So Iron Man comes out today (or came out yesterday or whatever) and I’m debating going to see this movie and the truth is that while it looks cool, I just can’t really muster the energy to care that I usually do.
I’m not sure why that is (the carpet advertising done here maybe) but I just feel like, meh, I’d be happy to just sit around and chill out with friends. I don’t need some huge bombastic movie for to distract me for 2 hours and $10 dollars.
In fact, I’m more interested in seeing There Will Be Blood on DVD or playing some GTA IV or other game online with friends. What does it say about my ‘nerd-cred’ that I wasn’t lining up at the 8PM showing last night and instead went to the gym and came home and did some more work?
Is it simply that it doesn’t feel like summer yet (damn you Wisconsin weather!) or is it simply that I don’t get the joy out of watching brown people get blown up by a dude in a suit. I’ll be honest and say I’m not that interested in Speed Racer, Indy 4, or even The Incredible Hulk. The only movies I’m interested in this summer are the summer comedies like The Foot Fist Way, Step Brothers, Tropic Thunder or Pineapple Express.
Of course, I saw Rambo in theaters over the winter and loved it and would gladly go see it again, so maybe I’m just looking for something that’s more straight up action and lest crazy CG junk. Have an old guy with a 50-cal machine gun destroying dudes and I’ll probably show up.
Either way, I find it weird that I’m not more excited for the summer movie season. If anyone wants to try to convince me that something decent and big budget is coming out though, feel free.
[Update]
Just thought of one ‘bigger budget’ movie this summer that I’m interested in seeing, Hancock. And while it may be a superhero movie, it is more interesting ground than just the standard ‘defeat the bad guys stuff’ than Hellboy, Hulk, Iron Man, or The Dark Knight. Plus as I understand it, it’s more darkly comedic than the previews would have you believe.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I stopped going to the movies about 10 years ago. I’ve been 3 times since then (3xLOTR). I only go with a group of people and when I don’t care what the movie is.
Plus, all the good movies come out with a directors cut on DVD a couple years after they were in the theater anyhow, why pay so much to see half the directors vision?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Iron Man is not really an action movie, actually. At least not your typical one in that there is suprisingly little action. I was pleasantly surprised and thought it was great. The rest of the theatre did too.
The only summer movies I am excited for so far are Hellboy and AD Babylon. Of course I’ll see most of the other ones too.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it isn’t an “action movie.” I will say that it is fairly character driven. Still, there are at least 3 separate instances of action involving the suits so I’ll say it is a movie with a fair amount of action.
The fact that the movie was made for $135 million was kind of surprising though. That’s pretty cheap for a big summer FX movie. I think last year’s Die Hard movie cost more than that.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Indy 4 wasn’t bad but I pretty much only saw it because I was dogsitting down the street from a theater.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
It wasn’t good either.