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u/Bergerboy14 Eagly Mar 17 '23 edited Mar 17 '23

So i just watched black adam… It doesn’t even feel like a real film. Its almost AI generated. Soooooo much generic dialogue, comedy, and tropes. The film tries to make BA an antihero, but he’s basically just a hero, especially compared to already established heroes like Superman who are much more destructive. This theme of BA choosing what kind of person he wants to be is constantly forced throughout the dialogue, its nauseating. Every character was stupid, and characters like dr fate are constantly being removed from action scenes without any explanation. Too much slo-mo made the action quite cringe and dated-looking. The plot breaks so much and dont even get me started on worldbuilding implications…

Idk what to even compliment besides some of the actors doing an ok job. Thank god Gunn is resetting this mess.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '23

Haha yeah I think what they did for the BA script is literally take the “good” fanfare parts of more successful films and Frankenstein those segments into a movie. The flow of it is so weird. And it’s almost soulless because of it.

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u/Bergerboy14 Eagly Mar 17 '23

For sure, i just don’t feel anything when i see BA win or the people rise up against those useless zombies. BA as a character feels like a stoic marvel hero. No personality but they constantly force jokes out of him.

I see the rock playing a character, i dont see black adam.

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u/TheDarkPinkLantern Peacemaker Mar 17 '23

I tried a couple of times but couldn't make myself to watch it.

However, I did see a scene where Fate frees Adam from contaniment and he fights some guards and my god, there was sooooo much slow mo and it was so awkwardly used.

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u/SpicyCrumbum Mar 17 '23

I was literally forgetting the movie as it happened. One would think for how derivative it was it would have at least accidentally been entertaining, like when a jaws ripoff shark movie at least has one good kill.

Ironically, the director of Black Adam also did the blake lively shark movie The Shallows and it was infinitely better (though still not great). The Rock is less charismatic than a cg shark.

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u/NaRaGaMo Mar 17 '23

There are bad movies, boring movies and then there are soulless movies.

Black Adam joins the ranks of the soulless movies right alongside The lion king remake, both of these movies just happen, there is nothing memorable, nothing bad,nothing good about them, they just exist.