Something Which Sucks
For the second time in a month, a major motion picture about vampires (sexy female vampires, I should add) is opening without being screened ahead of time. Typically, films that aren't screened for critics (or even advanced audiences) have the aura of stinkeroo about them.
As my lovely wife has pointed out to me on several occasions (usually while screaming at the Sci-Fi Channel), vampires are played out. It's time to move on to something else already. There's only so much you can do with pasty Eurotrash in modified leatherware doing wire-fu against other hellspawn creatures. I mean, Anne Rice is writing about Jesus now. She's done with vampires, and so should be Hollywood.
Same goes for superheroes. Maybe more on that another day, but for now I don't get how "Batman Begins" was so beloved. Maybe if everyone walked out after the first half, but when I saw the Dark Knight crouching in the El station with Katie Holmes, I laughed out loud, watching a guy in an overgrown rat costume be menacing. Instead, he's a deeply delusionly man in sculpted body armor. Maybe it's the era, but trying to make Batman "real" was a horrible gamble, especially when Sam Fisher has stolen his act cold, sans the faux-nihilistic brooding and the bat-gadgets. Deep down, Bruce Wayne has the same problem that I had with Eminem: Both could afford therapy, but they refused to give up the darkness that made them, and I can't adore a "hero" type that chooses to remain disturbed by a trauma they could indeed fix if they tried.
2 comments:
I was talking about movie vampires, primarily.
And Angel was tolerable (sometimes, fun) because he wasn't a vampire as much as Joss Whedon's excuse to make a Batman TV series at first, evolving into change-up pitch of "monster of the week" and a soap opera that verged on playful self-parody.
I didn't watch Batman Begins but primarily, people are attracted to superheroes because we can never be like them in real life, and likewise that these guys will never fit into the daily cut and grind like we do. Remember, they're not supposed to be like us.
I don't even think that the creator of the original Batman delved into what made him tick, or maybe he did, a little, when providing the background of Bruce's murdered parents, hence, Bruce's vocation for crime fighting. But the dark side of him, I don't know, I think not, because therapy back then is not as common as going to the grocery nowadays, and people were not too overanalysing and not much into themselves. Anyway, Batman is really my least favorite superhero because I don't understand why he had to go in a tandem with Robin who I think is gay.
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