I saw Hancock!

[Lester C.]

This is the best Superhero movie I've seen in a long time. Anyone else want to talk about it.

[Ben Morgan]

Just now? I saw it when it came out, thought it was pretty good

[Eliseu Gouveia]

The first half was great.

The second ... could have been handled better.

[Mermaid]

The first half was great.

The second ... could have been handled better.


my thoughts exactly.

It opened great I thought......it went downhill when he met the guys wife and found out she had the same powers as him. Mind you it's been a very long while since I've seen it....I can't even remember how it ends.

[Cam63]

I was turned off by the reviews.

[Hybrid2]

The first half was great.

The second ... could have been handled better.

same here.

I expected something else.so that did'nt help.

[mr.brighteyes]

Just wait. Next week Les will want to talk about this great movie he saw about a mentally handicapped person who ran around the world and joined the army and talked about chocolate.

The movie was okay. I don't think it is the best superhero movie.

[JTPencils]

Give Les a break, he's just now watching the latest flick in his collection of a little funny guy with a tiny mustache, who get's trapped in the gears of a huge machine!

[ShaunN]

Dear Lester,

I saw this last summer with my sister and we both agreed that it was certainly one of the better summer blockbusters that we had seen to that point. I can't recall the other films (except Hellboy II) but I do remember that my sister and I had both been quite disappointed with most of what we saw. We went to see Hancock with low expectations due to the mixed reviews and were pleasantly surprised.

I had no problem with the fact that the woman turns out to be his counterpart. I was expecting it, of course, based on the previews, but I also thought that the apparent coincidence was reasonably well-explained within the story.

I did have a slightly larger problem with the fact that a superhero who had been around for such a long time would have had a profound effect on the world, whereas Hancock seemed to have had very little impact. But that was small quibble.

Sincerely,

Shaun

[Lester C.]

Give Les a break, he's just now watching the latest flick in his collection of a little funny guy with a tiny mustache, who get's trapped in the gears of a huge machine!

Are you talking about Super Mario? I loved that movie when I was young and was heartbroken that they didn't make a sequel. All these years later though I can't remember a single scene that was in the movie but your description is making me think Mario.

Just wait. Next week Les will want to talk about this great movie he saw about a mentally handicapped person who ran around the world and joined the army and talked about chocolate.

The movie was okay. I don't think it is the best superhero movie.

I still haven't seen that movie.:redface:

[Jared_Humpherys]

The first half was great.

The second ... could have been handled better.

Dingdingdingdingding!

This exactly.

[Solaris]

We loved it, Lester. :smile:

A lot of people didn't like that it was basically a two-act movie: Act One is where you see a down, depressed, destitute superhero who almost doesn't give a damn anymore---yet still can't help trying to help people, even when they shit on him.

Act Two is when you realize that he's not alone as a superhero---and it generates a lot of questions about him, and why, if he's not the only one, he *is* the only one out there doing stuff. It moves from the "comedy and realism" of Act One to the "mystery, realism, and pathos" of Act Two.

And I loved how it went from "loner with an attitude" to "deeply-caring person who's endured millennia of service and pain... who still cares enough to want to help people."

As for his "wife", somewhere in the extra features I saw someone saying that, unlike Hancock, she prefers to try to change the world on a more intimate level, rather than dealing with large crowds of people. And that was okay, too.

Another thing I liked was that they never really attributed any one source or belief for why these people are the way they are.

To me, it was Act Two that elevated it from the simple genre of "superhero" movie to "movie about the characters and their internal struggles as they make personal sacrifices to try to use what they have to make the world better." And I loved it for that.

BTW---Jason Bateman's character ROCKED! He was such a good man, just an ordinary man... yet he too was a hero. The movie had a lot to say about the different kinds of hero, and that really, anyone can be a hero. (And Bateman pulled it off so well! And OMG, I didn't even know that's who it was until I saw the credits... he's come a long way from the kid shows he used to do.)

[Tadhg]

Are you talking about Super Mario?

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[Agent Helix]

Hancock was fucking terrible.

[KevinTBrown]

The first half was great.

The second ... could have been handled better.

Agreed.

Making Charlize Theron the "baddie" and having them fight really made no sense. If she wanted him to go away, she could have just allowed him to remain around long enough to be completely mortal and then do something about it.

Just way too many leaps of logic.

[ShaunN]

Dear Friends,

I want to second Solaris' points. I think that she hits the nail on the head with why I, too, felt the second half was just as good and interesting as the first half.

Kevin, I'd disagree - I think it is really stretching it to say that Charlize Theron's character was the "baddie". She did have a few minutes of anger at her former husband - who, obviously, knew how to push her buttons after thousands of years -and when the gods get angry - well, things happen. But the battle did not last that long and certainly did not make her the villian of the piece.

Sincerely,

Shaun

[Ghost]

I liked it. Didn't think it was a masterpiece but it had a really interesting take on the whole superhero theme.

Agreed.

Making Charlize Theron the "baddie" and having them fight really made no sense. If she wanted him to go away, she could have just allowed him to remain around long enough to be completely mortal and then do something about it.

'Cause she loved him, see? She was just sick of seeing him get hurt because of her and decided that it was better if he never remembered their life together because that way he'd always have his powers and be safe. Apparently she'd just managed to get over him when her husband dragged him home, so of course she got a bit ticked off.

[section 8]

I liked it. Didn't think it was a masterpiece but it had a really interesting take on the whole superhero theme.



'Cause she loved him, see? She was just sick of seeing him get hurt because of her and decided that it was better if he never remembered their life together because that way he'd always have his powers and be safe. Apparently she'd just managed to get over him when her husband dragged him home, so of course she got a bit ticked off.
There is a difference between wanting someone gone and wanting someone dead.

[bfrank]

BTW---Jason Bateman's character ROCKED! He was such a good man, just an ordinary man... yet he too was a hero.


Sadly, he was the only thing that rocked in this movie......

[Lester C.]

Sadly, he was the only thing that rocked in this movie......

Have you seen the unrated version? I only have seen the unrated version, but I'm told it's much more better than the rated version.

[Agent Helix]

Unless it has an entirely new script, I doubt it.

[section 8]

Have you seen the unrated version? I only have seen the unrated version, but I'm told it's much more better than the rated version.

From what I've heard, the main difference is the kid calls him "Asshole" instead of "Jack ass"

[Azrael52]

my thoughts exactly.

It opened great I thought......it went downhill when he met the guys wife and found out she had the same powers as him. Mind you it's been a very long while since I've seen it....I can't even remember how it ends.

Well, freakin' great! I haven't seen this yet. Guess I don't have to now! Thanks a lot.




Ok, no, but the movie was awesome from front to back. I'd watch it again and again.

"I swear to God woman, I will break my foot off in your ass."

"That's cause I've been drinkin' bitch!"

Also, the story and the visuals were out of this world.

- Ray