It's definitely going to be an up and down ride, watching this. I like everything that has been shown so far, but I cannot help but feel icky, every time he is on screen.
Plus, watching the trailer again, why does Keaton's cowl look crooked? He looks a tad goofy with the "I'm Batman" scene.
Shazam wasn't as horrible as some of the reviews make it out to be but also it wasn't great. A little too much of the weird humor from the first one and I don't buy for a second that Billy is Shazam. It's like the kid is in a DCU movie and Shazam is in a Marvel one.
The movie was brutal. Actually, I had forgotten how brutal the first was until I watched the Pitch Meeting Revisited this morning so I guess that tracks but also...it's ostensibly a kids movie and in the first five minutes you have someone thrown headfirst into a marble plinth and it's a sickening sound and visual. OTOH it's so bland in some of the visuals. Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren were both wasted as these things that don't exist in DC. What a stupid idea for a movie, you know?
Also blink-and-you-miss-it the Annabelle doll is in the pediatrician's office, that made me laugh.
The Wonder Woman cameo was fine, I guess. Apparently it was fully revealed by commercials? That's not great DC. It's almost as good as the "Superman's back, baby!" press tour that lasted less than a week. I have less faith in the new hierarchy of power in the DCU.
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Originally Posted by october_midnight
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