The Rock Confirmed To Play Black Adam In DC's "SHAZAM" Movie

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Aquaman, yes. It's about equivalent to the tone and feel and level of writing as that. WW, nah. There's nothing in Black Adam as good as those first two acts of WW.

The quick cutting bugged you, what bugged me was the metric ton of ADR going on. Like, whenever the camera isn't on someone's mouth, suddenly they're spitting out one-liners or funny stuff they clearly thought of later on in post. It's the Marvel school of "let's fill in all the silence we can with laughs."

Yeah, that trailer. It just looks so busy and trying too hard for goofy laughs, this time out. Coupled with Levy looking a lot older in the face and those kids not really looking like kids anymore. A couple of those "Shazam!" transformation group shots are a little embarrassing to look at. Like, wow, they grew like an inch.

Yeah, those songs make it feel like a 90s actioner. And reminds me of what the studio was trying to do with their cut of Suicide Squad.

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- I'unno, see, because they're entirely different kinds of super-hero movies. Like this one is by design a CGI Action Slugfest, and the CGI Action Slugfest parts of Wonder Woman were the only thing people cried about (they were "fine"). That was an action/drama period piece and this is a Big Loud Action Movie. I think they both succeed well enough at their individual mission statements.

Thus I personally can only compare them insofar as, "How likely would I be to watch either of them again?" And the honest answer is, about the same. Neither one is among my all-time favorites but they're both movies I'll still be checking out from time to time for many years. Maybe not all the time - I liked WW a ton but haven't actually watched it in years - but I'm not done with either of them for sure.

- Yeah, the jump cuts were trying to hide some of that but yeah. I'm never a huge fan of that either, but the pacing in those scenes was so frenetic I was more focused on what was going on than watching for that kind of stuff. I'd probably have caught more of it later on upon a second or third watch.

Like how I mentioned that the music didn't thrill me or stand out in any way (nor did it bother me; it was just There); I'm huge into music but for some reason, with films the visuals always stand out to me more than the audio does. Zimmer's score for MoS left little impression when I watched the movie the very first time but HOLY SH*T do I adore it now. For some reason the audio of a movie takes like two or three passes before it becomes one of my biggest priorities. But yeah, this would have annoyed me eventually, I'm sure. But since I'm more visually-oriented with movies the quick-cut sh*t bothered me more.

Like, in that "storm the house" scene they were jump-cutting and nothing was even happening! Three or more cuts within two seconds? Lay off the caffeine! A guy took two steps to the right, you don't need to show it from three different F*CKING angles!

- Holy sh*t yeah, what about Zachary Levi, huh? OOOOF the guy looks f*cking SIXTY now! What'd he do, spend all his money from the first movie on crack and cheap whiskey? He looks like SH*T and he wasn't a good visual choice for the role anyway. Like he was "serviceable", but that's all, and now he looks like his own Dad.

I popped huge for the Marvel Family in the first movie just because I didn't think they'd go there, but yeah I can't say I love them being the focal point of the sequel, I mean HE is barely even established and the sequel is all about how he's the weakest link of "his own" super-hero family? F*ck outta here. I liked it in the first movie as a fan but it was objectively too much too soon and now it's f*cking sh*t up.

Mary Marvel is f*cking hot as f*ck, though, so... there's that. Like I've always been a huge fan of the character, never expected to see her in a movie at all, now we actually do AND she's smokin'. That's nice, I appreciate that.

- For a half a second I did think, "Ah geez, they're doing it like Suicide Squad". And then they pulled it back.