Was Hancock Before Its time? – Phil and Chuck return to probe the depths of the 2008 movie Hancock, which emerged on the leading edge of the modern-day superhero craze and is easily one of the most underrated superhero movies of all time!
It’s perhaps the first anti-superhero movie ever made, widely released just before Iron Man ushered in the MCU and the subsequent superhero takeover of the box office. Since then, Hollywood has enjoyed massive success bringing other anti-superheroes like Deadpool and Suicide Squad to life on the big screen.
So was Hancock maybe just a little bit before its time? Come along with us as Phil and Chuck roll that question around and spit it back out!
Video Timecodes:
0:00 – “You Heard Me!” [An Original Skit]
2:09 – Good Guy, But An Asshole!
3:45 – First Anti-Superhero?
5:14 – Buried Beneath Superhero Rubble
6:07 – “A lost soul with superpowers…”
7:28 – Is the Good Offset By the Bad?
8:51 – Voluntarily Submissive
10:50 – Tale of Two Stories
12:27 – In the Pitch Room
13:38 – Will Smith, Hands Down!
15:01 – The Talent Squad
16:09 – Behind the Camera
18:01 – No Sequels, Please…