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That is probably targeted at you.
I avoid all political news nowadays and my ad is for Amazon Prime.
I will typically see the superhero movies that come out.
1. I am older and dreamed of seeing these as movies, so they're a must see.
2. They actually have a plot that is "epic" in nature and so I want to see where it's going.
3. They have characters that actually have defined personalities and the actors have to play the part, not just be themselves in the movie.
4. They are generally high quality films.
My favorite films come from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, with some in the 60s being okay. Back then, they would have actual writers making them and so they tended to have plot and characters. So, they were predictable formula films.
It's my belief that modern American films are largely created by the relatives, etc of the jewish people that run the industry. So, you get a bunch of regular dudes in a room and they basically make the same kind of movies over and over.
I can't even think of the last complex social, crime, etc film that I've seen. There is nothing fresh and no interesting genre other than superhero movies, which are just good, not great, and don't have much mystery or depth to them.
Nepotism ruined film in my opinion.
I didn't really notice that, but it's stupid.
No, women like feeling sorry for others because it makes them feel powerful.
It's the basis for codependence which women are famous for. That's where you pretend you don't like seeing people disabled, in some way, but really you want them to stay that way so you can shine as a helper.
Superheroes are popular because men feel sorry for other people and want to solve problems and make things better. That is a positive motivation.
Bond isn't supposed to be a nice person.
He's a cold blooded assassin and killer.
He doesn't care what happens to people he doesn't like and that he doesn't see as innocent.
Childish.
And likely impossible as I am extremely old and have my doctorate in everything.
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.
How was that film?
I thought Bone Tomahawk wasn't that great.
The gore scene was very unrealistic and borderline bizarre. Same in this film with the mother getting her hands blow off then head. Kinda for no reason.
Was Brawl about the same?
I was at the movies, seeing something else, and observed this movie exiting. It was all young women crying.
This stuff is a kind of porn for women who enjoy watching suffering and find it sexy/romantic, etc. Most such girls wouldn't get into a relationship with a person who didn't have advantages and things to give them, much like most guys wouldn't bring a porn star home to meet mom, although they would watch porn all day long.
Long story short, this is a form of female focused suffering porn.
You're both lying because you probably do nothing important and yet can't enjoy yourselves because you place too much value on pop culture things that don't matter much.
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 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.
The only thing I didn't like was the extremely repeated idea of going for a lot of money and ending up with nothing.
I have seen that in Bogart movies from the 40s up until right now. It's a movie message repeated over and over to an insane degree. Like when I'm watching one of these films I'm in disbelief when it seems like everyone will die or all the money will be lost.
In a Netflix Ben Afflect movie something Frontier the same thing happens. An important character dies, all money is lost, then his widow gets a bit of the money. Same thing in this film.
I don't even know how that's possible.
She is a beautiful girl who got her perfect breasts cut off.
I assume she is mentally ill, was abused, raped by Hollywood people, etc and hates herself.
It is such a shame if true.
Wow, that's a great point.
There is something weird about Hollywood since the beginning of film. It's that they make most smart characters dumb.
Tarzan has been on film since the film began and he is portrayed as a simple person. But, in the books he's extremely smart.
Batman is a genius detective and inventor, but not in any films.
Captain America is a leader and tactical genius, in the movies he's like a regular nice kinda guy.
There's more examples and I just don't understand what this is. I think it borders on some kind of conspiracy.
I enjoyed it for what it is.
I work in psychology in ghettos, with murderers, in prisons, with dangerous insane people, and I can laugh at what I want. Alan Moore is some isolated dude who writes comics and is bitter about it and ungrateful of his super easy job he can do from home.
Many people have hard lives and nothing much is funny. When something funny and entertaining comes along that doesn't harm anyone, we should be happy. We shouldn't have to worry about conforming to the standards of what pointless snobs find amusing.
I was in a bad mood expecting crap but enjoyed it a lot.
I thought it was going to be all comedy but it wasn't. The comedy fit the situation.
I 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.
Read what I wrote in my "brutal movie" thread.
I'm curious what you think.
It's a Film Noir concept to have a character(s) who are generally good and get defeated by modern society and then lose in some dramatic way.
It's a plot I've seen since forever in film.
Triple Frontier on Netfilx has the exact same plot. Soldiers down on their luck decide to do something corrupt and then lose massively.
Film Noir is in part based on communism and concludes that no good person can actually succeed in this society.