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Pirates, Transformers and Harry Potter
Jul. 13th, 2007 12:41 pmSpoilers for all three below
Ok, so I've seen two more films in the past week and I've almost come to the conclusion that I need to become a hermit where I read and watch nothing along with thinking that every movie I see will be absolutely horrible and then...I wouldn't be disappointed so much.
Two movies this summer, I expected to be horrible:
Spider-man 3 and Transformers
I expected to not like them. Everyone said that Spider-man 3 was the worst and Transformers is by Michael Bay and I usually avoid his films like the plague...I can't sit through them, they're just too stupid.
However, I loved Spider-man 3 and Transformers. When Optimus Prime showed up in Transformers, he's the leader of the good robots, it was so...beautiful that I had tears in my eyes. Here were these toys that I'd been familiar with since I was like one and the were real. It wasn't just some cartoon, it was like they were really alive and I just loved that. It was incredible. I was bouncing in my seat like a three year old because I was just so happy at seeing them and I never expected that reaction. I'm not sure what to even compare it with because even my happiness at seeing James in AWE can't compare with the bliss of seeing the Transformers bought to life.
Of course, that made me sad to think that, that I squealed when James first appeared in AWE and Dumbledore in Order of the Phoenix , but they just couldn't compete with a childhood favorite.
I also feel a bit like Benedict Arnold because despite assuming I would like them, I was heavily disappointed by both AWE and OotP. After AWE, I was told that I had ruined it with spoilers so I refused to see clips or read advanced reviews for OoTP. Unfortunately, I had read the book and it just didn't compare to the book. It wasn't even as good as the film version of Prisoner of Azkaban. My mom read the book recently and she didn't like the film either. I understand that they feel a need to have a cinematic film under three hours, but how about a dvd cut that's three-three and a half hours? Why do they give Neville all of Dobby's bits? What was the point of having Kreacher and Lupin if they have no real point in being there? Only Harry, Sirius and Luna were done well compared with their book selves and a lot of the lines were so trite (not the ones from the book) that I cringed upon hearing them. The final scene had been changed and the lines could have easily been in Lord of the Rings. I guess that was made worse by Transformers which could have easily had cheap, well-used lines that any disaster/alien flick would have, but it didn't or at least, not in such a glaring way. It had unique situations involving parents and the Transformers used for comedic purposes as well as a few stereotypical characters and cheesy lines said by the Transformers that were actually true to the original cartoon.
Why do I feel like Benedict Arnold? Because I talk online and I read the posts on KTTC and it feels like I must be one of only 15 in the world that didn't like AWE yet these are two of my biggest fandoms, POTC and HP. If I don't like one of the films, does this make me less of a fan? For HP, it is expected to like the novels better, but for POTC, the films are the fandom. I end up feeling bad as though I'm not trying hard enough to like AWE, like I must not be a "true fan" because I didn't like it and I hate that feeling. I really do. Then, a lot of people either treat me as the grieved widow or a shipper as if the only reasons for not liking AWE are that I'm mad over James' dying or that I'm a JE. I'm not a JE. The "ships" were one of the few things where I was happy how each were resolved and the "ships" certainly weren't what disappointed me with OotP yet both left me cold and slowly shuffling my way outside. After I've seen a good movie that I truly enjoyed, I know it because there's a spring in my step, a smile on my face and this bliss of euphoria.
I don't know. I know I'm not stupid, but sometimes it feels like I'm defective in some way for not liking AWE. I liked parts of AWE and I tried seeing it again because I wanted to be like everyone else, but I just...can't.
But I'm going to try and have extremely lowered expectations for all my movies from now on because it's the only thing that I can think of to do.
Ok, so I've seen two more films in the past week and I've almost come to the conclusion that I need to become a hermit where I read and watch nothing along with thinking that every movie I see will be absolutely horrible and then...I wouldn't be disappointed so much.
Two movies this summer, I expected to be horrible:
Spider-man 3 and Transformers
I expected to not like them. Everyone said that Spider-man 3 was the worst and Transformers is by Michael Bay and I usually avoid his films like the plague...I can't sit through them, they're just too stupid.
However, I loved Spider-man 3 and Transformers. When Optimus Prime showed up in Transformers, he's the leader of the good robots, it was so...beautiful that I had tears in my eyes. Here were these toys that I'd been familiar with since I was like one and the were real. It wasn't just some cartoon, it was like they were really alive and I just loved that. It was incredible. I was bouncing in my seat like a three year old because I was just so happy at seeing them and I never expected that reaction. I'm not sure what to even compare it with because even my happiness at seeing James in AWE can't compare with the bliss of seeing the Transformers bought to life.
Of course, that made me sad to think that, that I squealed when James first appeared in AWE and Dumbledore in Order of the Phoenix , but they just couldn't compete with a childhood favorite.
I also feel a bit like Benedict Arnold because despite assuming I would like them, I was heavily disappointed by both AWE and OotP. After AWE, I was told that I had ruined it with spoilers so I refused to see clips or read advanced reviews for OoTP. Unfortunately, I had read the book and it just didn't compare to the book. It wasn't even as good as the film version of Prisoner of Azkaban. My mom read the book recently and she didn't like the film either. I understand that they feel a need to have a cinematic film under three hours, but how about a dvd cut that's three-three and a half hours? Why do they give Neville all of Dobby's bits? What was the point of having Kreacher and Lupin if they have no real point in being there? Only Harry, Sirius and Luna were done well compared with their book selves and a lot of the lines were so trite (not the ones from the book) that I cringed upon hearing them. The final scene had been changed and the lines could have easily been in Lord of the Rings. I guess that was made worse by Transformers which could have easily had cheap, well-used lines that any disaster/alien flick would have, but it didn't or at least, not in such a glaring way. It had unique situations involving parents and the Transformers used for comedic purposes as well as a few stereotypical characters and cheesy lines said by the Transformers that were actually true to the original cartoon.
Why do I feel like Benedict Arnold? Because I talk online and I read the posts on KTTC and it feels like I must be one of only 15 in the world that didn't like AWE yet these are two of my biggest fandoms, POTC and HP. If I don't like one of the films, does this make me less of a fan? For HP, it is expected to like the novels better, but for POTC, the films are the fandom. I end up feeling bad as though I'm not trying hard enough to like AWE, like I must not be a "true fan" because I didn't like it and I hate that feeling. I really do. Then, a lot of people either treat me as the grieved widow or a shipper as if the only reasons for not liking AWE are that I'm mad over James' dying or that I'm a JE. I'm not a JE. The "ships" were one of the few things where I was happy how each were resolved and the "ships" certainly weren't what disappointed me with OotP yet both left me cold and slowly shuffling my way outside. After I've seen a good movie that I truly enjoyed, I know it because there's a spring in my step, a smile on my face and this bliss of euphoria.
I don't know. I know I'm not stupid, but sometimes it feels like I'm defective in some way for not liking AWE. I liked parts of AWE and I tried seeing it again because I wanted to be like everyone else, but I just...can't.
But I'm going to try and have extremely lowered expectations for all my movies from now on because it's the only thing that I can think of to do.
