Hancock

[Tannhauser]

OK, I'lll do what I can, I visit this site more than anywhere else on the webz.  Just don't expect a million dollars, I'm an engineer in the manufacturing sector!

/12% pay cut 4tehlose

[NiX]

Just want to drop in and say that I logged onto the forums and swore I saw "Mancock"

[Surlyboi]

What you do in your personal life is none of our business. 

[Khaldun]

I did find the backstory kind of unnecessary to the basic schtick. Basic schtick is that Hancock is a superpowered dude who doesn't give a fuck, decides to grow up. That's kind of interesting enough, eh? You don't have to end up with him being Superman, fully stick-in-butt righteous. Once it threw in the whole "we were gods, we can't be together" I was like huh? wha? really? srsly? Muddled the whole thing.

[DraconianOne]

The original screenplay was kind of interesting and nothing like the film. No mention of amnesia or any of that mythological crap about couples and whatever.

[Lantyssa]

I'm normally the first one to say "STFU and watch the movie they made, not the one you wish they made!" but wow. I mean why put all that there if I'm not supposed to think about it at all? In most other regards it's not a particularly boneheaded "brain totally off plz" type of movie.

You're thinking too much.  It wasn't supposed to be anything more than showing he's been lost and kicking about aimlessly for 80 years.

Were it a serious movie, there were some interesting consequences they could have explored.  But it was a Will Smith summer movie.

[Ymurr]

I confess I was disappointed by the story's development. Psychological talking mixed with mythology did not become a harmonious whole, but instead left me confused of what the story wanted to tell me at all. o.O Am still sad, because I liked the original idea.

[Amarr HM]

It's a Will Smith movie. Watching for the plot (or in this case, yes, plots) is kinda ... I don't know... watching it incorrectly.

This, it's a popcorn flick and a fairly decent one at that. The later plotline was a bit contrived and they seemed to try and do a paradigm shift into epic drama, they should have gone popcorn all the way for better result. Still though watchable fluff.

[tazelbain]

Personal I would have gone forward with the whole domestic violence.  He does something egregious, she losses control and clobbers him causing him forget.  She decides it is better that way and moves on.  Fits better with super heroes as real, flawed people.  The Soul Mates mechanic is lame.

[WindupAtheist]

I still think taking the traditional thirties-and-forties Superman story and basically re-telling it with him as a cynical black guy is a fucking awesome idea, and could have been way more entertaining than what we got. Bah.

Anyway, can anyone tell me why they played the Sanford & Son song as that guy was running around with the other dude's head up his ass? I saw this again the other day and it just seems so... random.