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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8807717" data-attributes="member: 5889"><p>I echo most of this. Honestly I was pretty happy with it overall, I think its now a top tier DC movie, and probably an above average for Marvel.</p><p></p><p>The fight scenes were cool, I really like what they did with Dr Fate (my favorite character in the movie, I thought Pierce Brosnan did a solid job with him). Hawkman's suit looked really cool, Cyclone's powers looked amazing. I felt like were able to give us just enough backstory on our JSA members to care but then returned the focus to Black Adam. I think the Rock did a fine job of focusing on physical acting, only speaking when it really made sense to. The humor was decent, a few things fell flat but overall most of the jokes worked for me.</p><p></p><p>All in all I am more in the audience score for this movie (90%) than the critic score (40%). I do of course have some issues:</p><p></p><p>[Spoiler]</p><p>The fact that Hawkman (and then SUPERMAN of all people) are working with Waller. That just doesn't make sense. Now in Hawkman's case, if they had made it a bit more antagonistic, I could have bought it. Hawkman hates waller, but sometimes she has intel he needs. But they don't, it just seems like they have a straight up working relationship. Considering how black and white Hawkman is the entire movie about heroes and villains, this is a very strange paradox. And then.... Superman is working with Waller!!!!! Come ON, no way.</p><p></p><p>Cyclone has a genius IQ which is never used in the movie. That's really noticeable when at the end the villain drops his invincible shield right as he tries to shoot the kid. Eventually we learned why, so it makes sense for him to do that....but no one on the hero side questions it....especially the girl with the 169 or so IQ. Honestly she was a fine character without that, they could have just made her bright without being a super genius, and then that gap wouldn't have been as obvious.</p><p></p><p>I think the kid is a bit much. He's fine in small doses, but sometimes they just run with him too much and he starts to get annoying. I thought the mom was solid, I liked her throughout.</p><p></p><p>People are going to argue that Dr Fate "wasn't nearly powerful enough", but it did the job for me. He was one of the few that actually hurt both Black Adam and the bad guy. The more important part was getting out Fate's enigmatic nature, and the "man in two worlds" kind of feeling, and I think they got that pretty well.</p><p>[/Spoiler]</p><p></p><p>So yeah all in all was pretty happy with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 8807717, member: 5889"] I echo most of this. Honestly I was pretty happy with it overall, I think its now a top tier DC movie, and probably an above average for Marvel. The fight scenes were cool, I really like what they did with Dr Fate (my favorite character in the movie, I thought Pierce Brosnan did a solid job with him). Hawkman's suit looked really cool, Cyclone's powers looked amazing. I felt like were able to give us just enough backstory on our JSA members to care but then returned the focus to Black Adam. I think the Rock did a fine job of focusing on physical acting, only speaking when it really made sense to. The humor was decent, a few things fell flat but overall most of the jokes worked for me. All in all I am more in the audience score for this movie (90%) than the critic score (40%). I do of course have some issues: [Spoiler] The fact that Hawkman (and then SUPERMAN of all people) are working with Waller. That just doesn't make sense. Now in Hawkman's case, if they had made it a bit more antagonistic, I could have bought it. Hawkman hates waller, but sometimes she has intel he needs. But they don't, it just seems like they have a straight up working relationship. Considering how black and white Hawkman is the entire movie about heroes and villains, this is a very strange paradox. And then.... Superman is working with Waller!!!!! Come ON, no way. Cyclone has a genius IQ which is never used in the movie. That's really noticeable when at the end the villain drops his invincible shield right as he tries to shoot the kid. Eventually we learned why, so it makes sense for him to do that....but no one on the hero side questions it....especially the girl with the 169 or so IQ. Honestly she was a fine character without that, they could have just made her bright without being a super genius, and then that gap wouldn't have been as obvious. I think the kid is a bit much. He's fine in small doses, but sometimes they just run with him too much and he starts to get annoying. I thought the mom was solid, I liked her throughout. People are going to argue that Dr Fate "wasn't nearly powerful enough", but it did the job for me. He was one of the few that actually hurt both Black Adam and the bad guy. The more important part was getting out Fate's enigmatic nature, and the "man in two worlds" kind of feeling, and I think they got that pretty well. [/Spoiler] So yeah all in all was pretty happy with it. [/QUOTE]
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