- Some of the scene feeling of "Black Adam" is from "Avengers 3: Infinity War", "X-Men" and so on.
Both Black Adam and X-Men: Reverse the Future feature eye-catching slow motion footage of the protagonist taking out their opponents.
Yes, The Flash and other heroes gave us slow motion in superhero movies to show what the world looks like in their eyes, but X-Men: Reverse the Future sets the benchmark for slow-motion heroic scenes.
In the 2014 movie, Quicksilver hilarly puts on headphones and darlops through a Pentagon room to rescue young Magneto, Charles Xavier, and Wolverine from a hail of bullets.
In less than two minutes, the meteor hammer gently blasts out each bullet and amuses themselves by having security guards beat each other or knock themselves out. When he finished his stunt and time returned to normal, everyone immediately fell to the ground.
This is not only the best scene in the film, but also one of the most wonderful scenes in all superhero movies.
So it's a bit tiring to see that one of the best scenes in Black Adam also takes a similar slow motion, but is more of a show-off of the villain. At the beginning of the film, the villain hero has the opportunity to show off how fast his movements are in slow motion to the melody of Paint It Black.
Instead of simply using his force to confront some mercenary villains, he deliberately used these abilities to kill his opponents. He even put a grenade in the mouth of one of them. When the slow motion is finished, we see some mercenaries killed.
While overall pleasant, it's even cooler if this scene isn't like a remake of an X-Men movie, but it's better done.
The Justice Society of America's ship leaving Hawkman's estate feels like a replica of the X-Men franchise from X-Men leaving Xavier's school of gifted teenagers.
A scene from the Black Adam trailer shows Hawkman's ship rising from the ground of his Louisiana estate. It's reminiscent of the X-Rayers taking off from Xavier's school.
Black Adam tried to subtly deliver a message about U.S. interference in another country's politics, but Task Force X: All Assembled did a better job of that last year.
Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) sends a death squad to stop a powerful organization that threatens to destroy the world.
This phrase can describe Black Adam or James Gunn's Task Force X: All Rally.
In this 2021 film by Gunn, the exact same character, Waller, sends a different group – the aforementioned death squad – to the South American country to privately protect American interests under the guise of saving the world.
In Black Adam, the Justice Society of America is sent to the fictional city of Kandak to arrest the man Waller calls dangerous. Hawkman genuinely believes that his group is helping to maintain global stability, but those who know Waller know that she only sends other groups to interfere in global politics when the United States is in danger.
When Eagle was asked by a Kandak citizen about the places the U.S. and their superhero group have militarily occupied over the past 27 years, he began to gain a glimpse of reality. Unexpectedly, he did not respond at all and did not ask Waller about it.
This subplot is shelved as the audience is distracted by a giant CGI villain in the third act of Black Adam.
This message is even clearer in Task Force X: All Assembled, because in that film, the squad does question Waller's authority and betray her after realizing that the United States is using them for dirty work.
Black Adam's first meeting with superhero-loving kid Amon wasn't as memorable as the first meeting between Tony Stark and Peter Parker in Captain America 3: Civil War.
Both Peter and Amon had awkward first encounters with their idols in the bedroom.
The interaction between Black Adam and Amon feels like a resonance for Mr. Stark's relationship with Peter. When Tony learns of Peter's original intentions and life situation, he immediately sympathizes with him, while Black Adam does not know anything about this hero-obsessed child. Instead, he breaks down walls in the style of "The Avid Lover" and wreaks havoc on Amon's home.
The communication between Doctor Fate and Hawkman is similar to that of Doctor Strange and Tony Stark.
In Black Adam and Avengers 3: Infinity War/Avengers 4: Endgame, there is a wizard who tells the leader of the team to let him know in advance when he is about to face death.
In Avengers 3: Infinity War, after seeing more than 14 million possible outcomes for the Avengers to defeat Thanos, Doctor Strange gave the Time Gem to Thanos. Doctor Strange apologizes to Stark, vaguely saying that there is no other way, implying that they only have one chance to save the world and that it will eventually involve Stark's death.
In the next movie, Endgame, in the heroic battle with Thanos, Doctor Strange simply points his finger at Stark, signaling that this is their only chance, and Iron Man silently understands that he needs to die to save everyone. Doctor Strange never told Tony that he was going to die, it was just his underlying understanding.
In Black Adam, Dr. Fate also has the ability to see the future. Unlike Doctor Strange/Tony, Dr. Fate tells Justice Society leader Eagleman directly that he has seen his death and says, "You'll know when you say goodbye to me." "
The main difference is that Dr. Fate decides to find another solution to save his dear friend from the devil, as well as the world. And Doctor Strange, a narcissist who doesn't know Tony at all, makes Iron Man sacrifice his life to save the world.