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Same issue as Suicide Squad...

posted 5 years ago by Coleburg83 (684)
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You got to know people for more than a day before they become your family.

And Levi looked awful. Like a 50-year old guy with black hair dye.

[–] naDaht (1087) 5 years ago

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FireForgedFriends

You're welcome.

[–] Coleburg83 (684) 5 years ago

But they weren't even Fire Forged Friends.

They were somehow a close "family" before the fighting.

[–] naDaht (1087) 5 years ago

Yes. Except for Freddy. And that's because they already were a family. Then they became fire forged friends. Did you even watch the film?

[–] Coleburg83 (684) 5 years ago

Yes. They unite and fight so hard to protect "their family" who Billy has talked to like once or twice each.

To me, it's exactly the same as Suicide Squad. It just feels dumb. They couldn't make a Shazam film with him along and had to introduce the "Shazam family" characters in the origin film?

[–] AP (5255) 5 years ago

Billy was at their house for what looked like weeks.

[–] Coleburg83 (684) 5 years ago

I thought it was more like days, but didn't he only talk to the handicapped kid more than like once? Heh.

[–] AP (5255) 5 years ago

He had a lot of scenes with the two girls. The other two boys were the only ones he didn't interact with a lot.

[–] Coleburg83 (684) 5 years ago

A lot being like three. The little girl hugged him at school and then he had a talk as Shazam with the older girl and that's all I remember.

Certainly nothing to justify this whole "we're family" stuff.

[–] AP (5255) 5 years ago

The youngest girl had the issue with hugging at school and he later apologized. Then they had the talk about her keeping his superhero life a secret. As for Mary, she scolded Billy for not hugging the youngest sister. She also had a brief conversation about college with the family which Billy tried to avoid. Later, they interacted while he was Shazam. He tried to convince her to leave the family behind but then learned how much the family cares about each other. It was enough to develop a comradere among the kids. Most movies have 2-3 scenes to develop relationships and this one is no different.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 5 years ago

the repeated school attendance scenes were implying he was there for a while. The scene where the father gives a moral speech to him implies so as well.

[–] DarthRoger (867) 4 years ago

I can't disagree more. Shazam and Suicide Squad are totally different movies in tone, acting and story. In all three categories, Shazam had them and Suicide Squad didn't. Shazam was a fun, paced and good movie. Suicide Squad was a hastily thrown-together, big budget movie that had a lot of star power and little else. It was a patchwork job and showed.

[–] RolloLee (50) 4 years ago

Eh, they're foster kids. They want a family. Plus it seems like the others had been in the group home for a good while. And Billy was sceptical about it all at first, and was basically waiting until the next time he ran away again.