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Shazam: Fury of the Gods

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    #32
    santana75
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    Saw it at the weekend and I thought it was flat from the get go. Which is strange because I thought the first film was great, it really caught me be surprise by how good it was, but this........surely the most blatant case of product placement(Skittles) this side of Brad pitt pausing for a cool refreshing Pepsi just before he battle the undead in World war Z.



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    #33
    Brief_Lives
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    Just. It wasn't as bad as I feared. Mirren and Lucy lu did pour on the chese..

    Rachel Zegler, yummy. I've never seen her before..



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    #34
    silverharp
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    Total flop, at around 120m at the moment, so that would be a ceiling of ~150m , not even half the first one plus inflation. Means the studio lost over 100m

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #35
    CastorTroy
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    Finished watching it and I decided to watch the trailers since I didn't watch beforehand due to potential spoilers.

    How is it out of a 2 hour movie they were only able to find content for most of the second trailer from the third act?

    Going by that trailer, the whole movie is about Lucy Liu fighting Shazam while riding a dragon.

    And I've thought it about the comics as well, since the changing from Captain Marvel, but he has the worst possible name, since if anyone asks his name, he can't say it without changing back.

    As for the mid and post credits scenes

    I'd say the mid one was done more recently after the success of Peacemaker and no commitment after.

    For the post, it can probably be ignored now.

    So the barrier between worlds broke for the first time in centuries and

    Anthea decides to go to school?

    And of course the whole movie turned out to be

    One big ad for Skittles.

    I did like it overall but think it's safe to say that one of the main reasons it flopped was due to the studio basically announcing beforehand that the film doesn't matter. But the studio will just see it as people not being interested in Shazam and cancel any potential plans Gunn may have had to continue with this version. Though I'm sure that wasn't happening anyway.



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    #36
    TheIrishGrover
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    It was OK. There were some fun bits (Helen Mirren reading out the note). But, once again, it was trying too hard to integrate itself into the rushed DCEU fold. Same colour-scheme/cinematography (Especially near the end). Lightning, practically monochrome, "dark" (Literally and figuratively). Because this was made so long ago (I think they were supposed to release it prior to Covid) it is also difficult to get too caught up in the whole attempts to integrate it into the DCEU as that has just been pretty much reset (again). I know Momoa says he'll be back for more Aquaman in the new movies, but honestly? That all depends on how THAT sequel does and so far, the track record's not looking good.

    It wasn't as funny as the first but that's to be expected. The first one was all about Billy coming to terms with his abilities. That whole "Big" thing. So you couldn't do that again. But the bad guys were very nondescript. I cannot STAND Lucy Liu. I don't know why. But for some reason she really rubs me up the wrong way.

    For me, it smacks a lot of studio interference:

    • "Nonono. We need a way to name drop our other assets... I mean characters/movies" "But we don't know who will be playing those characters in 6 months or if there will even BE a movie for some of these characters"
    • "We need to dial-back the humour. Have enough for the trailer but kids suck"... "He is LITERALLY a kid in a superhero's body. He's exactly like Superman EXCEPT for this fact"
    • "We need it to be darker"... "Like in tone or cinematography?"... "Yes"

    It still had its moments: The kids and parents are still enjoyable (Even if the mother is WAY too hot to be fostering a bust of soon-to-be-college-age kids). The post credit scene is funny. It's just not as funny or fun overall as the first one but through no fault of the director and cast

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    #37
    lumphammer2
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    There are very few films I can say disappointed me ... I generally avoid universally panned ones ... but 2 ones rated quite well that I did not fall in love with were Kingsmen: the Secret Service and the first Shazam! ... both films were silly and seemed to overdo the comedy element ... some genres are not meant to be mixed unless the writer/director/etc know what they're doing and comedy mixed with secret service or superhero films are examples ... Kingsmen reminded me of that stupid 1967 version of Casino Royale .... Shazam! brought me back to the 1980s superhero sendup sketch by Morecombe and Wise? or whoever it was doing the Phantom Raspberry Blower ... for that reason I did not go see the 2nd Shazam! From what I read .... I didn't miss much .... if anything it is worse than the first one ...

    Superhero films are overdone ... ones like Batman, Wonderwoman and Superman is what DC should focus on ... most others are poor ... and when we are reviving weak uninteresting ones like a child who turns into a grown man enough said ... I was expecting Shazam! because of the title to be more a type of mythical ancient Persian type tale ... instead it was about a silly schoolkid .... Black Adam is what got me interested and that was while not perfect a much better film ...



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