Shazam! Fury of the Gods

[Bert]

The release date for this sequel has been moved up to Dec. 16, 2022. Yay David!

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Several other people besides Grace Fulton are also in the movie. For some reason.

[Mr. X]

Yowza!

[batgirl1969]

I can't believe no discussion about Grace as Mary, WOW....she is a real hottie!!!!! She reminds me a little bit of Anastasia Pierce!!! Anastasia, here is a new cosplay for ya!!!!

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[DrDominator9]

Well, my interest is piqued!

[Mr. X]

Hope for another tentacle monster.

[brdiy]

While I prefer the more classic look of Mary Marvel's costume from the first movie, I guess this is not so bad (in fact, it's also great!). I'm sure they could have done much, much worse.

With the new DCEU coming, I really hope there's a place for Shazam there so we can see more of these girls.

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[Mr. X]

Now THAT is nice! Why can't Marvel do that? The other thing is these two girls are NOT obnoxious know it alls like Marvel heroines. Kind of refreshing.

[batgirl1969]

So hot!!! Their costumes are perfect and incredibly sexy!

[Heroineaddicted]

While I prefer the more classic look of Mary Marvel's costume from the first movie, I guess this is not so bad (in fact, it's also great!). I'm sure they could have done much, much worse.

With the new DCEU coming, I really hope there's a place for Shazam there so we can see more of these girls.

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I agree. They do look dope & cute.

[Supergirllegend]

That’s why I prefer DC films. They’re not afraid to be accurate

[shevek]

Near perfect! We can see that these are shapely, beautiful women. (And yes, I realize the inherent weirdness, but that applies to Billy Batson, too,
and it's been a thing for 70 years.)

And I'm so glad the costumes are different, and that they went with the tight bodysuit for the Darla character to show off how "Good" Meagan looks.
I wouldn't necessarily expect Darla's disposition to be cheery, though, Mr. X. Look at her facial expression even in that publicity shot.
We'll have to see how the writing goes for that character. So far it's been alright, though.

Also, I can't wait to see some nice cosplay at Cons this year (I'll be at a dozen of them!) with these outfits created in the traditional spandex.

Don't want to 'break immersion', but I have two questions maybe someone can answer?

1) What's with all the big productions using this crosshatched fabric? Is there some big advantage to using this fabric (in terms of durability? coloring on camera? stretchiness?) when compared to spandex/lycra etc? Does it also eliminate shine? I've almost never seen an indie superhero film use this fabric style, so it also must be quite expensive?

2) Reports are that Grace Fulton is the only actress playing both roles, and she wears no mask. Wouldn't she easily be recognized as Mary Bromfield, thus negating the security of any secret identity? And if so, wouldn't anyone easily be able to trace the other kids back to the foster family group that Mary is certainly registered with the government as being a part of, thus negating everyone's secret identity in turn? Including that of Billy Batson?

Just some thoughts. Looking forward to this release date (March 17)!

[Mr. X]

I think the pattern is simply "cause we can" plus it more separates the costume from some cosplay attempt. Compare that to Capt Marvel's baggy cosplay halloween outfit she wears. Plus this is obviously far more form fitting with no wrinkles and sags. Also probably easier to CG render. Batman has been doing the elaborate suit thing for years now. The Batman was a return to traditional clothes.

One thing I have noticed is in both Marvel and DC everyone gets a suit or powered suit of some kind.

See, now this isn't so hard now is it.

[brdiy]

Now THAT is nice! Why can't Marvel do that? The other thing is these two girls are NOT obnoxious know it alls like Marvel heroines. Kind of refreshing.

Scarlet's Black Widow did appear sexy AND strong when she first appeared in Ironman. Then all of a sudden, Marvel heroines (most of them anyway) started appearing in generic jumpsuits. Let's hope DC doesn't follow suit.

[phopho]

I can't believe they finally gave a heroine a sexy form-fitting costume in one of these movies. Brie Larson should have worn something like this for the Captain Marvel movie.

[batgirl1969]

I would love to see the white and gold or black and gold Mary marvel dress costumes, so !!! Maybe we'll get some Furies lesbian peril on her in this one

[Mr. X]

BRoll footage including some nice shots of the girls in costume.

[Mr. X]

Reviews are coming out. Avoid if you don't want spoilers however this review has no real spoilers. Seems the only thing good about this movie is that they didn't gimp the girls and their costumes. We got some sexy heroines which should be good for some erotica however it is a bit creepy to think of the one girl in a sexual way when she's like 12 now.

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[shevek]

It was OK. Amusing enough to stick through the whole movie without getting bored, so a bit better at holding attention than Black Adam.
Zachary Levi is such a goofball. I don't know if I'd quite call him a lovable goofball, but he's definitely hamming it up all through the damn thing.

Grace Caroline Currey (no longer Grace Fulton, apparently) is the primary reason to watch this film for the Forum.
She gets lots of screen time, and you can get plenty of screen captures in that beautiful tight costume. So gorgeous.

You can probably also get a few good screen captures of Meagan Good, too, although she doesn't get quite as much play.
In the film, she seems a bit more useful in her civilian child form.

And speaking of capture, there are several peril scenes. I've put them in the spoilers just in case you want to encounter them organically.

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The best one lasts for a few seconds when both Mary and Darla are tightly bound up with metal cables mentally telekineticized by the villaness Hespera.

Another is when Mary is plunging from the sky - she has a look of sheer terror, but unfortunately is not in the costume when doing it.
Shazam has to save her from certain death, so they're definitely not Mary Sue-ing, which is nice.

And the goddess Anthea also gets in peril. She is hurled through a window and lands powerlessly sand sprawled out on the pavement, getting 'de-deified' in the process. Later on, she is suffering the heat of the dragon's magical breath as Freddy stumbles to her aid.

All diversity casting aside (and there is a ton of it here, to the max, on every level), another great reason to watch the film is for Rachel Zegler, who plays the goddess Anthea. She doesn't have a lot of movie experience (she literally debuted in 2021's West Side Story remake) but does an excellent job of being both a heroine and a love interest. Her costume is also very shapely and tight, but more in that Amazon armor type of way.
(See above spoiler for her peril content)

And yes, if you've seen the Wikipedia page for this movie or heard the Internet buzz, you know that Gal Gadot is in this film.
She doesn't have a lot of screen time, and only says a few lines, but plays a crucial role near the end. Still looks incredibly hot.
The first slate of Gunn and Safran's DCU reboot doesn't involve a Wonder Woman project, and word is that her cameo in The Flash
was scrapped, so this might be the last time we see her for a while, if at all. Sad.

[Note: Apparently, Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler are going to be in the Snow White reboot movie together. I don't know who is looking forward to that.]

That's about it. So, you might as well check it out. Maybe not precisely the way I just checked it out, but hey...thanks, India!

Only one more question: are there any Ethiopians on this Forum? Because this page randomly appeared in the credits at 1:59:52 (which were literally 'scrolling') and I know Amharic when I see it (I own a few dozen Ethiopian records). Anybody knows what it says? Could this possibly just be a page of the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible in Ge'ez that they pulled off an Internet image?

I guess I could piece it out myself with an alphabet chart, but maybe you'd like to save me some time....

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[Update: With the help of some friends, I think we pretty much determined it's a page of an Ethiopian Bible translation into Ge'ez]

[Mr. X]

Saw it today. I thought it was OK. Simple, didn't expect much. Better than Black Adam. Its good for a matinee. The two bad girls are clearly phoning in the parts.

[brdiy]

I feel bad for the cast. With all that's happening at DC right now, I feel this move doesn't stand much of a chance (commercially speaking), unfortunately. In the meantime, Marvel can still afford churn out bad movies once in a while and still make a profit... :(

[Mr. X]

One thing I did notice

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was seeing some booty cheek on WW as she walks away from the camera. My guess is that was the stunt double.

[Dogfish]

Has had a worse opening weekend than Morbius.

It speaks to the stupidity of DC that they seriously thought this movie was a better bet than Batgirl when they decided which one to bin.

[shevek]

Has had a worse opening weekend than Morbius.

It speaks to the stupidity of DC that they seriously thought this movie was a better bet than Batgirl when they decided which one to bin.

It was Zaslav's decision, I'm pretty sure - not Gunn or Safran. The film will more than make its money back - it's only been three days.
But it's not going to be a huge blockbuster, no.

Meanwhile, you can go over to Gail Simone's Twitter right now and watch her virtue-signal the hell out of how she thought Darla
carried the film by being "lovely and charismatic". Because of course she did! But she's mainly talking about Faithe Herman, because the
most memorable Darla moments (no spoilers) all seemed to happen out of costume (except for the one aforementioned peril scene).

Darla does have her own fan Twitter account, however, which seems pretty active. https://twitter.com/a_darla_ble

[Dogfish]

Had to be Zaslav. The guy has shit for brains. Anybody with any sense would know that even a mediocre, or straight up bad, Bat Girl movie is going to be a draw because of Keaton as Batman. Enough people would want to see that to justify releasing the movie.

They need to hurry up and get Fishboy 2 and Sex Offenders In Space out the door so they can reboot this thing ASAP.

That's if they even want to. The Superhero genre is looking kind of knackered lately.

[Mr. X]

Sex Offenders In Space out the door so they can reboot this thing ASAP.

Also known as the Flasher

[shevek]

Had to be Zaslav. The guy has shit for brains. Anybody with any sense would know that even a mediocre, or straight up bad, Bat Girl movie is going to be a draw because of Keaton as Batman. Enough people would want to see that to justify releasing the movie.

They need to hurry up and get Fishboy 2 and Sex Offenders In Space out the door so they can reboot this thing ASAP.

That's if they even want to. The Superhero genre is looking kind of knackered lately.

Babylon Bee's humor mill has the last word on this one.

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[Ernie]

Gail Simone has more talent in one pinky toenail and has had one thousand times more impact than some so-called "producers" on this site. Sometimes calling foul on notable people is entirely justified, and sometimes it's just petty jealousy. Everyone knows which it is in this case.