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SHAZAM! (2019) - Movie WATCH ALONG!!
🕑 Added 2025-07-31 15:01:00 +0000 UTCOne of the DCEU's brightest & most fun... without skimping on the monster-y bits! Where would you rank this one???
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Arlene Dorrough
I love Zack Eli and I’m hoping someone brings The Dresden Files to motion picture or series. He would be perfect for Harry. Disney? Netflix? Any takers?
WastedPo
Unpopular opinion here (because everyone these days prefer cinematic universes). But I think Shazam would've been more effective if the kids did NOT live in a universe in which superheroes were a reality. It would just seem that much more special to them if superheroes were only something they read about in comics. Think of "Galaxy Quest." Part of why that story works so well is because Star Trek-like space travel and aliens were NOT commonplace in our world. But what if they made Galaxy Quest, and it was a world in which Starfleet and the Federation already existed, and humans already had regular interaction with alien species. So the only thing that made the main characters fish out of water was that they *specifically* weren't in Starfleet. That would make the story a lot less impactful. Well, that less-impactful story is essentially what we have with "Shazam." (And I say all this knowing that it was never going to be a viable option, business-wise, to NOT have this linked to the would-be DC Extended Universe.)
