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I just looked up the director’s credentials on IMDB. Yikes.
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Why does everyone think that these movies need to be R rated???Does anybody know what this will be rated? I think this could be really cool if they don't water down the character. Black Adam should be scary and hardcore. The scene where he says that he DOES kill people and then ends him comically throwing the guy into the ocean is exactly what I don't want from this. Not sure if The Rock can pull off the "anti hero" thing. He is sooooooo famous, I just see Dwayne Johnson in tights.
Why does everyone think that these movies need to be R rated???
In no way shape or form should a Black Adam movie be R rated. It should, however, be a sequel to Shazam and Black Adam should be a villain and not an antihero
I'm not huge on Black Adam but has everytime I've come across him he's been a straight up villain. Has he ever actually been portrayed as an anti hero or is this purely moulding him to get The Rock on board?
At his best, Black Adam is similar to Ocean Master, they’re both political figures who oversee sovereign nations that can often come to odds with the heroes. They are autocrats, but they have the support of their people, though there is certainly an element of fear that undergirds the respect and adoration. They genuinely think that they are acting in the best interest of their people, but they lack the compassion and moral compass of the “real” heroes, thus often making them dangerous and bringing them into conflict with folks like Aquaman, Shazam, and Superman. With Black Adam, there has also been a history of resentment toward Shazam (Captain Marvel) because the Wizard rejected him in favor of Billy Batson.Yes, for the past twenty years. I mean, I don't know what the New 52 did to him ( probably nothing good ), but starting with the Johns JSA revival, he has consistently been an anti-hero or sympathetic villain, of a "I am a 'hero' who follows a bronze age idea of what constitutes heroism, not a modern one" mold. Basically, the writers noted that he was supposed to have been a hero in ancient Egyptian days, and decided that "ancient fallen hero" was a more interesting premise then "another modern evil person with Shazam powers".
Sure, this might not have been his characterization for much of the history of the character ( AKA, anytime before about 2000 ). The thing is, this is clearly the characterization the *movie* is drawing from, in his demeanor and motives, in the setting of Khandaq, and in having the JSA appear. It is *not* being invented to suited Dwayne Johnson; if anything, its the reverse, with Dwayne Johnson's interest in the character being inspired in the first place by the modern revival version.
Run All Night, The Shallows, and Orphan are solid tho.I just looked up the director’s credentials on IMDB. Yikes.
????Guess it will flop. Hope so.
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where are we as a society that we hope for disappointment? That we hope to witness failure so that we have something to complain about?
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So far, I’ve seen a short clip and a 2 minute trailer. Admittedly, the few minutes of footage that I’ve seen doesn’t present a version of Black Adam that I would typically think of as my preferred take on the character. But I haven’t seen enough to form an opinion. And so I am hopeful that I get a great movie.
I somewhat agree regarding trends, but I also recognize that I can always ignore a trend and leave it to others who might enjoy it. If something doesn’t fail, it typically means that there is a market for it.I mean, it makes perfect sense to hope for a movie to flop, if it contains within itself a terrible idea that you don't want catching on with the industry. I have no idea why someone would hope for that for Black Adam, though. Even if you take the worst plausible interpretation of the trailers and predictions of the film itself, it would only be bad in fairly conventional ways where its success or failure would have no larger impact on the medium. Even if someone had personal gripes with colorful superhero movies, or Dwayne Johnson as an actor, neither of those are going to go away if Black Adam fails.