>It was fine, yes derivative, but it was fucking fine.
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>Maybe we've just collectively reached our limit with DJ.
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>IDK

It was completely fine, but there was absolutely nothing memorable about it. I mean BA went from being aloof to picking up on social cues way too quickly then referring to himself by the cliche moniker. It was like the marketing campaign within the movie itself.

It had decent bones to work with, but brought in two useless characters and only scratched the surface of the complexities it touched on regarding heroes and their responsibility.


Wakanda and The Batman just had so much more care and deliberation into their processes. BA could have spent more time telling the story and making folks care more about the characters than just setting up a showdown with Superman.

Frank stays right on this analysis about DJ's inability to deliver a great performance in a movie. He is a shit talker, ball buster, irreverent, and charismatic as all get out but that NEVER shows up except for in his "bio" show Young Rock. He is definitely locked in on BRAND over everything. He's too busy tryna make his tequila take him to a billy to worry about bringing gravitas to a movie role. Makes me wonder what his real beef with Vin Diesel was about.

He was good in Ballers, but that character had some complexity and some glaring flaws, not just a good guy hero. Movie wise, he'd do well in some Arnold franchises (thinking Terminator but there's been 200 of them).