Holy shit. Got to admit that I did my part for Star Wars--went to see it on the 19th of December with the kids, and I was the only one who was underwhelmed--but this is still pretty astonishing, ennit? I mean, the movie hasn't even been out for three weeks yet.
And speaking of the top ten box office movies, I suppose I've done my part there as well, as I have seen most of them. I've seen all of them from start to finish with the exceptions of Avatar and Harry Potter. I've probably seen all of Avatar by now, but only in pieces and out of order. And I haven't seen the Harry Potter film--but not for lack of love. I just haven't caught up to that series yet. I think the last one I saw was The Goblet of Fire, which I liked quite a bit. So I should probably get on with that at some point. The interesting thing to me, though, is that most of these are not what I consider to be good movies. Jurassic World was just shit, wasn't it? A movie dependent on the idea that the most dangerous creature in the history of the world is only a panicked guard's palm away from escaping into a heavily populated area? And the second Avengers film, yes, shit there. And sorry, Paul, but Furious 7 as well. And sorry, kids and LGBTEIEIOers, but Frozen, inDEED. Avatar = shit . . . and totally ripped off from Poul Anderson's "Call It Joe," as I've noted previously. I didn't think Iron Man 3 was shit, but it certainly wasn't the best of the Iron Man movies. So in my humble, the only movies in the top ten that I'd say were good were The Avengers and Titanic. (With an abstaining vote for Deathly Hallows.) So what is it about these movies which made them such huge box office successes? I'm thinking it has to be promotion to some extent, but certainly there have been movies that were as heavily promoted which didn't do anywhere near as well. Of course it could be that my sense of aesthetic value is fucked, and these really are the ten best films ever made . . . but I don't really think that's possible. So what the hell is it?
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