Shazam 2 is out

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It needed more pepper

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't perfect but I wouldn't be upset if this was the last time we saw this version of Shazam. It feels smaller scale compared to the first but it works with what it did with Billy's character. Billy's arc or at least what Asher Angel brought to it really hit home for me. The first film was about a neglected kid learning to open himself up to a family. This one being about a kid scared of adulthood and losing that family was a perfect place to take a sequel. That's when the movie is at it's best. However a lot of other stuff is kind of eh. The weakest part about this was Levi. While the first film at least had somewhat of a reason why Billy acted so different in his Shazam form this one really didn't. The switch is really jarring, they feel like two completely different characters. Levi isn't a good actor and didn't really care about the performance. It's not great and hell I may not even like it in a year but the film is something I really needed right now. (7/10)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Definitely agree that Levi overacted but the same thing happened in the first. Kinda weird to see the kid actor get so little screen time because I enjoyed his scenes, especially his more down to earth portrayal of Billy. Levi is a decent actor but he portrays a 17 year old as if it were an anime character.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This movie is the opposite of the last one where the kids showed a lot in the first half and then becomes adults in the climax and in this one they are adults at the beginning and help in the final battle as kids.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It wasn't perfect but I wouldn't be upset if this was the last time we saw this version of Shazam. It feels smaller scale compared to the first but it works with what it did with Billy's character. Billy's arc or at least what Asher Angel brought to it really hit home for me. The first film was about a neglected kid learning to open himself up to a family. This one being about a kid scared of adulthood and losing that family was a perfect place to take a sequel. That's when the movie is at it's best. However a lot of other stuff is kind of eh. The weakest part about this was Levi. While the first film at least had somewhat of a reason why Billy acted so different in his Shazam form this one really didn't. The switch is really jarring, they feel like two completely different characters. Levi isn't a good actor and didn't really care about the performance. It's not great and hell I may not even like it in a year but the film is something I really needed right now. (7/10)

        My problem with Levi is that he acts more like Freddie than Billy.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Loved it. The trailers didn't do the movie any justice but the movie itself was on par with the first, if not better. If they give us a third with Mr Mind and it turns out good, we will have a great trilogy.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    "who are all these 40 year old tv actors"

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I came from seeing it like a hour ago, I think is pretty fun, nothing amazing nor horrible, an enjoyable movie to watch on its own.
    The ending is kind of a copout, not the final battle but later When Billy "dies" and Wonder Woman shows up out of nowhere to revive him

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    His cameo was unexpected but welcomed.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >You're the best Captain Marvel!
      At least he got called by his real name once since we will never see him again

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Still seething, huh?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          No I don't give a shit what they call Carol

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think his Vax comments have effects the critic score. I just saw it and there's no way this was worse than Love and Thunder. It's not great but it's not awful either

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I think his Vax comments have effects the critic score.

      >Americans really piss and shit themselves in anger when someone criticizes Big Pharma

      Country is a fricking parody of itself

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It gets even worse, Anon. The people who are mad, are the ones who claim to hate Capitalism and big corporations. The modern left winger is a brainwashed idiot.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >correcting people when they say that vaccines are 5G nanobots that will kill everyone in 2 weeks(tm) with spike proteins is defending big pharma
        no
        frick big pharma; all life-saving medication should be free
        but that medication fricking works

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I think his Vax comments have effects the critic score.

      >Americans really piss and shit themselves in anger when someone criticizes Big Pharma

      Country is a fricking parody of itself

      It gets even worse, Anon. The people who are mad, are the ones who claim to hate Capitalism and big corporations. The modern left winger is a brainwashed idiot.

      Samegay

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Seethe

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I refuse to watch it. First film was great, and our reward is a shitty sequel where they don't use ANY of Billy's villains in favor of 3 crap OC creations. You dangle Mister Mind in front of us and then sabotage everything for Black Adam? Frick that. Also that Wonder Woman nonsense is just dumb

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >and then sabotage everything for Black Adam?
      Blame Dwayne for that. People really shouldn't be surprised WB doesn't want to work with him anymore. What he did around Superpets was mind boggling as well

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    credits are rolling. I enjoyed it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Mostly empty chairs
      I didn't expect for the first weekend to do this bad

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Mostly empty chairs
        tfw i snuck into ant man 3 afterwards for free and there are only 2 people in here besides me
        i don't mind, the less people the better as far as im concerned. Also empty. Trailers about to play

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's easier than ever for theaters to find out if you snuck in, so be careful

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            the only time this backfired on me was I found out if a Regal didn't sell a ticket at all they turn the projector off after 25-30 minutes. Heard a conversation along the lines of "wait, is someone in there? Bill said no tickets sold." I skedaddled like a skedaddlin' skedaddled.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I use the AMC+ thing. If I'm watching something and it blows I just check the seats in other showings from the app and go walk over. Weekdays it works fine. I never try it on weekends or Friday nights.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              > I never try it on weekends or Friday nights.
              Yeah those seem to be the only times they bother to check if you have tickets.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >It's easier than ever for theaters to find out if you snuck in, so be careful
            Credits are rolling on ant man. No one found out. Thanks for looking out though anon

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            If theaters want to get more people to buy tickets maybe they should take out that obnoxious pledge of allegiance to AMC thing with Nicole Kidman they insisted on adding to literally everything.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Literally everything has worked against it. Still, doing worse than Morbius is mind blowing to me

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I did too, but the jokes didn't land. I was at a semi packed theater and someone giggled once I think to the letter gag.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >It's a giant fricking Skittles ad

    I'll be honest I couldn't fricking believe it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If she didn't actually say "taste the rainbow" I wouldn't have cared. I'd love to know how much movies get for product placement. Cinemaphile seems to think studios pay out of their own pockets for all the production and marketing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the director weighed in over on an AMA or something. Skittles was in the original script as a placeholder and when it came time to do legal asks it turns out Skittles were fricking thrilled to be in a kids' superhero movie as the food of unicorns so they signed off.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they tried to pack too much in imo

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can really tell Geoff Johns wasn't a part of this one. If he were doing it, we would have had the Monster Society

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Zachary Levi looks way too old so I'm not going to watch it. He looked younger in the last one

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Economus and Harcourt at the end
    So is Gunn keeping Shazam?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe but don't expect another solo for him

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DC won again!

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Billy is a character that unfortunately isn't practical for a long term live-action film series. Given how long installments take, both child and adult actors age too fast. Though I suppose if you really wanted to get creative, the Billy actor could eventually just look like the same in the powered form and make Levi the "I'm what you imagined your dad to be" or something

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, they should do an animated series

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did Grace really poke out?

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't watched it yet but Shazam with a frown on his face and the generic villains behind him really paints a bleak and boring sequel. I won't judge a book by its cover though and will watch it tomorrow but the average casual audience seeing this would likely think it is boring and skip out

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was surprised at how violent the movie got at times.
    I enjoyed it though.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The bit with Helen Mirrin's character reading the dictated note is probably the funniest part of the movie.

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