Xander ,'Selfless'
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This dark "gritty" world DC has created in their movies is exhausting and dispiriting to me, and I don't want to play in it anymore.
I've been in the not interested camp for a long while. But then again, no one ever got rich making movies that cater to my tastes, so I can't really complain that they aren't making my kind of movies.
Well, people have made more than a billion dollars each on three movies that cater to my tastes recently, and I'm not thrilled about a monochromatic noir Superman movie either.
I feel... what's the word for bored, mildly irritated indifference?
The closest I can think of is "ennui" but that's not quite right.
I've also lost interest in the DC movie-verse. At least their TV shows are still enteritis entertaining me.
On the other side of the coin, I'm interested to see how the new Sony/Marvel team up with a teenage Spider-man (that actually looks like a teenager) works out.
Well, people have made more than a billion dollars each on three movies that cater to my tastes recently, and I'm not thrilled about a monochromatic noir Superman movie either.
Then they should worry when they lose you as an audience. I've already been given up for dead.
I feel... what's the word for bored, mildly irritated indifference?
Blasé
?
Or how about "relaxed," in the Arthur Dent sense?
"I may need a quote...How do you feel about having ridden on Halley's Comet?"
"I haven't," said Arthur with a suppressed sigh, "ridden on Halley's Comet."
"OK. How do you feel about not having ridden on Halley's Comet?"
"Pretty relaxed, Murray."
You know, I love John Cusack as much as any child of the 80s, but dude: you are not the right guy for swords-and-sandals epics:
I'm agog at the very concept of this movie. Who thought this was a good idea?
Well, it does have Jackie Chan. Which goes a long way to invalidate other arguments.
Apparently it's been out in Asia for a while and eta: is a big hit. [link]
John Cusack looks totally lost in every scene in that movie. Which may be appropriate.
I can't quite figure out what the concept is from that trailer, so hard to judge whether it's a good one. The article at Sue's link makes it sounds like something I'd totally want to see.