Shazam! (DC Comics - Zachary Levi)

Johnmb · 15-03-2019 8:24pm

Smertrius wrote: »

at least they aren't taking piss on the superheroes , this is taking piss shazam, Ant-Man is showing he superhero , Guardians of galaxy superheroes is showing they are superheroes, All its shazam is a zero not hero

Maybe you should wait for the actual movie. Although deciding that the tiny part you've seen from the trailers is the only part that exists is in keeping with your habit of deciding that the few comics you've read are the only version of the character that exists...

Mr Crispy · 15-03-2019 8:48pm

Think I'm guilty of the same thing, to be honest.

One time, I read only a few posts from this one person, but concluded they must be a gobshite all the time.

Smertrius · 15-03-2019 8:54pm

i won't care if this much if wasn't his 80th anniversary , i just want good movie for his 80th anniversary , taking piss shazam movie and showing him as zero not hero, if i saw new batman this year and that bad this i question it too i glad batman movie coming out next year or year after and not its 80th anniversary this year

15-03-2019 9:28pm

Oh No

pixelburp · 15-03-2019 9:39pm

Hard reality: Shazam is not a popular, well known character. He could be 180 for the difference it would make.

And thank God someone had the sense to bring a little humour to an obviously humourless scenario.

God even the name is daft. I love comic books but sometimes it's worth stepping back and acknowledging that half the premises are a bit silly

Tazzimus · 17-03-2019 3:19pm

Smertrius wrote: »

at least they aren't taking piss on the superheroes , this is taking piss shazam, Ant-Man is showing he superhero , Guardians of galaxy superheroes is showing they are superheroes, All its shazam is a zero not hero

Where did you see this advanced screening to come to that conclusion?

ThePott · 18-03-2019 11:07pm

Did someone say advanced screening?! :pac:

Omniplex cinemas are showing advanced screenings of Shazam on the 27th of March (Wednesday Week), they're open to the public just got my ticket.

Link here https://t.co/zW9rPLCB4l
Not bad for a film not out until the 5th of April.

Smertrius · 20-03-2019 9:42pm

if Shazam wasn't harming humans and shazam not breaking the law in the movie would but since he is harming humans and is breaking the law in the movie is crap

Agent Coulson · 21-03-2019 10:20am

Riddle me this.

Slydice · 21-03-2019 8:15pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Riddle me this.

https://vimeo.com/41133252

Smertrius · 22-03-2019 7:10pm

you may've never read the original comics and we should respect them , even so they are fiction , people have no right to change them and make movies movies similar to the comics make good movies like 40s shazam movies and other dc movies before 2010 and not take piss on them

Johnmb · 22-03-2019 7:41pm

Smertrius wrote: »

you may've never read the original comics and we should respect them , even so they are fiction , people have no right to change them and make movies movies similar to the comics make good movies like 40s shazam movies and other dc movies before 2010 and not take piss on them

Just because you haven't read the comics doesn't mean the film isn't based on comics. As I have already mentioned, the film looks to be based on the New 52 iteration of the character, at least from what little has been shown in the trailers. The original comics weren't published by DC, so if you've actually read them, they are the wrong ones to expect the DCEU to care about. Even the Superman films deviated from the original comics despite them being published by DC (He can fly in all the films, not in the original comics).

Smertrius · 22-03-2019 8:15pm

dc never created shazam , they only brought them from Fawcett Comics, means they have no right to change the copyright

Johnmb · 22-03-2019 8:26pm

Smertrius wrote: »

dc never created shazam , they only brought them from Fawcett Comics, means they have no right to change the copyright

If they bought it, it means they have the right to change it. If they hadn't changed things up, the character would be dead and forgotten by now. Every character has changed since their origin if they have been around for a while, and that's in the actual comics where they were created. Once you change the format, by obvious necessity, the character will be different. That's why movies are based on the comic characters. Within the comics, the character will change as the writer changes, and often even with the same writer as the story requires...

ThePott · 22-03-2019 8:28pm

Dude I'm all for being comic accurate at times but have you read any of the original iterations of these comics from the 30/40s, some of them are borderline unreadable.

Also do you not see the irony of attacking a film that has some 'originality' and for 'changing copyright (?)' for not clinging to the comics when the reason DC own the character to begin with was because Fawcett were seen as infringing on the copyright of Superman and not changing enough.

If they had tried making something more original to begin with we wouldn't even have him in the DC universe most likely.
For a character that's been around nearly 80 years, is it such a crime that there's been some changes since before WW2 :rolleyes:

Smertrius · 22-03-2019 8:38pm

shazam killing off humans and not take responailty for his superpowers is oppostite of shazam portray in comics and they shouldn't have change him

RayCun · 22-03-2019 9:20pm

Smertrius wrote: »

shazam killing off humans and not take responailty for his superpowers is oppostite of shazam portray in comics and they shouldn't have change him

Why shouldn't they change him?

Because you were a fan?

Because the original character was so popular?

Why?

pixelburp · 22-03-2019 9:38pm

Smertrius wrote: »

shazam killing off humans and not take responailty for his superpowers is oppostite of shazam portray in comics and they shouldn't have change him

Shazam doesn't kill anyone in the trailer.

The film isn't out yet.

22-03-2019 9:48pm

Can we all just put this account on ignore?
Seeing as they're just repeating the same lies over and over. If only there was a word for that...

Snake Plisken · 24-03-2019 12:16am

Early preview screenings very positive looking forward to this

https://twitter.com/robbiereviews/status/1109592609167691778?s=19

pixelburp · 24-03-2019 12:21am

Yup, reviews seem positive, hitting the notes you might expect from the trailers re. family, responsibility etc. etc.

pixelburp · 25-03-2019 3:08pm

First clip popped up; nothing excessively spoiler'y but for anyone looking for a sense of the flavour of this thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYmF_bMohmE

Sonics2k · 25-03-2019 6:19pm

So, the reviews are honestly coming in pretty good for this movie.

I've a real soft spot for Zachary Levi after the first few seasons of Chuck (shut up, it was a great show) and I also really like this reviewer and tend to agree with her.

No real spoilers in the here, but there are some so be warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rjy0vlHFcA

Drumpot · 25-03-2019 11:36pm

Planning on going on weds. Hope ODEON opens their preview options for non unlimited card owners tomorrow.

budhabob · 27-03-2019 10:33pm

This is the first film in a long time I'm genuinely excited to see.

Drumpot · 27-03-2019 11:39pm

Wasnt overly impressed. My wife enjoyed it which means it will prob clean up!

IncognitoMan · 27-03-2019 11:44pm

Drumpot wrote: »

Wasnt overly impressed. My wife enjoyed it which means it will prob clean up!

Same old superhero origin story with lots of jokes?

Drumpot · 28-03-2019 12:31am

IncognitoMan wrote: »

Same old superhero origin story with lots of jokes?

Pretty much. I was looking forward to it, kind of like suicide squad and it similarly was disappointing. So little really happens for so long and I wasn’t sold on the villain. I like Mark Strong but it didn’t work for me. It will be good for kids/families so will do well IMO.

Few really fun bits but not enough. If you want to be a fun, funny movie you need more then what we got. It was kind of like a watered down Kick ass movie.

Just looked at some of the ratings. Maybe I was tired or something cause it’s getting great reviews! I feel like it was a 5 or 6/10 but there’s obviously something wrong with me!! Old man Drumpot!

I made an funny connection with the opening scene between the dad while driving the car and the song “do you see what I see” , interested to see if anybody else gets it.

ThePott · 28-03-2019 1:22am

I really enjoyed it, probably my favourite DCEU film by a good bit.

It reminded me a bit of the Raimi Spider-Man. That level of cheese. I do agree that it takes a while to get going, it really kicks up a notch when he becomes Shazam though. I also thought the villain was better than lots of superhero films if maybe a bit pantomime but in a film like this I feel that is excusable. Asher Angel and Levi were both great, the film had a real heart and sense of humour. It was just nice to have a film that took the mick out of superhero tropes without being cynical about it. The side characters worked quite well too which is rare in these movies.

I do feel though that the last act was a bit long and I think it was a tad predictable. I did a trailer breakdown for this and essentially managed to guess the whole movie from it and there wasn't even much to go off.

Liked it a lot though, not sure if it will hold up to subsequent viewings.

Will talk in more detail on my podcast, found below. Don't want to even spoiler tag this far out from the release

nix · 28-03-2019 1:42am

Drumpot wrote: »

and the song “do you see what I see”

From Gremlins?

Drumpot · 28-03-2019 9:32am

nix wrote: »

From Gremlins?

Yes, And The dad in the car while the song was playing was in gremlins 2!

nix · 04-04-2019 1:18pm

Got to see this last night, enjoyable all the way through, good pacing, i know nothing of the Shazam comics so don't know if it done those justice.

It felt a lot more like a kids movie than the usual DC/Marvel outings, but that's because the main characters are all 15 and below mostly and its focusing on jokes more than anything.

I wasn't laughing my ass off at the jokes, just chuckling away at some, id say the younger crowds will love this one a lot. I found there wasn't anything much to dislike about it, except for some short bursts of hammy acting.

And yeah, was chuckling away at the music in the drive sequence at the start

:pac:

ThePott · 04-04-2019 3:11pm

Saw this at an Omniplex preview last week, really enjoyed it.
It's a lot of fun, very heroic without being cynical, few laughs, very cheesy reminded me of Raimi's Spider-Man in that regard.
Did a proper review no spoilers below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVGMCPNzmc

I can never get youtube embeds to work

Goodshape · 04-04-2019 4:10pm

ThePott wrote: »

I can never get youtube embeds to work

It's just the video id in between the youtube tags, not the full URL.

[YOUTUBE]MCVGMCPNzmc[/YOUTUBE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVGMCPNzmc

ThePott · 04-04-2019 5:43pm

Goodshape wrote: »

It's just the video id in between the youtube tags, not the full URL.

Legend, thank you!

Slydice · 05-04-2019 11:38pm

Just back. Saw it in 3D on the IMAX.
Family Friendly. Fun. Some 3D: can live without it. Big Screen: worth it.

That was great! Such a funny refreshing pure honest to goodness Superhero story.

IT'S BEEN FREAKIN AGES!

I really want a Sequel. Hell my first reaction was that I wanted 15!! I definitely want follow-through on

the mothers story. Man that had me gunning for a fight!

You know what though! I really liked how

they kept it proper Superhero like that moment when he saved Sivana falling off the building!

So many nods to older generations and younger generations all packed into one.

GOH! It was just SO GOOD!

Slydice · 05-04-2019 11:53pm

ThePott wrote: »

Did a proper review no spoilers below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVGMCPNzmc

HEART!

Yes definitely. This film really had

some heart!

Great Shazam T-Shirt

ThePott · 06-04-2019 12:23am

Thanks

Yellow card, sellotape and a Flash t-shirt turned back to front. I guess I can add Fashion Designer to the CV

IncognitoMan · 06-04-2019 1:05am

Just out of it.

It's good. I was expecting this one to be a hit with general audiences and now I'd be shocked if it isn't.

Simple, fun, straightforward. I think they fairly nailed what 15 year old with powers would act like. It's very enjoyable.

I equally loved all the references to the DC universe and was saddened by it because

I'm not sure we'll ever get to see this Shazam interact with Superman and Batman (at least not the current versions).

I really wish they had got Cavill in for that last scene.

8/10

Guy:Incognito · 06-04-2019 8:59am

Went to see it last night. Really enjoyed in.

everlast75 · 06-04-2019 9:02am

Really enjoyed it.

I did not have much expecations as DC to me, have been more miss than hit on a few of their movies, but I found it charming without being too soppy and quite entertaining overall.

It is a kids superhero movie, but a very enjoyable one.

gmisk · 06-04-2019 2:16pm

everlast75 wrote: »

Really enjoyed it.

I did not have much expecations as DC to me, have been more miss than hit on a few of their movies, but I found it charming without being too soppy and quite entertaining overall.

It is a kids superhero movie, but a very enjoyable one.

Totally agree went to a fairly packed screening this morning.
It was funny and sweet excellent film, families will lap it up. A nice change from the usual DC misery and darkness. Coherent story as well, it's not a given with some DC films...suicide squad I am looking at you!
The kid actors were also really good as well not irritating at all.
I also loved seeing the little kid from fresh off the boat.
Only real downside I thought the villain was a tad dull, but liked the design a lot of

the seven deadly sins demons

8/10

titan18 · 06-04-2019 10:55pm

It's quite good. Should be a hit with families over Easter

santana75 · 07-04-2019 12:27am

Saw the trailer a few weeks back and remarked to a friend that it looked like a Ball of sh1t.......fast forward to this evening were we found ourselves watching said ball of sh1t and I was completely wrong. Its a crackin' movie. Like infinitely better than anything marvel has produced recently(except for Spiderman into the spider verse, which is a stone cold classic). Its genuinely funny, but also has a lot of heart. I mean it does degenerate into superhero v british villian of the week but the really good stuff has nothing to do with battling a threat to the world. And thats what makes it so good, the stuff that gives you the feels. Anyway a welcome surprise that was completely unexpected.

silverharp · 07-04-2019 8:55am

i took junior in to see, overall a solid movie, sparing use of cgi which is a plus, a decent hero journey, some nods to Big and somewhat in tone to Sky High.

ThePott · 07-04-2019 5:56pm

If anyone wants to hear some of the deeper cuts or easter eggs in the film, I brought up 6 talking points after seeing the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2j04ZebDW0

One of them literally broke me

Slydice · 07-04-2019 9:19pm

ThePott wrote: »

If anyone wants to hear some of the deeper cuts or easter eggs in the film, I brought up 6 talking points after seeing the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2j04ZebDW0

One of them literally broke me

That bit at the end!

ThePott · 07-04-2019 9:32pm

Slydice wrote: »

That bit at the end!

Definitely fell down the rabbit hole with that tangent

Penn · 08-04-2019 10:25am

I really enjoyed it. It was a really fun movie throughout, and Zachary Levi looked like he was having a lot of fun with it and it really came through. The action scenes possibly could have been a bit more imaginative, and the Sins possibly could have looked a bit more unique, but overall I thought it was really enjoyable.

RayCun · 08-04-2019 10:32am

I enjoyed it.

The ending went on a bit, but the kid-and-foster-family scenes were sweet, and the as-Shazam scenes were funny.

The wizard is a complete dick though.

Shazam! (DC Comics - Zachary Levi)

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