This is the worst.
Go buys it or sees it anyway.
Record numbers happen.
Why do they keep making this shit?
What kills me is paying for something with the intention of hating it. Even if I don't have high hopes for something, I at least try to approach it saying "Well, maybe it will surprise me." Some of these people will put down money just to be angry.
I just can't understand. It's too much dope shit in the world to spend money on something you intend to hate.
It's not so much that fans feel "entitled". It's more like they've been hoping and praying for a project, a serious, non-hokey, Hollywood blockbuster project for a long time. And we've seen enough bombs to know the sign of bad moviemaking. So when they see something actually happening, and then see such bad casting like Ryan Reynolds as Dick of the Year in Space..it's like hope and then devastation. So what you see isn't entitlement, it's hope dying. They'll get over it.
People didn't dislike Ryan Reynolds as Hal until after the fact. I remember people being on board with the guy at Comic Con the year before the film launched. Blake Lively was the only GL casting that caught shit.
To use another example. The Avengers might everyone's precious little darling now, but that movie had a lot of heat aimed at it leading up to release. It wasn't until the second or third trailer that people beyond Whedonites and Marvel Zombies really started to rally behind it. Same thing happened with First Class: people were convinced it was going to suck based on casting and promo materials, then the movie came out and got a mostly positive reaction.
In short, fans don't know shit. Or rather, they know exactly what they want, and if you don't give them exactly that, they bitch and bitch until a trailer or something comes out to shut them up.
Though I understand what you guys are saying, it never fails to amuse me when people on message boards complain about nerds.
Us nerds aren't like those nerds. It's levels to this shit, as they say on the Instagrams.
