10 Exact Moments Recent Movies Lost Us
5. Amon's Skateboarding - Black Adam
Black Adam is a perfectly beige, vanilla superhero movie that was largely forgotten about in record time. It's a film that feels like it tripped and fell into 2022 straight out of the early 2000s, right down to the inclusion of an annoying kid on a skateboard.
After an expository opening sequence, we're forced to watch the movie's human protagonist, teenager Amon Tomaz (Bodhi Sabongui), skating around the city of Kahndaq for what feels like forever.
It immediately assured audiences that Black Adam was going to be one of those movies, where a kid is pointlessly shoehorned into the action wherever possible to make younger viewers feel more connected to what's going on, or something?
Either way, within hours of the film's release, social media filled up with posts complaining about the "Bart Simpson-esque skateboarding kid," whose flagrantly uncool presence killed the otherwise promising vibe of Dwayne Johnson playing a wildly over-powered anti-hero.