Yeah, the reasons The Rock got so big in wrestling were:

Why would they continue it? Leadership aside, the movie didn’t make money. They’re not gonna spend another $200 million on Black Adam 2 when no one showed up to see Black Adam 1.

but his whole “I can’t ever contractually lose a fight, I must always be the biggest badass in the film”

Dude buys too much into his own hype. Definitely needs to learn how to take an L.

It’s always seemed odd to me that The Rock is basically this huge blockbuster action movie star without a star character or franchise. The other big stars like that have at least one iconic role - Bruce Willis as John McClane, Stallone as Rocky and Rambo, Arnold as the Terminator. It’s like Dwayne Johnson has this…

That’s why his ego about this is so funny to me. He makes okay movies that make okay money. As much as he wants to believe that he saved the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five made a metric fuckton of money because it was a legitimately fun heist movie, not because The Rock showed up to awkwardly call Gina…

I mean, he doesn’t even have to apologize if he’d just accept that - for the moment - he’s basically at the Dolph Lundgren/Jason Statham etc. level. He’s good enough to carry a film as long as the film is suited to his skills, but even then don’t expect billion plus box office without something truly special behind…

I don’t think The Rock has ever been this embarrassed by something before.

He’s one of those side characters that people like to see hang around because he’s no longer quite a Villain™, but definitely not one of the Good Guys™. His most successful comic runs are always the ones where he’s learning to work within the actual Good Guy framework and struggling/bristling against it. Never has…

It was a bad movie and he was bad in it.

Yeah. And at this point it’s kinda like... where IS his really huge, defining movie?

He’s basically Schwarzenegger but without the same sense of savvy to back up the ego.

I’m sorry Dwayne, but take the L on this one.  This movie should’ve never been greenlit, they should’ve never caved to you throwing your weight around to prevent Black Adam from being attached to ANY project with Shazam.  Black Adam is not an “anti hero”, and no we weren’t interested in seeing a phase 2 of the DCEU…

Eh, San Andreas, Rampage, Central Intelligence, all movies that were... eh, OK. All movies that made eh, OK money. The failures tend to be things like Doom that ALMOST squeak by.

Technically, he’s not wrong. New management is to blame for no more Black Adam movies.

“The final straw appears to have been a petition signed by 25 members of the show’s cast, who alleged that Alarr exhibited inappropriate behavior and fostered a toxic workplace environment on the set of the Peacock soap opera, calling for him to be replaced with a female director”

“It’s like new ownership coming in and buying an NFL team going, ‘Alright. Not my head coach. Not my quarterback. Doesn’t matter how many times we won the Super Bowl. Doesn’t matter how many rings we got. I’m going with somebody else.’”

For a variety of issues, Black Adam was garbage all around, Johnson included. Only Brosnan was decent in it. Often times, good films flop, but this was hardly the case.

Did I make a flop?  No, its the executives who are wrong.

The Henry Cavill cameo at the end of the film really confirmed some thoughts about Dwayne Johnson for me. He’s an A-lister but he thinks in terms of B-movies. He wants the audience to go ‘woh, Superman’s there!’ but there’s no plans going on outside of that shock. Like a big explosion or a cool one-liner, it’s about…