2. Movies Are Definitely Getting Dumberer
Snow White & The Huntsman. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Battleship. What do these movies have in common, except for their godawful titles? They sucked, that’s what, and we all knew they were going to suck, because look at them. I mean, one of these movies is based on a board game. A board game. And not even a board game with actual characters or the inklings of narrative structure like, say, Cluedo, but one that literally has its players saying letter/number combinations over and over again until they have to imagine up what an exploding ship might look like in their heads.
Yes, Hollywood has continued to mine the most unlikely sources for blockbuster transformation, seemingly tricking themselves into thinking that somebody like Rihanna could get away with using a gun like that. This year is potentially the most explosion-orientated blockbuster extravaganza of them all, meaning that, yes, blockbusters aren’t only getting louder and increasingly CGI-reliant, but dumber. Or do I mean dumberer? I blame the movies. All that’s to be said is that a year after Transformers 3 bombed into cinemas with a whopping 283 explosions, we’re still piling on the pyrotechnics like they’re going out of style. If only.
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