I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WAS GOOD
Apr. 14th, 2019 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
residentpyromaniacShazam. Was. Good.
And not just good in the "This is one of the lesser-known characters I grew up reading and I would have been happy with any halfway decent adaptation" kind of way.
It was straight up GOOD. The casting was absolutely perfect, the overall tone was exactly what I hoped for from my boy, and they didn't go too hogwild with cameos that only the huge-ass nerds would get to the point where it could distract from the whole thing - but boy howdy, those cameos were THERE and I was delighted.
Incidentally, this also means my fiance's artist owes him a free tattoo because they literally had a bet with those terms over whether a ShazamCaptain Marvel I don't CARE what Marvel's lawyers have to say, he existed first, fight me movie would be good.
And not just good in the "This is one of the lesser-known characters I grew up reading and I would have been happy with any halfway decent adaptation" kind of way.
It was straight up GOOD. The casting was absolutely perfect, the overall tone was exactly what I hoped for from my boy, and they didn't go too hogwild with cameos that only the huge-ass nerds would get to the point where it could distract from the whole thing - but boy howdy, those cameos were THERE and I was delighted.
Incidentally, this also means my fiance's artist owes him a free tattoo because they literally had a bet with those terms over whether a Shazam
