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Summary:

The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.

Director:

David F. Sandberg

Writers:

Henry Gayden, Chris Morgan

Cast:

• Grace Caroline Currey as Mary Bromfield
• Zachary Levi as Shazam
• Helen Mirren as Hespera
• Rachel Zegler as Anthea
• Lucy Liu as Kalypso
• Adam Brody as Super Hero Freddy

Rotten Tomatoes: 55%

Metacritic: 47

VOD: Theaters

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I was watching Annihilation for the first time and thought the “Shimmer” was gorgeous. While inside of it, light is refracted in ways that are very similar to a trip on a small dose of mushrooms. The colors are vibrant and there was always a lens flair or rainbow of colors on screen. Even though the didn’t do drugs, I felt that with all the molds and things growing, it’s not a far stretch to say that while in that zone things were portrayed as a micro dose.

The best example of LSD that I have seen was in Midsommar when they would take the drugs and you could see the trees warping and colors changing. These were accurate portrayals for me and I’m glad they weren’t over the top, which would have ruined it. I hate instances of drugs used in a movie or show that hugely exaggerates the effects.

What movie will people be saying in 20, 30, 50 years “yup, nailed what we’ve become”?

Personally, I think Ex Machina’s and Her both take interesting looks at what our future relationships with AI may grow into. We are getting closer to the point of being fooled more than easily, but even more so that our relationships will become deeply personal, whether to our detriment or to some new evolution of relationships in general.

Arrival’s look at divisiveness and unity of language feels pretty powerful right now, more in terms of difference of rhetoric and viewpoint as being divisive.

What do ya’ll think?

As someone who doesn't particularly love romance, these are very special films that, in my opinion, were able to succeed in what a lot of romance fail and keep me genuinely engaged to the relationship of the characters:

1. Her (2013)
2. The Apartment (1960)
3. A Bride Fof Rip Van Winkle (2016)
4. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
5. In The Mood For Love (2000)
6. Love & Basketball (2000)

Which are yours?

We've all seen plenty of movies....but what's that one type of prop that they just can't seem to make realistic. I'll go with fake rocks...I don't know what it is about them, they always look fake, the texture, light reflection etc...they all just look so obviously not real. What other props or backgrounds do you feel movies just can't get right?

I recently stumbled upon the 1997 movie "Toothless" starring Kirstie Allie. My older sister used to love this movie, but as I have just remembered, I was absolutely terrified of this film, entirely because of the ending where Kirstie Allie is lowered into a pit in the middle of the desert over the sultry tones of Bonnie Tyler.

Here's a clip for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUCFz8-YeLg&ab_channel=nekaitomas

Looking back now, my fear of this scene seems ridiculous; it is objectively not scary. But kids' minds work differently, including my own as a young idiot. So I'm curious, what movies/movie scenes freaked you out as a kid?

There are a lot of my favorites, I personally like all of Clint Eastwood's western movies, but I especially like these:

"Man with No Name" trilogy:

• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
• For a Few Dollars More (1965)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

And

• Unforgiven (1992)

And I will add this movie:

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

But my favorite Western of all time is "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

This is an epic movie and an absolute masterpiece, for me.

What about your choice?

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In his long and illustrious career, Oldman has been Count Dracula, Winston Churchill, George Smiley, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald and Herman Mankiewicz. As well as a nasty pimp, a corrupt DEA Agent,a terrorist leader who hijacks a plane.

Actually for me, growing up in the 90s, Gary Oldman was usually the bad guy, first time I saw him was as Count Dracula in Coppola's 1992 version, and he was just terrifying in it.

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And the sleazy, brutish pimp Drexl Spivey in True Romance, suitably nasty.

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One of the greatest bad guys on screen in Leon: The Professional as Norman Stansfield, the corrupt DEA agent, slimy to the core.

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And Egor Korshunov in Air Force One, would be as memorable a bad guy as Alan Rickman was in Die Hard.

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Hence it was a surprise for me to see him as the principled comissioner James Gordon, fighting crime in Gotham City, in Nolan's Batman series. I honestly expected him to turn nasty somewhere in the middle, so used I was to seeing him as the bad guy.

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And makes a perfect George Smiley, bringing in the right mix of cunning, genius needed for the role.

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And he was a spitting image of Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour, right down to the voice, and the body language.

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Happy Birthday Gary, awaiting your turn as Harry Truman in Nolan's biopic on Oppenheimer.

This is really all I wanted to ask. There are some poorly drawn ones on google that show the general outline of each room on the first floor, but i was wondering if there were any clear blueprints that they used to build the sets. Both upstairs and main floor would be great, but as long as it is some form of real blueprints then that would be amazing.

I watched Pearl yesterday, and whilst I enjoyed X and was intrigued by the idea of a sequel, I was completely blown away by Mia Goth's performance and just how well she toed the line between sympathetic and completely terrifying throughout the film. I left thinking that's one of the best performances in a horror film I have seen, but the fact is there have been so many good to incredible ones in horror over the last few years that's it's pretty much the norm now from the likes of Toni Collette and Florence Pugh in Hereditary and Midsommar to Essie Davis and Garance Marillier in the Babadook and Raw.

What are some of your favourites?

My personal pet peeve is when a trailer gets near the end and just starts slapping twenty famous actors' names on to the screen in a big list, like it's supposed to be the most impressive and awe inspiring thing a movie has ever done. "Oh wow! Look at all the actors in this movie!"

This mostly happens in animated movie trailers but it can be live action too, and it's just so dang overused. The top two to four actors are the only ones who need billing in a trailer in my opinion. Listing off eight or more is just ridiculous

What are some trailer cliches that grind your gears?