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[dear-sciaphilia]

I went to 'anti ship' tag only to to see it overrun with pro shippers. You're literally shoving yourself in spaces no one wants you in.

Proship: Just block the tags and move on!

Also proship: *Makes new terms to circumvent tags every week*

Also proship: *Actively looks for antiship tags to harass people*

[21stcenturymoviereviewer-blog]

SHAZAM MOVIE REVIEW

SPOILER   ALERT

Well this is new. Since when did DC decide to go on a more light-hearted tone hmmn?Maybe they're trying to become more like marvel and they are doing it better. Yes I here you marvel fans shouting a mile away for my blood but seriously come on. You got to accept that an average standalone DC movie is better than an average marvel Movie.

PLOT

In 1974 Upstate New York, while playing with his Magic 8-Ball, a young Thaddeus Sivana is magically transported to the Rock of Eternity, where he meets the wizard Shazam, who introduces him to the mystical statues containing the spirits of the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth. The last of a council of seven, Shazam spent centuries searching for a new champion. Put to a test to see if he is pure of heart, Sivana attempts to touch the Eye of Envy, failing the test. When he is transported back to the car, he causes a scene when he tries to go back, causing an accident that injures his father.

In present-day Philadelphia, Billy Batson is arrested by child services after he lures and traps police officers to assist in his search for his mother. He is adopted by the Vasquez's, and he shares a room with Freddy Freeman, a paraplegic. Meanwhile, using testimonies by those rejected by Shazam, Sivana returns to the Rock of Eternity and frees the Sins, allowing them to use his body as a vessel to escape. With his power, he kills his father and brother for the abuse he suffered as a child.

While at school, Freddy is bullied by a group of kids. Billy intervenes and flees onto the subway, where he is summoned by Shazam, who tells him of one who used his powers for evil. Billy promises he uses his powers for good, and Shazam has Billy grab his staff and say, "Shazam!", which transforms Billy into an adult with multiple superpowers. With Freddy's help, Billy begins to learn the full extent of those powers.

 Freddy posts videos of Shazam’s powers, which go viral. However, after Freddy claims to know Shazam at school, he and Billy get into an argument at the dinner table over Freddy using Billy for his newfound powers. Billy begins to skip school to enjoy being Shazam, humiliating Freddy. Shazam accidentally causes a bus to fall off a bridge before saving it, causing Freddy to promptly reprimand him for abusing his powers. Upon seeing Shazam on the news, Sivana attacks him. Shazam is easily defeated, but he transforms back into Billy to blend into the fleeing crowd. However, Sivana captures Freddy, who was looking for Billy.

Billy's siblings realize that he is Shazam, and they reveal that they found his mother. Billy runs from home and meets his mother, who reveals she abandoned him because she could not take care of him as well as the police could. After leaving his mother, Billy receives a call from Sivana, who has arrived at the Vasquez's home to find him. Upon Shazam returning home, Sivana threatens Billy's siblings for Shazam's powers. When Shazam agrees, Sivana takes him to the Rock of Eternity. Billy's siblings follow them there. During the ceremony, Freddy wounds Sivana, giving Shazam time to escape and causing them to realize that without the Sins, Sivana is a normal man.

Sivana corners the family at a carnival, where the Sins threaten to kill Billy's siblings if Shazam does not give his powers. However, Shazam uses the staff to split the power among his siblings, causing them to also become adult superheroes with powers. Shazam manages to defeat Sivana by taunting the final Sin, Envy, to leave Sivana before saving him. Using Sivana, Shazam takes control of the Eye of Envy, enabling him to contain the spirits. The group is considered as superheroes in the city, and Billy accepts the Vasquez's as his family. Billy shows up at school as Shazam to endorse Freddy before revealing that he brought a friend: Superman.

CREDITS SCENES

Over the credits, Billy is revealed to have joined the Justice League. In a mid-credits scene, Sivana, in his jail cell drawing multiple symbols across its walls, is interrupted by Mister Mind, having previously been imprisoned at the Rock of Eternity, who tells him of the pillars of evil that will come together and that they will rule the seven realms. In a post-credits scene, Freddy tests whether Billy can talk to fish, citing Aquaman, only for Billy to dismiss the power as stupid.

THOUGHTS

What i noticed immedietly was that it is what you expected but also the complete opposite. A big number of people (including myself ) went in there expecting a light-hearted superhero comedy and it is that, at least when the movie focuses on Shazam aka Billy Batson. The other part of the movie focuses on the antagonist Dr Sivana. And OH BOY it was CRAZY. I would like a supernatural horror thriller focused on Dr Sivana. Hey why not? If the trench from aquaman can get a movie of its own  why not someone who controlled the literal embodiments of evil from the bible?

So any way I like the moments between Billy and Freddy and how they test out Shazam's powers. Though i like Dr Sivanna's story he felt too comical. I mean come on he IS a comic book villan but then again look at Killmonger From Black Panther.

 But you would still like him though. Any way like all superhero movies Billy defeats Sivana with the help of his loved ones or 'Family'. Me personally I think its fine but it's too corny. But hey, if it means more Shazams running around then I'm fine. And THEN in the end he has a big MAN OF STEEL THEMED FIGHT with Dr Sivanna and it honestly so amazing that I want to give it a a solid 10/10 but compared to other great movies of the decade its only above average.

I GIVE IT...  -  8.2/10

[wondertrevunited-blog]

Sweet Dreams

Hello! This is my first foray into the DC universe. I just had to write something because Wonder Woman absolutely destroyed me. And I am an enormous fan of the ‘Steve is brought back to the 21st century and is with Diana again’ trope, needless to say. Also, I admittedly know next to nothing, in terms of the comics, so this is strictly the movie universe. Thanks! And I hope you enjoy.

Steve was standing in front of the kitchen stove, armed with a frying pan that held several strips of sizzling bacon, when Diana emerged from the bedroom. She lingered at the doorway’s threshold, a smile playing across her face at the sight of her beloved. He was dressed in the dark gray sweatpants that he had taken a liking to, and she took a moment to appreciate them as well. She stood in the doorway, watching as Steve cooked and occasionally shimmied to the music emanating lightly from the smart phone resting nearby. It had taken him quite a while to adjust to the newfound technology of the 21st century, but he had eventually adapted. Though the music floating lazily from the phone’s speaker was something much, much older - a piece from nearly a century ago. The gentle twang of a guitar and a crooning voice made the song familiar, but the title escaped her. It nonetheless brought memories bubbling back to the surface of her mind, memories of a night long ago. A snowy night in a little village in Belgium called Veld, where Charlie slipped and slid his fingers over piano keys as he sang without inhibition and Sameer flitted from person to person, socializing and offering drinks, and Chief had stood in the snow and made quiet, idle conversation. Where Steve and Diana had danced under the flurries of snowflakes and contemplated what life without war was like. 

The thought had Diana’s heart wrenching briefly in pain. So many people she had loved back then. Sameer, Chief, Charlie, Etta Candy. One hundred years later, they had all been lost, succumbing to the relentlessness of time. And so, she had thought, had Steve.

Yet here he was, a century later, standing in the kitchen of the cozy apartment they shared, jimmying a pan back and forth to cook bacon and swaying slightly to music playing from his smartphone. Her thoughts flitted back to the dance they had shared, one of many, and how they had talked about what came with the absence of war - for most people, anyways.

Jobs. Children. Diana watched Steve shimmy with a growing smile. Marriage. That last bit was particularly interesting. To her, though, the concept of marriage did not seem very necessary - she did not need a new last name or a witness to verify that she loved Steve Trevor. But while she might not have needed it, the more she looked at him, the more she watched him as he shuffled to and fro and finally began to slide the bacon out of the pan and onto a paper plate, the more she realized marriage was something she wanted.

“Would you marry me?”

Steve’s reaction was instantaneous. He jerked, surprised, and immediately uttered a hiss of pain when searing hot grease from the pan splashed onto the exposed skin of his abdomen. He dropped the pan to the stove with an abrupt clatter and turned to face her, blinking rapidly. “Well, uh, good morning to you too.”

Diana only smiled.

“Was that…” Steve arched one eyebrow at her. “Was that an offer, or…you know, just a run-of-the-mill random question?”

“Well,” Diana said as she padded across the kitchen to join him at the stove. Her stomach rumbled pleasantly at the scent of freshly-cooked bacon. “I believe it’s customary for proposals to be phrased as questions, so…both.” 

Steve blinked at her in unabashed surprise. “You….want to marry me.”

Diana grinned. “I believe the average response to the question is ‘yes’ or ‘no.’” 

“Yeah, well, uh, I think we’ve already established that I’m above average-”

Diana shook her head, amused. “I believe you’re prolonging your answer.” She wasn’t nervous, or worried, or frightened - the expression on his face told her more than enough, and all teasing aside, there was a depth in his eyes that reaffirmed that she had made the right decision.

“Fine, fine. Then…” He pretended to deliberate. “Yes. Diana of Themyscira, I’ll marry you.” Before she could say anything else, though, all jest left his face and he stepped closer to her, smiling as he lifted a hand to brush a lock of jet-black hair out of her face. “As long as you accept the fact that you have to put up with me for the rest of your life, then yes, I’ll marry you.”

Diana’s hand snaked up to his face, fingers trailing over the stubble lining his jaw. “I don’t think this is ‘putting up with you’, Steve Trevor. If it is, then I’m more than happy to do so.” Her heart had flinched at the mention of the rest of her life. Her life would span eternities. His spanned only years that would go by in the blink of an eye. But they would spend those years together, and Diana was more than happy with that. “Especially if you keep making bacon every morning.”

Steve laughed and she drew him to her, kissing him deeply, finding herself enjoying his stubble much more than she had anticipated. “Well, we won’t be able to eat the bacon if you keep kissing me,” He said, not unkindly.

“It has to cool down anyways.” Diana looped her hand through his and, together, both of them grinning goofily, they headed off towards the bedroom that Diana had emerged from a mere ten minutes ago -

A cold, gray, empty bedroom that Diana awoke to now. Her eyes snapped open, fixated on the tall gray ceiling. Her fingers were groping for someone who was not there and had instead clutched onto empty, thin bedsheets. She dropped her gaze to her hands, released her grip, and stared at the ceiling once more. Her apartment was silent. There was no sound of old music, no sizzle of bacon, no tantalizing smell.

No Steve Trevor wearing gray sweatpants and dancing slightly as he cooked the bacon. No Steve Trevor for her to propose to. No Steve Trevor to marry, or love, or share the bed. 

Diana closed her eyes and wondered, for the umpteenth time, how the Fates could be so cruel.