The Reel Rejects - BLACK ADAM (2022) IS CAMPY COMIC FUN!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:39 Awesome stuff, Tara. All right, guys, that was Black Adam. I'm just going to get... I can do it. You can just do the outro. Cool. Yeah, if you are listening to us in Apple or Spotify, make sure you give us a 5-star rating.

Starting point is 00:01:52 We would really appreciate it. special thanks to find folks over at praper for editing down these highlights we appreciate it's a task as always so thank you so much to them over there and also if you are watching this on youtube make sure you do all the youtube stuff share the video if you don't mind hit the like button most importantly don't forget to ring the bell that way you're notified whenever we drop videos such as these uh we have some questions here so we're going to get right into it yeah yeah so uh all right Right. Jaden Rhodes, I don't like being negative. I know it takes, oh, by the way, Jayden, thank you for being a royal reject for asking a question. I don't like being negative. I know it takes a lot of work to make a movie, but this is one movie that I genuinely hate. Hate is a strong word, but I mean it when it comes to this movie. But my question is, do you all think that The Rock did a good job? In my opinion, he is written as a one-note character in the rock doesn't really know how to play that note um interesting i didn't love the movie i thought the pacing was a little slow up top but um i still think i think the rock did a good job i think that i i don't think that the performance is necessarily one no i think that came down to the writing um i think the rock normally has good delivery but it could also be

Starting point is 00:03:24 the director like the director obviously is very stylized he likes a lot of he or she i don't even know who it is like a lot of slow-mo um my assumption is possibly with the comedy maybe not great at it the pacing and the tone of certain things i don't i wasn't really looking at at the rock and being like oh it's it's a little one note because he didn't get really that many times to talk and actually have, like, lines that are, like, real acting. It was mostly, like, I F stuff up and, like, a couple of jokes about, like, yeah, that was sarcasm. Which I liked. I liked those callbacks.

Starting point is 00:04:08 Those are fun. So, yeah, I think he did a good job. There's still a lot of enjoyable parts, especially when it comes to the action and stuff. But I definitely would not call this, obviously, my favorite of, like, the DC movies we've been watching. Some good points. Jaden, I'm so sorry you did not like this film. And again, films are all subjective, so there is no right or wrong.

Starting point is 00:04:35 You know, we all gravitate to what we like or do not like. And I definitely, there were a lot of parts I enjoyed, and there were a lot of parts I, or there were some parts I definitely did not. I thought this was one of the weakest villains by far. There was no, there was a lot, this film relied definitely on a lot of exposition. So I think that, for sure, like, in certain areas, like, the villain, it kind of undercut, and it felt rushed in regards to the villain. Like, I felt absolutely nothing in regards to that. But, like, a character, like, Dr. Fate, I thought was written incredibly well.

Starting point is 00:05:12 I liked how, like, with such a cool power also came the negative side of, like, the traumatic feeling of the groundedness of, like, dude, I can see everyone's fate. like can you imagine living with something like that that would suck too so like in certain areas like and i also thought pierce brosnan he's an incredible actor and i really felt his performance uh from that in that perspective as well so he was awesome and uh such a cool character the way uh you were he was able to uh work his powers and then also like you know he was able to like play the middleman in terms of like being an understanding side of like where you know like hawkman was coming from and also black adam so i i think he was like drawing that fine line of understanding perspective so i i really like that in his performance and also the character the way he was written i really liked hawkman too

Starting point is 00:06:06 and i love i'd love the bickering between him and and black adam their opposing ideologies and how they like to do just dispense justice if you will i thought that was a lot of fun throughout the film. Again, I thought a lot of the comedic bits, honestly, worked for me. I was laughing. I know it's not hard to make me laugh per se, but I have a very specific style of humor, but I thought it personally worked. It didn't feel too forced in my eyes. And yeah, again, I will admit, though, as much as I did love the son and father dynamic between Black Adam and Amman, is that his name right? I believe, I thought it actually worked. It did feel very Terminator to ask, you know, John Connor and the Terminator for sure, you know, this thing with

Starting point is 00:06:51 incredible power that this kid's, you know, has to have a relationship with. But at the same time, like, I actually thought it really worked with the emotional core of the backstory as well and the reveal and all that. I thought it worked with that. But I will say, as much as I enjoyed watching Amman and seeing, like, how resourceful of a character and how quick on his speed he was. The whole thing where he was inspiring the entire conduct and all that, that kind of came across a little bit cheesy to me. And then how they're able to fight off this zombie army or whatnot. I was like, this is a pretty weak arm. It's just, again, it's a comic book film. So you take the good with some of the weaker points. But that just came off as like, this is got easy

Starting point is 00:07:35 of a battle here. And you just, I felt nothing in that sense. But again, I like the internal, the internal uh you know conflict that black adam was dealing with and that i've got a lot of power in me and i've got a lot of internal demons that i'm dealing with and just like letting my rage out and also there's a reason he's got this and that we find out later is that his son gave him this power out of you know uh because he loves his father so much and didn't want him to to die and like that's like what a noble sacrifice and sacrifice is such a big theme in this film so again i there was a lot of and i thought a lot of the action bits were really cool as So there was a lot of things I liked in this.

Starting point is 00:08:13 A couple things I didn't like. Yeah, if I wouldn't go as far as saying I hated this movie, I would say it was entertaining and I had fun. All right, Mike Joyce, do you feel like the hierarchy of power in the DCEU changed after this movie? Hard to say.

Starting point is 00:08:29 I mean, I know we've literally just been reacting to all these movies, but I know the rock was like such a big force in how this movie got made and all that, but hard to to say if the hierarchy of power in the DCU changed, I don't know. What would you say to that?

Starting point is 00:08:48 I would, I do see it changing. Here's the thing. When I'm viewing Black Adam, obviously, I'm not reading the comics. I'm just going by some of the movies we watched. He's like an all-powerful, right? He has like Superman powers. He's as quick as him.

Starting point is 00:09:04 He's as tough as all the other ones. He's got lightning coming out of his all orifices. and he could I mean he's just very very strong so the power like the hierarchy there is a little like okay he's very very

Starting point is 00:09:21 strong so I'm not sure like and of course we're not going to really like highlight what he lacks except for the only thing that they did highlight was like oh the one thing he lacks is when he gets too rageful he can kill everyone you're like

Starting point is 00:09:37 that's the most powerful thing ever right so um i do think that there's got to be some type of a hierarchy that may change if we see black adam like as we saw in the mid credit scene superman shows up and i'm like yeah what is that going to look like but that's the exact thing that i asked when superman and batman i'm like what the hell is that going to look like because to me once i started watching superman i was like Superman, to me, seems stronger with more powers than Batman himself, right? And now, Black Adam, same thing with Superman. And Superman's obviously got the weakness of Kryptonite, whereas I guess the only thing with Black Adam,

Starting point is 00:10:19 if that one thing, I forgot what is Iranian, is that what it's called, right? Like, that can weaken him a little bit. And then also if you can emotionally get on his level and kind of just calm him down a little bit, but still, you would need that uranium is basically his only weakness. I mean, yeah, he's definitely one of the more powerful characters in the DCEU. So, yeah, I guess to answer the question, yes. Anyways, thank you for the question, Mike. All right, from Pavel Ketchmarek.

Starting point is 00:10:47 Thank you so much for being a royal reject and for asking the question. We appreciate it. Hey, guys, I remember watching Black Adam and thinking Dwayne Johnson said it took him eight years to get this film made. One can only imagine how terrible it would be if they did it in two. In all seriousness, outside of Hawkman, Pierce Brosnan, and that cameo in the post-credit scene, I was really disappointed by this movie. After all this PR talk of the balance of power in the DCU is about to shift, am I the only one who thinks that this was just another Dwayne Johnson movie that is simply set in the DCEU?

Starting point is 00:11:23 Curse to hear your thoughts, Andrew, lots of love to you and yours. I sent you a DM on IG, look at me all hip and youthful with the acronyms. I just wanted to wish you the very best in this tough time, and I hope you know you are loved, and you and your family are in my thoughts, take care of yourself. Pavel, thank you. I really appreciate that. Sorry, I have not been checking any of my DMs at all lately, so, but I appreciate you and the rest of Reject Nation who have been sending me all the love you guys have been sending.

Starting point is 00:11:50 You guys are the best. Do I feel that this was just another Dwayne Johnson film? I mean, again, I think you pointed out all the things I already mentioned. I loved Hawkman and Dr. Fade for all the reasons I already mentioned. And I love that father-son dynamic. So I wouldn't particularly say it felt just like a Dwayne Johnson film that was said in the DCU. But I can totally understand that argument why people would feel that way. But again, I was emotionally attached to just that backstory and why he felt the rage coming out.

Starting point is 00:12:23 So there were things I was resonating to, especially I'm in a very vulnerable state right now. I just naturally am sensitive and gravitate towards father, son dynamics in general. So I personally didn't feel that way, but what about you? Yeah, I feel that way a little bit. Like, I totally get what you're saying. I think that, you know, Dwayne or The Rock has always a lot of creative control just because of who he is and what he puts himself in. So I'm not surprised that this took him eight years to get done. I don't know if it's a financial thing, scheduling thing.

Starting point is 00:12:57 Obviously, he works a lot. who are the other characters? Not sure necessarily what happened during filming, but it's like obviously they had to put the pieces together as best they could probably with a lot of reshoots throughout the years. And maybe that's why I didn't love the pacing up top and I was like kind of looking at the clock.

Starting point is 00:13:19 Like, did this really need to be two hours and five minutes? I don't think so. I think if we cut it down to an hour to half, it might have been a total banger, meaning we're moving through the beginning really quick and we're getting to the action. But I'm not going to tell you that the action to me was like Wackadoo incredible with amazing choreography because a lot of it was slow-mo, some good choreography, but nothing that I was like stunned by. Like I'll tell you right now, I'm more stunned by the stunts in choreography in like Mission Impossible, right? So, like, in this being what it was, I do see how you're calling it, sort of the rock type of a film. I did love Pierce Brosnan.

Starting point is 00:14:08 Hawkman was also great. There just could have been some things that I think we could have sped it up because I'm not as, like, in love with some of the other scenes that they threw in there just to be a part of the story. we probably could have skipped it and then it could have gone by a lot faster. That's my thought. All right, Hunter Preston says, I'm sad that certain characters finally made it to the big

Starting point is 00:14:38 screen only to be in the movie if you had to take two superheroes besides Black Adam, put them in the DCU, which two would you pick? Two characters besides Black Adam. I've alluded to this in the past. I mean, I'm going with one villain. I want to see Brainiacs so bad. We've never seen

Starting point is 00:14:56 him in on film rather only on the the small screen another character though i know we've seen the joker a million times although i'm always down to see the joker terra uh god who's another character from the dc u i'd love to see uh i'll just go catwoman i really love catwoman i think the dynamics between her and Batman and the difference again of ideologies is just so fascinating and you know they their traumas really like define them and and I love Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle's chemistry is just it's so much fun to watch on screen so I and I know we just saw her as well in the Batman so I know that's such a boring choice but it's like it's on the spot I'm not having time to really you know put too much thought into but Brainiac for sure and I'll just go

Starting point is 00:15:51 with Catwoman do is there any two specific DC characters? you would like for DCU? No, not really. What I would say, Hunter, is like, and for any of you guys, when you ask this question, because I'm not going to know a bunch of DCU characters

Starting point is 00:16:03 that are not already ones that I have seen come before, is like, give us a multiple choice so that we can pick out of those, like give us a bunch, and it'll help remind us. But that's also for all of your questions, if you're asking one,

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Starting point is 00:18:09 It looked super cool. Yeah, and it was great to get Henry Cavill back because this was... Even though that was it, it was great to see him back. I remember... That was one of the very few things I do remember from this film. I didn't remember a ton, but that was one of them. And I remember in the theater just freaking out when I saw that. I was so happy because I had not been spoiled on that. And because I love Henry Cavill of Superman. He's great. And I will say this.

Starting point is 00:18:36 I was also hoping to, it's either in the film or at some point in the mid or post-credit scene. I really wanted to see Shazam because that's generally who Black Adam goes against is Shazam. But still seeing someone is as powerful. as black adam if you can make an argument is more powerful it's superman the most powerful being ever right so i thought that was cool just seeing like you know the that i love superman so much so i thought it was awesome but uh like i would have freaked out even more so with shazam just because shazam and black adam and i saw those cartoons as a kid what about you yeah no i thought it was awesome i like the line where he's like we should talk that was very funny and also yeah and also too it's kind of as well like a parallel to shazam

Starting point is 00:19:21 even though we didn't see Henry Cavill, per se, we saw, when they came into the cafeteria, we saw the man of steel suit. Yes. And we know that's Henry Cavill without the face. Right. Yeah, it was nice. I love it. All right. Maurice Gray Jr., Black Adam.

Starting point is 00:19:35 Do you think Black Adam could have been big if the DCEU had continued? What did you think about their attempt at putting the Justice Society on the big screen? Would it have been better if they used Stargirls part of the team, considering how good her TV show was? Yeah. I mean, I could have seen Black Adam definitely being used or being a big part of the DC after this especially. But again, as I just alluded to in the cameo, I really would have loved to see a whole fully fledged film, even if it wasn't that cameo scene, of just Shazam versus Black Adam. I really like there, I forgot what the, there's an animated film. I'll have to, if I remember it, maybe I'll come back here in the comment section, but I'm sure you guys already know.

Starting point is 00:20:18 I forgot what that animated film is. I own it at home, actually, and it's them versus each other, although I know that happens a lot in the comics, but it is freaking epic. And I'm like, I wanted to see that movie so freaking badly on screen. When it comes to Stargirl, I just know Stargirl from a certain favorite TV show of mine, from a few episodes of that.

Starting point is 00:20:38 And I remember her being a pretty cool character on that, but I don't know anything about the TV show. What show? It's my favorite TV show. Oh, Smallville. There you go. She's on a few episodes, but I don't know particularly, too. much about her, but

Starting point is 00:20:51 if the show is as good as you say, then yeah, if she would have been a cool edition, but I really like the, I got to say, I really like the chemistry, and I know they were hinting at possibly a romantic relationship between her, that one character, oh, what was her name, the other female character we had?

Starting point is 00:21:07 Cyclone, I think, or something. Cyclone and Adam Smash her, like, I actually bought the relationship. It was a lot of fun. I like their dynamic with each other. So, I mean, it would have been cool with Stargirl, but I was happy with what we had already in the film, and I like the, I like the core girl. You could also tell, like,

Starting point is 00:21:23 how other than Hawkman and and, uh, excuse me, Dr. Fate, you could tell the rest of the group we're just so unfamiliar with how to work with each other, but also at the same point, you can really feel the history dynamic and the friendship, how important and essential it was for Hawkman and Dr. Fade. And I really bought it. I love the chemistry between Pierce

Starting point is 00:21:44 and I'm totally blanking on the actor who played Hawkman who did a great job. Yeah, I can understand. your guys' frustration when you're like, oh, this is the first time Justice Society gets to be on the big screen and this is kind of what we get. I understand, because someone said that earlier and you're saying that they, they, that was their attempt at putting the Justice Society on the big screen. And I think it's not, it's a good attempt, not terrible by any means, but it's not great. And I think a lot of that just has to do with the, with the pacing and the right. I think I really think the writing it could have been I think tied up a little bit quicker like pacing is the main thing that I think there are certain parts oh pays very well don't get me wrong

Starting point is 00:22:31 cert parts this movie exciting and and you're like yay that's cool but there's still I think what was missing is there's like foundation I think that needed to be built a little bit more with these characters so that we kind of cared because I'm going to tell you I kind of really didn't. Like a ton, you know, and I think I could have cared more. So I think the attempt at putting the Justice Society on here, because someone else said prior that they're like, oh, this is what I get to see them in and it was a disappointment. I understand your frustrations in that. Would be cool to see somebody come in and redo sort of a Justice Society film and maybe Black Adam can be a part of it or not. Just to see what that looks like, especially if it was a different writer, a different director,

Starting point is 00:23:23 see where they would go with it. I would like to, I'd view it. I want to see a Justice Society film with a lot of slow motion shots, Tara. I think that would be awesome. I think you just got it. Oh, okay. Never mind. All right. Final question here from Michael Penton.

Starting point is 00:23:40 Thank you so much, Michael, for being a Royal Regic, and for asking a question we appreciate it. Does the Justice Society of America's intervention and conduct make them look more like global police force than true heroes? Wish they would have explored that a bit more. Love y'all. Sending lots of love to Andrew and Michael. Thank you. Really appreciate it.

Starting point is 00:23:59 That means a lot. Yes. So, especially in the beginning, and they really tease it out why they are there prior to them telling, why are you interfering with Black Adam? obviously got it handled he's stronger than y'all and then they they try to make this reveal of like well his rage and then you're like oh now i get it got it but i didn't think it was like the most exciting reveal and the way that they are coming in did make them seem less like heroes until of course when we get to the end when they all team up then you're like it's hero academy but before that it does seem like global police but also they're policing black adam just to get him to know

Starting point is 00:24:43 blow up that's mainly why they were there which is the whole argument that she puts up she's like you're just here to protect this guy when he's the one that broke us out of like this oppression that we've been in like they weren't a a woke to that to the reason right they're just there to be like well he he could kill you all so we're too had to pay attention um which i kind of think is a little bit of a weaker storyline my assumption is that true here they would already know the oppression that that Kandok is facing, you know, and why Black Adam is there and, you know, they had their last resort is to wake him up and go steal this crown that, you know, true superheroes would already know that and be working

Starting point is 00:25:33 on it. And I don't think that when they would land there, that it would come across as so much as they don't have the information that this woman who lives here now has to, to inform them of that that they're like oh right and then they've and then dr fay comes in right where he sacrifices himself and then they learn to work together it's nice there at the end but in in in with that story in coming to it michael i think i have explained that yes it did work more as like global police or heroes who didn't know much i agree with everything Tara just said, I think the thing is they didn't know about it, but also at the

Starting point is 00:26:15 same time, I think the biggest problem is they're true heroes who work for the global police in Amanda Waller. So, I think if they had it their way, and they knew about conduct, a conduct, excuse me, and they were not under such strict rules of like, you got to wait till Amanda

Starting point is 00:26:35 Waller gives you an order to do whatever she's telling you to do, like this powerful entity Black Adam is out, we need you to to do whatever he came, assemble this team and stop him. I really feel like if Hawkman and Dr. Fade and Adam Smasher and Cyclone, if they knew about

Starting point is 00:26:51 the oppression and conduct, I truly believe that they would go there and help them out. That's the interpretation I got while watching them. So again, there's that fine line between that, but that's how I interpreted it as I was watching the film, because that was the

Starting point is 00:27:07 first thing I said while when I was watching I was like, wait, why didn't you just go to conduct and free these people. And then I was like, oh, yeah, Amanda Waller's, like, kind of controlling you guys. She's like the global, she's like the commander, the captain or whatever, the commissioner, if you will. So I guess that's how I would, that's just how I interpreted it. But, yeah. Makes sense.

Starting point is 00:27:28 Yeah, thanks for the question, Michael. We're pretty much done here, but I did want to ask Tara one thing, rotten tomatoes. What did you think on the critic? Just do one at a time. I'll go critics, 69. and I'll go audience 73. So critics, you said 69? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:47 It was 39. Okay. And what did you say again for audience? 73? I went a little high. I feel like, yeah, I said 73, but like people are mad about it. So maybe I'll go to 61. You should have stayed closer to 73.

Starting point is 00:28:02 Really? It was 87. Oh. Hey, okay. They didn't hate it as much as it kind of came through on the, on the questions. bit yeah yeah but again some of the action was good but you got i mean the story i think could have been a bit better but you know what the rock he's always he's the rock it's like everybody loves him i'll say this i i didn't remember a ton from the first time i i remembered a little bit about

Starting point is 00:28:29 the villain even though he's not memorable at all uh and that awful twist and i remembered a little bit about that cheesy thing that the kid did in the town and then obviously the superman thing Aside from that, I really did not remember anything else. But I actually liked a lot more the second time. But I thought the film was fun and entertaining. And like I just pointed out, the weaker things. But, yeah, I've seen, like, I like this movie a lot more than the 2016, you know, Suicide Squad film. So that's just a babe.

Starting point is 00:29:00 But, again, if you didn't like this film, I get it. Totally understand. Well, you know, it's all subjective. Like I said earlier. Any final thoughts? Are you good? No, I'm good. Good. We've got to get out of the Arctic here. So thank you if you joined us for this.

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The Reel Rejects - BLACK ADAM (2022) IS CAMPY COMIC FUN!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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