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The Big Picture

‘Black Adam’: The Worst Movie of the Decade?

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The hierarchy of power has changed and Sean is depressed about it. Charles Holmes and Rob Mahoney join Sean to talk about ‘Black Adam,’ the no. 1 movie at the box office, the latest installment in the DCEU, and yet another Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson action vehicle. Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Charles Holmes and Rob Mahoney Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo, this is Rob Harvilla from 60 Solls that explain the 90s, the world's greatest loopy and perverse and inaccurately named Music Nostalgia Podcast.

0:09.0

We're doing 90 Solls now because there's too many songs, Pearl Jam, Jay Z, Jewel, You Too, Cher, Hoody.

0:16.0

These are just some of the names people yell at me on the internet because we're back.

0:20.0

More great songs, more rad special guests, more loopy perversity.

0:24.0

Join us once more on 60 Solls that explain the 90s every Wednesday on Spotify.

0:37.0

I'm Sean Finnecy and this is the big picture, a conversation show about Black Adam.

0:42.0

And let me tell you, it is certainly a movie. There are actors and lights and digital effects.

0:48.0

There I think was a script credits in the movie, logos, whoo, definitely a movie.

0:54.0

Joining me today to talk about the number one movie at the box office and the latest installment in the DCEU, Midnight Boy Charles Holmes, NBA, Extraordinaire Rob Mahoney.

1:02.0

What's up guys?

1:03.0

Sean, are you ready for the hierarchy of podcasts to change on this podcast?

1:10.0

Yeah, I don't think anything is changing, but we're going to get into that.

1:15.0

So Black Adam is a movie that I would say I was not anticipating, but it certainly feels like it's relevant to the movie atmosphere right now.

1:23.0

In part, not just because it's the number one movie in the country, but because I think it is a totem of everything that has been happening in the biz for the last 10 years.

1:34.0

And so I wanted to talk to you guys about it in part because the three of us had a conversation after the release of Thor 11 Thunder, very funny episode in which we talked about maybe what was going wrong with the movie.

1:44.0

And that's going wrong with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

1:47.0

And that seems like a simpler time.

1:52.0

It seems like a time when maybe maybe we underrated Love and Thunder relative to this movie.

1:58.0

So Black Adam, just as a point of context before we get into our chat, some movies directed by young Collette Sarah, but more specifically it's produced by Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

2:06.0

Passion project of his for many years. Black Adam is a is a long time DC kind of villain slash anti hero.

2:14.0

He's an Egyptian character. He's an ancient predecessor of Captain Marvel.

2:18.0

We saw Captain Marvel in the Shazam film a few years ago.

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