Hancock · 2 August 08 by Heather Voss Barta
Mom, Luke, Net, and I went to see Hancock at my favorite movie theater.
At dinner beforehand, Nanette was talking about how frustrated she was with I am Legend – she claimed an unclear plotline. You can see my review in the archives – but basically, I liked it. I didn’t see the same gaps that she saw in that one.
However, Hancock might be a different story. Liked the beginning of it. It reminded mea of a conversation I had once about superheroes – would they exist without supervillans? Because really – you don’t need a superhero if you don’t have a supervillan, right? (Though – another tangent to this now might be that some of our supervillans are tied in to our natural world – global warming, issues with pollution…) So – interesting to see how that worked in this film…
Really loved Jason Bateman. He did a great job in all of that. And I have to imagine the filming of the scene where he’s trying to get Will Smith to say “good job” had to be absolutely hysterical.
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Then – we get to the rest of the movie. Really? Superheroes created by gods that created them to be mortal if they got too close? At least we get some sort of supervillan that seems to know what’s going on, and actively trying to get them to die… Though, the whole time I was sort of wondering how the whole inter-racial relationship was working for them over the centuries. And then I read another review that was frustrated that they don’t put African American women opposite Will Smith in the big movies. I thought that that was an excellent point – let’s use them. We’re all going to go see the movie. It has Will Smith. (Another reviewer actually stated something like, “It really doesn’t matter what I say about Hancock, you’re going to go see it anyway…It has Will Smith.” Brilliant point.)
So – overall, hmmm…didn’t so much get it. Sure – good action, comedy, and I like Will. But not thinking that I’ll be watching it again any time soon.
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