Daniel
05-20-2007, 05:33 PM
This isn't meant to be a discussion about the Joker or Batman. The Joker issue is simply an example.
This complaint of mine can apply to any genre of movie: drama, horror, comedy, animated, etc.
Pre-movie whining and gushing. I know, I know, nothing to lose sleep over [and I don't], but it bothers me a lot.
Example: The picture of the Joker from the upcoming Batman movie [titled The Dark Knight] surfaced. The problem is that the picture is mostly "filled-in." What I mean is that a pixelated image was released which only showed about 40% of the surface area of the Joker's face [picture a lot of dots making up a partial image]. A fan filled in the rest and then pages upon pages of people commented on it in the following thread: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/12522392.html [you can find the picture there as well].
A major nitpick and gripe of people is that he isn't smiling, a trademark of Joker from the comic books. But, the Joker is illustrated in hundreds even thousands of panels frowning or doing something other than grinning like the mad fool he is. It doesn't stop handfuls of people, however, from exclaiming the movie is going to suck and this is the worst Joker ever. I don't understand what jump-to-conclusions mat people own and mandate their entire lives by. It's like all the handfuls of people who heard Venom was going to be in the new Spiderman and proclaimed "OMG this is going to be the best Spiderman movie EVAR!!!!1!11!1!" Of course the reviews from critics and fans alike are out and the majority of people who saw it were very disappointed [myself included]. I wasn't disappointed from false expectations [like the majority of people seemed to be], but simply because Sam Raimi didn't do the character of Venom justice.
Watching previews for a movie and deciding if it looks worth watching is one thing, but nit-picking that you don't like a character's facial expression? Sometimes I wonder what this world is coming to with people and their ridiculous nuances.
This complaint of mine can apply to any genre of movie: drama, horror, comedy, animated, etc.
Pre-movie whining and gushing. I know, I know, nothing to lose sleep over [and I don't], but it bothers me a lot.
Example: The picture of the Joker from the upcoming Batman movie [titled The Dark Knight] surfaced. The problem is that the picture is mostly "filled-in." What I mean is that a pixelated image was released which only showed about 40% of the surface area of the Joker's face [picture a lot of dots making up a partial image]. A fan filled in the rest and then pages upon pages of people commented on it in the following thread: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/12522392.html [you can find the picture there as well].
A major nitpick and gripe of people is that he isn't smiling, a trademark of Joker from the comic books. But, the Joker is illustrated in hundreds even thousands of panels frowning or doing something other than grinning like the mad fool he is. It doesn't stop handfuls of people, however, from exclaiming the movie is going to suck and this is the worst Joker ever. I don't understand what jump-to-conclusions mat people own and mandate their entire lives by. It's like all the handfuls of people who heard Venom was going to be in the new Spiderman and proclaimed "OMG this is going to be the best Spiderman movie EVAR!!!!1!11!1!" Of course the reviews from critics and fans alike are out and the majority of people who saw it were very disappointed [myself included]. I wasn't disappointed from false expectations [like the majority of people seemed to be], but simply because Sam Raimi didn't do the character of Venom justice.
Watching previews for a movie and deciding if it looks worth watching is one thing, but nit-picking that you don't like a character's facial expression? Sometimes I wonder what this world is coming to with people and their ridiculous nuances.