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FIRST!!!!!
by Leafy McPlantsalot
Jul 1st, 2008
12:25:10 AM
FOURTH!!!!
by Leafy McPlantsalot
Jul 1st, 2008
12:25:31 AM
I'm waiting to see Dark Knight...
by The Dum Guy
Jul 1st, 2008
12:29:37 AM
Could'a watched Hancock tonite, decided to get drunk instead.
Lack of supervillain
by Simon Moon
Jul 1st, 2008
12:34:20 AM
A villain's absence in the trailer made me wonder what the hell the film was about and how it possibly could be interesting. A movie without a story tends to keep me away. As is the case here.
I Am Legend wasn't all that bad....
by TregsHimself
Jul 1st, 2008
12:34:57 AM
Will Smith can pretty much earn money for any project at this point. No more "Ali" days for him.
WILL SMITH...please do more acting, less "action"...
by The Marquis de Side 3
Jul 1st, 2008
12:39:46 AM
...because your film "PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS" was good at showing what a great actor you could really be if you could stop prostituting yourself as this big bad "tough guy" mouthing off the villains. It got boring after "ID4" and "BAD BOYS". Really quick. So please, DON'T be like Tom Cruise. Just be yourself and stop trying to be the great action hero Hollywood is turning you into. Give us something different with each movie. Which at this point is ANYTHING but characters like "Hancock" =0(
Director`s Cut?
by Romoehlio
Jul 1st, 2008
12:41:02 AM
seriously? would love that...
Wrong-O, SoylentMean!
by mrbeaks
Jul 1st, 2008
12:41:16 AM
As I said in the review, (and you shouldn't be reading this if you don't want to be spoiled), the escaped convicts are the late-arriving villains of the piece.
First
by snitchseeker
Jul 1st, 2008
12:41:28 AM
yep
haha
by snitchseeker
Jul 1st, 2008
12:42:03 AM
worst first attempt ever. last time i ever try that. i don't even really care...
Hancock better than it's trailer
by TroyG
Jul 1st, 2008
12:43:52 AM
I wasn't really looking forward to Hancock after the original trailer graced the movie screens. But as the TV Spots started popping up closer to the movies opening, I thought that it could be more than another "Blankman." Well, I saw a sneak peek of the flick tonight and was entertained. It's not the next "Iron Man' but it was a fun ride. You can definitely tell that Will Smith is trying to create another franchise with his new hero, one that I'd watch again as long as the character keeps his troubled nature to some extent. The cast is well rounded and the action sequences are thrilling. It's a fun movie, no matter what this site's reviewer thinks. It's not a masterpiece, but it's not a train wreck either.
Just saw it
by fofo
Jul 1st, 2008
12:44:38 AM
Very meh.
DAMN YOU M NIGHT SHYAMALAN!
by --- Emperor ---
Jul 1st, 2008
12:49:35 AM
Damn you to hell!
Well that review above by TroyG sums up Hollywood exec approach
by spectrebeeyatch
Jul 1st, 2008
12:53:22 AM
Why actually try and make something new and interesting when you can just have a watered down pg-13 movie that is "okay". Here is my problem: Hancock who goes around telling people to fuck off, then goes and fucks bitches and is actually a bad dude at first is more interesting than the pg-13 version of him. So he destroys shit as he stops bad guys... umm who gives a shit Batman and Spider-man do the same fucking thing. It's like they have an interesting idea for a movie and then shit on it. I see no point in seeing this movie. The selling point should be he is a super hero who is a fucking asshole. More interesting would be what happens if there was a guy like that with powers who did nothing but do what he wants? Not wreck shit as he stops criminals but I mean a guy who rips off doors to places and just uses his powers to be an ass. Then he learns to be good and blah blah and then fights an actual villain who has powers and enjoys hurting people. THAT SHOULD BE THE MOVIE. This watered down pg crap looks boring and he doesn't look that bad to start with at least he is stopping bad guys. Fuck this movie at least Wanted had balls to be R and had a fun time with it. This looks like I Am Legend all over again where a good movie is hiding behind executive stupid decisions. Rant over.
Ogre
by TroyG
Jul 1st, 2008
01:01:03 AM
By the way, If you've ever wondered what happened to the actor who played "Ogre" in "Revenge of the Nerds" and who was also in HBO's "1st & Ten," you'll get your answer in the Jail AA scenes. Just thought I'd pass that along to any 80's fans out there.
Is that Tom Cruise 25 Years for real???
by aboriginal
Jul 1st, 2008
01:04:11 AM
Its the Curse of the Cruise. WS is the latest victim.
Hey Beaks, about the I Am Legend ending...
by NivekJ
Jul 1st, 2008
01:11:39 AM
Didja mean the ending where Will Smith blows himself up or the original ending where he finds the nice butterfly tattoo on the creature and hands her back? Beacuse the tame, pussied-up ending is on the DVD and the dark, I-blew-myself-up, ending was in the theatrical cut. That's all. And besides, there hasn't been big bucks spent on a fucked-up movie since Miami Vice; what makes anyone think they're gonna do that with Big Willie Style and the Asshole of Steel script? Just sayin'.
Will, get away from the Scientologist-XENU XENU
by MGTHEDJ
Jul 1st, 2008
01:13:51 AM
Damn, they got their mitts on this movie too? I am not watching. This should have been far more hardcore and playing up the absurdity of superheroes. And Will, quit recruiting/stalking Theron! Stay out of her interviews. XENU, XENUUUU!!
WELCOME TO EARF!
by Darth_Gonz
Jul 1st, 2008
01:19:18 AM
Awww hells, naw!
Smith never phones it in?
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
01:21:37 AM
"he respects his audience too much to ever phone it in"? Me no think so. He's been doing the same "Aww HAIL naw!" for ages now. He rarely drops that sctick unless he's in an Oscar state of mind. I wish he was in that mood more often. He'd catch far less shit if he actually, you know, ACTED rather than played on his public nice-guy persona all the fucking time.
Hey Beaks, did you ever read "Tonight, He Comes"??
by Midnight Thud
Jul 1st, 2008
01:22:55 AM
I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on it. The original script is pretty taut, in some respects almost like the Straw Dogs of the superhero genre. It could have been a real stand-out... granted if a whole slew of variables ended up clicking into place, the least of which if Michael Mann was still the director and if he also had total carte blanche to do whatever he wanted.
And Charlize as a superhero
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
01:24:12 AM
is COMPLETELY wasted and pointless in this movie. That whole twist is completely pointless, goes nowhere, and is shoddily explained. "Oh we're gods...no, we're angels...wait, we're immortal...wait, but we can't be close or we'll get cooties!" I cannot wait until people lay eyes on this thing. Good grief.
I rather enjoyed Last Action Hero
by FuryofthefilmFan
Jul 1st, 2008
01:43:09 AM
Seriously, What was wrong with it?
HUDSON HAWK
by postalpez
Jul 1st, 2008
01:44:41 AM
everyone i know seems to like it, so why is it always put down?
You're STILL being too easy on Will Smith
by IndustryKiller!
Jul 1st, 2008
01:52:20 AM
Saying the problem with I Am Legend was that they used the wrong ending is like saying that the problem with Star Wars Episode 3's problem is Darth vader yelling "NOOOOOO!!!" It's stupid yes, but only begins to scratch the surface of how bad the film is. I Am Legend was awful right after the first 15 minutes. I'll give SMith those first 15, after that it becomes his typical awful blockbuster, source material bastardizing crap. And Hancock looks to be no different. I bet when they realease the R rated directors cut it's still garbage just with more swearing. The problem with Smith isn't that he isn't edgy enough, its that he makes bad movies that always ceaselessly glorify him somehow. Hancock, even with edgier material, will still be a movie where one man gets his head stuck another guys ass. Adam Sandler is somewhere cursing the gods that he didn't think of that first. The movie will still play squarely at the low class jackasses and it will still be directed poorly (but expensively, Micheal Bay eat your heart out!) by Peter Berg. And it will still star Will Smith.
last action hero had Def leppard song
by Groothewarrior
Jul 1st, 2008
02:06:34 AM
song 'Two Steps Behind' one of their best, they play it acoustically really well live
smith better actor than cruise?
by mynemaborat
Jul 1st, 2008
02:17:37 AM
ahh i don't think will smith is a better or more versatile actor than the cruise... he's more charasmatic, but not a better actor. cruise may be a lunatic, but he is an excellent actor
Wall-E, The Dark Knight and Iron Man...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
Jul 1st, 2008
02:24:12 AM
...And maybe (hopefully) Tropic Thunder are the only movies to watch in the theater this summer.
Informed Moviegoers
by OCMC the Magazine
Jul 1st, 2008
02:26:05 AM
We are a committed to the empowerment of urban youths 15 to 24 to make informed decisions regarding all of their entertainment needs. Beaks supports the free market ideal. Visit ocmcmagazine.vze.com or myspace.com/ocmc and let us know what you think.
Last Action Hero rules........................
by The Dum Guy
Jul 1st, 2008
02:27:32 AM
THink about that movie... it has every cliche, plus the whole Stallone as/is Arnold in the alternate universe.

Hancock is a movie for the 4th of July (which is Friday) released wide on the 1st.,,, why? B/c the "opening weekend" is a week long. Because of that, you should see this in I=MAX.
Well I'll be hit in the nuts with a baseball bat!!
by saggyballsack
Jul 1st, 2008
02:43:49 AM
Now that is cool news! BTW Last Action Hero rules Got the soundtrack not long ago and it's awesome.
Will has more money than he will ever spend.
by Rev. Slappy
Jul 1st, 2008
02:48:24 AM
So how about making a real, low budget indie film? Who cares if it makes $200 million or not? At this point, Will could get any script greenlit, especially if he waived his fee and the movie only cost $20-30 million.
Mr. F!
by Recognizer
Jul 1st, 2008
03:17:29 AM
Ha -- looks like Michael and Rita got together after all. Although anybody who watched Season 3 of Arrested Development would probably be pretty creeped out seeing Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron as a married couple...
Have People Read The Original Last Action Hero Script?
by TroutMaskReplicant
Jul 1st, 2008
04:24:23 AM
Co-written by Zak Penn. It's around if you look for it. The shooting script was rewritten by two other writers including Shane Black.
Hudson Hawk is may favorite guilty pleasure
by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks
Jul 1st, 2008
04:51:49 AM
its so quotable.

Damn photomat assholes.

I had free passes to this tonight...
by Mace Tofu
Jul 1st, 2008
05:08:50 AM
but didn't feel like driving to the theater. Sounds like I saved $4 in gas.
I Quite Liked It
by RobFromBackEast
Jul 1st, 2008
05:13:42 AM
Uneven but fun. Berg is a fantastic director and does a great job with a sluggish script.
I like Beaks.
by fiester
Jul 1st, 2008
05:15:05 AM
He's a miserable SOB with a critical mind--something sorely lacking in the reviewers roster on AICN, where nostalgic fanboys run amuck and introduce reviews with five page remembrances of their fifth grade antics.
Tonight He Comes...
by Etrigan_
Jul 1st, 2008
05:43:15 AM
Got to love that! I shall not see this movie as it looks suckish. I think ol Will Smiff needs some good screenplays. He's a likable guy and all but he ain't all that. The thing is, most people seem to like crappy movies, soooo that's what you get. I don't know how Tom Cruise got into all this but he's the cat's crap box. At his best, he looks like he's trying too hard. He will not be missed after the disasterous "Valkyrie" poop... enuff
Beaks puts "Mori is best AICN writer" BS to rest
by Lenny8
Jul 1st, 2008
06:09:57 AM
This guy writes rings around McWeeny. An entertaining, well written review that isn't self-indulgent at all. Well done, Beaks. For me to praise anyone on this site is nothing less than amazing. Can we all just put Moriarty in the closet where he belongs now?
How did Peter Berg become an action director
by calstatelongbeachfilmmaker1
Jul 1st, 2008
06:21:52 AM
Excuse Me, but how in the hell did Peter Berg become an action director. The guy directed one fucking film before The Rundown that was seen by no one and yet he gets these big action movies like The Kingdom and Hancock. How the hell does he do it? I mean nothing that this guy has done before remotely suggests that he is capable of handling these big action movies. I'm sorry directing a couple of Chicago Hope episodes don't fucking count. I mean seriously, how the fuck does he do it? Does he have pictures of heads of studio doing crazy shit. How the hell else do you explain this guy landing all these action assignments and never mind that this guy directs only the dialogue scenes of these big action set pieces. I mean any one with a brain knows that he doesn't do the action scenes, but he has a top second unit team do it for him. Just look at The Rundown, the majority of the movie was done by the fight choreographer. Fuck Berg, Long Live Michael Bay, at least he directs his own action and makes no pretense about anything else. But really, can anyone answer this question????????????
Just make Miracle Man already!
by Trazadone
Jul 1st, 2008
06:24:45 AM
Tom Cruise
by Sparhawk38
Jul 1st, 2008
06:47:21 AM
Is a good driver. Ok..maybe not as good as Dustin Hoffman. I have really stopped going to as many movies as I used to. I have gotten tired of seeing average stuff in the theater. No doubt I will rent Hancock, but I just can't get enthused enough to pay for it on the big screen. Wall *E was worth it, however. AND Dark Knight is going to pack the Shiz.... Who's with me?
signature line, I just gotta know
by John L Raiser
Jul 1st, 2008
07:10:16 AM
Does "Hancock" give an exasperated "Ahhhh, hell nooooo" in the flick?
WALL-E
by bythehairofsanjaya
Jul 1st, 2008
07:11:10 AM
Wall-E didn't come close to the greatness of The Incredables. It was just "OK".
"Lil' Mann just got steamrolled by Sony"
by Mr. P. Lant
Jul 1st, 2008
07:22:24 AM
Berg, you just got served yo'!
Three things that are ruining movies...
by Yeti
Jul 1st, 2008
07:25:53 AM
1. The push to make movies for almost everyone "four-quadrant consumption" (and at $200 million it's no wonder this mandate continues)

2. Lack of charecter development in favor of a ninety minute running time. Since half the audience the studios are courting have almost non-existent attention spans this is really a fait accompli.

3. Gotta lighten things up and have a "hollywood" ending. Musn't traumatize the kiddies.

"Idealistic publicist"...yeah...right!...
by Kid Z
Jul 1st, 2008
07:45:00 AM
...Take it from me, marketing and P.R. people are the worst forms of subhuman, bloodsucking, backstabbing scumbags imaginable. Complete twofaced, gladhanding, bottom-feeders, every last one of them! So right off, you have a problem, because, if anything, Bateman should have been the villain.
Good review
by Thunderbolt Ross
Jul 1st, 2008
07:54:46 AM
I didn't see the movie but it seems like an insightful bit o' writing.
re TroyG
by DocPazuzu
Jul 1st, 2008
08:05:42 AM
Guess how many previous talkbacks TroyG has participated in? That's right: 0.

TroyG, take your planty, whoring ass out of here. With any luck your studio pimpmaster will give your gimpy ass a Drano mouthwash for failing so utterly in talkback.

Peter Berg
by Thunderbolt Ross
Jul 1st, 2008
08:06:13 AM
I thought the Kingdom had some good moments but the ADD editing was hard to take, cutting every three seconds ... during a mellow conversation on an airplane, for instance.
Berg's Best Work...
by Aquatarkusman
Jul 1st, 2008
08:07:05 AM
... was definitely as the clueless boxer in The Great White Hype ("I'm not even IRISH!")
TroyG/DocPazuzu
by Thunderbolt Ross
Jul 1st, 2008
08:15:09 AM
Good call. Worst plant ever?
Will Smith is a Scientologist
by Drunken Rage
Jul 1st, 2008
08:19:20 AM
So none of his projects are getting any of my money. Now, fuck off.
Thunderbolt
by DocPazuzu
Jul 1st, 2008
08:19:59 AM
Definitely in the top five. What a tool.
I don't agree that Will Smith is a more versitile actor than Tom
by thebigtexas
Jul 1st, 2008
08:31:35 AM
I don't DISAGREE, but you can't just say because Will Smith did "Ali" that he could surpass the variety that Cruise has put out. "Born on the 4th of July" and "Magnolia" come to mind for Cruise's films. Will Smith is on an equal plain, but he shouldn't be listed above.
Comparing Tom and Will's Acting
by Aquatarkusman
Jul 1st, 2008
08:35:53 AM
Is like comparing a punch in the nuts or an atomic wedgie as a preferred greeting. I count a grand total of 4-5 acting moves in their combined 35 years of moviemaking.
If Industry Killer hates this movie
by Mr_X
Jul 1st, 2008
09:54:38 AM
it must be good. i'm sold!
poor reviews for Hancock
by zooch
Jul 1st, 2008
09:54:56 AM
Glowing reviews for Hellboy 2, go big red!
I'm still seeing it....
by allykatD
Jul 1st, 2008
10:30:45 AM
I'm going to the matinee, which is $6.50, which isn't difficult to afford and I have the time. So... if it's good that's great, if it's okay that's great, and it can't suck more than Ultra Violet which is just about the only movie where I wanted to walk out and ask for my money back.
I can't even be bothered to flame that plant
by Lost Jarv
Jul 1st, 2008
10:49:12 AM
He's so pathetic and obvious.
Beaks, why see movies at all.
by JacksParasites
Jul 1st, 2008
10:52:20 AM
You're clearly far more entertained by listening to yourself than any movie. This is a great example of a review that says so much more about the reviewer than the film being reviewed. But really, you compared Smith to Cruise without even one direct reference to the fact that Will Smith actually now is a nutty $cientologist? If you really want to discourage people from paying money to see this, you should have really emphasized that fact.
Nothing Smith has done approaches Born on 4th of July
by JackRabbitSlim
Jul 1st, 2008
11:04:37 AM
Will's Ali was a fine piece of work - doesnt compare to Cruise's raw intensity of Born on 4th or even his misogynistic charisma he struts about in Magnolia. Does Hancock's "assholity" compare to Frank T.J. Mackey - I sincerely doubt it.
And I shoulda read the talkbacks
by JackRabbitSlim
Jul 1st, 2008
11:09:34 AM
Cuz i just (unknowingly) parroted Big Texas. I concur in every way.
Beeks you are kind of right
by Series7
Jul 1st, 2008
11:18:27 AM
About Berg getting steamrolled by Sony. But I think its more of a William Smith Company thing. Recently he's been getting these up and coming directors for his blockbusters and turned them into studio hacks. While he comes off fine, they come off looking incompetent. I mean after Bad Boys 2 I wonder if a big name director will work with Smith on a blockbuster flick again? Bad Boys was too much ego from both ends. So Smith gets obviously compitent directors Francis Lawrence/Beg/Proyas and makes these very good looking movies ($$$) but they all aren't worth seeing more then once. I wonder if Smith was worried with after Sonnenfeld's WWW and MIB2 and Bad Boys, all of which were over indulgent crap that he was going to start to alienate audiences? So he took in directors that could be controlled a little more since they didn't have much weight? I would be interesting to see a series of interviews from these guys... like WAY after the fact. Because right now they are all WAY too busy counting the money The William Smith 100 million a year Company, earned them to ever take what they say as fact and not part of the contract. It would be nice to know how much by the balls studios or Smith had these directors or if they were all their own faults. Like they saw the $ amount that came with directing a Smith Joint and couldn't handle it.
Last Action Hero Rocks
by Moviegimp
Jul 1st, 2008
11:23:03 AM
I don't know if this will good or bad, hoping at least fun. I love LAH as much as the others who have posted, soundtrack is kick ass. I think it was a combination of critics who didn't get it and just the craziness of the flick that doomed it in theaters. If you like comics and action movies and just want to have a good time you do want to see it.
I Robot
by Lost Jarv
Jul 1st, 2008
11:30:56 AM
I want to like it, but the flagrant product placement makes me hate it before it is even 10 minutes in. ("Converse, late 20th century classics").
TJ Mackey
by Thunderbolt Ross
Jul 1st, 2008
11:41:55 AM
I watched Magnolia recently and I gotta say - Cruise is a freak and a pretty unappealing one at that, but he is great in that part. It's weird how it kind of reminded me of that infamous recent Scientology video he did.

Anyway he holds the screen fantastically in Magnolia. (I rewatched it cause of There Will Be Blood. It's still largely a failure, though it has some greatness to it at the same time.)

Yeah Soylent, she's like Hancock
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
11:42:07 AM
My friend works for the Raleigh News and Observer and got me into a press screening. And that revelation aout Charlize is absolutely, completely WASTED in this film. Apparently, the two of them have been around since the beginning of time, evidenced in a scene where Charlize points out scars on Hancock and tells him, "Oh you got this one in 3 BC, oh this one's from a house fire in 1850". PLOT HOLES AHOY!: she claims that if they stay together for a while, they both become mortal, and that he has to leave. Uuh, you've been together since the dawn of mankind, you were in each other's prescence up until 1920, and you didn't become mortal then and die! Why is it now all of a sudden after spending a few weeks together that you're turning mortal?! Also, no one mentions anything about the implications of a black man and a white woman being supposedly married in 1850, no less walking down the street together in the SOUTH in AMERICA in nineteen fucking TWENTY!!!!!! Come ON now! They have one fight scene/domestic scuffle in downtown LA and then she never uses her damn powers again. The final fight scene is suprisingly brutal w/o showing much blood, but the manner in which the film is resolved is just bugfuck nuts. It's quite a mess of a film.
And the "villain"
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
11:43:31 AM
COMPLETE AND UTTER AFTERTHOUGHT. What a waste.
We get it - you hate studios...
by QManning
Jul 1st, 2008
12:02:51 PM
Here's a tip when reviewing a film: FORGET EVERYTHING THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES AND JUST TALK ABOUT THE DAMN MOVIE! Seriously, your review had more bull crap attacks on Berg and Sony than it had anything to do with the actual film, Hancock. Hancock works. It has problems and is far from a perfect film, but it's fun, it's surprising, it's funny, and there's tons of eye candy. When you say there's no 'conflict' it shows how little you truly know about movies: This movie is NOTHING but conflict - from Hancock's personal conflict, to the conflict with the city & police, to his conflict with criminals and eventually Charlize. Plus, you've got the consistent conflict that Bateman's character goes through with his job, his family, with Hancock, and coming to deal with where the ultimate resolution takes us. Take the movie for what it is, not what you wish it would have been if someone hadn't 'tried to make it safe.' Because as it stands, Hancock's a helluva lot of fun.
Conflict
by mrbeaks
Jul 1st, 2008
12:46:37 PM
Gotta want something for conflict to exist. What does Hancock want (until his run-in w/ Mary)? To be left alone? To keep drinking? Not strong enough. Ray's predicament is a little more involving, but the stakes are too low because there's no reason to believe that Mary will leave him (or that he'd have to sell the house or whatever). It's nice that the film was *trying* to be different, but, regardless of what I know about the behind-the-scenes squabbling, you can sense from this cut that it wanted to play rougher. Hence "go-nowhere compromises".
Blech - who thought this movie would be any good?
by finky089
Jul 1st, 2008
12:57:48 PM
Not I.
Interview w/a Vampire Problem
by Thunderbolt Ross
Jul 1st, 2008
02:31:11 PM
Brad Pitt is terrible
Memories-of-Murder
by mrbeaks
Jul 1st, 2008
02:41:01 PM
Not even remotely. Much more conventional than that.
'jocular wont'
by blackshuck
Jul 1st, 2008
02:47:20 PM
that's some good wordage!
It is NOT a character study
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
03:00:02 PM
If anything, it's a study of how to wreck the momentum of a film by introducing a potentially interesting angle only to do NOTHING with it. Plus, Theron is really, REALLY bad in this. I don't know if it was her or Berg, but it was painfully obvious throughout the film that she was connected in some way to Hancock. Watch the clip of the three of them at the restaurant as Hancock talks about his origins and watch Theron's face. It's so PAINFULLY obvious. She's beating us over the head with it, for Pete's sake. There's no subtlety, no nuance to her performance. And another BIGASS plot hole: in the end fight, as Hancock gets his ass kicked, Theron writhes in pain, indicating that she and Hancock are symbiotically connected a la ET and Elliot. Now, if she can feel it as he gets his ass kicked in the finale, does she feel what he feels all of the time? Don't you think her husband would have, at some point prior to Hancock's arrival in their lives, noticed his wife rolling around on the floor of their house like someone was kicking her ass? When Hancock gets drunk, does she feel a hangover, too?
Another annoying thing about this movie
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
03:03:59 PM
How Theron suddenly packs on two tons of black eyeliner once her powers are revealed. I couldn't stop laughing at that.
I read a review somewhere that claimed...
by Zeke25:17
Jul 1st, 2008
03:50:29 PM
Hancock himself was supposed to be a metaphor for America...as in, barreling into everything supposedly in the name of doing good, but instead just pissing people off, causing even more damage, etc, etc. Interesting take, though I doubt such was intended. And no, I'm not gonna see it...though I do likes me some Charlize!
glad this is bombing....
by torpedoboy
Jul 1st, 2008
03:53:42 PM
...seeing as how they stole the whole story from me and my artwork.
Oh, and re: Hudson Hawk
by Zeke25:17
Jul 1st, 2008
03:54:08 PM
I went into that film a Bruce Willis convert (after Moonlighting and Die Hard, how could I not be?) and walked out thinking Bruce had taken one too many hits to the head. Swing on a Star is one of the dumbest songs ever written, and having he and Aiello sing that was just fucking painful.
'cuz Little Mann just got steamrolled by Sony
by TopHat
Jul 1st, 2008
04:00:22 PM
NEWSFLASH: Most of us do not live in L.A. or work in some capacity in the movie industry. Thus, we do not know what you're talking about when you say things like "'cuz Little Mann just got steamrolled by Sony". Almost every contributer to this site always puts in these little gossip nuggets as if he's talking in a L.A. coffee shop with one of his aspiring screenwriter buddies.
Good God
by d_fens1969
Jul 1st, 2008
04:04:18 PM
We live in a world wherein someone has dubbed Will Smith as the biggest male actor in Hollywood.
I finally saw this original ending of "I Am Legend"
by I am_NOTREAL
Jul 1st, 2008
04:12:22 PM
and it was crap, too.
Just saw it......I thought this was supposed to be a comedy.
by Shermdawg
Jul 1st, 2008
08:14:00 PM
The worst marketed film EVER.
Beaks, you're full of it - and yourself
by QManning
Jul 1st, 2008
08:51:45 PM
The WHOLE movie is about what Hancock wants: to figure out how to fit into a world where he doesn't, where he can't. He wants to belong and he wants to know the reasons why he doesn't. And this conflict, as well as others, are resolved.
Unbreakable is a Super-Hero character study
by QManning
Jul 1st, 2008
08:52:37 PM
FYI. Or at least, the closest thing we've ever seen.
The Best Superhero Character Studies are...
by Kal Reeve
Jul 1st, 2008
09:34:34 PM
1. Superman II (Donner Cut) 2. Spider-Man II 3. Superman Returns 4. Batman Begins 5. Iron Man
The ET/Elliot ripoff scene
by Rocklover79
Jul 1st, 2008
10:03:49 PM
I really want an answer to this BIGASS plot hole: in the end fight, as Hancock gets his ass kicked, Theron writhes in pain, indicating that she and Hancock are symbiotically connected a la ET and Elliot. Now, if she can feel it as he gets his ass kicked in the finale, does she feel what he feels all of the time? Don't you think her husband would have, at some point prior to Hancock's arrival in their lives, noticed his wife rolling around on the floor of their house like someone was kicking her ass? When Hancock gets drunk, does she feel a hangover, too?
Rocklover79
by Gearfree
Jul 1st, 2008
10:17:45 PM
Happens whenever they are "connected"(basically when they are near each other for an extended period of time). Not THAT bad, for all the ranting, I gotta say its a decent movie. Maybe the closest thing to a real superhero spoof movie(unbreakable is more of a full tribute). It has a few good things running for it though. A theme for one, there was a snippet of it at the end of the "its not sexual in any way" scene. The major point most people like to miss is that the guy never really gave a crap because for every one person grateful for his help, there were 20-30 screaming at him asking why didn't he do a better job or making a comment about his appearance. Basically, why try to care when the next time you save someone you'll have to do it again, repeating the same thing over and over again. This guy has been at it for how many years(keep it somewhat spoiler free guys)? Somewhere along the way he stopped caring.
More actors need "struggles" like Interview w/ Vamp...
by HappyHamster
Jul 1st, 2008
10:25:08 PM
I thought that was a good movie and very rewatchable.
We already know how this movie turns out
by GreatCzarsGhost
Jul 1st, 2008
10:30:17 PM
It's another Will Smith movie. He's a kick ass dude who doesn't care about anything. He decides to reform and become a good guy. Along the way he will have have help from some kids and a really hot chick how probably runs something like a half way for kids. So he gets his act together and then has the fight of his live. Just when you think he's down for the count, his connection with the kids and the hot chick will give him the inspiration to go on and defeat the bad guys. There, I just saved you $12 bucks.
I might see this. I might not.
by thebearovingian
Jul 1st, 2008
11:16:36 PM
But I might.

Of course, I might not.

Hey DocPazuzu & Thunderbolt Ross, ehhhh...
by TroyG
Jul 1st, 2008
11:31:28 PM
Go Fuck Yourselves!
by TroyG
Jul 1st, 2008
11:32:01 PM
Let's compare this to Unbreakable
by Lang The Cat
Jul 1st, 2008
11:45:06 PM
For a thrown together superhero mythos, this kinda worked. Not brilliantly, but like Unbreakable it did work fairly well. Most of the hero mythos stayed fairly consistant internally. I did think the best character in the film was Jason Bateman, a good guy trying to sell being good to a bunch of selfish people. Making the sale to the most selfish guy in town, Hancock, really makes him the hero of the story. I do find Charlize Theron's character to be completely unbelievable in how she treats both of her men. I cannot imagine how to explain how she could justify the lies and mistreatment of both of them. All in all it was a halfway decent film, not truly brilliant, but I could justify seeing it again on cable (not paying for another viewing).
over the top
by rbottoms
Jul 2nd, 2008
12:04:51 AM
I think the criticism of the movie is a little over the top. I don't even like Will Smith all that much and I found the movie a passable, didn't suck time waster. Certainly better than Spiderman 3.
AOL Bot Vs Hancock = Epic Fail
by hlcno
Jul 2nd, 2008
12:06:02 AM
LOL http://digg.com/movies/AOL_Bot _Vs_Hancock_Epic_Fail
TroyG
by DocPazuzu
Jul 2nd, 2008
03:32:59 AM
How many forms did you have to fill out to get permission to use the f-word in a marketing project like this talkback? Or was it merely sufficient to let Satan fondle your soul a bit longer than previously agreed upon?

Seriously, a lot better marketing whore-plants than you have charged these walls only to break on our shields. Your effort was one of the weakest I've ever seen. Time and again, as we've hurled your broken, latte-stained corpses from the parapets, we've given you very clear directions on what you did wrong and how to improve.

Improvement, alas, never happens.

You know why? It's because you think you're smarter than we are because you're on the inside and have better paying jobs than most of us. However, the truth is that you are, to a man, complete and utter cretins with absolutely zero competence and understanding of your target group.

I am now appealing directly to TroyG's employers:

Stop paying these morons to do sub-standard and useless work. They don't sound like us, they don't understand us, and they can't sell us shit. They are wasting your time and your money. What you need to do is go native. Hire one of us to do the marketing. Hell, hire ME. I'd do a hell of a better job than your boy TroyG here, and probably a lot cheaper, too. Look me up in the Zone and we'll talk. Cheers.

I second that
by Lost Jarv
Jul 2nd, 2008
04:21:20 AM
My CV can be found at:

www.noshamewhore.com

I work cheap and have an outstanding AICN pedigree.

I couldn't do a worse job

I third that.
by Shermdawg
Jul 2nd, 2008
04:29:22 AM
Hell, as much as I brought up shit like Smallville over the years, I might as well been a plant.
Meanwhile at Fox
by Lost Jarv
Jul 2nd, 2008
04:44:39 AM
A teary-eyed philbrick runs intohis bosses office.

"Sir, it's just too awful"

"Calm down, philbrick, what's wrong?"

"It's the TB'ers again, sir"

"AGAIN, PHILBRICK, WHATTSAMATTER NOW"

"they think they can do my job sir, and do it better"

"They have a point, Philbrick, but you make a better coffee, and your father is a major shareholder, so you've got a job for life"

Heh
by DocPazuzu
Jul 2nd, 2008
06:56:07 AM
Nice.
for fuck's sake
by ChickenStu
Jul 2nd, 2008
08:11:11 AM
my oldest kid really wants to go see this and wants me to take him. Maybe I can talk him out of it...
Just leave the religion out of the theaters
by Gearfree
Jul 2nd, 2008
08:20:22 AM
till ya know 100% that he brainwashes the kids. Until then, if your really unsure, aim to see it as a matinee. Best four bucks spent on a premier. Too bad they shamelessly rip on the Tick at the end though.
Honestly, how can this film NOT suck?
by SpyGuy
Jul 2nd, 2008
08:47:22 AM
Nothing says quality entertainment than a seedy version of Superman throwing whales into boats.
It was ENTERTAINING, awright?!?!?
by spud mcspud
Jul 2nd, 2008
02:27:42 PM
FUCK! How jaded can you fucks be? Just got back from seeing this in the Yoo-Kay (everybody say Yoo-KAY - thank Kanye for dat) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Yes, the Charlize thing was a bit obvious, the whole motivation for Will to change only worked because of Big Willy giving it his all, and yes it sucked that Move Bitch didn't have Bitch in it, only to have Will saying Shit and Asshole every few second no less than ten minutes in. It's a great superhero comedy - that's, at its heart, what this is - and the character stuff works because they were smart enough to get a damn good cast in on this. It'd be a lot of fun to see a sequel to it - Hancock curbing anger issues? - and there's a nicely underplayed backstory / mythology going on that could easily be expanded a la the Kryptoninan villains from the Phantom Zone stylee. But basically the first half is if Marcus Burnett from BAD BOYS were a superhero, and drunk, and the second half plays like an elongated family argument from the FANTASTIC FOUR. The ending works for the most part (better than that pitiful Iron Monger section of the otherwise flawless IRON MAN) and Will, as ever, entertains the fuck out of us all. We get heavily made up Charlize as a superhero goddess (PLEASE cast this woman as Wonder Woman!) and everyone gets pleasant dreams tonight. Even Mrs-Spud-To-Be fancied the Theron in this movie, and she's always up for a shot of that Big Willy ass. Something for everyone, kiddies, something for everyone.

It pisses on SPIDER-MAN 3, that is for fuckin' sure.

GreatCzarsGhost - You called it, every word. Doesn't mean it isn't a damn entertaining movie tho.

SHIT! IGNORE PREVIOUS! SPOILERS!!!
by spud mcspud
Jul 2nd, 2008
02:29:22 PM
Sorry for the spoilers in that last post. Pretty poor netiquette on my part - can't believe I just threw that up there. Sorry.
just saw it
by Magic Rat
Jul 2nd, 2008
02:38:52 PM
far better than what this review leads you to believe. The CGI was actually a lot better than I thought it would be and the ending worked for me. I guess to each their own, but I'd definitely see a sequel to this. Although, to be fair, I haven't seen a Will Smith movie that wasn't at least entertaining, if nothing else.
Dear DocPazuzu,
by TroyG
Jul 2nd, 2008
11:45:13 PM
All of your comments about me just go to show how ignorant you must be about what you're talking about. Just because someone has a different opinion than you and your cohorts, doesn't mean that that individual naturally works for the industry. Where is the logic in that thinking? By that thought process, everyone on this talkback that shows some what of an interest in this movie is then employed by the company that made "Hancock." Does that truly make sense to you? Are you that paranoid that by me leaving one minor semi-positive comment here that it's going to somehow sway you and those around you that hate this movie to suddenly wake up one morning loving this flick and want to go out and buy the 4 -disc Special Edition Blu-Ray when it comes out? Are you afraid that you'll find yourself persuaded into going to see "Hancock" 10 times in the theater, quote your favorite lines to your friends, and then for Halloween dress like Will Smith to impress your friends at how awesome you are? If you think that I have that much pull and influence you are mistaken. I don't have any more influence over what people think and feel about the movie that they wanna see than you do. So why would a movie company wanna pay me to leave a semi-positive review? You just don't make any sense. I decide to leave my first talkback ever, and I'm introduced to the likes of people like you...judgemently, paranoid individuals that don't have anything better to do than to point the finger at me and claim something that they know nothing about. I initially leave one innocent comment and I get treated like a witch during the Salem Witch trials. You wanna burn anyone that differs in their thought than you. So you accuse me of working for the Company that made "Hancock" because I enjoyed watching the film, well again, using your thought process, since you hate the movie...you must work for some other film company that wants to make sure that "Hancock" fails and no one goes and sees it. Again, your logic fails and falls a bit short of making any sense. Here's a word of advice, and this is my last on the subject because I'm done dealing with you...leave your opinions exclusively to the films that you're discussing and to the films alone, because to stray from that, it just goes to show how ignorant you really are. And by the way, the film industry didn't pay me a dime to say that to you!
Sorry, TroyG...
by DocPazuzu
Jul 3rd, 2008
02:46:36 AM
...that defense has been trotted out time and again. Show me one single instance in any of the Hancock talkbacks where I've gone after people who give it positive feedback. As you well know, but are hoping others don't, this has NOTHING to do with your opinions and EVERYTHING to do with delivery, language and timing. It's all about triangulation. On their own, each of those things don't add up to much: there are n00bs who come in here all the time, there are people who speak in a way foreign to Geek Nation, and there are people who chime in on review talkbacks.

However.

A n00b who not only DOESN'T speak geek or merely speaks an archaic version of it, who also hits the right marketing cues, and only posts in a review TB has been shown, without exception, to be a plant.

See? With your "you treat me like shit on my first visit, *sniff!*" schtick you are already preparing us for the fact that we'll NEVER see you again.

You may want to check out the AvP:Requiem talkbacks for examples of previous kills and also lessons in how to proceed with more success next time around. The AvP:R talkbacks are littered with fucks who claimed to be long-time fans of both AICN and Aliens, who mysteriously only posted in those talkbacks and were never heard from again, despite promising that they would become fixtures.

You're not fooling anybody, son. Class dismissed. Now fuck off.

dead giveaway
by Lost Jarv
Jul 3rd, 2008
02:56:26 AM
"the industry". No-one outside of creative industries uses that term.

I used to do it in the music industry.

Give it up foilage.

shift, dame it!
by sugarbess
Jul 3rd, 2008
08:13:55 AM
what a joke! Someone just photoshoped his pictures to some hot ones and then uploaded them to the online service 【wealthybeauty.com】.. you know the site is a rich men seeking hotties site.. so he is looking for a hottie there!
You're so stupid DocPazuzu...
by TroyG
Jul 3rd, 2008
05:56:31 PM
You truly are. Nothing I said was "Schtick," or "triangulation" or what ever shit you're pulling out of you ass to make yourself appear superior and all knowing. You think that you have me pegged. "Oh, I got that guy...he ain't one of us. I'm so smart, he's so stupid." I guess you just don't want anyone else to play on your playground. Is that it? I feel sorry for you. Now, you go run off by the monkey bars and go fuck yourself! The End!
TroyG
by DocPazuzu
Jul 4th, 2008
12:57:24 PM
You ARE stupid.
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