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are back then. How mean we saw a couple of screeners, well one
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out of tube us me. Ain't gonna let him know all that, You
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know what I mean? I was their spirit. You just just you hate
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to see You don't mean I wasn't there. I was always there. I'm
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always around. Don't worry about that. I'll be seeing things even without Um.
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You know what, um one comic book or live action comic book universe
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has been going through some things for quite some time. And uh, they
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are going into a metamorphosis right now. UM, I don't even know.
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We're calling this movie as a start of the metamorphosis or like the tail end
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of the old metamorphosis. You can we we could we could say this.
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It depends on how much this opening weekend goes down. I think is that
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that really that will determine the fate of the lightning bolted superhero we are discussing,
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yes, and that superhero discussing is Shazam himself. This is about Shazam,
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Fury of the Gods. This is the sequel to the Shazam film.
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What one of the original Shazam film came out? Let me see, I'll
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go like, I feel like it's been forever, like I meant. Okay,
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this premiered, uh, March twenty eight, twenty nineteen, So this
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was before Pandemic. And honestly, because the Pandemic is such a black coal
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of time and space, it could have came out in fucking nineteen ninety nine
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at this point and it would have still felt the same, just in terms
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of how long it's been. Oh okay, Uh, I mean it was.
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It was solid, you know, I like the first one, but
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it definitely had that old timey feel to it. Okay, Well it was
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okay. So it was theatrically released April fifth, twenty nineteen, So it's
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been a long time. It's now twenty twenty three, uh since we got
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the sequel. Um what No, here's the thing that I mean. Um,
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I still just I'm just giving an overall, this is still one of
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the DC's better movies. Um. And again, I don't know where you're
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pointing this in the in the timeline of these. Are you talking about the
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soon to be Dead DCU or the newly DCU, which is supposed to you
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know, fix everything alive James Gunn. So, I mean it's it's still
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one of the better DC movies. So I mean, where does that And
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like you said, maybe just depends on how much money this thing makes.
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Um sadly, but it is a fun movie. Okay, it's a fun
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movie. It's in line with the first film. If you enjoyed the first
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exam, you're definitely gonna enjoy this zam show. Zamum. Some of the
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some of the commonly from the comedy to the dialogue is all very familiar territory.
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Um. Not a lot of annoying retreads if you would like, you
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know, like doing like the same joke over and over again. Um,
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But it has the same air about it. Like at the end of the
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day. Shazam is about a kid that becomes a superhero, right, and
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he has his power. He looks like a grown as man, but he
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is a child and you can tell that and you can tell that in his
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the way he approaches life, his psyche, his attitude, like the way
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he carries himself. That's a boy, right, that's a young boy at
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the end of the day. And then as we saw in the original film.
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You saw that he brought his family into it, his his adoptive brothers
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and sisters. So you get to see the Shazam family. You get to
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see these kids that are now imbued with these godpowers, and it overall just
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was a very fun film. It's a great family film. I will say
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that there's some lightweight cusin in it. Yes, there is there that'd be
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said. There was a lot of kids in the screening. There was.
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There was a huge contingent of kids in that screening actually, and um so
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I think they were like maybe nine ten on up. So, um again,
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I don't know how y'all deal with you'all kids who ask kids if you
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don't want them here and cussin and acting out. But it's but it's the
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typical stuff, like you know, not some of the weird potty humor,
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some of the you know, like again the funny cursing, the funny half
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cursing, the funny half jokes. But sexual there's some sexual innu windows involving
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one superhero and particular this female superhero from the Justice League. You can go
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ahead and say that because DC decided to Warner Brothers decided to put that into
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commercials. I saw I saw it earlier today. Okay, so wonder woman,
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there's lots of and nothing. And let me be clear, it's nothing
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like two over or too sexualized. It's just like you know, boy crush
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type stuff. So so nothing. But but again, I I had original.
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I have always felt like the original, the first and let me I
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say original, but the first Chazam was. It was fun, it was
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a good time, and especially because it came out in a state of all
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of the dour, dark DC films that to me, were the same.
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It was the same, the same, the same, dour and dark.
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Oh I'm so I'm so sad. Oh I'm so powerful Zack Snyder. All
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right, And then came Shazam. I was like, oh, good,
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something different, something that's a little bit more lighthearted, something that doesn't take
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itself too seriously, but there are serious consequences. And I got that again,
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which is Zam too. Okay. So for those who are like,
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you know, like kind of unfamiliar or where what's the status roll of Shazam
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and his family at the beginning of the film, because like you said,
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at the end of the last from they all had godlike powers. They're all
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chilling in the rock, you know, I know they're making the Rock of
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Eternity their home now, or they're they're hideout, etc. So what like
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what are they at and what what you know, what kind of conflict problems
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they got? Right? So it's actually and actually really like that. It
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was just a continuation. It was pretty much like they picked up where they
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left off, which I liked. It wasn't it was maybe I don't remember
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how old Billy was in the first one, but he's almost eighteen now,
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so I don't know a little younger than that. So he was like,
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what's he like fifteen? Maybe? Yeah, maybe, Okay, Well he's
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he's according he's five months away from being eighteen and so so that I don't
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know that, say three years, right, you see that progression of time.
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You see it in the progression of time and the kids. But the
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kids still generally look young, right, and you we pick up where they
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left off, like you see that they've had their powers for a while now,
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so they're out doing you know, fighting crimes, doing superhero teams,
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trying to save the day in Philly. Remember their children, so they're not
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going to get it right all the time, right, So that's actually played
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up to pretty much hilarious effect throughout the film that you can see like they
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trying to do their best to save people and do the right thing, but
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being children, they make mistakes. Being inexperienced as superheroes, let alone as
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people in life, you know, they don't exactly get stuff right the first
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time. But but yeah, you can get to see them, how they're
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hanging out in there and their lair, how they interacting with each other,
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how they live their life as I think they go from middle school on up
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to high school at this point their ages. So and then the oldest one,
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the oldest girls, she's like she would have been college age or she
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is college aged by now. Okay, And as far as like the conflicts
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that they're it's kind of what I said, like just learning how to navigate
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the disasters that happen randomly, you know, because this is still a world
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fill of superheroes. They are based in Philly, so all the disasters and
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the destruction is happening in like the heart of Philly. So they're over there
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just you know, showing out for the city. Okay, So once then
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and then we have some new villains in this because I know that was one
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thing in the end. I think it was the end credits of the first
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am they hinted that they were gonna go with mister Mind, who is like
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this little caterpillar who's super smart or something. I think you might be telepathic,
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and I know they didn't follow up with that in this film. So
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who are the villains? I will say, Okay, well I'll get to
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that later. But the villains are Calice, well really the daughters of Atlas
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pay by Helen Miren, Lucy Lou and what is the other young girl's name
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of Rachel Zegler. So they play Hespera and Thea and Calypso okay, so
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they literally are these Greek or this Greek they they played the the embodiment of
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these Greek gods and goddesses and basically, like if you know the the acronym
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shazam is actually stands for the Greek like heroes or they know, the different
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um like Solomon, the Wisdom of Solomons. These are hermes, yeah,
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Mercury, you know, like yeah, So what they did was they just
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dove further into that mythology, the Greek mythology, and they came up with
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these three villains who are now like as you know, Shazam, the Shazam
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fam are imbued with these powers. These powers came from somewhere. They came
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from Atlas uh, you know, the Titan god. And apparently it was
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stolen from them. So they're now back to take it to the rightfle owners.
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M okay, and that means killing these kids. And that means killing
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the kids, that means killing anybody that gets in their way. Fuck human
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humanity, really but fuck humanity, fus Philly all this other stuff. So
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bodies get dropped, niggah. There's a lot of body And here's the thing
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for this to be such a it's actually and again it is a cool family
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film. There's a lot of bodies getting dropped. And wow, um and
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my bodies a drop. I don't mean like John Wick style, like you
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don't see blood everywhere, but you do see some brutal hits like and pretty
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much like within even the first like five in the first ten minutes, you
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see some brutal shit happening. You do see some you know, magical type
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deaths. You do see some route forced tarma type death or implied deaths,
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if you will, And you do get to see that throughout the film,
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but you don't really see blood. So people get disintegrated, that type of
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thing, all of that shit faded, drop on their heads, thrown around
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like rag dolls. You see all that. And actually, for me,
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I actually commented that because this felt more like if it was animated right where
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it's like, yeah, there's some things that it may appeal to the younger
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audience and kids and things like that are families, if you will, But
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then it's also like, bro, at the end of the day, these
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are people with God powers who are fighting each other. When you got the
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power of Zeus and I got the power of Zeus, and we come again
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and smack the shit out each other. Something gone break right, some some
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shit gonna shake so and you just get to see that. And I do
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appreciate that they didn't hold back on that, right, even if it's kids,
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even if it's someone who's beloved, like someone's dying, and like,
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they make it pretty clear. Okay, even the bystanders. Goddamn sorry for
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you guys. Wow, So is it like on the level of a what
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was that man of Steel type destruction? Wow? Yeah, it's it's wide
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scale the city of Philly. Wow, yeah, for real. Now the
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whole thing, I just say, you say, man, it'sil like what
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about manus was? I mean, it was a lot of fucking shock in
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the city went up. Philly goes up in this tool. By the end
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of that joint, that dude was standing in the rubble of metropolis. And
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then say it's not a rubble waste land. No, yeah, but you
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do get heavy, wide scale damage. The city takes damage. My god,
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this is fucking two smash brothers damage more than that I heard. I
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heard they wreck up the foot the baseball stadium. Oh yeah that that damn
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man, that that that shit. Whoof that's that's damna essential. So yeah,
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you get, you get. I mean, you get collateral damage all
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over the place. You get structural damage everywhere. Like they there's there's no
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there's nothing sacred. And that's okay with me. Like my thing is they
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made it. This is on what this was right, Like I guess it's
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PG. Thirteen or whatever. Like they're like, this is not a kids
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movie, but it's also it's not no TV and may type shit. It's
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like right there, firmly in the middle. I just don't. I mean
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the Shazam cry after all this. Yeah, no, so so that's the
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thing, and that's aw let's talk about that because that's what I liked about
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the first Saxam field. Its still had heart. Like I said, how
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I enjoy the first one very differently from the other. How I didn't really
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care about the rest of them, the DCU because it was so dark and
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no one had fucking feelings and everything's brooding, where As Shazam niggas had feelings,
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right, people talked about things silly or not. It was it felt
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more relative, relatable, and I still got that, and you get that
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here, like there's a there are some heartfelt scenes in this right, there
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are some things that you know, it's very much family. Like there's there's
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even fucking fast and furious jokes in here about family, so right, and
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and that's why like like that like it's a joke, but it's but it's
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made but that that feeling that family above everything is literally one of the themes
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of this film. And family sticks together. So like, yeah, we
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make the jokes about about the Vin Diesel family stuff, but it's like dead
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ass, like this is the driving force for Shazam himself, but also the
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rest of the characters and why things happen, like and it's really actually it's
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not actually a really sweet moment that that is tearworthy and I was like,
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oh shit, okay, they really they really did something cute here. Okay,
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Okay, So I think you've talked about what you like enough. Um,
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you know, I know you everyone like I enjoy what's his name,
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Zachary uh Levy levi eye. Yeah right, that's this character. Yeah,
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oh no, no, that's his character. Yes, I love I love
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as this he's fantastic. Okay that but as his character. Okay, Um,
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well I guess that's it. Um. But I like the rest of
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the like you know, transformed. But they really didn't get much shine in
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the first one. Do they get more shine in this one? Because like,
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yeah, yes, And I'm glad you said that, because that's one
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of the things that's like you you you get, I mean, it really
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just literally pours it in the movie happens yea fan, Right, there's no
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time to introduce people, and you know, some of the people still show,
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especially like little Little Black Girl Darla, Like, you know, you
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want to see more of these people and you do get to see a lot
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more of them. You do see some you see them grow up a little
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bit, you see some of their reveals um as of as they grow.
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And when I say that, I mean some of the reveals of their personhood.
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Right, like these are still like like Darlas still baby girl, Darlas,
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she's still sweet and cute. Um Then as I mentioned the old as
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the eldest child, she's like college a so you get a little bit of
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her ankst there obviously Billy himself who's growing up and and and coming to terms.
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And then all the all the other kids, like the other brothers that
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are part of the family, like you see you get to see glimpses of
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them. Now do you get to see everyone? Does everyone have equal screen
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time? No, but you do get to see a lot more of the
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kids and their interactions. Okay, I really wouldn't expect that. But I'm
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also talking about because we saw the kids all through the first one, I'm
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talking about their counterparts, like who is it a Megan Good? I think
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who's playing so the movie they're good about that. They actually switched back and
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forth pretty evenly. I felt, Yeah, so you get to see enough
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Megan, good enough enough of the I want to say her name, that
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the little girl who plays Dollar. But you get to see enough of both
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of them, I think, um throughout the film, Like it's kind of
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it's not so much where you sit and you just see a half of the
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film where it's just mostly the adults, and then it's just a little bit
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of kids. Like, nah, it was pretty evenly space, Yeah,
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because in the last one they definitely did not become the Shazanne family to the
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end. They were they were always the kids around very end. Yeah,
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yeah, but Megan and then weren't introduced to the very end. It was
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like the big surprised all the actors who were in it at that point.
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Yeah, her name is Faith Herman, the little girl who plays Dollar.
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But yeah, no, you you see the adult versions of them a lot
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like and again they did a good job to me being pretty even where you
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saw enough of the kids version verse and their adult superhero counterpart. Okay,
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before we get into the things you didn't like, I want to know.
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I got a few other questions. Were there any references to a certain Blackish
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Adam No, not a one that I'm not gonna say, not a one
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because you know, some of the dialogue, I was like, all right,
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whatever, but they if you want to talk about references, they were
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like the first film, there were a lot of Marvel jokes and Marvel jobs.
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Wow, like what yeah, but like lightweight stuff like hey, I'm
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your buddy, I'm just making fun of you type things, not oh I'm
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better than you type jos. I mean like that type of joke, right,
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anything in particular the references to Captain Marvel, references the Avengers reference.
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Oh wow, references to Captain Marvel. Yeah, that's the one that got
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me. Yeah wow, Yeah, Like might I say reference? I like
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the words so you know, like they didn't like hint at it like that,
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and and and again you know, I just think legally they can just
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say the names of things, all right. Yeah, um, how does
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that go again? Because it's like they originally owned it, and then they
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lost the rights, and then Marvel started getting the rights. And that's why
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it's Shazam is now called the Zam instead of being called Captain Marvel because he
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was originally called Captain Marvel. Yeah. Yeah, that's how it goes.
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And that one, that's why that one gave me some delight when that happened.
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But but yeah, there's like there's a few Marvel jokes and references in
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there, if anything, And as I mentioned, even in the Avengers,
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so you get more of that. Was there a Black Adam reference? I
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don't recall there being one. Um. And that's another thing though, you
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know, even though this Black Adam have been on the books for so long,
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it still was not one hundred percent known to come out until it came
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like finally came out. So was it. For example, it took like
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ten years for this ship to come out. Yea, that's been working on
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this ship forever. So I'm this saying I don't think they was holding on
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the writing. I think my point is I don't know if they were even
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I know what the idea was, but I don't think they were thinking about
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Black Adam when they wrote this. I mean, but that's just so wild
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for it not to be, you know, because for any comic fan,
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it is Shazam and Black Adam. It just yeah, it made absolutely no
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sense. But they never Black Adam had no reference to them either beside beside
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the thoughts of the Wizard Johnny Hansu, like besides that and that clear connection
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for people who follow the series, there was no mention of the Shazam fam.
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And in this I do not recall and I could be wrong. Somebody
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correct me when I when I'll see the film, but I don't remember a
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reference to Black Adam again besides the Wizard himself. But like that's not overt,
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like right, Like that's a that's a hurt to breathe moment for me
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because like my first well not my first, but my favorite at least it
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really got me into the story of Black Adam and the Shazam because I really
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wasn't into any of them. I never cared about them as a kid,
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was when I was that fifty two. It's a series by DC. They
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came out every week and it was written by a bunch of great writers.
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But they featured a story on Black Adam and it's when he gets his family.
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He meets his wife, Isis and her younger brother and they all become
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a family and it's like they ever recommencilities. They recommend yeah with the Captain
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Marvel family and all his crew and like so they're all friends for a while.
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Into some horrible shit happens to Black Adams family and then he goes buck
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wild again after that. But it was that moment that I really loved,
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you know, the c these two different families coming together and it was like
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really sweet and happy and then it gets fucking horrible. But yeah, it
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was that. That's one of my favorite stories, and that's when I really
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got into the whole mythos behind all these characters. So yeah, yeah,
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So any references to a talking tiger and maybe I just because I don't even
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know what that's a reference to, so maybe, and I didn't realize it,
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but I don't, damn it. It's nothing at all. No,
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no, no, I mean, I mean, honestly, this was very
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much like Greek mythology, one on one type of of focus, just in
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terms of the nothing what they called, but the characters and the and the
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baddies and things like that. Like that is now two film, folks,
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where we have been denied. I wanted to say, my man's name is
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Tawny. Tawny the Talking Tiger is this like tiger man type character who is
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a part of the Captain Marvel. She was saying family in the comics,
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he's always hungry and he's eating and stuff and he's like comic relief type thing.
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But his name is Tony. I think it's Tawny. Like, oh,
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I've been and I know that name is not Tony the Tiger life for
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us to flake. No, it's like, I think that's his name Tawny.
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But I know he's a talking tiger and he wears the suit, so
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he's awesome talking tiger. Uh DC okay, but anyway for me, but
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yeah, it'll come right up. Yeah, but um damn, So that's
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Talky twenty talking. He t a w K T A w n y is
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wearing a fucking zoo suit. The zoo suit yep. Usually a green page
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boy hat yep, dead ass no excuse me, a green like um,
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smooth criminal hat, A smooth criminal uh, the derby, I guess whatever
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the name of that shit is. But and he got a cane this niggas,
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Oh my god, it is a talking tiger. Okay, but that's
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so random. I'm sorry. It's just off air. Me and Tiwn we're
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talking about how much random DC shit I know, and it is. Even
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though I did not read all the DC comics, I do know a lot
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of the random stuff. And DC to me has like the random like they
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go utterly ridiculous with it, you know, it always have and so that's
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why I love, like, I love the talking tiger being part of the
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family. That's just like the most you know, random shit. It's so
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amazing, So I love it. M yeah, this is insane. Yeah,
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but yeah. References it was typically, like I said, again,
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Greek mythology and Marvel and the same humor. Although like some person as I
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was as I was standing, like I was waiting around, and some guy
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just walked up and he was like, hey, oh, did you like
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this film? And I was like, oh, I was pretty good,
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and he said I thought the first one was funnier, and then kind of
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walked away, and I was like, okay, um, But now that
24:40
I'm thinking about it, I'm like, Okay, I can see why you
24:41
thought the first one's funny. It just made because it was more fresh in
24:44
the context of everything that was happening in DCU, and now that style is
24:48
not new anymore, so maybe it felt that way, but to me,
24:52
like it was pretty much on the level. Okay, So what didn't you
24:56
like about this drunk you know, the stuff that was on the nose right
25:02
like and and that's the that's the whether trying to do out a comedic take
25:07
or not. Like that's one of the pitfalls that I don't like in any
25:11
film, right, so and and sometimes I also shows this age but then
25:14
again, I don't know how long this has been sitting waiting to get released,
25:18
but I don't think that long. Right, But like, like for
25:21
example, Black Adam, you could tell this age right because it was stuff
25:25
that was on the nose. Look, um, it's not so much,
25:30
but it's some of it in there. And again they mean they mean it
25:33
as a joke, but it's just like all right, y'all, like,
25:36
um, like playing the song hero while while they're doing heroic things, right
25:40
and and it's part of the Joe No, not that hero, the old
25:45
so I need a hero that one and and again that's actually part of a
25:49
joke that one of the characters says. But it's still like, yeah,
25:53
if you did it, it's almost as if it's like you're trying to be
25:57
too smart for your own kid, like they get it, like it's a
26:00
lot of starcasm. And that's that's the character. That's the DNA of this
26:07
of the Shazamn series. I get it um, particularly on the on the
26:10
live action. I get it. It's just like there can be there's such
26:12
a thing as too much snarkiness. So there's a little bit of the too
26:18
much snarkiness here and there, but nothing to turn me off from the film,
26:22
so there wasn't. And then also the the the the flatness of the
26:30
villains they with the exception of one that was very like airy and flighty and
26:34
kind of like uh tink rebellish, just in her this is in her attitude,
26:41
um, Lucy Lue. She was pretty flat in this unfortunately. Um.
26:45
And I don't think it. I don't think it's this movie suffered or
26:48
anything because it and that's just her character, her characters Calypso she's the goddess
26:53
of chaos and all she is about chaos. She won't give a fuck about
26:57
about logic and shit making sense. She's just like, no, let's just
27:00
let the world burn. And I saw right, that doesn't make really a
27:03
compelling villain, you know, besides the fact that she's so damn powerful.
27:07
Yeah, but she didn't bring it with that let the world burn and chaos
27:10
and everything like that could be you know, at least, you know,
27:14
intense it's it's not intense as much as this is the bad guy. It's
27:18
a very direct this is the bad guy. This is the person you need
27:21
to be rooting against. I do too. Is she doing like her kill
27:26
Bill times ten or something like? Is it like any she? No?
27:30
Like well even rn she I felt like that was more compelling. Yes,
27:34
that's more. That's much more compelling. This was just I'm textbook comic book
27:38
villain. Then we live up to the textbook. And again it didn't destroy
27:42
anything. It was just like I was like, okay, that that didn't
27:45
do anything for me. Um Helen Mirren not Helen Mirren was good too,
27:53
Like listen, it's Shazam. And I don't think this thing is to carry
28:00
like when it comes from the villains. I don't know so much that it's
28:04
really built to carry these stories of villainy like that to make you care about
28:10
the villains. It does what it's supposed to do, which is make you
28:12
care about Billy, make you deeply care about the family in their bond,
28:18
and make you very making a big consequences to what happens within these bonds and
28:25
with and throughout this family that they do in spades and they do that very
28:30
well. Everybody else is kind of just like, Okay, you're fucking up
28:33
the family, Like, get the funk out of here. So that's how
28:37
I feel, Okay, anything else you wasn't feeling, Um no, no,
28:41
no, it's it's again. If you're looking for you, meaning the
28:48
average person, you're sitting there looking for, you know, the most top
28:49
tier mind bending of fucking dark night approach to a comic book movie. You're
28:57
not gonna get that shit, that's not what and anyone going into it with
29:03
that, you're crazy, You're out of your mind, Like, that's not
29:04
what Shazam is about. Shazam is meant to be fun. Jazam is meant
29:08
to be entertaining. It is also meant to be heartfelt and and give you
29:14
the sense that family is important in family is everything, and they succeeded at
29:18
this. So I actually expect this film to do very well at the box
29:22
office and for some unless, like the the marketing doesn't like I don't know
29:27
why. Well, i've seen marketing come up. Now we're in New York,
29:30
so I've seen marketing. But I'm just hoping that it's It's been light,
29:34
but it's felt like it's been light, but I still feel like it
29:37
should be number one this weekend because there ain't nothing else coming out, and
29:41
um beyond that, who knows, you know, Okay, yeah, it
29:45
just felt light. So I'm a little nervous, but like and nervous in
29:48
the sense of I'm just like, well, how is it gonna make money?
29:51
People don't remember it's coming, but it's it's actually it's fun. And
29:56
I if you want to come and go out on the weekend and see see
29:59
an entertain can in comic book film, this is it. This is it
30:02
for you. And that's been said, ain't shit else on right now,
30:04
So I mean, this is this is the one for You're trying to hit
30:07
the hit the theater with some plopcorn for real, And you also got to
30:11
remember that, like, we're not getting a lot of the marketing for this.
30:15
You know, this is probably hitting like ABC, NBC, CBS all
30:19
day and night, you know, when people are watching you know, Modern
30:23
Family or whatever shit. I don't know, you know, like I'm sure
30:26
that's when this is getting bombarded with shazam ads. You know, I watch
30:32
Abbott. I don't really get saxam ads on the Abbott, but Yeah.
30:36
When I watch Abbott, it's like on Hulu. Yeah, you know what
30:38
I mean. So I'm not I might even I'm not seeing these ads.
30:41
But if there are ads on the mainstream for the typical movie, great,
30:45
great. That means y'all know what's coming. And I do, honestly,
30:48
I do hope it's number one. It's it's a good it's it's number one.
30:52
It deserves to be number one this weekend. And um uh it looks
30:57
good, I will say, just just to wrap it all up, it
31:00
looks good. The effects are great. Like I said, it can be
31:03
brutal when it comes to the fighting and the things that happened to people,
31:07
and and and the the overall Philly itself. It's some brutal shit happening.
31:11
But it's still watching. It's still very much watchable. It's still very much
31:17
Um that's hard, okay. So, and it's very sweet, especially in
31:25
certain times with the family. It's just a very sweet film too. Okay.
31:29
That does um. Since there's no connection to Black Adams, since we
31:34
get no talking tiger, uh, we know we know that Wonder Woman is
31:41
up in that joint, you know, at least in some way shape before
31:45
Yeah, Yeah, it's worth it. Actually, it is worth it.
31:49
It is I will say that for for you know, sometimes it's very weak
31:53
when you get these cameos and things like that. But this time it was
31:56
actually worth it. Okay, it was worth anything else. There is a
32:01
mid credit scene and an end credit scene. I don't are they worth the
32:07
mid credit scene. Definitely, the end credit scene maybe if you have to
32:12
leave in whatever, you could go see in online. But um, I
32:15
definitely want to see that mid credit scene. Okay. Throughout the film?
32:19
Are there any other connections to the DCU. Um, there are talks.
32:25
I mean, besides, you know, we Wonder Woman brings up talks of
32:28
Justice League and then you know, so there's other groups associated. I'm guessing
32:35
Shazam gets disc for being a member of the Justice League, like not fair.
32:39
Well, I'll just I'll leave it up to you for y'all to see
32:42
what happens. The word justice is in there. I'll just say that,
32:45
yeah, well, I mean yeah, but the word justice is in there.
32:49
But because I don't want to ruin for nobody, but true, I
32:52
don't ruin for nobody. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you. I'll
32:53
tell you off air but uh yeah, I like that. Again, like
33:00
I said, with the exception of some of the stuff that was just on
33:01
the nose, it was like, okay, you know, and you don't
33:05
have to be that snarky, we get it. Um. Besides that,
33:07
I liked everything um and and there are kiddish stuff happening. But again,
33:13
look at what the audience of this, the focused audience for this. You
33:15
know this, this is really a family film. Okay, what about let
33:21
me see what are your predictions? Let's say, Okay, I guess men,
33:25
this is a two parter. If this movie does you know, make
33:29
a billion dollars, what are your predictions a billion? I don't know if
33:34
it's gonna make a billion? Okay, all right? In general, what
33:36
are your there's this gives some predictions for the future of the DC E or
33:42
you Yeah. For me, I absolutely gives some predictions because it plays right
33:47
along into what James Gunn and friends are trying to do. Um, which
33:52
what helps me because I was just like, you know, all of these
33:54
because these are technically relics of the DC right, these are technically the last
34:00
films to come out before you get the fresh new stuff. So they played
34:05
it well especially with the inclusion a Wonder Woman, because again I don't know
34:07
how much longer we're gonna have this version of Wonder Woman, but to include
34:10
include Shazam and this and Shazam fam. And then as I say, there's
34:15
mentions of other justice people like to to just drop those seeds is really good,
34:21
right, Um. And then because they're young and their kids, you
34:24
can mold them up as they get in the real life and me you can
34:28
mold up and continue raising them through the DCU, much like how Marvel is
34:31
doing now, how they're raising up the kids right and letting the original or
34:36
the older actors start passing pass the torch to them. You're you're starting to
34:38
see that process within Shazam. So I think that that the clear breadcrumbs are
34:45
there. I And because because they're young, like I first see that they're
34:50
going to continue with the Shazam series with this group of people or something got
34:53
a traffic hoppins or someone's just like, I don't want to do this shit
34:57
no more. I don't know. But um, I didn't hear the I'm
35:00
saying anything about old We're recasting Suxam and all forty kids, Like I don't
35:05
I don't notice, not forty of them, just saying this is a lot
35:07
of mother fucking kids. So you know, yeah, you do not think
35:15
the future of the Cuzam family is don't be that long. No, I
35:19
do think that I do potentially like that's that's what I was saying. I
35:24
said, I don't see them recasting, right like you, except maybe the
35:30
older one. I don't see them recasting. I don't see them stopping this
35:32
train, especially if this makes it at least make the budget back. It
35:36
don't make the budget back, the budget back and double it, then they're
35:38
good. They're gonna keep this going, this train going, because right now,
35:44
right now, this is the only established DCU property that has a through
35:49
line to family. Right A lot of the dc stuff, DCU stuff has
35:53
been dark, m and inaccessible to the younger crowd. This one, this
36:00
one is it's pre built. It's prebuilt with with with the kids, minds,
36:04
prebuilt with family and mind is prebuilt with that money, that type of
36:07
money, that money. Okay, you're right, And even though they have
36:14
not announced this going forward, I do believe that they will, you know,
36:16
make amends. And James Jenner's gonna you know, dodging Bob, and
36:21
we even do all that. So if this does make some good money,
36:23
he gonna be like, yeah, you know, let's keep this money train
36:27
rolling on in and figure out a way to make a reference to it,
36:30
you know, at some point later on, and you know, we'll keep
36:31
it going. It's light enough to keep the youth the youth youth engaged,
36:37
and it's heavy enough to keep DC fans interested, and it has it's it's
36:43
a very nice sweet spot. I feel Shazam is in, which is why
36:45
I feel as long as it makes the guop's supposed to make, they're gonna
36:50
keep the train, as you say, going, keep throwing clothes in there.
36:52
And he's Snyder esque shots in it, and he's slow motion. Yeah,
36:57
this is plenty of this plan. But it's not egregious. It's not
37:00
egregious. But there's when it's used and it makes sense for it to be
37:04
used. But and it's less slow motion as much as it's just intense close
37:07
ups as you know, intense things are happening. So the face, oh
37:15
no, there are there is that. There is always the slow mo punch
37:19
into the face. Yeah, the thing, So so that's there, but
37:23
it's not it's not over overdone. It's not overdone. But no, I
37:27
do see a long history for exam. As long as they keep this formula
37:30
going, they'll be fine. And as I said, I just and if
37:34
they do stop it, I was just like, why that was free money?
37:37
So whatever I mean. At the same time, the argument can be
37:42
made that, you know, you don't need a trilogy and stuff, you
37:45
know, but about the characters themselves, like you want to keep them going,
37:50
like, oh, yeah, they could bring them into other things.
37:52
Now, now we'll say this, even though they've left the breadcrumbs for like
37:57
future films and and and allowing that whole openness the family themselves, I don't
38:02
know if they are going to come along for the ride. Billy Matson can
38:07
definitely be inserted in and out and come along for the ride, and by
38:10
saying in and out the other stories, but I don't know necessarily if they're
38:14
going to continue with their full family because like I said this, I say
38:17
forty but there's a lot of motherfuckers. Yeah that's what I'm saying. Yeah,
38:21
that's what I was saying. Okay, so we are on the same
38:22
page about that, because that's what I'm saying I felt like, ain't a
38:25
way they're gonna keep all these kids acts plus like Megan Good and all them
38:30
around too, like I mean, I mean, I know they ain't the
38:32
biggest I could see the like the whole family from like, if they continue,
38:37
they're gonna continue with Billy, right, continue with jam as a character,
38:39
insert him and other stories or whatever. If they do that and they
38:43
start leaving like behind the family stories, then the family will pop up here
38:46
and there as cameos as versus Yeah. Yeah unless unless Billy, unless the
38:57
response to the family is large than Billy. Yeah, and the audience response.
39:04
If the audience response is very strong and keen on the family enough,
39:07
then they'd be like, Okay, we'll do at least a trilogy with the
39:10
fam. If not, they're just gonna keep it pushing, I know.
39:15
I mean, I mean a billy as an abilly, not billy bats Billy
39:19
isn't a billy. Yeah, if it makes a billy, the family will
39:21
be bad for you know. I just don't personally see this as the billy.
39:23
And maybe again maybe because I'm not seeing enough marketing, but I see
39:29
this doing well and being successful, I'd be I would be immediately shocked,
39:32
and not because it's not can't make it to abillity, just I just didn't
39:37
realize that there was that much marketing for that to happen, or that much
39:39
love for so Exam too. Yeah, I mean there was there's some people
39:44
online that we're like, oh, I forgot this was coming out. I
39:45
was like, oh shit, okay, I couldn't. I mean, I'm
39:51
really kind of shocked to hear that it's good because it is coming out this
39:53
weekend and we're just starting to see it. So I just figured that,
39:59
you know, they were so late in the game. Yeah, I was
40:00
like, they're holding this because you know, so I'm kind of shot,
40:05
you know, I think I think it's fun. And Leslie surprised, I'll
40:07
say, yeah, I would say I was. I was because I wasn't
40:10
necessarily like super hype about it. I just thought it would be decent.
40:15
But it was a little bit more than decent, and you know, I
40:17
it was entertaining, okay, And again it was on the level the first
40:22
exams. It's listen, this is this is this is a popcorn film.
40:24
It's not rocket science. It's not meant to be. The first game is
40:29
one of the months I enjoyed in the theater, and then when it's like
40:31
been on Hulu or whatever, like when it's on T and T. I've
40:35
called like parts of it, but I've never seen it all the way through
40:38
again from the first time. That's probably gonna do the same with it,
40:42
Yeah, I dot, I will, yeah, I'll probably catch this is
40:44
the one. What you see in the theater, it's like, Okay,
40:45
that was fun. That was cool. And then later down the line,
40:47
come on TV. It's like playing while you're doing your launchry or something.
40:51
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like I was watching the End Game the other
40:53
day. I called, like, you know, quick, thirty minutes of
40:55
it. It was amazing, you know, as always, no that I
40:59
have to stop in my track. Oh yeah yeah, I mean that's why,
41:00
you know, yea, the game was coming on after two. It
41:04
was perfect, and I'm watching the game. Yeah yeah yeah. So listen,
41:07
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41:09
the movies this weekend, go see this, have fun. You might giggle
41:14
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41:20
he's always good. Yeah, So it's good. So ye yeah,
41:23
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