Blockbusters

Hollywood blockbuster movies are, without exception, military recruitment films. No matter how they begin or how creative and dazzling the special effects (District 9, Avatar) they always end up with military firefights and pandemonium. It's basically the same movie over and over, and we keep paying them to remake it. It's like the little kid who gets picked up by daddy and swung around . "Do it again daddy, do it again." It's infantile and so boring I usually end up fighting sleep in spite of the wall shaking clamour of it. The last Batman for instance, when Heath Ledger wasn't onscreen riveting my attention with his ferocious and delicious performance, the rest of the movie was....things exploding. When I was talking to a psychologist friend about this he said it was all a subsititution for sex and of course he's right, especially since these things are primarily geared towards adolescent boys. All the violence is just sublimated sex gone bad and rancid. And in truth the endless loop of the same violent effect IS like a porn loop but frankly I'd rather they just give us IMAX 3D fucking and sucking and really make us all happy. Well, it would make ME happy, and I'd probably stay awake too.