GAM Bonus 077: Black Adam
Added 2023-01-29 00:26:06 +0000 UTCBy popular demand, we present yet another selection from the DCEU.
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I'm disappointed that comic book afficionado Eli seems to know nothing about DC's characters from the 1940s. It's like a jazz fan who's doesn't know what Preservation Hall means...
Woodsy Boredom
2025-01-25 09:14:00 +0000 UTCor he is a insane person beliving himself to be both those things
Markus Nävergård
2024-08-05 14:34:38 +0000 UTCI'm disappointed that Hawkman's origin didn't come up. It's so messy. Either he's the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian that was betrayed by evil priest because of a love triangle, or he's a Thanagarian (an slightly advanced tech warrior culture) with... "nth metal" weaponry. Those two are so similar.
Uriah Jackson
2023-06-19 03:04:36 +0000 UTC... you know Dr fate predates Dr Strange by over 20 years?
Shawne W Winter
2023-02-14 22:23:05 +0000 UTCI had to stop in the middle of the hallway at work because I was laughing so hard.
Fluidkaos
2023-02-08 03:38:51 +0000 UTCMy hubs and I watched this one. About 15 minutes in, we were calling it "Knock Off: The Movie".
Leslie Marchant
2023-02-07 13:55:51 +0000 UTCYeah, it's a low bar, but shazam is probably the best of the dc movies, especially if you exclude the ones outside of the main timeline.
potato potato also another potato
2023-02-02 00:23:38 +0000 UTCby dc standards it's decent enough, not good, but I've seen much worse. It's on hbomax iirc
potato potato also another potato
2023-02-02 00:16:41 +0000 UTC1. This was possibly the funniest episode of GAM ever, and that really is a high bar. 2. Can we please get a review of the new Top Gun?! My friend described it as "nearly 2 hours of Boomers jizzing on your face," and I have to admit I agree
Stefan
2023-02-02 00:10:15 +0000 UTCThis movie is way wackier than I expected. I might have to watch it.
Taylor
2023-01-31 23:28:56 +0000 UTCI thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and I also thoroughly enjoyed your roasting it
Ness Bivins
2023-01-31 18:24:01 +0000 UTCI swear I remember jsa being alt universe justice league…what am i thinking of?
potato potato also another potato
2023-01-31 07:37:39 +0000 UTCPretty sure they did both versions of justice league, so 6 hours! It’s a fun listen, for a lot of the same reasons as this I kept putting it off so I could watch the Snyder cut first but…mehhhhh
potato potato also another potato
2023-01-31 07:36:25 +0000 UTCWatched it last night before the episode and…by dcu standards it’s pretty good…a very low bar mind you, but all the same. Certainly better than Sony’s nonsense, morbius make black adam look like citizen Kane, but a good dc movie is still generally weaker than a bad mcu movie (with 3-ish exceptions) How dc’s animation team can be so good when their live action stuff is so bad is a mystery
potato potato also another potato
2023-01-31 07:34:09 +0000 UTCIf it hasn’t been mentioned elsewhere, task force x is suicide squad, more specifically the govt agency that runs it, so that prison and those random troops in the prison are part of Amanda walker’s crew (the lady hawk man is taking to when you first see him). Likewise the blond lady who takes custody of the rock is (I think) a specific character from her crew that has appeared in other stuff
potato potato also another potato
2023-01-31 07:30:42 +0000 UTCI was thinking I’d heard that somewhere, that Shazam felt like a Superman ripoff because he IS a Superman ripoff that dc just bought the rights to and incorporated into their own mythos
potato potato also another potato
2023-01-31 07:27:35 +0000 UTCIt was meh. Not remotely worth the hype. But it was mildly entertaining.
Mark H
2023-01-30 19:58:38 +0000 UTC"X characters predate MCU analogues!" Yep, but MCU did it well. Yell at DC for making bad choices.
Denise Huston
2023-01-30 14:55:25 +0000 UTCEvery single time they do a DCU film, the comments are all just, "OKAY BUT...!" from DC apologists. Guys. Nobody cares about canon accuracy in the bonus episodes of an atheist movie review podcast. Save it for Letterboxed.
Denise Huston
2023-01-30 14:48:40 +0000 UTCEli dying over Captain Fate taking a shit in the Times Square Toys R' Us and it's callbacks helped cover up the fact that HawkMAN proceeded Marvel's Hawk by almost 30 years...And the JSA was around before the Justice League... Dare I go back and listen to the Justice League review? I skipped it with the intention of eventually watching the movie buuuuut it's 4 hours, so yeah I'll probably pass.
Look over there!
2023-01-30 13:58:53 +0000 UTCHow badly do they explain the origins and plot of this film? So bad that my 14 year old and her friends went and watched it, then walked out pissed because they thought it was a reboot/ripoff of Shazam.
B. King
2023-01-30 02:44:05 +0000 UTC“…how bad was this movie?” “Well… we’re going to use the names from the movie, as humor, and it’ll work.”
Robin - Books That Burn
2023-01-30 00:12:12 +0000 UTCSomehow, the guys actually using most of the characters’ real names and the actual terms for the macguffins sounds even more ridiculous than their usual route of giving everyone ridiculous/pithy nicknames.
Robin - Books That Burn
2023-01-30 00:10:28 +0000 UTCKnowing nothing about this movie, I spent the whole time picturing one of those ensemble heroes as a very jewish Fuckable Meat Cyberpunk Guy and that was entertaining
Spacesuit Spiff
2023-01-29 23:53:22 +0000 UTCMy wife and I were roasting this one in the theater and that's the only thing that kept us there. We weren't bothering anyone because we had the place to ourselves.
Neptune
2023-01-29 18:02:17 +0000 UTCI watched half of this movie on Christmas, and it was so stupid I felt dumber for having seen even part of it. Ugh. What a waste of resources.
Annika Peterson
2023-01-29 16:40:36 +0000 UTCJust saying, Stargirl boosted JSA's image in the public. The average person might actually know what that is. Not that this movie does anything with that.
Danial Gibson
2023-01-29 16:33:28 +0000 UTCThis movie was so painfully stupid. The only reason I watched to the end was my hopeless infatuation with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Henry Cavill.
TenaciousB
2023-01-29 07:58:58 +0000 UTCDid anyone else notice the score of the movie seemed to be MOCKING the characters?
Mockingbird Nation
2023-01-29 06:10:37 +0000 UTCIt’s worth noting that Shazam (the original) did quite well. 7.0 on IMDB and grossed $140m US and $360m worldwide.
Square root of negative one
2023-01-29 06:07:24 +0000 UTCI mean... I'm not a nerd who pays attention to super hero media at all, but I knew about Hawkman from the Justice League cartoon, at least.
Markus D
2023-01-29 05:16:30 +0000 UTCI'm so disappointed in you guys. You call yourself fans of terrible movies, but think that gruesome violence doesn't share a border with comedy? The ludicrous violence in this is *hilarious,* and intentionally so (probably)! AND nobody mentioned Aldis Hodge was Hawkman??? C'mon, guys!
tsukiouji
2023-01-29 04:39:02 +0000 UTCHawkmansplaning is an incredible joke
Kevin C
2023-01-29 02:45:19 +0000 UTCIt wouldn't have saved the movie but they should have kept Oded Fehr as Dr Fate
Buoyant Citrus
2023-01-29 02:43:14 +0000 UTCIn case you guy's see this Captain marvel (Shazam) was a ripoff of superman by a company called Fawcett comics with black adam being his evil rival and predecessor, hes was pretty popular in the 40's but the parent company had money troubles and got sued by DC's predecessor National comics for copying aspects of superman in concept and design, eventually the rights got sold to a different company and when that company folded got sold to DC but during that brief window in time between acquisition Marvel made a character named Captain Marvel to fuck with DC so if they wanted to use the character they couldn't sell the books under his name they got around this by sell the books as The Power's of Shazam leading to decades of confusion over if his named was Captain marvel or Shazam
Kevin C
2023-01-29 02:24:31 +0000 UTCI suppose I have an excuse to watch Black Adam now...oh and gentlemen if you read this. Fairly new patron, I'm going through the catalog and I've absolutely burst out laughing in public spaces multiple times. Thank you for that, it's much appreciated.
VK
2023-01-29 01:46:10 +0000 UTCThere are times when I'm sure Eli hides his nerd power level for the sake of the podcast. And sure, he protects his livelihood.
The Cassiopeia Quinn Team
2023-01-29 01:11:38 +0000 UTCI'm surprised Eli didn't bring up that almost all the JSA characters predate Marvel. Many by decades.
Damion Damaske
2023-01-29 01:06:01 +0000 UTCDr. Fate came first, I'm just going to say that. And the Justice Society is literally what the League used to be called. Hawkman isn't that much of a unknown... Am I just a nerd?
Krostos
2023-01-29 01:04:33 +0000 UTCThe action movie so bland I got bored midway through and built with LEGOs instead!
Jeb Dale
2023-01-29 00:33:05 +0000 UTCYAAAAAAAASSSSSSS. This movie was so MEDIOCRE! *edit: a testament to this film would be I did, in fact, fall asleep while listening to this episode. Oops.
CarrieBoo
2023-01-29 00:28:16 +0000 UTCWhat is … Black Adam ?
Ed “Short Arms” Marcus
2023-01-29 00:27:58 +0000 UTC
