movie: Hancock
I don’t remember hearing much about this movie when it came out, so I have no idea how it was received.
I thought the first half of the movie, with Will Smith as a drunk, amnesiac, unhygienic, hobo superhero who was almost more of a public menace was fun. At least once Ray The PR Guy showed up and started teaching him to be touchy feely and polite while his wife was in the background all “No Ray, we do not want the drunk guy who caused millions of dollars in property damage the other day to sit with us at dinner.”
I was annoyed by the gratuitous use of a****le and the sex scene early on and the icky prison scene, but I thought it was decent enough, and there was less of that once Ray the PR Guy started his makeover.
Then we got to the mythology and Hancock’s backstory.
I…uhm…I’m in love? “Gods as characters” is kinda tricky. It’s not easy to convey a presence like that into a character, because a deity is supposed to be beyond comprehension. But as Mary pointed out, they weren’t really gods. Because of their powers, they’d been called gods at one point, and angels at another. And now they’re superheroes. Not gods, just immortals with superpowers.
Or at least, immortal until the one they were “created to be with” is near them, and then they start to become human. And they love each other but apparently can’t stand each other for more than five minutes, so they’ve been together off and on for thousands of years, and every time they’re together, someone tries to use her to get to him. Which makes me bitter about how she essentially becomes the Damsel in Distress at the end-especially after she said she was stronger than him, and we saw that her temper tantrums can cause natural disasters-but I like it on a mythological level.
And between her claiming that they were siblings when he asked what their connection was and her listing off Greece in the long list of times he’s hunted her down and their spats apparently caused disasters, I’ve decided that they were Artemis and Apollo. I will not be convinced otherwise.
I also like that Mary didn’t seem remotely torn between Hancock and Ray, because Hancock was a permanent, if irregular, fixture, but Ray was the only one who made her happy, and there wasn’t really a hint that she regretted her choice at the end. And I liked the commentary on fate involved.
I did think that Hancock’s villains being a trio of hood’s was a bit anticlimactic, but the real conflict there was mortality/immortality.
Also, Hancock’s superhero costume was totally Jubilee’s second Wondra costume, but without the mask. And breast implants. But I’m pretty sure no one wants to see Will Smith with breast implants.
I thought the first half of the movie, with Will Smith as a drunk, amnesiac, unhygienic, hobo superhero who was almost more of a public menace was fun. At least once Ray The PR Guy showed up and started teaching him to be touchy feely and polite while his wife was in the background all “No Ray, we do not want the drunk guy who caused millions of dollars in property damage the other day to sit with us at dinner.”
I was annoyed by the gratuitous use of a****le and the sex scene early on and the icky prison scene, but I thought it was decent enough, and there was less of that once Ray the PR Guy started his makeover.
Then we got to the mythology and Hancock’s backstory.
I…uhm…I’m in love? “Gods as characters” is kinda tricky. It’s not easy to convey a presence like that into a character, because a deity is supposed to be beyond comprehension. But as Mary pointed out, they weren’t really gods. Because of their powers, they’d been called gods at one point, and angels at another. And now they’re superheroes. Not gods, just immortals with superpowers.
Or at least, immortal until the one they were “created to be with” is near them, and then they start to become human. And they love each other but apparently can’t stand each other for more than five minutes, so they’ve been together off and on for thousands of years, and every time they’re together, someone tries to use her to get to him. Which makes me bitter about how she essentially becomes the Damsel in Distress at the end-especially after she said she was stronger than him, and we saw that her temper tantrums can cause natural disasters-but I like it on a mythological level.
And between her claiming that they were siblings when he asked what their connection was and her listing off Greece in the long list of times he’s hunted her down and their spats apparently caused disasters, I’ve decided that they were Artemis and Apollo. I will not be convinced otherwise.
I also like that Mary didn’t seem remotely torn between Hancock and Ray, because Hancock was a permanent, if irregular, fixture, but Ray was the only one who made her happy, and there wasn’t really a hint that she regretted her choice at the end. And I liked the commentary on fate involved.
I did think that Hancock’s villains being a trio of hood’s was a bit anticlimactic, but the real conflict there was mortality/immortality.
Also, Hancock’s superhero costume was totally Jubilee’s second Wondra costume, but without the mask. And breast implants. But I’m pretty sure no one wants to see Will Smith with breast implants.