The first full trailer for Black Adam was just released. It looks good. However, I am worried that too many elements may be jammed in in order to make the Justice Society angle work, and it ends up being like Suicide Squad or Spider-Man 3.
Somehow that looks like a trailer that came in a time warp from 2012. And as much of a deserved reputation that Duane Johnson has for being “franchise Viagra”, is DC Films really going to try to press forward with a Justice League sequel, or is this just going to be a standalone film?
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That doesn’t look like it ties into the Shazam! film in any way, I thought Black Adam was primarily a Shazam/Cpt. MarvelDC villain/antihero?
It looks interesting and I like Johnson. I hope it’s good but I just saw an interview on IO9 from the Black Adam filmmakers who were pretty amped up that their character was different because he did heroic things but would also kill. That didn’t seem distinctive to me at all. Maybe someday we’ll get a movie about a superhero who doesn’t kill.
He started out as one, but has had a lot of success as a stand alone character, and it looks like they’re jumping right to that interpretation, instead of introducing him as Shazam’s antagonist. I’m guessing the hope is to have him do a fight-then-team-up with Shazam in a future sequel, assuming this one doesn’t bomb.
Wasn’t saving the villains and not killing them the whole point of the last Spider-man movie?
I hereby vow to try to preserve what brain cells I have left by never letting this movie cross my eyeballs even when it shows up on free TV.
I like Dwayne Johnson too, when he plays human beings. This project appears to have been brain-dead from conception.
Yeah, there’s more than a few films with non-murderous superheroes, including Shazam!, but I think the poster was taking a shot at other DC films. That “Superheroes don’t kill,” line from the trailer would be better if the Rock replied, “Superman does. Batman does.”
I’m really hoping that Dr. Fate turns out to be a good character and doesn’t just register as a Dr. Strange pastiche.
Yeah, that was kind of the point. I know both Spider-Man No Way Home and Shazam movies made efforts to have their heroes not kill but I would argue that almost every other hero movie has their heroes kill. I remember seeing Batman kill a bunch of goons in the 89 movie and thinking it was a bit disconcerting to see a hero who had a no killing code in the comics being a bit casual about that code here (I know he had a gun in early comics). It’s not just DC, though the Snyderverse can be particularly nasty about it, Marvel heroes killed enemies along the way as well.
My point was saying “this hero is different - he kills” doesn’t really differentiate that hero.
I’m down to “I like Dwayne Johnson too, when he plays Dwayne Johnson.”
(He’s great on talk shows… and a believable character there.)
But, this is a comic book movie, so I’ll suspend all my critical faculties and enjoy it…