Moviemaking is a troublesome enterprise. You want to have a way if humor in the event you’re going to outlive it.
Simply ask David F. Sandberg, the director of such hits as Lights Out and Shazam and now, the director of the flop, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. The sequel to the favored hit primarily based on the DC Comics superhero has solely grossed $132 million worldwide thus far. That’s $200 million much less than the primary Shazam!
The film additionally bought very combined opinions; it stands at precisely 50 p.c on Letterboxd. It bought a a lot worse rating than that from Sandberg himself, who maintains an account on the social media website the place he provides all of his films satirical unfavorable opinions. For Fury of the Gods, Sandberg gave the movie a half-star (the bottom doable score on Letterboxd) and wrote “Billy and Shazam have completely different personalities. I actually want somebody would level this out to the director. Unwatchable!”
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In truth, Sandberg has given all of his options sarcastic half-star opinions on Letterboxd. Of the primary Shazam, he wrote …
How might he catch a bus by the windshield?! Worst film ever!! The common bus weighs between 25,000 and 40,000 kilos (11 to 18 metric tons). Not solely would his palms go straight by any windshield (or any steel elements of the bus for that matter) however stopping that a lot mass in such an abrupt method would flip the bus into an accordion and the passengers could be mush … I do know he could not fly at that time however why did not he simply superspeed as much as the bridge and seize the bus from behind to softly pull it again up? Rubbish.
His evaluate of his 2016 horror function Lights Out was rather more succinct:
Not sufficient jumpscares.
Sandberg is just not the primary big-name director to provide his personal film a unfavorable evaluate on Letterboxd. In 2019, 4 years after the film was launched to disastrous opinions and field workplace, Josh Trank posted a two-star evaluate of his Implausible 4 to the positioning. Trank’s evaluate not fairly as harsh as Sandberg’s, nevertheless it was a bit extra honest. (“I used to be anticipating it to be a lot worse than it was. I actually haven’t seen it since like two weeks earlier than it got here out, and I used to be in a closely f—ing traumatized mind-set,” he wrote.)
As for Sandberg, he’s a gifted man, able to so much higher than Shazam! Fury of the Gods. He’ll bounce again and make a greater movie subsequent time, after which depart it one other dangerous evaluate on Letterboxd.
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All of those films grossed greater than $1 billion on the field workplace. And so they all stink.
