Shazam Shazam General Discussion and Speculation - Part 2

[Lucellit]

Appeared in Good Mythical Morning.

 

[Vaibow]

I was thinking, after seeing the trailers etc, you think they reused a lot of the cgi models from the DCEU catalogue to save some money? A lot of the flight, fight scenes and cityscape seemed very MOS, the monsters reminded me of BvS manbat creature - i'm totally down for that, just wondered if anyone else noticed or felt that way, i do know a lot of cgi is shared and rehashed.

 

[Micromind]

No, if you watch the movie, they didn't use any CGI models form MOS, they did their own special effects.

 

[Lucellit]

Can't wait to see them interacting. And commenting on the glowing emblem.

 

[dhandler01]

That tweet rocks! All these tweets using the Shazam action figure make me small

 

[Vaibow]

No, if you watch the movie, they didn't use any CGI models form MOS, they did their own special effects.

Like i said, the base model were already there, they then tweak it to look like said character... for now, i'm going to assume they did, i find it hard to believe they did everything from scratch and why would they need to?

 

[Micromind]

 

[dhandler01]

That was hilarious!

 

[Micromind]

SHAZAM ! Behind the scenes.

 

[Lucellit]

SHAZAM ! Behind the scenes.

Zac in that coat looks comical.
Reminded me of a certain Ezra's iconic looks.

 

[Lucellit]

'Shazam!': The superhero film revolutionizing how we see foster care (Opinion) - CNN

No spoilers, just the foster family theme in movies and glimpse of real life foster care.

 

[Micromind]

 

[Micromind]

Director David F. Sandberg played Croc in Wildlands Realm !

 

[Micromind]

 

[Micromind]

'Shazam!': The superhero film revolutionizing how we see foster care (Opinion) - CNN

No spoilers, just the foster family theme in movies and glimpse of real life foster care.

Nice article.

 

[Vaibow]

Zac in that coat looks comical.
Reminded me of a certain Ezra's iconic looks.

Call me what you like, but that look.... at that event, it's obnoxious and terrible... express yourself how ever you like, but don't expect me to like it.

 

[Lucellit]

Faithe Herman continues to be precious.

Call me what you like, but that look.... at that event, it's obnoxious and terrible... express yourself how ever you like, but don't expect me to like it.

That look is definitely not for everyone, so your reaction is very justified and understandable.
I won't ever don something like that myself, but I can't help but applauding people with that kind of bravery and confidence.

Director David F. Sandberg played Croc in Wildlands Realm !

Seeing people wear that enough to make me anxious. Seems very uncomfortable and claustrophobic.

 

[Yowza]

Can't wait to see them interacting. And commenting on the glowing emblem.

LOL... I think as far as tonality goes Shazam was a pendulum swing in the opposite direction to see box office potential post Justice League.

I think Shazam should be more of a meta character similar to how Deadpool is for the X-Men just a family friendly one.

If all DC movies followed this tone as part of a DCU approach I wouldn't like it but for Shazam it works. The property can go all over the place as far as references and so forth but I wouldn't mind if this property is kept separate to an extent from the other Justice League characters as it just allows the franchise to breathe and doesn't infuse this kind of tonality into the other films.

 

[Lucellit]

LOL... I think as far as tonality goes Shazam was a pendulum swing in the opposite direction to see box office potential post Justice League.

I think Shazam should be more of a meta character similar to how Deadpool is for the X-Men just a family friendly one.

If all DC movies followed this tone as part of a DCU approach I wouldn't like it but for Shazam it works. The property can go all over the place as far as references and so forth but I wouldn't mind if this property is kept separate to an extent from the other Justice League characters as it just allows the franchise to breathe and doesn't infuse this kind of tonality into the other films.

Cap/ Shazam is a pretty flexible character. His innocence and light lend themselves to bright stories but also he is part of great 'dark and tragic' stories as well. I could see audience feel protective over him, especially his powerless child form. But that 'dark' bit could wait for a while, 'dark' is now still has a risky, negative connotation in non-Black Label DC films.

But I do agree about your view on tone. DC movies should be varied, no need to mandates Shazam!'s overall tone over other movies as well. Shazam!'s horror aspects are amazing tho, I want to see that in more future DC movies.

 

[Lucellit]

 

[lespaul59]

Cap/ Shazam is a pretty flexible character. His innocence and light lend themselves to bright stories but also he is part of great 'dark and tragic' stories as well. I could see audience feel protective over him, especially his powerless child form. But that 'dark' bit could wait for a while, 'dark' is now still has a risky, negative connotation in non-Black Label DC films.

But I do agree about your view on tone. DC movies should be varied, no need to mandates Shazam!'s overall tone over other movies as well. Shazam!'s horror aspects are amazing tho, I want to see that in more future DC movies.

I recently saw a You Tube video titled Can Batman and Superman exist in the DCEU with it's lighter tone and I was like huh. My first thought was how does Superman not fit in a lighter toned universe? My next thought was you know they can tailor a movie's tone to the character. To be fair I probably should watch the video but stuff like this just makes me wonder how many people think serious = dark. I mean take the Death of Superman story while it is a serious story that has Superman basically fight Doomsday to the death I've never seen the story as being dark. At the same time a Batman movie being dark doesn't have have to mean it's all doom and gloom. Batman can and should be a hopeful character just in a different way than Superman. Maybe it's the same just delivered differently. At the end of the day a movie universe should be no different from the comics. Each character has there own tone yet when they come together the movie/comic may have one consistent tone but the characters are still the same characters. The perfect example is Batman is the same character in Batman The Animated Series as he is in Justice League.

 

[Lucellit]

I recently saw a You Tube titled Can Batman and Superman exist in the DCEU with it's lighter tone and I was like huh. My first thought was how does Superman not fit in a lighter toned universe? My next thought was you know they can tailor a movie's tone to the character. To be fair I probably should watch the video but stuff like this just makes me wonder how many people think serious = dark. I mean take the Death of Superman story while it is a serious story that has Superman basically fight Doomsday to the death I've never seen the story as being dark. At the same time a Batman movie being dark doesn't have have to mean it's all doom and gloom. Batman can and should be a hopeful character just in a different way than Superman. Maybe it's the same just delivered differently.
At the end of the day a movie universe should be no different from the comics. Each character has there own time yet when they come together the movie/comic may have one consistent tone but the characters are still the same characters. The perfect example is Batman is the same character in Batman The Animated Series as he is in Justice League.

Totally.
That's why JL didn't work for me.
I'm excited to see how 'dark/ serious' characters in light situations and vice versa, while maintaining their identities, in future movies.

I edited out some sleepy rambling.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

That's awesome, would love to see an adaptation of KC some day.

 

[Predator jp]

in comics Batman sticks out like a sore thumb around other heroes and i find it unintentionally hilarious more often than not.

 

[Micromind]