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I may still go see WotW, because sometimes, I like things to go BOOM.
Me too. I love a good disaster flick, and by "good" I mean "lots of disaster."
Signed, pointed and laughed, but still had a pretty good time watching The Day After Tomorrow.
Vonnie K is me. Although I suspected that after our Shark!man crapfest.
I don't want Batman to have fun. I want Jim to have fun. And I didn't have fun often enough.
Didn't you read Calli's post? Jim drove the Batmobile! Whee!!
Me too. I love a good disaster flick, and by "good" I mean "lots of disaster."
tommyrot is I.
I want Jim to have fun. And I didn't have fun often enough.
Jim! Where were you yesterday, when I drowned in a sea of "Well, I liked it; what's wrong with you??"
I'd argue that both XMen and both Spiderman films managed it near-perfectly
I can't say I agree on the skill level of blending whizbang with serious -- I found both Spider-man films deficient on the serious, and the blending was a bit awkward in all four films, and maybe I should add a category for fact-checking, because that is always a distraction -- but yes, those four movies are examples of the attempt to blend/balance I am talking about.
Last time Batman had fun in the cinema, he rode on Bat-skates and fooled around with Uma Thurman -- so unless I'm is drunk, a batman that has fun and I are pretty much incompatible.
Batman doesn't have fun.
That's why he needs a Robin. For real.
"Well, I liked it; what's wrong with you??"
Who said that?
I don't want Batman to have fun. I want Jim to have fun.
I wonder where that distinction lies. Like you, I don't expect Batman to have fun. It's not Batman. I, however, was exhilarated for much of the movie.
Well, what's going to be exhilirating, then?
what's going to be exhilirating, then?
For me? The tension-release cycles exhilarated me. The unfolding of Batman exhilarated me. The one well-filmed fight scene exhilarated me (actually, the first one did too). The fear scenes amped me right up.
Okay, this is exactly what I dislike about Spielburg:
It's a grand display of how well he knows how to work us over, and yet the desperation with which he tries to get to us is repulsive.
That's from the opening paragraph of the Salon review of WotW.
Yep. I hated it in ET, although 12 year old me couldn't quite articulate that. I dislike it now, and even before the Cruise stuff I was not planing on seeing WotW.