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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

Nerys Myk said:
I liked Shazam and and about two thirds of Suicide Squad. I would have preferred the Golden Age or Ordway takes on Shazam, but the Johns take is okay. Suicide Squad takes a while to get going thanks to a clunky first act. The one DCEU film I thought failed was Birds of Prey. Man that was bad.
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Ah man, don't say that. I just got that on Blu-ray (I have all the other DC films). Cost less than the price of the IMAX ticket I was planning to buy before COVID shut our local cinemas. Oh well, at least it will not have cost me MORE than what I would have spent anyway.
 
Ovation said:
Ah man, don't say that. I just got that on Blu-ray (I have all the other DC films). Cost less than the price of the IMAX ticket I was planning to buy before COVID shut our local cinemas. Oh well, at least it will not have cost me MORE than what I would have spent anyway.
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It is visually interesting
 
I have to agree with Nerys Myk: It's my least favorite DCEU film to date. I bought the Blu-ray, too, for completist's sake, but I haven't been able to work up the interest to watch it.
 
The Realist said:
I have to agree with Nerys Myk: It's my least favorite DCEU film to date. I bought the Blu-ray, too, for completist's sake, but I haven't been able to work up the interest to watch it.
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Wait. What? Less liked than BvS? Hmm. That either means it’s really bad or I’m gonna love it. ;)

Well, it’s not on my immediate “must watch” pile. It was temporarily cheap on Amazon Canada (4k version was cheaper than regular Blu-ray release). But I was a bit more enthusiastic about it yesterday than today.
 
Ovation said:
Wait. What? Less liked than BvS? Hmm. That either means it’s really bad or I’m gonna love it. ;)
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Thought you might say something like that. :p But BvS at least has Adams's marvelous Lois and Gadot's splendid Diana going for it. It's hard to go completely wrong with those two.

I actually do like Robbie's Harley Quinn, too, despite having zero interest in the character in any other incarnation or medium. But she's not enough to salvage BoPatFEoOHQ. Mind you, the film's not terrible. I just found it uninvolving and uninspiring.
 
Ovation said:
Wait. What? Less liked than BvS? Hmm. That either means it’s really bad or I’m gonna love it. ;)

Well, it’s not on my immediate “must watch” pile. It was temporarily cheap on Amazon Canada (4k version was cheaper than regular Blu-ray release). But I was a bit more enthusiastic about it yesterday than today.
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Suicide Squad has a lot of flaws which are mainly in the first fifteen minutes and the last fifteen minutes. I am glad I didn't pay to see it in the cinema but it kept my interest, and Margot Robbie is really great in it.
 
Grendelsbayne said:
I agree. I wish they would've tweaked one specific thing at the ending, but other than that it's one of the absolute best movies in the DCEU.
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Count me as a fan of Birds of Prey. I hope against hope that we'll get a sequel--it deserves it. It is my favorite DCU film after Wonder Woman. I enjoyed Shazam and Aquaman too, but they had their flaws in my opinion. Aquaman was a little too "by the numbers" in plot; and Shazam I just can't put my finger on it but something bugged me about it--just a little. I want to stress how much I liked them. The only DCU films that really bombed for me was Justice League. Birds of Prey though was the only one that I really liked all the way through and didn't have a moment that drew me out of the film. MoS I liked with the exception of the climax which was just too triggering for me to watch again--for BvS I didn't mind the "Martha" moment as I figured Superman/Clark Kent Ace Reporter just knew Batman was Bruce Wayne and did his research. BvS just had such a rambling and unfocused plot that it really bored me in places--but overall I enjoyed that too.
 
JD said:
What was that one thing? Spoiler coding would probably be best.
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I didn't like how Harley's big moment was undermined by a joke. I think her big 'I'm the one they should be scared of speech' should've preceded a direct victory over Black Mask, or at least once you do the joke you then let her do something else that feels like a direct victory. As is, it was kind of like she made a big speech about being better than him and then just flailed around until he died through no fault of her own.

Also - and this isn't really part of the one thing and is very minor - but I really do wish they'd given Bruce an action scene.
 
crookeddy said:
You keep calling Shazam a failure, while WB is making a sequel. This destroys the rest of your point. Shazam also has 90% on RT, second only to Wonder Woman.
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You can enjoy Shazam as much as you care to, but it was a misfire, just as Suicide Squad was.
 
Shazam made $365,971,656 on a $100,000,000 budget, and was the #25 movie worldwide, so it wasn't a huge record breaking, but it was definitely not a misfire either. And from a critical standpoint, it has a 71/100 on Metacritic with 53 reviews, breaking down to 43 positive, 8 mixed, and 2 negative. The highest rating is a 90, and the lowest is 25. It has a 7.1/10 on IMDB with 243,168 reviews, a 7.6/10 from the users on Metacritic, and 4.5/5 with 17,331 reviews on Amazon, so it wasn't a misfire from a fan perspective either. Personally, I really enjoyed and I've seen a lot of other positive reactions on here. So I think it's pretty safe to say no matter how you look at it, Shazam was not a misfire.
Grendelsbayne said:
I didn't like how Harley's big moment was undermined by a joke. I think her big 'I'm the one they should be scared of speech' should've preceded a direct victory over Black Mask, or at least once you do the joke you then let her do something else that feels like a direct victory. As is, it was kind of like she made a big speech about being better than him and then just flailed around until he died through no fault of her own.
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I don't remember the movie well enough to remember how I reacted to that.
 
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