KRYPTON INC.
Incorporated Kryptonian
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You're all wondering... "What the hell are you talking about?"
Look around the Hype or social media online in general and what do you find, especially in the genre fan community? A lot of people talking about how a film enraged them, or saddened them (unintentionally, I'm not talking about obvious tear jerker type films) or depressed them. Think I'm lying? Do you have eyes? Cuz it's all over these forums.
It's becoming apparent to me that most people aren't aware of just how emotionally invested they are in Hollywood movies. And while sure, there's more to film than the latest blockbuster, piping hot right from the studio oven, look at recent years and tell me that people online DON'T spend a lot more time venting their emotions over franchise films than they do films that are tackling more substantive material than whether a fictional super being gets to beat up another super being before the second super being attains power from the macguffin.
And I can't say I'm immune... But I think it's in reverse. I got to see SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE last week and... I'm not gonna leaven this... It fed my soul. Not even exaggerating. It's linked to one of my all time favorite heroes and pulls from comics I've been fans of for years. Even the characters and material I wasn't familiar with worked. And I think it's more than ANY other film got to the heart of what makes Spidey, well... Spidey. There are a bunch of moments where, as I stated... It fed my soul.
Now my reaction to films that don't do that is... A little more muted these days and kind of always has been. If I didn't like a film, even if it's based on material I am already a fan of and this adaptation doesn't jibe with me? I just mostly walk out disappointed a bit but emotionally unfazed. But read through some posts here on the Hype of similar events. People use some interesting language.
"Depressed"
"Sad"
"Angry"
"Disillusioned"
Which... It's every person's right to feel how they, uh... feel. But some people online seem to allow these film products a lot of control over their emotional equilibrium.
Do you agree in the phenomenon?
If so, do you have a take on why you think that is?
Is it disappointment since another experience in cinemas was so emotionally transcendent that like a junkie you keep on seeking that high and if a film doesn't do that you feel betrayed or just plain angry you didn't get that "high" again?
Has the culture changed to the point that such investment on such a personal level to movies, something that didn't exist just a little over 100 years ago, is a vestige of something else more primal in the human psyche and thus is just as viscerally charged as some of the more elementary aspects of the human mind?
I find it interesting, if exhausting that there are so many out there that regularly let us know how "vexing" a film is for them.
Look around the Hype or social media online in general and what do you find, especially in the genre fan community? A lot of people talking about how a film enraged them, or saddened them (unintentionally, I'm not talking about obvious tear jerker type films) or depressed them. Think I'm lying? Do you have eyes? Cuz it's all over these forums.
It's becoming apparent to me that most people aren't aware of just how emotionally invested they are in Hollywood movies. And while sure, there's more to film than the latest blockbuster, piping hot right from the studio oven, look at recent years and tell me that people online DON'T spend a lot more time venting their emotions over franchise films than they do films that are tackling more substantive material than whether a fictional super being gets to beat up another super being before the second super being attains power from the macguffin.
And I can't say I'm immune... But I think it's in reverse. I got to see SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE last week and... I'm not gonna leaven this... It fed my soul. Not even exaggerating. It's linked to one of my all time favorite heroes and pulls from comics I've been fans of for years. Even the characters and material I wasn't familiar with worked. And I think it's more than ANY other film got to the heart of what makes Spidey, well... Spidey. There are a bunch of moments where, as I stated... It fed my soul.
Now my reaction to films that don't do that is... A little more muted these days and kind of always has been. If I didn't like a film, even if it's based on material I am already a fan of and this adaptation doesn't jibe with me? I just mostly walk out disappointed a bit but emotionally unfazed. But read through some posts here on the Hype of similar events. People use some interesting language.
"Depressed"
"Sad"
"Angry"
"Disillusioned"
Which... It's every person's right to feel how they, uh... feel. But some people online seem to allow these film products a lot of control over their emotional equilibrium.
Do you agree in the phenomenon?
If so, do you have a take on why you think that is?
Is it disappointment since another experience in cinemas was so emotionally transcendent that like a junkie you keep on seeking that high and if a film doesn't do that you feel betrayed or just plain angry you didn't get that "high" again?
Has the culture changed to the point that such investment on such a personal level to movies, something that didn't exist just a little over 100 years ago, is a vestige of something else more primal in the human psyche and thus is just as viscerally charged as some of the more elementary aspects of the human mind?
I find it interesting, if exhausting that there are so many out there that regularly let us know how "vexing" a film is for them.
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