TW: DCEU film mentioned
I walked out of Batman V Superman completely fucking wrecked. I don't think it's awful, but I didn't want to watch any more movies after that. It took about 4 or 5 days for me to try to watch something else. It sounds like I'm being an exaggerative comic book media obsessed psycho- I guess I am. I wanted to enjoy it, I occasionally did, but mostly I felt completely deflated, struggling to understand what kind of plot ZS & co were presenting- and which side of the political spectrum the film was on (it explicitly was trying- I'm not reading too much into it). The music was overwhelmingly pulsating and while I love Hans Zimmer (he's up there with Williams for me) it just was unrelenting. The visuals were occasionally beautiful and ZS uses CGI as a genuine art form, but the screen is smeared with muddy dark brown template making me struggle to focus on the screen. At its core- it's meant to be a comic book film for children. What a depressing feeling to be a parent if you had to watch the film with your kid who was genuinely excited for these silly characters to be onscreen together.
Can anyone articulate why it was that much of an atrocity? You watch some scenes on youtube and it's decent-ish, but I don't think I could put myself through that again.
There's been three times while watching a movie at a theater where the thought of killing myself, not out of depression but just as a way of not having to watch the fucking movie anymore, crossed my mind: Fast Five, Avengers Infinity War, and Last Christmas. Of them, I get who two of the three are for. I don't get Last Christmas in the slightest. It's not a romantic comedy even though it advertises itself as such, both because it isn't funny but also because it's not even a romance story. It's not interesting enough to be a good drama. It's honest to god probably the worst movie I've seen in that it's absolutely the most boring. Like I didn't even want a good movie, I just wanted to shut my brain off and just get nice christmas feels. Instead I got a movie that didn't need a twist, but decides to do a twist anyways. And that twist is that the line "Last Christmas I gave you my heart" is taken literally and the boyfriend isn't a living person but a dead person whose heart the protagonist received in a heart transplant.
hahha bruh, kinda related- Love Actually has apparently given people that same feeling. At least the anthology nature of Love Actually allows me to prefer certain stories, but that sucks that Last Christmas made you feel that way. I would've thought the uber attractive stars were enough to push it over the line.