Hancock (Will Smith, Peter Berg)

[Posh]

I haven't seen this yet but the script this was adapted from sounds a helluva lot more interesting than the finished feature.

[Fiona_B]

Originally Posted by Foxglove

and The Mist for what I understand is a really really dark ending.

if by dark you mean funny, then yes. yes it is.

that whole film was a pisstake through and through.

[Burrows]

Went and seen this yesterday and highly recommend that people go and see it, it made a child cry in the cinema!!!

[Fiona_B]

that film was kinda awesome.

"homo, homo in red, norwegien homo"

heh.

[pANDAS Radio]

I liked this, it was different to what I expected.

[convectuoso]

Liked this film alot, some class lines from Big Willie and the third act was nowhere near the disaster some folk were making it out to be.

[Ness]

theonehanded baddy was a wank stain of a character, bad acting from him anda poor villain.

aside from that i enjoyed the movie, although it is pissing me off not knowing who hancock and mary are, as folk such as them would obviosly have names (hercules, athena, Zeus even!!)

would have enjoyed if it was at least attempted to tie in with mythology.

[doogie]

At least they explained away Hancock's name with the backstory about the hospital discharge.

[Bunnylingus]

Predictable mince.

If theyd made it a funny kids film it wouldve been good, same goes for a dark superhero film.

The two just dont mix.

[Burrows]

Originally Posted by Ness

theonehanded baddy was a wank stain of a character, bad acting from him anda poor villain.

aside from that i enjoyed the movie, although it is pissing me off not knowing who hancock and mary are, as folk such as them would obviosly have names (hercules, athena, Zeus even!!)

would have enjoyed if it was at least attempted to tie in with mythology.

Did ya download it?

[MarkMono]

I utterly loved this movie. I can totally understand why comic-book fans are dubious of Will Smith as a superhero, and Will Smith fans will despair of the almost complete lack of jokes in the second half of the movie, but I would call this the comic book movie of the year at the very least.

Movies based on comic books have definitely started to improve over the last decade, with studios looking to what in the comic book format makes the stories work so succesfully (The three act episodic format is a good example. Both Lost and Heroes consistently incorporate this.) rather than just buying a license, sewing a costume and dropping the characters into the middle of blockbusters. Batman Begins, Iron Man and X-Men are all good examples of this, taking the movie story formats and stripping the unnecessary fat and backstory from them, leaving evocative set-pieces and letting the characters tell their own stories, or sometimes, most tellingly, not.

Up 'till now I have scoffed when people talk of movies "establishing franchises", mainly because it only seems to get brought up as an excuse for other parts of the film which are lacking and/or substandard, but I can honestly say that I would happily see them make several sequels to this.

Originally Posted by Ness

theonehanded baddy was a wank stain of a character, bad acting from him anda poor villain.

aside from that i enjoyed the movie, although it is pissing me off not knowing who hancock and mary are, as folk such as them would obviosly have names (hercules, athena, Zeus even!!)

would have enjoyed if it was at least attempted to tie in with mythology.

Nah, I loved the fact that it deliberately left vague with only specious ties to Roman, Greek and Judeo-Christian mythology.

If you really want concrete anwers, him being the hero (Out of all the 'gods' he is THE hero, according to Mary), the 'insurance policy of the gods' and the whole doomed lovers angle points to him being either Thor or Herakles.

[Radiohead]

I want to see more in the way of Norse/Greek/Roman mythology in films...films where a shitload of Gods fight each other, as opposed to one God lording it over everyone, sitting in the sky and tallying the fall of every sparrow* because he's bored/lonely. Fight! Fight! Fight!

*paraquoted from Carl Sagan.