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Shazam pointing at Miracle Man: Zachary Levi, star of Shazam 2, slams the 'garbage' coming out of Hollywood

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Zachary Levi urges audience to avoid 'garbage' produced by Hollywood

Zachary Levi, star of 'Shazam 2,' slams the 'garbage' coming out of Hollywood: 'We have to actively not choose the garbage.'
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It's one thing for critics or the audience to call out Hollywood for making questionable fare. It's another for stars of said questionable fare to join in.

But Zachary Levi's got a bone to pick with what he called Hollywood "garbage" at Chicago Fan Expo on Saturday. The star of one of the year's biggest flops urged attendees to "actively not choose" crap movies, apparently oblivious to the fact that many of them decided to do just that when faced with Shazam! Fury of the Gods.


"I personally feel like the amount of content that comes out of Hollywood that is garbage — they don't care enough to actually make it great for you guys. They don't," Levi said to enthusiastic applause.

"How many times do you watch a trailer and go, 'Oh my god, this looks so cool!' Then you go to the movie and it's like, 'This was what I get?'" Levi continued. "They know that once you've already bought the ticket and you're in the seat, they've got your money. And the only way for us to change any of it is to not go to the garbage. We have to actively not choose the garbage. It'll help. It'll help a lot."
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My guy.....my guy.

Honestly I think audiences have been very picky with their wallets lately.
 
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"They know that once you've already bought the ticket and you're in the seat, they've got your money. And the only way for us to change any of it is to not go to the garbage. We have to actively not choose the garbage. It'll help. It'll help a lot."
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yea, that's why I didn't go for Shazam 2
 
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Captain Marvel was at least interesting, dude's not exactly one to talk
 
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Somebody in his friend circle needs to tell him to just stop talking.
 
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Sorry, what does this have to do with Captain Marvel? The article in the link doesn't mention that film
 
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You know i normally just read the thread title before writing a response, but i decided to actually skim the article, and i think the most depressing bit in all this is that writing articles like this is someone's life.
 
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CloseTalker said:
Sorry, what does this have to do with Captain Marvel? The article in the link doesn't mention that film
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Shazam's original name was Captain Marvel until Marvel caught them slipping and took the copy right. So it is a play off SPiderman pointing at Spdierman
 
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CloseTalker said:
Sorry, what does this have to do with Captain Marvel? The article in the link doesn't mention that film
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Shazam used to go by Captain Marvel, Slayven is making a Spider-Man pointing meme joke about how Levi is talking shit when he himself was just in a "garbage" movie
 
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He's always saying weird stuff.

Not even the trailer for Shazam 2 looked cool, then the actual movie squandered everything I liked about the first.

Have there been any truly awful movies significantly outperforming expectations in recent times? I feel like audiences are already picking and choosing what they want to pay to see.
 
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The sad thing is that David F. Sandberg is good people, and I hate that his latest legacy is a crap sequel.
 
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I would also take any chance I get to call him Captain Marvel as well. Glad the DCAU got to refer to him as such at least. As for Levi, lol, lmao even.
 
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I completely forgot a Shazam 2 came out. I don't even recall if I ever saw a trailer.
 
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well yes bad movies are kind of a constant. sometimes they do well and sometimes they do very very badly.

anyway i didn't see shazam 2 sorry zach
 
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I mean, is the critique of that statement not an example of this? Granted, it's not like he has to be a movie star, just the first thing that came to mind
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Yeah Levi, I did my part by not watching your garbage movie called Shazam. Will never watch any other garbage movie you may appear in the future.
 
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Stencil said:
I mean, is the critique of that statement not an example of this? Granted, it's not like he has to be a movie star, just the first thing that came to mind
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I mean he was one of the worst things in the movie. The kid actor was amazing, but you would never known when Levy was on screen they were suppose to be the same character.
 
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Actually liked Chuck and got to meet him at Nerd HQ which was awesome when it was around. ugh, but didn't know he was like this.
 
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I mean he was one of the worst things in the movie. The kid actor was amazing, but you would never known when Levy was on screen they were suppose to be the same character.
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That's fine, I didn't see that movie, but he's still making a good point?

It's like the head shit maker at the shit making factory saying loudly "Do not buy the shit we make" ?
 
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Dude wtf....
Is he really this petty?
Seriously career suiciding over here...
 
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Stencil said:
That's fine, I didn't see that movie, but he's still making a good point?

It's like the head shit maker at the shit making factory saying loudly "Do not buy the shit we make" ?
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Nah, he tried to blame the Rock for why the movie was bad. So it was more like head shit maker blaming the chief piss brewer for Shit production not being what it was
 
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Slayven said:
I mean he was one of the worst things in the movie. The kid actor was amazing, but you would never known when Levy was on screen they were suppose to be the same character.
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It was part him and part the writing. I audibly groaned when Holding Out For A Hero was playing on the woman's car radio, and then he flat out called attention to it. Like, my guy, you didn't get the laugh so don't try to explain it.
 
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Dude wants to get canceled so bad so he can be Kevin sorbo 2.0 and Star in gods still not dead 45 or whatever. Gotta blame the left for his career tanking but not his shit acting.
 
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It was part him and part the writing. I audibly groaned when Holding Out For A Hero was playing on the woman's car radio, and then he flat out called attention to it. Like, my guy, you didn't get the laugh so don't try to explain it.
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I did laugh at "Taste the rainbow", am I part of the problem?
 
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Slayven said:
Nah, he tried to blame the Rock for why the movie was bad. So it was more like head shit maker blaming the chief piss brewer for Shit production not being what it was
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Right, but what I'm getting at is the fact that even if the blame got shifted all the way down to the fecal mopping floor of the shit factory, I still think he's ultimately making a good point. About not paying for garbage, not who he's calling garbage.
 
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