So who actually LIKED the movie?
There seems to be a lot of heat going against it. I really enjoyed it - each cast member involved did a very good job, and the story was engaging.
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I was under the impression that this movie was well received. Then I came to this board and saw the opposite. I've seen it a few times and recommend it to people who want to see a super hero with comedy elements. The only person I could imagine as Hancock other than Will Smith is Sam Jackson.
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I loved it and it made major coin.
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I'm pretty sure only hate is allowed on IMDB. Anyone with something positive to say gets mobbed.
Personally I loved the movie. Most of the people I know liked it too.
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I really liked it.
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I really like it.
posters tend to hate every movie on the imdb message boards. its all the same lol
Agreed Hancock is alright, haters are going to hate cos they love to drink their Haterade!
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I'm pretty sure only hate is allowed on IMDB. Anyone with something positive to say gets mobbed.
Personally I loved the movie. Most of the people I know liked it too.
That's usually the case, sadly enough. I really loved this movie, very underrated IMHO.
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the character development was weak, but it could have been saved by a moving climactic scene. hancock and angel dieing in the end could have been that scene, leading us to the greater conclusion that heros need not superpowers.
And as we wind on down the road...
Ahhh Yeah....... I don't like that ending. A little to independent film.. That doesn't give people a good feeling. It's just kinda corny, lame and contrived. Ya know, too full of itself. It's not that kind of movie. Gotta keep it simple for the dirty masses.
shareRemember Rocky? Or Empire Strikes Back? Or Seven? Or Twelve Monkeys? It's not always the case that the bad guys winning makes a movie better, but just because it leaves a bad feeling doesn't make it bad. In fact, if it makes you feel, then the movie is a success. When you leave a movie feeling empty and unmoved, THAT is a bad movie. Remember All Dogs go to Heaven? or Jurassic Bark? A good movie moves you. In this case, the ending was contrived and made me feel like I just watched yet another cookie-cutter all-action no-plot comic book superhero movie. If they had died, yeah it would have probably been sad, but me leaving sad is better than me leaving indifferent. Spiderman (NOT its sequels) still remains the best modern-era superhero movie because the whole movie was about him getting the girl, and in the end he DOESN'T GET THE GIRL. Just like the original Rocky was the
best because HE DIDN'T WIN (moreso that the result of the fight didn't matter than anything).
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I loved it. I wish it was based on a book so I could read the book - I just wanted to know more.
shareHancock is a terrible movie. The actors were all great, although Will Smith hasn't made a tight movie since Ali, but oh well. Without going into gruesome detail about all the other nonsense in the film, the plot was an unmitigated disaster, and an amateurish disjointed disaster. People who don't expect their movies to make any sense whatsoever and can just sit there and enjoy a grabbag of not much action and a bunch of cheap melodrama with nothing to hold it together will enjoy this film. 'Everyone I know' hated this film, but we're boviously not the one blowing our money on it. Maybe the great recession will change the equation for the sequel.
shareA lot of the hate for this film seems to revolve around the plot twist. Everyone who hates it seems to want to see a movie that is wholly about a drunken superhero. Introduce something out of the ordinary and it's suddenly unacceptable. Was it the best movie ever? No. Was it a good film with an interesting story that kept you on your toes? Yes. Was the twist in the end necessary? It would have been a much poorer film without it. My opinion only.
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I agree with goanna_38.
Most of the people who didn't like this movie seem to feel that way because they thought they were getting a comedy all the way through, an inept superhero goofing-up on his attempts to help, from start to finish. A friend of mine even discouraged me from seeing it when it was originally in theatres, because he himself felt disappointed for that reason -- "It turns dark and just goes to crap" was more or less what he told me.
So, I've only just caught up with this movie tonight as it was on TV -- and I loved it! I guess I was already prepared for the fact that it only starts funny, and becomes more serious, so maybe that helped me just accept it for what it is. And what it is I found interesting, precisely because of the intriguing twist that we discover along the way. I thought that was an unusual, cool element, and I like the fact that it makes this film have more than one thing to offer. I enjoyed the laughs and I enjoyed the almost mystical, spiritual twist.
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Without going into gruesome detail about all the other nonsense in the film, the plot was an unmitigated disaster, and an amateurish disjointed disaster
Do you have any actual points or are you just going to post your opinion as fact?
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I did. I avoided this for ages because it didn't seem like my kinda thing, and I'm not a Will Smith fan. But it was on TV the other night, so I thought "what the heck?"
I was pleasantly surprised. It was quite entertaining - didn't expect Mary to be the same as Hancock, very glad the kid had little to do with it, laughed my a$$ off at the logo on the Moon!
Some of the FX were a bit ropey though, (the whale especially) and the fight between Hancock and Mary was a bit muddled, although the Director claims to have had little creative control over the scene.
And the 'head-up-the-a$$' bit in the prison was just stupid.
It annoys me though that they showed the theatrical version rather than the unrated cut - is it worth my while?
bleh.
unrated version is way much better, theatrical version is just crap.
shareI liked it until (wait for it) the plot twist. But in my defense if they had been aliens or whatever else than angels it would have been okay. But angels? God, that's so (Dilemma)gay.
shareYou should have paid more attention to the dialog during Mary's explanation. She didn't say they ARE angels, she said that's what humans at some point in history thought they were. Just like other ancient cultures thought they were gods. Nobody ever said that's actually what they are, because she doesn't know exactly what they are.
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