And his name is? Well let’s just say that thank the lords Dr. Moreau didn’t take Batman and Hancock to the island of misfits and come up with a new creation.
This first-run theater with second-run conditions is within spitting distance of my apartment in Portland. I saw the change over about two weeks ago at Cinemagic at the intersection of Hawthorne and 20th. and it was the first time I actually felt a pang of sadness for not owning a snazzy camera phone. Luckily someone did and they passes it along to Shawn Levy, film critic extraordinaire at the Oregonian.
Unfortunately, the Oregonian is a conservative paper and you couldn’t get away with posting this on their website. So Mr. Levy passed it along to Jeff Wells and my guilt for not having a camera is gone because Jeff posted it to the ever-awesome Hollywood-Elsewhere.
Life is funny sometimes. So yeah, I can vouch for no photoshop, probably just someone with a good sense of humor doing the marque changeover.
Will Smith’s dysfunctional superhero movie Hancock has to be good right? I’m not sure if I’m just trying to talk myself into the movie, but aside from Watchmen, we’ve long be overdue for a movie that pops the balloon of the “superhero” film. Plus, I’ve long thought the most interesting aspect of “superheroes” are the peeps with powers who aren’t heroes at all. The guys who are too apathetic or lazy to do anything, the ones who want to get drunk or use their x-ray vision to check out women (which yes only works if you want to see their bone structure but that’s important too and also seems way more witty when you’re 13).
Regardless, Will Smith stopped by the Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday and brought with him this clip. It doesn’t reveal much, but it’s interesting that after getting a slew of movies about an uptight rich white guy learning how to “keep it real” or “live life” from a sassy black chick/dude, Hancock goes the opposite route and looks to be about how a dysfunctional black dude learns to tone it down from a smarmy white PR guy and eventually be accepted by white society. In other words he learns to be less black and more white.
Ahhhh, racial stereotypes. Glad to see Hollywood and society has come so far.
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