…On A Second Viewing:

http://whatculture.com/film/8-movies-everyone-turned-second-viewing.php

Now this is an interesting list.  I’ve long been fascinated with the way people react to entertainment.

Like everyone else, I am susceptible to what appears new and interesting.  I’ve jumped onto things and felt they were really really good only to have second thoughts about them later.

For example, there was a time in the very late 1970’s and entering the early 1980’s that I enjoyed Billy Joel’s music.  When the 1980 release “Glass Houses” came out, I was impressed.  I listed to that album quite a bit but, a few months later, I suddenly found myself not liking his music at all.  To this day, hearing a couple of notes of any of his songs sends me racing to change the station.

And that’s music!

Going by this list, there are a few films listed that people “turned” on that I find fascinating.

Take for instance the very first film on this list, the 2012 mega-blockbuster The Avengers.  The culmination of several Marvel Comics related works, this film roared into theaters and appeared to take the country by storm yet, according to this article, there are those who now look back at the film in far less glowing fashion.

I don’t believe I wrote a formal review to the film, though I did see it in theaters way back when (and in 3D!).  Not to sound too forward thinking, but the film didn’t “blow my socks off.”  I enjoyed it well enough, but afterwards I felt the plot was a complete mess.  Mind you, at that very same time there were people making those very same complaints against The Dark Knight Rises, the third of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and a box office rival to The Avengers that summer.  I felt/feel that The Dark Knight Rises (by the way, it is another entry into this list) was far from a “perfect” work but at that at least there was an effort made to make something “big”, storywise, in it.  With The Avengers, however, the villains’ motivations and plan were always, at best, silly.  Why engage The Avengers at all?  The plan seemed to have been to confuse and bewilder them until the alien menace can make its way to Earth, but wouldn’t a more prudent plan be to stay in the shadows and bide your time until you have your alien forces already orbiting Earth (hidden, of course), and then attack without warning?

At the very least, their numbers would then be overwhelming enough to wipe out The Avengers, right?

Anyway, there’s the list.  Their #1 film is (SPOILERS!) the James Cameron mega-hit Avatar.  Funny thing about that film.  I was really eager to see it when I first heard about it.  Especially the idea of James Cameron returning to science fiction.

Then the film was released and everyone went crazy about it.  It made a zillion dollars and, I believe, remains the single highest grossing film of all time (perhaps not factoring in inflation…I keep hearing Gone With The Wind would be tops if that were the case).  As blown away as audiences were with it, the more I read about the movie’s story (this from before and after the release) the less interested I was in seeing it.

To this day I haven’t seen Avatar.  Perhaps one day I will.  Perhaps…

Still, a fun little list to consider.  Bear in mind, all the mentioned films are of fairly recent vintage.