what a terrible film
aimed at little kids, terrible cgi goblins, sjw supporting cast of diversity, just plain awful.
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You've seen it?
shareI saw it last night and enjoyed it a lot.
It has always been the case that Shazam is child and that was handled really well.
In addition, FOR ONCE the multicultural thing was handled very well. It made sense in the story, they never once TOLD US what to think about that, but rather SHOWED us a whole bunch of nice people getting along.
It's real American values that any good person is a good person first and their race, etc second. They didn't tell us what we already know, like preaching forceful PC crap, but rather showed us how good people act.
I always thought DC Comics was best at showing how good people are supposed to act as they tend to have nice characters versus angry super aggressive ones.
It was handled better than usual but my complaint is, why hide it from the trailers? Not even Hinsou is featured in the trailers. Are they trying to swerve people?
Maybe they wanted to keep the 'Marvel Family' a surprise.
Or possibly they wanted people to see it with an open mind instead of seeing the internet flipping out about the wizard being black beforehand....
Agreed I cant stand SJW's but I didnt get any PC stuff at all. I'm guessing the OP is shocked that a major metropolotan city like Philly is pretty diverse.
shareI seen it last night as well, and my complaint isnt that shazam is a child but rather the movie was directed towards children.
This is the most child made super hero film ever.
It is also very cringey at times, it is hard for me to give a full review without spoilers but this will be a big time flop its so bad.
I'm an older educated man and didn't see it directed at kids.
Kids movies, books, etc tend to be overly simplified and not very fun for adults. For instance, I have a young niece and watch kids programming with her and most of it is dumb and hard to watch, although she enjoys it, and that is fun for me. When watching this film, I didn't feel that way.
It was like Thor Ragnarok in that it had action and a plot, but was largely meant to be a comedy about Thor handling his life. Although I like serious superhero films, I had to admit Thor was funny and I've watched it several times and enjoyed the wit. Shazam was less funny but it was largely cute with some dramatic points and action.
When I read comics I enjoyed them a lot because I would imagine what the world would be like if it was all real. It would be a crazy and scary place. So, if Shazam was real it would be a very serious story about a boy trying to handle all of this stuff and you could make a very good drama about a kid handling sudden adult responsibilities. Some kids really do and it would be a good metaphor for life.
So, too bad they didn't get serious, but it wasn't a stupid movie, it was fun.
Also, I recall reading Shazam as a child, which was a LONG time ago, and didn't like the comics because they were comedies and fairly silly. So, the film stuck to the source material I recall.
Yes.
Interesting that they didn’t even include Hinsou in the trailers. They hid the wizard’s face in the trailer. The only supporting cast members were Mark Strong and the white kid. They hid the entire SJW supporting cast.
This movie sucked.
In the old comics he had the Shazam Family and I was happy to see them.
I wished The Rock would have played Black Adam though because I had no idea who Strong's character was and so there was little excitement about him. He did a good job though.
I’m not sure the Rock would ever be a good villain. I know he tried in Get Smart. I like the Rock but he doesn’t strike me as sinister enough to play good villain. Maybe Solomon Grundy.
I wanted Rock to play Shazam.
Normally, I like characters to be of the same race as the source material, but I think it would have been great there. He has what seems to be a very nice personality and that would have fit the character very well.
Ahhh, that would have been better than the villain.
Still hard to see him as an underdog.
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Not many threads needed to say how bad this movie is...
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Yes, I saw people getting vaporized in Tom & Jerry, that means that cartoon is very mature, isn't it?
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