Ah yes, the daily beast where I go for all my media reviews.
Like getting video game news from Forbes. LOL.
Sounds like somebody paid the Daily Beast to generate hype
Does it really generate positive hype if they said it sucks?
“Any publicity is good publicity.”
Not universally true, generally true. because not gaining any attention at all is a death sentence for entertainment.
I don’t think it is intentional in this case though since the Daily Beast is trash and the odds of trying to coordinate a subversive campaign through them would be a waste of time.
I think there’s a large contingent of people who see negative reviews and go “Yeah, fuck that, I’ll make up my own mind.”
I felt the same way about Megalopolis. Glad I saw it. When I see reviews talking about how a movie is confusing or hard to understand my general feeling is “Yeah, but the reviewer could just be dumb too…”
Confusing movies are sometimes the best movies. :) Pi, Primer, the Fountain, Cloud Atlas (I still need to re-watch that one), Life of Pi. Lot of “P” movies here for some reason.
When the plot is deeper than a puddle, it’s harder for a movie to get a good review.
+1 for Primer, so good.
I’ve only had that feeling about movies I was already interested in. Random movie, not so much
The Daily Beast is as creditable as Diddy not being rapey.
I mean. It’s a superman movie. What more need be said?
I don’t know, it’s hard to be optimistic with high budget movies these days.
Oh I was implying it would be terrible. Superman is the most boring character ever put to paper in my opinion. But I don’t even like superheroes much.
Supes is definitely a product of a different era, but he’s also pretty iconic. It’s hard to not want to try a Superman project.
But like you say, it’s damned hard to get it right.
Some properties are so iconic it’s almost impossible to touch them, but they just did a Mickey Mouse graphic novel that was stunning, when was the last time anyone could say that about Mickey Mouse?
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/walt-disneys-mickey-mouse-and-the-amazing-lost-ocean
I heavily disagree, I love almost all of the Superman comics I’ve read. But I don’t trust DC to make a good movie, especially at this point in the genre’s lifespan.
