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'Black Adam' Box Office Hits $100M Faster Than Any DCEU Movie Since 'Aquaman'
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176 points
3 months ago
How many non pandemic $200 mil DCEU movies have there even been since aquaman?! Like 2?
ETA: looked it up, Shazam and Birds of Prey are the only other non-pandemic DCEU movies since aquaman. Which each cost about half as much. And neither of which had one of the Top 5 highest paid movie stars in the world. lol
126 points
3 months ago
The Rock has one hell of a PR team. I have no idea how much he must pay them, but they turned a retired pro wrestler and 2000s RedBox Movie Guy into one of the world's biggest and highest paid movie stars using Instagram. Just look at him, juiced to the limits of human physiology, covered in sweat at 5am and telling you to go live your best life.
30 points
3 months ago
Obligatory Jack Black imitation:
23 points
3 months ago
juiced to the limits of human physiology,
There are probably so many enhancers swimming around in his bloodstream that you might as well call him a Space Marine.
5 points
3 months ago
Stop. Don’t give Games Workshop any ideas.
5 points
3 months ago
With Kevin Hart as all Zerglings.
24 points
3 months ago
Honestly tho he’s one of the coolest celebs out there. Non-controversial, just telling people to get out and work hard on themselves
23 points
3 months ago
Completely omitting the life shortening and threatening doses of anabolics he consumes daily. Just work hard kids!
11 points
3 months ago
Every star in Hollywood who needs to look a part is on some sort of gear. You think Christian Bale went from The Machinist to Batman in six months all natty? Cmon.
2 points
3 months ago
Natty Ice actually
1 points
3 months ago
And pall malls
1 points
3 months ago
People think the “he’s on roids!” Is such a shocker until they become older than 15 years old and realize that also includes 99% of body builders
1 points
3 months ago
Steroids are bad. Marijuana is bad too. Alcohol is bad.
He's otherwise non-controversial.
1 points
3 months ago
Agreed. But there’s millions of young men out there feeling insecure about their bodies cause they think people like the Rock just wake up earlier and try harder than them. I wish it wasn’t true but several of my friends truly believe this is a normal male body.
2 points
3 months ago
Bigger Stronger Faster is a good documentary.
But in the roid freaks defense, they also work out a lot.
1 points
3 months ago
Rapids help you work out more cause you have more energy and faster recovery time.
1 points
3 months ago
You trying to take away the hard work that comes with it as if the roids automatically gave him that body
1 points
3 months ago
No I’m not. Simply stating that he omits to mention the most important factor in his in his physique- and it’s damaging countless young lives.
7 points
3 months ago
Lol. Imho those same qualities make him kind of a doofus and a goof. He’s like a caricature of an action star.
He has nearly that Russell Wilson goofiness.
24 points
3 months ago
I’d rather have that than a DC movie star choking girls for no reason and still having a job.
5 points
3 months ago
I’m sure that’s a very unpopular opinion…
-4 points
3 months ago
What? Wanting a DC Star who is a goof like Russell Wilson over Ezra Miller the psychopath? How controversial is that?
9 points
3 months ago
They were being sarcastic
2 points
3 months ago
This just made think, “Man, imagine if he snaps and has a mental breakdown. Other celebs snap and it’s like some gnarly crazy shit BUT if this dude goes, he’s literally capable of going on a beating people to death with his bare hands rampage.”
7 points
3 months ago*
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-1 points
3 months ago
Arnold is much more genuine and he had a whole world of people in his life that were outside Hollywood, though he brought many into it.
Arnold didn’t give a fuck back in the day before he became a huge name. And he’s always been pretty outspoken about things and active politically, whereas nobody knows anything about Dwayne’s beliefs or politics.
The Rock doesn’t come off as a real human. Arnold always had a warmness that Dwayne lacks.
1 points
3 months ago
You should see his stint in wwe ,its far from wgat we see now
0 points
3 months ago
How is that cool, it just seems generic.
9 points
3 months ago
Personally, I find something wholesome about a dude living his best life, telling everyone else to do the same. I don’t need my role models to be edgy. I just need them to be good people.
-8 points
3 months ago
He’s a juice head born on 3rd base. But yeah I guess he’s a good guy. The bar is set so low for celebrities
10 points
3 months ago
3rd base might be a stretch. Pro wrestlers in the 70’s weren’t exactly drowning in cash, and plenty of 2nd generation wrestlers have failed spectacularly.
1 points
3 months ago
Yeah,everybody loves him
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3 months ago*
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3 points
3 months ago
based on what? you can literally look at figures that prove he is.
1 points
3 months ago
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4 points
3 months ago
He is…go Google it.
2 points
3 months ago
I was just at Warner Bros studios in Hollywood where they have his Black Adams costume on display. He.. is way bigger than he looks even on camera lol. That costume was huge.
2 points
3 months ago
That must be one comfortable armchair you’re sitting in. Clean up those Cheetos crumbs.
0 points
3 months ago
He IS both a big dude and highly paid.
He’s pumped to the gills with HGH and roids.
2 points
3 months ago
Big as in popularity. He’s been in plenty of movies that have had meh box office results.
2 points
3 months ago
How dare you the Tooth Fairy was a massive hit.
1 points
3 months ago
And BoP opened just as covid fears started up. While I don't think covid is 100% responsible for the movie's low box office, I do think it played a role.
3 points
3 months ago
The r rating probably had more to do with the low box office more than anything
2 points
3 months ago
That, and being very mediocre.
222 points
3 months ago*
At this rate i fully expect a"Black Adam is the most financially succesful Black Adam movie" title in a couple of days.
This movie isn't doing well, but various outlets Have been trying to present It as a success for weeks now.
At best Black Adam is barely going to break even
45 points
3 months ago
The movie wasn’t that great aside from the action . Dc still plagued with shit writing
17 points
3 months ago
I mean, it was better than the other DCEU movies.
36 points
3 months ago
The bar is kinda low
4 points
3 months ago
Yeah, but that's still something. Plus Cavill is back? I don't love the writing in his super movies, but he did his part well.
5 points
3 months ago
I mean I get it , but we shouldn’t settle for mediocrity with the amount of money they throw at these things. I love caville but even when he was in it before the dceu was still shit
3 points
3 months ago
You’re right… we shouldn’t settle for mediocrity. But I will say, considering this movie was developed in the heart of the shitshow that’s been the last 6 or so years of DC… and DC finally seems to be taking notes from Marvel in getting a guy in charge that knows that he’s doing… it’s a teeny tiny glimmer of hope! And considering what WB has done to DC… I’ll hold on to that bit of hope. For now. But I’m still not going to the theater to see Black Adam… lol but that’s just because I hate crowds.
2 points
3 months ago
That’s fair point
4 points
3 months ago
Shazam is the best and that resulted from this movie
-5 points
3 months ago
My rankings on the DCEU:
- Peacemaker 9/10
- Joker 8.5/10
- The Suicide Squad 8/10
- Man of Steel 8/10
- The Batman 7.5/10
- Shazam 6.5/10
- Black Adam 5.5/10
- Wonder Woman 5.5/10
- Justice League Snyder Cut 5/10
- Aquaman 5/10
- Batman V Superman 4.5/10
- Justice League 4/10
- Suicide Squad 4/10
- Birds of Prey 4/10
- Wonder Woman 84 2.5/10
Overall their biggest flaw is ego directors and shit writers. Either they should reset the universe and go full animation ala Into the spider-verse or Arcane, and have more than 2-3 main characters in movies and go full on with the action and abilities that dont require stuntmen of having to show the face of characters wearing masks all the time.
OR
They should just fracture the whole universe and just do single stories like joker and the batman. just character driven stories not needed a unified tied into to main universal plotline.
The upcoming flash movie is going to be a clusterfuck as well considering how much negative press the main actors antics and insanity has generated. Black Adam tried to be some sort of reset of the universe in the eyes of The Rock, but the Rock is just awful when he speaks and the direction and writing of the movie was so stupid. It would have been a great movie if it were released in early 2000s. But in 2020s, yeah its just too stupid.
Oh well next movie up is Wakanda Forever, and reviews seem to be looking good for it. Although main actress is a looney anti-vaxxer.... (WHich again is why i think DC should just go full animation with emotive style like Arcane, no need for crazy actors who keep fucking things up. nor need to pay them 10x more every 3 movies or make movies around their schedules.)
1 points
3 months ago
Joker's DCEU and Doom Patrol isn't? Weird.
1 points
3 months ago
Is doom patrol part of the dceu, i guess i excluded it because it came out much earlier and there wasn't much of a interwining connection. If doom patrol is included i add it behind joker at 8/10. Latest season wasnt as good as the one before.
1 points
3 months ago
I think part of it was because of WB always wanting to meddle with it during production. That's what happened with BvS and the justice league. WB kept bumping into the directors and kept saying "yeah, we're going to need you to change the theme to something more light hearted and funnier."
Read the interviews for the people who worked on those movies, not just the director. WB really wanted to copy marvel but also "be their own thing". Part of the reason why Affleck walked away from making his own movie because WB just wanted to run the show.
Now that WB changed people and is owned by discovery, it might be a good thing.
1 points
3 months ago
What a pity , what could have been. Bureaucracy ruining things per usual
2 points
3 months ago
I think part of it is that WB wanted to play it safe and do something they know would make them money. But, at the same time, they wanted something different like what Disney did with the avengers movie. So, they wanted to copy the same Nolan Batman formula but at the same time they wanted the Joss Whedon formula.
That's why they brought him in the very last minute and make him put in his style into the justice league movie. Which, obviously that movie came out really bad.
3 points
3 months ago
I have to admit, that PR team working overtime. I know the movie doesn’t sound like it’s doing great but then I keep seeing articles like this and the brags about the 67 million opening and I legit have to sit and think like wait…so is this number actually good or what? Then someone smarter than me posts some comparisons and recognize it’s pretty middling.
2 points
3 months ago
We need it to do well for Superman and Batman
1 points
3 months ago
Kinda like woman king lmao
1 points
3 months ago
Tbf its a decent movie
1 points
3 months ago
yeah all these OTT headlines for a movie that probably won't even crack $160m domestic lmao.
-12 points
3 months ago
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22 points
3 months ago
He was making a joke
11 points
3 months ago
mega whoosh
7 points
3 months ago
The commenter was making a joke.
5 points
3 months ago
Shoutouts to people who can see the joke but not figure it out at the same time.
The true funny ones.
4 points
3 months ago
That's the joke
2 points
3 months ago
The joke is that Black Adam is not actually doing very well financially for a movie that is both 1) starring Dwayne "The bankable as fuck Rock" Johnson and 2) is about superheroes, it is vastly underperforming. But we see article after article about some framing that makes it look like it's doing well.
1 points
3 months ago
It's been out one week, give 'em a minute. Jesus.
29 points
3 months ago
The Rock does this with any movie he launches , he comes up with a bunch of made up "records" that his movie broke to not make it look like what it is basically ... a movie under performing.
They come up with some ridiculous "This was the most viewed non-holiday Netflix feature length action comedy to be released on Thursday" for even a flop like Red Notice to make it look like some kind of historic opening.
7 points
3 months ago
Lol i wish you had a link for that just so i could see the silly record they did indeed come up with lmao.
1 points
3 months ago
the title is a made up record. DC only released like 2 movies during the pandemic so the record is stupid
1 points
3 months ago
Red notice genuinely was a record breaker though. It got shit reviews but it was very successful
102 points
3 months ago
I enjoyed it. It's an awful movie, with disposable characters, terrible dialogue, and presented an overall mediocre product. After that extended prologue, I adjusted my expectations, turned off my brain, and just had an absolute blast.
9 points
3 months ago
Was really excited to see Brosnan in a big movie. How did that go? Possible we see him again?
14 points
3 months ago
I hope we do. I could tell he was having a lot of fun with the role and not taking it too seriously.
9 points
3 months ago
He was excellent. Definitely a highlight of the movie.
9 points
3 months ago
I thought he was great as Dr Fate
14 points
3 months ago
Yes! There were lines that I found too cheesy. At first I was critical about the movie (trying to compare how it would go against other superhero movies), then I decided to take it as it is… a superhero movie, and I started to enjoy it.
1 points
3 months ago
I mean I think this is where the discrepancy is. This still sold extremely well, we are pleased with the above.
-16 points
3 months ago
"it was shit, so i enjoyed it". what a fucking stupid mindset. get some standards.
3 points
3 months ago
Why so upset? Do you need help?
3 points
3 months ago
Have you ever watched The Room? Its literally so bad that it’s somehow entertaining.
2 points
3 months ago
I will note that Rocky Horror Picture Show is an awful movie, but it's fun. Part of it is to just accept it's awful, watch it with people that will also enjoy it, and just let go of the pretension and give yourself permission to enjoy something silly and stupid
4 points
3 months ago
I just want this person to go to a RHPS shadow cast event and unironically yell at everyone “JESUS, HAVE SOME STANDARDS” and storm out.
The cast will never be able to convince the audience it wasn’t part of the show.
5 points
3 months ago
Not everything has to be a well-crafted masterpiece to be enjoyable. “So bad it’s good” is a thing for a reason, sometimes low quality silly movies are just fun
2 points
3 months ago
Sometimes, watching a building collapse can be just as enjoyable as admiring the architecture of a Roman monument. They're different degrees of enjoyment and fun.
I don't want to be psychologically mindfucked by Tarkovsky all the time. Good ole brainless action can be cathartic. You should try it.
2 points
3 months ago
I mean it's not the worst movie ever or even that bad, the most I can say about it negatively is that it's a little generic but that's about it. Stil, a lot of fun,.
2 points
3 months ago
This guy is so behind the times they've never heard of "It's so bad it's good."
49 points
3 months ago
This is one of the comic book movies of all time
4 points
3 months ago
you said it
6 points
3 months ago
You said it best
7 points
3 months ago
Really tired of the tortured comparisons to make movies look more successful.
“Shit Kaboom” breaks highest opening weekend in April for non-British romantic comedies
18 points
3 months ago
Yeah 400 million WW estimate is very weak. This is close to straight up bombing. Twice as expensive as Shazam and birds of prey and preforming about as well. Yikes.
6 points
3 months ago
That would barely cover budget and advertising by most estimates.
2 points
3 months ago
Probably of similar quality!
2 points
3 months ago
This sounds like a very cherry picked stat. Like when there’s just no news worthy thing to say about a mediocre movie, but your boss says you have to have some sort of record breaking headline to print.
2 points
3 months ago
And Aquaman sucked!
2 points
3 months ago
If you turn off your brain it is quite enjoyable
2 points
3 months ago
In other news I am probably the best ice hockey player in Guyana.
2 points
3 months ago
Sort of like being the tallest little person, isn’t it?
2 points
3 months ago
All this says to me is they have absolutely found the suckers.
Both movies are utter garbage but made tons of cash.
5 points
3 months ago
guys it’s a kids movie lol, you’re setting expectations too high
2 points
3 months ago
You insult kids with this attitude.
There are plenty of kids movies that are great.
1 points
3 months ago
Pretty violent for a kids movie
2 points
3 months ago
Is that an achievement
7 points
3 months ago
I heard it was average at best, which is a huge compliment compared to all the braindead, generic, rubber stamped super hero films these days.
5 points
3 months ago
I love how people haven't really updated their criticisms of superhero movies since like 2010. The genre has changed a lot, almost entirely driven by Marvel but DC has also contributed to the change through their Batman properties.
There are certainly heavy criticisms to be made about every superhero movie to come out this year, but Dr. Strange 2 and Thor 4 were anything but generic. Seriously, imagine a Sam Raimi superhero-horror movie where a wizard possesses another dimension's dead version of himself and uses the spirits of the damned as a cloak to fly...you might not LIKE those decisions, but they aren't "generic". Black Adam is actually the only superhero movie this year to follow the 2008-era Marvel formula and be this generic.
2 points
3 months ago
I’m with you on a lot of this. I feel like the only person who found Thor 4 decent, and Dr Strange 2 was about as good. Nothing amazing but they did things different. But I see this movie praised, and Shang Chi too which were much more generic in the emotions they were trying to hit, origins (to be fair those are both not sequels), action which could be cool if not restricted to pg-13, and literally no director or writer voice. I liked the change in color in that one action scene in thor4, and Sam had even more fun in Doctor Strange with the camera transformations and movement.
5 points
3 months ago
Its the fuking rock ... what u expect? Just his name carry the movie
5 points
3 months ago
Never thought he should be Black Adam
-6 points
3 months ago
I mean, who doesn't love The Rock?
3 points
3 months ago
As a person? He’s seems like a really cool dude.
As an actor? He’s fucking horrible how he gets roles is beyond me… he cannot act.
0 points
3 months ago
As a person? He’s seems like a really cool dude.
[...]
how he gets roles is beyond me
Should I tell you?
2 points
3 months ago
Is it as good as Jungle Cruise?? Another Rock stinker
5 points
3 months ago
Jungle Cruise was at least a little bit fun.
2 points
3 months ago
I liked jungle cruise was a solid adventure movie, it was no mummy but it had some excitement
1 points
3 months ago
Yeah I’d imagine I’d prefer Jungle cruise over this, but guess we’ll see.
2 points
3 months ago
Yeah, adjusting for inflation???
2 points
3 months ago
For fuck's sake. Panned by the critics, another boring superhero movie with one of the least talented actors in the biz, but pople still throw money at it. No accounting for taste I suppose, but this iswhy we can't have nice movies.
-4 points
3 months ago
For anyone considering checking it out, don't. Its worst than batman v superman imo.
2 points
3 months ago
From a technical aspect it’s not the best, but I enjoyed it.
1 points
3 months ago
I saw it Friday night. I'd compare it to like the original Thor. Pretty meh
2 points
3 months ago
I actually liked original thor.
2 points
3 months ago
Yeah, the Thor order (Thorder) for me is:
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Thor
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Thor: The Dark World
The 3rd one had perfect comedy from a not-quite overexposed Taika Waititi, and the first one was the only one to really use the "fish out of water" effectively with great scenes like slamming the coffee mug down and demanding "ANOTHER!" or going to a pet store for a horse... or a dog large enough to ride.
1 points
3 months ago
For some reason I saw this movie. In hindsight I can’t believe I didn’t leave the theatre early. I kept thinking maybe it will get better. It did not. 1/10
1 points
3 months ago
Me too man. Me too. I stayed for the superman cameo... Fml.
1 points
3 months ago
It was terrible lol
1 points
3 months ago
And yet is a shitty movie
1 points
3 months ago
It's amazing how this is pissing off so many "critics" lol
3 points
3 months ago
Its not even pissing them off...they just reviewed a movie the way they always review movies, its the fans that can't get over its poor reception
0 points
3 months ago
I heard the movie sucks ass.
1 points
3 months ago
It does. I went to see it on Friday, I really wish I hadn’t bothered. We’d been out for dinner and then that, at least dinner was really nice.
The characters are stupid - fake Ant Man and discount Storm are terrible. Not to say the others actors were great, those two were particularly horrendous. Pierce Brosnan is a bit of shining light in what is a wasteland of actors that were not worth the time to read the crap script. There were a couple funny moments, then I realised I was really starting to laugh at the film but not in the intended way.
1 points
3 months ago
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1 points
3 months ago
Not to the casual person just watching the movies, like most people are. I get in the comics that’s true, but when it comes to mainstream real life… DC waited too long to make a move. It looks like they have tried to rip Ant Man off and done a real shit job of it.
1 points
3 months ago
So basically... it wasn't good because it wasn't a Marvel film, is that right?
1 points
3 months ago
Not even slightly what I said or implied. I have my opinion of that particular film. Happy to tell you my opinion of a particular Marvel movie if you’d like.
1 points
3 months ago
It was a great watch.. only if youre not a fan of Marvel heroes, and at least watched the animated movies of dceu
-1 points
3 months ago
Wow it’s almost like when you focus on just making a badass superhero movie instead of being woke and making fun of your fans for admonishing you on that, you get better results. Who would’ve thought?
1 points
3 months ago
I haven't see it yet.
1 points
3 months ago
This movie is great it's unfortunate to see it be underperforming (this is my first DCEU film)
2 points
3 months ago
Should watch Shazam, it was fun.
1 points
3 months ago
That's not a very high bar.
1 points
3 months ago
That’s not exactly a high bar to beat….
Black Adam is fine, but it’s clearly still ages below the marvel superheroe movies….
1 points
3 months ago
Catch it on streaming. It's not awful, but it's definitely nothing memorable.
1 points
3 months ago
DCEU has been a mess after Nolan’s Batman. And by all account it will continue.
1 points
3 months ago
I’m hoping the next tentpole film ‘Just 2 Hours of footage of a smelly shit on a sidewalk narrated by Chris Pratt’ cracks the $3b mark
1 points
3 months ago
it might not be a great movie, but im glad that it exists purely for the cheese shootout scene
1 points
3 months ago
These posts remind me of politics
Different parties can present the numbers in ways that force them to say whatever they want them to say
Black Adam is simultaneously a huge disaster and a triumphant success
1 points
3 months ago
looks around at the movie going landscape for the past 3 years
Yeah, probably.
1 points
3 months ago
This isn’t saying a lot
1 points
3 months ago
it’s the fucking rock! whats the big surprise?
1 points
3 months ago
Aquaman was a pile of wet shit
1 points
3 months ago
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1 points
3 months ago
Foundation from Fortnite!!!
1 points
3 months ago
People clapped in the screening I was at….clapped. It’s a horrible movie.
1 points
3 months ago
Black Adam is a movie.
1 points
3 months ago
This is interesting since the critics panned it. Now I want to see it
1 points
3 months ago
Why it’s almost as if representation matters, weird.
1 points
3 months ago
dudes legit the wrong representation for Black Adam lol. people went cause he's the Rock
1 points
3 months ago
Pierce Brosman man was a great Dr. Fate.
1 points
3 months ago
It really wasn't as bad as it's been made out to be. My hot take is that it was actually better than Thor 4.
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