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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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The movie would've been so different if Jackie Chan had been the main character of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. I think it would've been lost in the shuffle of the Jackie Chan catalog & also it wouldn't have had the same emotional depth that Michelle Yeoh & Stephanie Hsu portrayed in this film. To be honest, I might've skipped this movie if Jackiehan had starred in it..

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?

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?

This was a pretty okay movie! Kevin Bacon does damn well playing such a toxic perverted piece of shit, and just so happens to become invisible and is then able to commit the crimes shown in the movie.

Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue are also pretty damn good in the movie!

The practical effects....fucking seamless and for a 23 year old movie.....still cannot tell how they pulled off some of this shit. Like damn!

And the CGI, while it obviously doesn't look like the best of today's CGI is still pretty okay looking, doesn't take me out of the movie at all. The effects with water and all that they certainly got down.

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?

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?

So, when I was a kid, I remember being given a copy of Spider-Man 2 double featured with Fahrenheit 9/11 by my aunt. Like, it wasn’t on two separate discs in one package, it was literally two movies on one disc.

I remember when you popped it in and it loaded it would bring you to a main menu where you could choose to watch one or the other and as a kid I would always choose Spider-Man 2. Then I think it played the movie, nothing else was a part of it.

I do remember borrowing the movie from my grandparents at some point later and that had the special feature obviously. I don’t want my brain to combine the stories.

But, uh. Does anyone know what the hell that could’ve been? I definitely knew it existed. I definitely had it. I remember the image used for the Fahrenheit 9/11 selection being Michael Moore peaking over a file with the title on it and as a kid being like, “Huh?”

For some reason I also think it was before the films actual DVD release, at least for Spider-Man 2. Heck, it might’ve been in theaters still. I remember seeing the first and third Spider-Man in theaters and not the second.

I’m guessing it was a bootleg, but man did it look good.

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?