Subj : Re: Prometheus
To   : unc0nnected
From : jack phlash
Date : Tue Jul 16 2024 05:49 pm

on 16 Jul 2024, unc0nnected said...
 
 un> Hard agree, if I have even the smallest amount of faith that a movie is
 un> going to be really good I go into a total blackout about it.  Did that
 un> with the latest Dune movies and so effing glad I did.  Best was going
 un> into The Matrix totally blind, I think someone told me it was a movie
 un> about ninjas without gravity or something and that's all I knew.  Mind
 un> totally blown

Man man! I've probably told this anecdote on here before, but I had a very similar experience with The Matrix. My brother and I had always kind of rooted for Keanu Reeves since Bill & Ted, and Johnny Mnemonic from earlier in the decade is kind of a guilty pleasure. Saw the trailer - didn't know WTF it was supposed to be, just a lot of action scenes, so one day we just kind of randomly decided to go see it. Blown away. None of my friends had seen it; like, no one was talking about it at first... but that didn't last too long.

 un> This is the problem with well established IP, the audience somehow feels
 un> ownership over it to the extent that if it isn't done the way they want
 un> or think it should be done the entire thing needs to be burnt at the
 un> cross.  There can be no redeeming qualities at all if it deviates from
 un> what the base wants or expects.  

That, and there is no nuisance. If you don't like some aspects of the movie, the whole thing is a piece of garbage. Blech.

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