Hancock - has anyone seen it?

[The Grumpy Celt]

I enjoyed it. One thing that struck me was, watching all the damage he does...

...well, it reminded me of some of the adventuring groups I've been in.

 

[Orius]

Only know about this movie from a review I read before by Roger Ebert. He gave it 3 of 4 stars, so he must have liked it. From his description, it sounds like an interesting movie. Though Ebert's about the only reviewer whose opinions on movies I generally care to read, most other reviewers either just have bad taste or don't get the point of the film.

And no I don't have a link. I'm still anachronistic enough that I read it in the paper and not online.

 

[Agamon]

Saw it Tuesday, I liked it. Interesting premise. Smith does a good job. Not "Average Joe get super powers", something a little more interesting than that.

 

[dravot]

Haven't seen it, but it sounds like this is a film that the studio didn't know how to market.

 

[Mark]

Haven't seen it, but it sounds like this is a film that the studio didn't know how to market.

To the contrary, I would suspect that they knew that they could market it one way and ruin the surprises but perhaps gain more immediate response or they could go another direction and preserve the surprises but take some heat from reviewers and some unfortunate moviegoers who expected something different. I think they went the right way with the marketing.

Under disimilar circumstances, imagine if someone had told you in advance what happens after “I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.” Someone told me in advance about that and, I am sure, it very much changed my first time viewing of Serenity, which is a shame but there you have it. Now imagine if Serenity had been marketed in such a way that the marketing ruined or tipped off the audience to that part of the film and what happens? I think it is a matter of the marketing people feeling a certain responsibility to the audience to maintain the ability of the film to have as much impact as possible.

In regard to the strong language of the film, the filmmakers went through the proper steps to get the rating that the film received.

 

[dravot]

To the contrary, I would suspect that they knew that they could market it one way and ruin the surprises but perhaps gain more immediate response or they could go another direction and preserve the surprises but take some heat from reviewers and some unfortunate moviegoers who expected something different. I think they went the right way with the marketing.

Under disimilar circumstances, imagine if someone had told you in advance what happens after “I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.” Someone told me in advance about that and, I am sure, it very much changed my first time viewing of Serenity, which is a shame but there you have it. Now imagine if Serenity had been marketed in such a way that the marketing ruined or tipped off the audience to that part of the film and what happens? I think it is a matter of the marketing people feeling a certain responsibility to the audience to maintain the ability of the film to have as much impact as possible.

In regard to the strong language of the film, the filmmakers went through the proper steps to get the rating that the film received.

But there's supposedly a darker side to the film, and most of the ads/trailers seem to play the movie as a comedy. That's what I'm talking about.

 

[TheNovaLord]

dont go by the trailers

its darker
its much sadder
its not average joe wakes up with super powers
im amazed the twist/reveal has been kept so quiet
its not spiderman


"with great power, comes great oppurtunity to get drunk"

 

[Cthulhudrew]

It was okay. Definitely some misleading advertising, billing it as a comedy, despite some funny moments.

I thought it had a lot of really interesting concepts and stories going on, but after viewing it have to agree with some of the reviews that say it had too much going on and lost its focus. I think it could have been better off as two or three movies in a series, actually. Give time for the various developments to be more fully actualized than they were.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Saw it Friday night with the fiancée and her kids. We absolutely loved it. I think I'm starting to wear down my fiancée's defenses as to what she will and won't watch. She is glad that I talked her into seeing it.

Now if I can get her to try a game of 3.5

 

[Tetsubo]

I was just reading the Bad Astronomy blog and the site owner's wife made the following comment about the Hancock reviews: "Critics are stupid".