Jay Virtual
Super Freak
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I the late 90's I was obsessed with The Rock, had posters of him on my wall and would just consume anything with his name on it and when he slowly became a Hollywood star, I was over the moon. "Now the world can witness the greatness that I've been experiencing for years!" was what I thought in the early 2000's.
But slowly and surely, I kinda lost interest when a) his movies were all kinda generic and bland and b) he kinda became too big for his own good (I don't mean physically). I noticed that with Black Adam he kinda appoints himself as the person that will head the DC movies, or at least that's the impression I got from the marketing and constant "hierarchy of power" crap. To me it kinda feels like he's treating superheroes-- characters that are supposed to me virtuous and inspiring, as some kind of wrestling promo hence his incessant need to bring Cavil back. It felt like he doesn't really care about Superman, he just wants to have a made up fight with him to show how tough he is.
I totally lost respect for him when I read an article stating that he has a clause in his contracts specifically prohibiting him from looking weak, losing or taking too many hits which is honestly straight up laughable. I dunno, as a teen growing up I might think that's an awesome deal but as I grew older I always thought that a real man is measured not by how many punches he can throw, but rather how many he can take.
https://www.gqindia.com/entertainme...that-stipulate-they-cant-lose-in-fight-scenes
But slowly and surely, I kinda lost interest when a) his movies were all kinda generic and bland and b) he kinda became too big for his own good (I don't mean physically). I noticed that with Black Adam he kinda appoints himself as the person that will head the DC movies, or at least that's the impression I got from the marketing and constant "hierarchy of power" crap. To me it kinda feels like he's treating superheroes-- characters that are supposed to me virtuous and inspiring, as some kind of wrestling promo hence his incessant need to bring Cavil back. It felt like he doesn't really care about Superman, he just wants to have a made up fight with him to show how tough he is.
I totally lost respect for him when I read an article stating that he has a clause in his contracts specifically prohibiting him from looking weak, losing or taking too many hits which is honestly straight up laughable. I dunno, as a teen growing up I might think that's an awesome deal but as I grew older I always thought that a real man is measured not by how many punches he can throw, but rather how many he can take.
https://www.gqindia.com/entertainme...that-stipulate-they-cant-lose-in-fight-scenes