Not elitist, just factual.
One doesn’t have to be slack-jawed to enjoy “John Carter”- It’s a good movie for roday’s Hollywood.
But one does have to be slack-jawed if one saw it because of the marketing.
(May be a little ‘ageism’- movies are marketed to kids.)
I’m just telling you how it sounds to someone with a PhD, who is also a movie goer.
I watch movies because of the marketing. We watch trailers and chose what we will spend our hard earned money on. With this economy, while we might be interested in seeing a movie on home video, it’s only the movies that are sold well that get our 14.00 per ticket. Other people do the same.
But just because people are not interested in a character from 1912, does not make them slack-jawed. It’s hurting in the cash department. If this movie had come out in 2005, it may have been a huge hit.
At “Hunger Games” (one my kids wouldn’t miss) on Thursday, we saw trailers from “Dark Shadows” and “The Avengers”. Both are on the “see” list. The others, I couldn’t even tell you what they were about.