I'm not a huge superhero fan, but I do like watching their movies every now and again, just for the cool fight scenes and effects. When the trailer for Shehulk came out, I guess I was mildly curious so I watched it... and uh... I just couldn't forget all these lingering thoughts about the whole trailer so I'm gonna lash out here.
By the way, the version of the trailer I watched is this one
https://youtu.be/gim2kprjL50
First off, I just want to leave this statement here that I'm a bit of a bigot when it comes to all these woke movement and 'feminist' movement. I hate how they constantly replace old characters with people of other gender, race or whatever, just to please the woke crowd. It's annoying. I want original cool female characters. I want original cool black characters. Not this whole second hand bs that goes on. I can see that it's divided some people and some end up even hating the women who are involved in these productions for ruining their favorite character. I understand them to a certain extent. For an extreme example, let's say some woke movie director changed a historic Korean character like king Sejong into a black character. As a korean, I'd be pretty gosh darn pissed at everyone involved in it, including the small group of black people that allowed this to happen and all the woke people who think the move is 'progressive'. By the way, I know some people are thinking, "oh they won't change real historical figures into a different race..." it's already happened with Ann Boylen. Back to the Shehulk movie, even whilst knowing all these female versions of these superheroes are not adaptations, but other characters that just happen to be in the same universe with the same power/ability, it's just a bit annoying. That niggly feeling in the back of my mind saying things like, "but... Thor is a mythological character that's a male..." or, "I... like Bruce Banner as 'the' hulk" is all just stuck in my brain and I can't really seem to pry it out. Like... can't they have a female character with her own moves, powers and setting?? Isn't characters like Scarlett witch, Jean Gray and Black widow an inspiration?? In any case, Shehulk has been around for a long time, so making a movie/show (I don't know which one it is) is just. I'm just saying as a broad term that I don't like it when they make 'female version' of existing characters.
With that down, I guess I went in to watching the trailer with not much grand expectations what-so-ever. I just hoped it wasn't going to be like 'Captain Marvel' where there's a Mary Sue character that only has men holding her back being her worst enemy. And to my liking, it wasn't. The trailer for me, had a different set of non-issue issue, but I'll get to that soon. Shehulk genuinely looked like it could be fun (just not for me). It seemed to have conflict that's not all 'men are evil'.
Anyway, so I wanted to share why the movie wasn't for me and no, it's not the CGI and I accept that Shehulk is her own unique character etc (apparently her origin story is completely different from Bruce as well). The movie seems entertaining and I would have definitely watched it... if I was a chick flick fan...
Before I go on about this, I just want to say there's nothing wrong with chick flick movies and movies directed towards the female audience and I actually think it's rather nice that Marvel universe really does cater towards all groups of population rather than just the action loving superhero fans. People are annoyed at the trailer and some are downright saying it looks like it'll be a bad movie, but I don't think they realize that they're not the target audience. The movie just screamed a chick flick movie and if you're not into that, of course you won't like it. Doesn't mean it'll be a bad movie though.
If you look at the trailer, I watched it a few times and some with my partner just to point this out, most of the trailer shows NO superhero action... Most... Trailers should give you a general view of what the movie will be about right? Including the conflicts and relationship interests etc. Well if you look at trailers for Iron man, Hulk, Thor, you see things like, who the villain is, some fight scenes, some friends you meet on their journey who will fight together, who they want to protect... well Shehulk... had very little of all those. It basically wasn't the trailer for an action superhero movie. What kind of aspects are featured in chick flick movies? Well I've looked at the movie trailer for, Legally blonde (a bit old, I know, but I haven't seen a chick flick movie in a long time), Pitch perfect, I feel pretty and Isn't it romantic... a few common scenes show up. Here are some; girls night out (or hanging out with girls, usually in bars), some dating scene (if it's comedy, the dating scene going badly in a funny way), being made fun of for her looks or being praised for her looks, a total hottie (male love interest), the main female wearing something nice and doing a slow motion walk (that fails in a funny way in comedy)... Do... do you see where I'm getting at?? These were all the things that were in the Shehulk movie...(except slowmo walk) After watching the trailer like 3 times, I still don't know who her main villain is and whether there'll be any epic group fight scenes. I know there will be fight scenes, obviously, since they showed like less than 5 second snippets of it here and there, but it was mostly just her jumping, running and pushing?? The only 'superhero' like scene they really focused on were her training. But training... isn't really beating up the bad guy, it's personal development. Plus the trailer didn't show at all what was at stake. Does she have friends and family she wants to protect from the bad guy? Maybe they're her friends they keep showing, but they don't seem like they're in any danger throughout the trailer at all. The only thing at stake seemed like her pride maybe ??? and even that I'm not too sure since she seemingly doesn't want to be a superhero.
In any case, I just wanted to let that out. Once again, I'm not trying to say chick flick is bad or the Shehulk movie is going to be bad based on the trailer. Chick flick movies aren't my thing, so I'm not that keen on it. I do hope people who are negative about the whole aspect of Shehulk movie realizes that Shehulk is not a marvel superhero movie, it's a chick flick fun movie with superhero mixed into it.
Enough ranting... Peace out
