen early screenings are loving it:

"It’s unabashedly melodramatic and over the top with the largest, most ambitious sense of scale imaginable."

"It’s so inherently bonkers that you’d have to be an utter killjoy to not get caught up in it."

"It’s a good adventure movie that acknowledges exactly what it is from the start, which is a meal made almost entirely of ham."

"Ambitious, campy and so much fun."

"It is a relentless visual spectacle that knows what it is and doesn’t hold back."

Earlier I was thinking I was going to give this a miss, but from the sound of it this is exactly the movie I need right now.

He summons fish to the dish, he likes the sushi cuz it's never touched a frying pan.


 -k