Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
I have been saying from day one that the Catwoman movie was going to be a major dud and looks like I was right.
It literally amazes me how Hollywood -- a town that couldn't find its way out of a paper bag without basing that way on a 1970's television series -- keeps arrogantly thinking that it knows how comic book characters are supposed to be treated, that somehow playing them straight from the comic page is like some tremendous insult to their "craft." This despite every successful comic book movie in the history of the genre being the ones -- and only the ones -- which get the true-to-comics essence of the character just right. Hello? Both Spider-Man movies set records because they were live action Spider-Man comic books. X2 played like it was a direct adaptation of a classic X-Men tale. Meanwhile, Hulk, Batman and Robin, and now this most abysmal of all failures, Catwoman, just l don't get it. What I don't get is how all of this is lost on whoever it is that gets to waste zillions of dollars on these projects that scream "crap" from day one.
UPDATE: Here's another awesome review of this craptacular film. Anyone want to take bets on how low this thing will go on the Tomatometer?
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Some of you are saying I'm a hypocrite because I'm not very creative either. But you're missing what I'm saying: I'm not saying that Hollywood should try to be more creative-- after all, what a silly thing that is to request of someone-- but rather to admit they are not creative and subjugate themselves fully to their source material.
For the last 15 years and maybe more, Hollywood film making has gone from striving for quality to striving for big box office takes, thus creating any movie that may have the slightest appeal to the target audience, which I believe, ranges somewhere from age 13 to age 21. You know this, I know this, and Hollywood knows this too. That's not the point. And I'm sorry to rain on your proverbial parade, but I don't believe it's actually possible to ask *Hollywood* (as a collective bunch) to admit that they lack creativity. That's like asking Africa to stop making AIDS. Probably can't be done anytime in this life.
Africa, stop making AIDS! (That was easy)
Seriously, I think we can all blame the advent of block booking and nationwide release dates for the phenomon you describe. In the good old days, a particular film would take months if not years to criss-cross the country, with a few prints starting on the coasts and slowly making their way to the interior. (Thus the significance of the premier.) It used to be only movies that were good were bothered to be passed on, because word of mouth buzz and positive reviews were what made people in places like Indiana want to see films. Now it's all about buying your gross with a marketing blitz, wash, rinse, and repeat.