I think this shows Joss Whedon was smart for being nice to some people who could then say “well, he was always nice to me” rather than just pissing everyone off.

Mistake in the article, he actually pleaded NOT guilty to those two charges.

White people problems, huh?

Between Will Smith and the Rock, 2022 was a revealing year for carefully brand-managed nice guy personas.

Christ, did someone on the Shazam production crew fuck Spanfeller’s wife, or something?

Yeah, I’m kinda thinking Vin Diesel had the Rock figured out.

AV Club, for reasons known only to them, desperately trying to get a Shazam! Fury of the Gods Discourse started. It’s a mid-tier movie franchise starring a mid-tier superhero that received middling reviews, but all superhero films are supposed to be SPECTACLES now, so I guess we have to talk about about it being a…

The AV Club has been on a bitching and moaning spree about this film, Gabrielle Sanchez threw her “support women” mantra out the window to attack Rachel Zegler for saying people online are being way too personally mean about the movie. This is how they choose to pay rent.

Actors lobby for roles/projects they admire all, the, time, on social media. It seems weirdly roundabout to connect it to the (failed) box office draw for Shazam. 

I agree. All of the trailers emphasized the effects-heavy sequences, without giving a very good sense of what the story was actually, you know, about and all of the humor that the trailers showed were cheesy one-liners (some of which weren’t even in the movie) despite the fact that some of the best humor is the…

I was going to say, I know it’s above 50% on Rotten Tomatoes so doesn’t that make it so-so?

“...dismally-received DC film...”

Except “based on existing IP” doesn’t mean “formulaic, bad movies with little to no substance” that give the audience “few viewing alternatives.” “Based on existing IP” includes anything adapted from a book, play, TV show, video game, as well as movie sequels. As for few viewing alternatives, I haven’t seen a Marvel…

It’s weird because most reviews are basically saying it’s, as the kids say, “mid”, but AVC has been treating it like a toxic waste dump.

Of late?

“But also... isn’t Zegler like 19?”

What is it with this site being on this movie’s balls of late?

I liked it. It just felt like the script could have used another pass. I felt like some beats took too long to set up, and it felt like there were too many MacGuffins. I’m sure at least some of that was a result of trying to give all six of the Shazams something to do (and yet, Mary Marvel really ends up with…

AND a literal bastard!

Akechi is literally a cop