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.
I’m not much of a movie watcher, I’ll sit down for maybe 2 or 3 movies a year. But if I can talk about a tv show that left me exhausted, it would be American Horror Story. I dated a girl who was obsessed with AHS, she had like the first four seasons on DVD and would rewatch it several times a year. She asked if I wanted to watch it with her, so we watched the first season together.
Holy shit, AHS is HOT GARBAGE. The plot is super predictable and uninteresting, the writing doesn’t sound like how people actually talk, and it just has a pretentious overall feeling, like it’s supposed to be super deep and scary. Then they sprinkle in sex as much as they can, to give the show a sexy veneer for whatever reason. By the time we got to the last episode of season one, I was so glad for it to be over.
She asked if I wanted to watch the next season and I hastily declined, but I would peek in sometimes to see if it was still awful, and it was.
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burn that studio down, tbqh
I'm so over sexual abuse being portrayed explicitly in art. I'm not saying sexual abuse shouldn't be covered in media- but perhaps showing how an environment could lead to such an intensely violent act- mostly committed by people known to the victim- is more productive than showing something horrific that's unfortunately with true crime obsessions etc is actually weirdly old hat now. Also, from a horror perspective, implication is far worse than showing something in detail.
I had the same experience (watching season 1 with a girl) and its extremely funny in a "this is terrible" way. The husband dad is a sex addict psychologist, and he's terrible at his job. Everyone sucks, everyone is acted terribly, it has zero pace at all, the house is haunted in something like 12 different ways.