If you’ve been here long enough you may be wondering why I’m making a bigger deal about the debut of G.I. Joe: The Movie in theaters thanks to Fathom Events when I didn’t do likewise for Transformers: The Movie finally returning, also thanks to Fathom Events, earlier this year. After all I’m more into our favorite robots in disguise than our favorite special mission force. With the first showing tomorrow night and the other Saturday afternoon (check your area for actual times and locations–some theaters here in the Connecticut area are only showing it once) it will be the first time the movie is getting a national theatrical release, though I’m sure some smalltime theater somewhere may have shown it at one point. That’s how I saw The NeverEnding Story in theaters during a ConnectiCon. When the aforementioned Transformers movie as well as one based on the My Little Pony show of the 1980s didn’t do well in the box office Hasbro and Sunbow sent it directly to home video in the hopes of at least recouping losses they didn’t think they could in a theatrical release.
However, that’s not the only significance of this movie versus the Cybertronians. There are a lot of things that in hindsight makes this movie important for 1980s kids. I’m not usually into war stories but the show had enough sci-fi elements (including a character named Sci-Fi) that I was on board for it. Looking back this past month at the various Saturday Night Showcase lead-ups I’ve picked up on something else that makes this more significant than the movie based on my favorite fictional franchise. Note that I’m kind of tired today so sorry if this reads more like a ramble.
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BW Vs. ScreenRant: Black Adam Is A SuperVILLAIN!
There are times I’m convinced some contributors make up odd notions to troll people or out of some strange “I’m making you think” reasoning. Yes, sometimes this is MatPat but not today. For one thing this makes less sense that some of his odder story theories.
When you title your article “Black Adam’s Cannibalism Proves He Can Be DC’s Ultimate Hero” you’re telling me “please tell me what a moron I am”. I can’t promise that will be my harshest comment but I’ll try. Thanks to this Bounding Into Comics post I learned of an commentary on ScreenRant that came from someone who is just shilling for The Rock’s questionable take on Black Adam. Dwayne Johnson has been tied to play Black Adam almost from the first time any kind of Captain Marvel/Shazam movie was considered. Now they don’t want him to be a villain, as the character was created to be, they want him to be an “antihero” or even a full-fledged superhero. Sorry, ScreenRant contributor Todd Petrella, but you do not make a good case when you invoke cannibalism.
Black Adam first appeared in The Marvel Family #1, which would also be his last appearance under original publisher Fawcett Comics. Basically he died at the end. DC would have Doctor Silvana resurrect him after “Earth-S” moved to the DC multiverse…where he again dies, but got to live longer than half a comic. He also appeared in the original Shazam cartoon as part of the Kids Super Power Hour on NBC Saturday Mornings and most recently appeared in Justice League Action. In all of these incarnations he was a supervillain, the opposite number to Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. (Kiss off, Marvel Comics and give Billy back his name. Even Carol Danvers isn’t making it work for you.) For whatever reason DiDio’s brigade had they decided to turn Teth-Adam into Doctor Doom, making him ruler of an Egyptian nation, and ruining one of Filmation’s other superheroes in a way that would only be surpassed by a real world terror group. ScreenRant wants to make him a hero because we can’t hate The Rock or something. (It’s not like he didn’t play a villain before, you know. The Rock used to go by Rocky Maivia before joining and taking over extremist wrestling faction the Nation Of Domination, which is when he became “The Rock”. Then again they’d probably consider the Nation Of Domination heroes too.) This is not how you do it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 21, 2022 in DC Spotlight and tagged Black Adam, BW versus, commentary, Screen Actors Guild, Superman.
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