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[Alexander]

For years, critics and general audience never really pressured studios to make unique / different comic book / big-budget movies and now suddenly they're tired of them lol. I mean no chance that I would pay to see movies like Shazam 2, Ant-Man 3 or Thor 4 but it's kinda hilarious.

[thajdikt]

Just came back from the theater. Also watched the first Shazam today before I watched this one. For me this was a massive letdown. I understand some of the mixed reviews. It dials so much up but to me lost what I liked about the first one. It kinda reminds of another cbm movie that released recently that did the same. That said, my sister who I watched it with really liked it. So I do think a lot of people will end up liking it.

[CaptNathanBrittles]

3 hours ago, Alexander said:

For years, critics and general audience never really pressured studios to make unique / different comic book / big-budget movies and now suddenly they're tired of them lol. I mean no chance that I would pay to see movies like Shazam 2, Ant-Man 3 or Thor 4 but it's kinda hilarious.

 

Familiarity breeds contempt.

[TheFlatLannister]

Out of theater reaction:

 

This was definitely a fun watch and is (imo) a superior film to Antman or Black Adam. The comedy works well without being over the top. The villains are a bit underwhelming, but miles better than Sabbac from Black Adam. Action sequences were cool and the CGI wasn't too bad. If this film released in 2019, I think it would have been received much better by critics. 

 

Rating: 8/10

[Krissykins]

I thought this was ok, I was entertained. It did go on a bit though. Surprisingly and unfortunately, Lucy Liu was the weak link. 

[cax16]

Everyone knew the way this was going unfortunately.

 

 

[thajdikt]

Feel bad for him... he has seemed frustrated with a lot of the things the last couple of week, wonder if there were any behind the scenes drama about marketing and all that. Anyway he´s a fantastic director so I would love to see him take on another cbm or go back to horror.

[TestPattern]

Just now, thajdikt said:

Feel bad for him... he has seemed frustrated with a lot of the things the last couple of week, wonder if there were any behind the scenes drama about marketing and all that. Anyway he´s a fantastic director so I would love to see him take on another cbm or go back to horror.

They moved the release date like 5 times and didn't advertise the movie.

I'd be pissed too.

[thajdikt]

2 minutes ago, TestPattern said:

They moved the release date like 5 times and didn't advertise the movie.

I'd be pissed too.

Yeah, the marketing especially was a joke. 

[TestPattern]

 

[CaptNathanBrittles]

Hopefully this doesn't Trank his career.

[TestPattern]

3 minutes ago, CaptNathanBrittles said:

Hopefully this doesn't Trank his career.

He came from low budget horror movies, he can go back pretty easily. 

[BeastByTheBay]

20 minutes ago, CaptNathanBrittles said:

Hopefully this doesn't Trank his career.

 

IIRC he was tapped as co-creator for Fear Agent alongside Seth Rogan for Amazon but that was announced 3 years ago.

[kayumanggi]

6 hours ago, Krissykins said:

I thought this was ok, I was entertained. It did go on a bit though. Surprisingly and unfortunately, Lucy Liu was the weak link. 

 

Yup. She was underwhelming here like she didn't care at all. 😅

[kayumanggi]

 

[cookie]

Idk, this had a pretty good Comic-Con trailer, and then the marketing after that just... fizzled out? Seems to be a recurring issue at WB, M4trix had the same pattern. If I was Sandberg, I'd be upset too.

[MightyDargon]

WOW the same rating as Love and Thunder WE GOT THE NEXT CASABLANCA HERE PEEPS

These Twitter shills need to shut up. They ain't fooling anyone.

[Welcbr12]

5 hours ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Well, ain't that bad, could be a lot worse! 

[TigerPaw]

Just came out of the theater, this was not bad at all! Heartwarming, crowd pleaser. My theater ate it up!

[Alex SciChannel]

 Came back from the theater as well. I had an absolute blast! It kept the charming veneer of the first film and the emotions and the comedy I thought hit really well. I got teary eyed at some scenes, but idk I'm a softy like that. And I high key uncontrollably laughed at loud in the theater at some of the jokes. David F. Sandberg knows that the secret ingredient to a good super hero movie is to have a compelling human story behind it. And I think he nailed it here.

 

I don't get how this is getting bad word of mouth. This seems to be a crowdpleaser. My audience was enjoying themselves at least. I don't know what people online are smoking for real. It's a shame this is getting suboptimal box office returns because this is leagues better than Ant-Mid Quantumidia. 

 

If I had ant criticisms it may be that the ending falling action after the climax that includes a resolution to something felt a little rushed and out of nowhere. But I can see how writing that in without making it seem awkward would be difficult.