Zachary Levi Says ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Critics Rating Was “Oddly and Perplexingly Low”
Zachary Levi Says ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Critics Rating Was “Oddly and Perplexingly Low”
The actor opens up about being taken aback by the film's reviews following its box office flop, saying, "People were insanely unkind.”
The actor opens up about being taken aback by the film's reviews following its box office flop, saying, "People were insanely unkind.”
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Go Fash lose cash.
Be a bigot, lose your money ticket.
Act prejudiced, get no more of this! do money hand gesture where you rub thumb against index and middle finger
Conservative thought? Money is naught!
Right wingers get no dinner.
Neoliberal hate means an empty plate.
That's all I can currently muster... I'm not a fan of General Custer. I like yours better.
That article you shared is literally an opinion piece that even says the actor hasn’t specifically made antivax statements. It’s written by someone trying to infer the actors opinions without any verification. That’s not a reputable source. Also, we’re knocking people for twitter follows now? That could be something Levi looks at, it could be a random account added by a social media team, it could be any number of things.
You use the word “actively sides” - that’s objectively not true based on these sources. I’m all for holding people accountable but come on, this is just attacking the guy and using baseless accusations to merit it. Do you have any verifiable or reputable sources that prove this guy is a hateful bigot? If he is, so be it, but what you shared doesn’t support that notion in any fair sense.
Edit: based on some of the responses I’m seeing I’m gonna leave this thread alone. There are so many inferences, allusions, speculations, disreputable sources and “guilty by association” reasons being used to hate on this person that it’ll probably start an all day argument. To those who responded, thanks, just not how I wanna spend my time today.
Many Shazam! fans were shocked this weekend when Zachary Levi, who stars in the popular DC superhero franchise, said he was in “hardcore” agreement that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Pfizer “is a real danger to the world.” Levi followed up his tweet by doubling down and sharing a link to a Justice.gov press release about Pfizer paying $2.3 billion as part of a fraud settlement back in 2009. “Just one example of what I’m referring to…” he tweeted alongside the link.
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But it’s not the first time that Levi, an affable presence previously lauded for his titular role on the NBC show Chuck, has raised eyebrows with his controversial takes. Earlier this month, the actor posted a clip of his appearance on the Shawn Stevenson podcast The Model Health Show in which he rails against American pharmaceutical companies’ advertisements.“We are carte blanche, ‘Do whatever you want, do the imagery of a guy and a girl on a date having a... throw that football through that tire, be in that tub, whatever it is, you know, and barely talk about the side effects,’” he says in the clip.
And one more piece for this truly perplexing puzzle:
Levi called (incel hero and lackluster human) Jordan Peterson “one of the deepest thinkers I’ve ever heard break down, like, human behavior.”
Another?
"I am no fan or supporter of Trump, and I find his behavior to be vulgar, callous, narcissistic, and lacking empathy. And while I’m not a Conservative, I know many who backed 45 not because they liked him, but because he was the only candidate they felt cared about their needs.”
He also appeared on 700 Club, founded by Pat Robertson.
Those links are just the tip of the iceberg!
As the Daily Beast reports, he also went on Joe Rogan, expressed admiration for Jordan Peterson, blithely allowed Rogan to misgender Elliot Page with no pushback, and gave an interview to notorious hateful bigot Pat Robertson on the 700 Club.
It's not like he's ever denied anything asserted by any of these articles. A Tweet like "I love vaccines!" or "trans rights are human rights!" would clear this up pretty fast. Yet, silence.
So... after some point, if it looks like an anti-vaxxing bigot, swims like an anti-vaxxing bigot, and quacks like an anti-vaxxing bigot... isn't it just an anti-vaxxing bigot?
Your edit is a lie. You're just not willing to accept a simple phrase.
Tacit approval.
That's all this is. You either refuse to accept the phrase or have never heard it. Let me educate you.
If you are a good person and you hang out with bad people and don't criticize their bad acts, then you support those acts.
I liked him for Chuck, didn’t think he would be a bigot
A follow on Twitter isn’t necessarily an endorsement. I really hope it isn’t in his case.
It is when it's a fucking hate group.
Scumbaggery aside, I find it incredibly disheartening that just following an account these days is enough to warrant having a giant red target painted on you. I really despise what social media has done to us.
Or, and hear me out, maybe it was not a very good movie.
I get that critics have a different perspective because they'll see so many more movies and have a different interests than fans, but we've had decades now of them giving a pretty fair shake to superhero and popcorn movies and reviewing them on their own terms. If your sequel doesn't do anything particularly interesting in that space, then the property or the cast had better be so beloved that people will go see it regardless. I haven't really heard that anybody HATED Shazam 2, just that nobody gave a shit, and most of the review snippets on RT reflect that.
I watched it the other day on HBO. It was pretty trope-y and predictable. For me it just solidified the end of the Superhero genre because I don't feel like there's anything new they can bring to the table. It wasn't really a bad movie, it was just very flat and forgettable.
Like with horror movies, most releases will follow the same tropes and a few gems that do something new and interesting will pop up. Logan stood out in the middle of the superhero boom as new and interesting.
The superhero genre is currently coasting, but it hasn't ended and eventually something interesting will pop up.
It had nothing that made the original movie popular
Because it was a bad movie, Zach.
Not that odd and perplexing. I can't even remember the plot.
What did you make of the epic CGI fest final act? *
- I have not seen the movie, I'm just assuming it's the same as all the other ones.
I am literally incapable of recalling anything about it.
Those 3 ladies were mad because a virgin lit the black candle and brought them back to life. No that was Hocus Pocus… Um. They stole the tesseract? They didn’t like flying kids because only they should fly. OH SHIT I REMEMBER there was something about a mummy right like a stone and a curse?
I have never seen Hellen Mirren in a shitty movie before. Also love Lucy Liu. Nope…still painfully awful. Didn’t care about any characters.
Make a crap movie, people will shit all over it.
I liked the first one, the second one was terrible.
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I actually had fun with the movie. But it was not a good movie.
Yeah. They kind of went straight to the Marvel family way too fast. Should have saved it for the sequel.
I really hope DCEU can get it together. For obvious reasons.
I've fallen asleep during this movie 3 times now. It can't be that bad.