Current Events > If I had a nickel for every time Charlize Theron played an immortal character

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with superpowers and whatnot, I'd have 2 nickels. But it's weird that it happened twice:

Hancock: immortal being with superpowers with some weird 2007 writers strike era script of a movie.

The Old Guard: basically the story is they're these immortal beings with infinite health and they've been influencing human history by participating in wars, aid, and may or not have its own comic

Man, I wish Hancock was actually good

I'm also in the camp of "there was probably a good movie here with a somewhat novel premise especially way back in 2008"

I remember Hancock got beaten by a bunch of regular thugs. Wasn't he supposed to be superpowered immortal too? Can't remember the plot.

thisworld posted...

I remember Hancock got beaten by a bunch of regular thugs. Wasn't he supposed to be superpowered immortal too? Can't remember the plot.

He got weaker from being around Theron's character I think? For a reason I don't remember the longer they were near each other the weaker they got.

That movie had so much jarring humor dissonance, even it being a result of the 2007-2008 writers strike is no excuse.

Literally a scene of will Smith having sex with a woman but his sperm is so powerful so he pushes her off so that his semen can shoot through the roof of his trailer like bullet holes. Jesus christ did robot chicken write that scene?

And then there's the "literally shoving a criminal's head into another criminal's ass" thing. Even back then that wasn't really funny. But it is a time capsule of the way edgy humor was done in the 2000s.

MEGAsoldier posted...

He got weaker from being around Theron's character I think? For a reason I don't remember the longer they were near each other the weaker they got.

It's so that they can grow old together and die. Like a reverse hawkman and hawkgirl's star crossed lovers thing.