Your Face is an Advert

Over the years I have gained rather negative feelings towards Mr. Smith, its not for any particular reason, only that he seems to star in over budgeted bland films but off I went to see Hancock on a bit of a family outing. And I was pleasantly surprised. The story is about Hancock a homeless man with super powers who tends to get it a little wrong when fighting crime causing millions of dollars worth of damage every time he puts a bad guy behind bars. All well and good and I thought ‘my isn’t this refreshing to have a super hero film when its not an origins tale.’ I thought the idea of a superhero having to have some one in charge of his PR was nice and post modern and I didn’t even mind when PR mans wife (a very old looking Charlize Theron, I grieve for her now dead broad shouldered beauty) turned into a super hero and muddied the water of what could have been a perfectly good film with out her. A very solid 3 out of 5 film.

That was until by pure chance I read Neil Gaiman’s take on ‘The Eternals’ series and I started to notice a number of similarities and for you lucky readers I will now list them.

• Hancock has actually been an immortal super hero for a couple of thousand years, so have The Eternals
• Hancock lost his memory 30 years previous to the film, oddly the same thing happened to The Eternals.
• Hancock had had a rather violent on/off relationship with lead female lady over the couple of thousand years, in the land of The Eternals lead dude and lead lady had a very similar relationship.

These are only a few, they do however differ in that Neil Gaiman’s story is incredible where as Hancock was a little meh. Its just a shame that the new run of The Eternals doesnt carry with it the same energy as Gaimanns and takes itself a little too seriously.