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Just a question... Does anybody know if this will be the time that he will preform with Jazzy? Don't want to buy a expensive trip (with hotel included) to london just to see the movie... I know that there hasnt been a confirmed date, but yeah... What do you guys think?
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18th, thats a little early... I'm coming home from Florida on the 15th, and I'm guessing I'm gonna buy stuff for all my money when I'm there... Damn!
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HAHA! I love the fact that this guy would listen to K-Fed instead than Will if he had to choose!
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Scream - JJFP
"a super dooper Party trooper
Never been a party pooper
Heart breakin, Money makin
Man they get them parties shakin
Music pumpin, Crowd is jumpin
Giving people what they want
And always rhymin all the time and check it
Yo and now
I wanted to make up a record that I could just rock at the drop of a dime
I wanted to make it so funky that it would just stick in the back of your mind
I wanted it simple so people could sing it and dance while their bopping their heads
So gimme the uh gimme the uh gimme the uh gimme the uh Yeah
That's the way ah ha ah ha I like it ah ha ah ha yeah"
I just love this track!
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Some new photos of Will... And one with Woody Harrelson! YAY!
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If Obama wins the election I'll bet they will make a movie about it in 5 years or so...
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Another review, this one doesn't say anything new, but it's very positive...
Will Smith is fantastic. His Hancock, for the first half of the movie is a little reminiscent of his character from I Am Legend in showing the isolation. It's interesting to see that isolation in a crown as opposed to being the last man alive in NYC. He's withdrawn, crawling into a bottle of whiskey whenever he can, stopping criminals simply becasue he feels he must, not out of any kind of sense of right and wrong. He seems like this is a job he hates. Something I haven't seen in a "Super-hero" before.Jason Bateman is, well, Jason Bateman. Let's face it, he's never really had a broad range, but he plays the best Jason Bateman in Hollywood!
I almost didn't recognize Charlize Theron, thinking that she was the girl who plays Supergirl this season on Smallville. I think it was because she always had that puffy red-eyed look that the other girl has. I was surprised that her acting had improved so much as it had, haha.
I think that Theron's performance was perfect BECAUSE she had almost no chemistry with Bateman. I won't get into that aspect much more unless asked becasue it's very spoilerific.
The movie's plot almost seems like two separate movies until you consider the film's themes. Then the movie seems like a set of bookend around the concept of sacrifice, love and duty. As I was watching it, I was ready to criticize about a half dozen plot points until they were all answered and summed up quite nicely.
The movie starts out with a slow, deliberate pace. The slowness fits as the first 20 minutes or so are a study in depression, loneliness and a man who is both loved and despised at the same time. As it goes on, the pace evens out nicely, with only a hiccup or two of slow spots. Nothing to write home about, and nothing I think they should change. The last act really picks things up with some very fun action scenes.
One last thing I'd like to mention is that they seemed to try to limit the amount of "Superhero physics". There's no picking up trucks by the front bumper. In fact, When Hancock saves Bateman by tossing his car to get it out of the way of an oncoming train, he flips it up by tossing the back bumper so that teh car flips end-over-end. There's a number of scenes like that they impressed me. There were a few scenes where the standard Superhero Physics taks over, though, but at least they tried.
I give it a 9/10. Solid 4 out of 5 stars. Fun movie with quite a bit more seriousness than I really expected. Another over-the-wall home run for Smith.
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Two new reviews (Spoilers!!!):
The movie Hancock begins (if I recall correctly) with a high-speed chase. A bum is sleeping on a bench, a kid tries to wake him up. It turns out the bum is Hancock, and the kid points at a television and tells him that he needs to do something. Hancock doesn't want to do anything, so the boy walks away and says something like, "asshole".So Hancock flies up into the sky and goes after the car which is driven by some asian gangstas. He crashes into the backseat and they try to shoot him, but of course, he is a superhero and the bullets do nothing. Hancock's demeanor is very funny. He acts like some average guy on the street, pretty much a ghetto superhero. But the thing is, Hancock makes a BIG mess everywhere he goes, he causes thousands of dollars in damages by accidentally destroying buildings, overturning trains, beating up people. He also has a bad attitude, and a lot of people don't like him.
Then there is a scene where he is drinking at a bar and a girl tries to seduce him. She goes to his home (which is four trailers stuck together in the desert). [This all takes place in L.A. or something, by the way] They have some sort of sexual tryst off-camera, the entire trailer rocks violently and when Hancock ejaculates, it looks like two bullets shoot out of the trailer ceiling into the sky. This freaks the girl out, and she ends up sneaking out the bathroom window and driving away, leaving Hancock talking to a door.
Jason Bateman is a good wholesome guy who wants free medicine for people who need it. Of course, the drug companies don't want that. He is sitting in traffic when he realizes he is in stuck on train tracks. He tries to pull out, but the traffic is so tight, he can't budge two feet.
Hancock comes and saves his life, but of course, he derails the train and all the boxcars go off the tracks. Nevertheless, Jason Bateman likes him and Hancock flies him to his house. Notice! This scene is pretty memorable and funny. Especially when Will Smith says something to a fat guy about McDonalds (I don't remember exactly what he said, but the whole audience literally roared with laughter).
It was something like:
FAT GUY: That woman could sue you!
HANCOCK: Have you thought of suing McDonalds? Cause they really ****ed you up!
Hancock meets Jason Bateman's wife (played by Charlize Theron) and his son. It was uncomfortable seeing the wife consistently staring at Will Smith, but that is all explained later.
I don't remember what happened after that, but Jason Bateman convinces Hancock to turn himself in to authorities (who have warrants for Hancock's arrest for all the damages he's committed). Jason Bateman tells him that if Hancock is gone for two weeks, the public will miss him and demand for him to come back.
Hancock goes to jail and all the cellmates hate him because they are all in jail because of him. He threatens two guys, that if they don't move and let him pass, he will put one guy's head in the other guy's ass (or something like that). THIS LITERALLY HAPPENS.
Hancock stays in jail, but is convinced nobody misses him. The public all want him in jail. Eventually though, the crime goes up %30. Then one day, the police release him because there is a robbery at a bank and they really need his help. Jason Bateman provides a superhero costume and Hancock saves the day. This bank scene was really cool, I thought. But, its also similar to the scene in "Batman Begins" when Dr. Crane (the Scarecrow) first meets Batman.
The man leading the robbery tells him that in his hand is a detonator. If his thumb goes off the detonator, all the explosives will detonate. Will Smith cuts the hand off. (Pretty hilarious)
After the half-way point, the story goes down the drain (in my opinion). We finally find out what the deal is with Charlize Theron's character. The man who led the bank robbery escapes from jail. Hancock finds out who he is and where he comes from. Yadda-yadda-yadda, find out when it comes out in theaters. Oh yeah, the only thing that Hancock knows is that he woke up in a hospital with two tickets for Frankenstein (1931) and he had no family or friends to claim him.
http://kakkui-1037.livejournal.com/256394.html
Anyway, on to the movie. There wasn't much to the movie that we haven't seen from the superhero movie genre before, but it was definitely a different kind of movie for Will Smith. Overall there was a decent blend of action and comedy, with some things that comic book fans have been waiting to see from a superhero movie, and a twist to the origin of Hancock's powers that may make or break the movie for some.The bits that are sort of rehashed are the hero in need of redemption, and a city that doesn't really appreciate him. There are also parts where Hancock's powers are applied in an arguably realistic manner. Some examples of these are how the ground cracks when he takes off or lands, and how he has to use his fingernails to shave. No heat vision for Hancock to reflect off a mirror and shave. In fact, it seems like his powers are limited to super strength, invulnerability, and flight, standard superhero set. We also get to see how a superhero does sex when a groupie is taken back to his place. This we already saw in My Super Ex-Girlfriend and, if you want to get technical, My Super Ex-Girlfriend is probably the closest thing to Hancock in terms of feel, but not quality (aren't you glad?).
The effects weren't all complete, but there are definitely some nice sequences, such as Hancock chucking a whale into the ocean, Hancock taking the brunt of an oncoming train, and even a superpowered fight.
As far as this being a different kind of movie for Will Smith, it's essentially Hancock's dickery that makes the difference. It's strange to see Will Smith portraying a character that isn't immediately like-able, after all he's probably one of the most charismatic actors in Hollywood. However Will Smith did a good job of detaching his Hollywood and standard character self from this character. He displays some decent range in the movie. Of course he does his comedy, but also goes from jerk to outcast to honest to god hero.
Speaking of comedy, there are some parts to the movie that will be just as surprising as funny. Hancock has a running joke in the movie where if someone calls him an [censored] hole enough times, someone's going to get their head shoved up someone else's [censored]. Suffice it to say, we see Hancock make good on that threat. Yeah, ouch. In another scene, a little kid calls Hancock an [censored] hole a bunch of times too, and gets himself thrown into the stratosphere.
In addition to some good comedic lines from Jason Bateman's character of a public relations representative trying to redeem Hancock's image, those are some of the best parts. Now, on to the part that may make or break the movie for some movie-goers. I'm not sure how else to put this, but in the movie . . . Hancock is basically a god. He's a god that got amnesia 80 years ago after sustaining head trauma while trying to stop a mugging. How did he get injured? That's another part of it. Charlize Theron's character, the wife of Bateman's, is actually a god as well. It turns out they are husband and wife, and also happen to be each other's Kryptonite. When they are together they become mortal, so they can eventually die and leave the Earth dimension. Of course, this emerging closeness is what causes Hancock to be vulnerable enough for a big show-down at the end of the film. Oh, and one more thing: Hancock ends up killing a couple times in the movie, as well as brutally subduing some criminals. This might turn some off as well.
Overall I found the movie to be entertaining. It wasn't Spider-Man 2 or Batman Begins as far as balancing entertainment with characterization in a superhero film, but it was entertaining nonetheless. If you're a fan of superhero movies or Will Smith movies I would recommend it.
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Also, in attempting to keep the review from becoming a play-by-play, I forgot to mention something else that makes Hancock different from other superhero movies. Know how I said a lot of people in his city were clamoring for his arrest? Well, part of Bateman's publicity campaign is having Hancock actually turn himself in and wait for the public to actually want him back, so we get to see the superhero sent to jail. And, being the dumb criminals that they are, the guys that Hancock sent to prison actually think they can gang up on him and beat him down. Let's just say hilarity ensues.
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New review:
I thought it was a pretty good movie. Not a movie I would have seen just by seeing the preview. I am not usually a fan of the super hero movies. I did not know what movie I was going to see when I went in to the theatre. I was more than a little disappointed when I found out that this was the movie. I thought that I might actually leave. I figured that I would at least stay to see the beginning of the movie and if I did not like it I would leave. I was pleaselantly surprised.Unlike most reviews I have seen I really liked the drama at the end. That is what made the movie for me. I did feel that the . I also thougth that the because it had nothing to do with the plot of the movie. I also felt that the could have been cut down a little and it would have had the same effect. I also liked seeing Will Smith being a sillier role. I first saw him in "Friesh Prince" and he was a total goof ball it was good to see him be funny again.
Jason Bateman was really the show stealer he did a great job with the comedy and the drama. The kid is super cute too.
All in all it was a good movie. If you like action movies I would say go and see it. Even if you are not big fan of action movies (like me) the drama will make it good to see.
Now, i don't understand much of what the guy is writing, but it sounds like he liked the drama bit...
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Ok, starting this thread again... Some news, but I don't know how legit this is...
TOM CRUISE and NICOLE KIDMAN's son CONNOR has landed his big acting break - he's to play WILL SMITH's son in a new movie, according to reportsThe 13-year-old was hired after wowing casting bosses at an audition for The Trial of the Chicago 7, which will be directed by Steven Spielberg.
A source tells American tabloid National Enquirer, "Tom is thrilled because Connor went through the auditions like all the other children, and seems to have been given the job based on his talent.
"Nicole's excited too, because Connor has wanted to act for a long time. Now he's getting his big break."
Smith - a close pal of Cruise - will play activist Bobby Seale in the film, about the trial of demonstrators arrested during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/artic...%20role_1065115
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New review from IMDB:
I saw the movie tonight and enjoyed it a lot so here's my take:Pro's:
Good specil effects (even though there not all done)
Excellent hour and fiteen minutes (the movie is probably 100 minutes in length if I had to estimate the pacing in that time period was spot on)
Good combintion of humor and action (I'd say more humor though say in the vein of Beverely Hills Cop, which had a good mix of humor and action)
Will Smith nails the character (even if the chaacter goes through a number of sudden changes out of nowhere)
Even though there weren't as many action sequences as expected they all were pretty memorable especially a fight between Hancock and another superhero (I won't spoil it)
A really good twist that I didn't see coming at all (when you see it you'll understand)
Cons:
The villain wasn't fleshed out at all in any way (they really didn't need to have one in the first place and could have changed a few of the last scenes)
The last 25 minutes shifted more into a drama and didn't totally fit the character of Hacock of the first hour of the movie
Charleze Theron didn't have much to work on for the first fourty-five minutes besides not liking Hancock
The relationship of Jason Bateman's character, Ray and his wife Mary isn't fully fleshed out and the chemistry isn't all there (towards the end Will Smith has better chemistry with her and there scenes together are juicy and easily the best parts of the last twenty five minutes)
Overall I'd give the film an 8.5/10 because it was an innovative look at a superhero other then all the Batman's and Supermen we're given a truly conflicted charqacter who isn't fully invincible. There are many quotable scenes, funny moments, and good special effects that you haven't seen in other movies before. I expect this film to make a lot of money at the box office this summer and please many Will Smith fans along with action fans or people who are looking for a solid popcorn flick.
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A guy that saw a ten minute clip from the movie:
I as at a confrence today and sony showed us a clip. it was the introduction between will and the other lead guy. anyways his car gets stuck on some train tracks. will appears and flips the car off the tracks onto another car. then jumps infront of the train to stop it. everyone stuck in traffic get out and start yelling at will for how he handled it. and some lady says something like that lady should sue u for flipping the car on her. and will says you should sue mcdonalds for *beep* you up ( she was a big lady) and then she complains that he smells like booze to which he replies " because I've been drinkin bitch" so from what I can't tell it has potential for an R rating. but im sure it will be cut to pg 13. the foorage was a little rough. the trains cgi was incomplete but it seems really intriguing.Really hope they wont cut this movie down to a PG 13, I don't know why, but movies are always better when they have some cursing in them... It's more like real life i guess...
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Hancock's mobile game
Hancock: The Mobile Game, based on the feature film starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman, and Charlize Theron to be released July 2, is a "one button" game designed for a broad casual audience. Hancock soars through Los Angeles in pursuit of criminals, saving people in danger, while keeping damage to a minimum. Players use Hancock's superhuman strength to set the situation right. -
Wow, just wow...
I thought about doing that today, but then i thought: "Nah, thats too much. I cant do that to my JJFP friends"...
I am never coming back to this board ever again!
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Yeah, I never understood why so many hate this album... I mean, i can't say it's Wills best album, but then, I can't say that about BWS, Willenium or L&F... I think all of Wills albums are great, and B2R is no exception.
Momma Knows, How Da Beat Goes, Maybe, I Gotta Go Home, Block Party, 1000 Kisses, I Can't Stop and Nothin' On My Mind... C'mon! These are great tracks! I can't understand how people can think that they are bad... I love all of Wills songs, but I feel that the songs from his other albums can get boring to listen to after a while, but B2R is a album that always stays fresh!
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After reading the first bad review, it makes me look forward to it more, i dont think thats what the writer was aiming for.
I mean the sex with the minor thing, if thats true, it sounds hilarious, but maybe i have a sick sence of humour
Haha! I have been telling my friends about that all day, think it sounds hilarious. But if that scene will be left in the movie, it really doesn't sound like it will be a PG movie. But, you never know. What i mean is that it really sounds different from the movie that peter berg was talking about a few months ago, "a movie that my kids can watch"...
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Crap! well, it's just two peoples thoughts...
I hope this is because they thought the film was gonna be a full action comedy flick and not with 30% drama. Apparently Will is great (as usual), in a not so great movie(as usual), the first half is great, but it all falls apart in the second half... Hey, where have I heard that before?
Well, Charlize said "It's really an original film" and that "It kind of flips off the whole idea of genre". I hope that these two guys are just to stupid to really enjoy a movie with a quite big amount of drama, and therefore think it sucks (that is the case for about 25% of all guys 10-40 years old).
But I'm still looking forward to this movie, hope it turns out great and the stuff i read in the reviews makes me look forward to this movie even more. Wills character sounds like it's great and hopefully the movie is as well.
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I got a question. Does anyone have "Chosen One"? I've been looking for this song for years.
Thanks in advance.
If it's the will smith track you mean then here ya go!
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I have very high hopes for this movie. It could be great and after reading what Charlize said it sounds even more intresting. I mean, I dont think she would say that the movie was one of the most original thing she's ever seen in her entire life if it was just another comedy/action flick. So if it is as original as she makes it sound, then it could be one of wills best movies.
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yeah, it really sux about the big gap between the two big Will events...
And, no, i havnt seen it... got a link? And, yes, I'm very jealous! :look: