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Nov. 25th, 2014 10:46 amThinking about less serious stuff, sparked by Jurassic World and the Ep VII trailer;
I find my nostalgia is a sort of weird bell curve almost.
A complete unknown property is just that. Everything I adore was an unknown at some point, something new that really shook things up, something that was new and awesome for me, too. Something not yet done a million times could tank or it could be the next thing that really grabs me. For all I know my potentially favoritest comic of all time is sitting on the shelves right now, and because it's not something I already know like Invincible, I'd never look at it twice. At some point after that there's the sweet spot, like The Mummy Returns or a bjillion different takes on Spidey, Hulk and Thor, where I actually still am interested in it both because it's new and because it's still familiar.
Somewhere after that we hit things like the Bay TMNT or the Star Trek reboots where eh, I just feel almost exploited ("hey! You're old! You must obviously like TMNT and Star Trek! Therefore you like our movie!") and there's just no interest (I mention the Trek reboots because as soon as I was in a social situation where hey, people were watching 'em, I watched them and kinda liked them even though they were goofy and not really what got me interested in Trek - but if I hadn't been in those situations, I would never have actively looked for those movies). Like even knowing Iain McCaig worked on Jurassic World doesn't grab me, and I figure I'll go see Battle of Five Armies for closure rather than because I particularly expect it to be a good movie.
I find my nostalgia is a sort of weird bell curve almost.
A complete unknown property is just that. Everything I adore was an unknown at some point, something new that really shook things up, something that was new and awesome for me, too. Something not yet done a million times could tank or it could be the next thing that really grabs me. For all I know my potentially favoritest comic of all time is sitting on the shelves right now, and because it's not something I already know like Invincible, I'd never look at it twice. At some point after that there's the sweet spot, like The Mummy Returns or a bjillion different takes on Spidey, Hulk and Thor, where I actually still am interested in it both because it's new and because it's still familiar.
Somewhere after that we hit things like the Bay TMNT or the Star Trek reboots where eh, I just feel almost exploited ("hey! You're old! You must obviously like TMNT and Star Trek! Therefore you like our movie!") and there's just no interest (I mention the Trek reboots because as soon as I was in a social situation where hey, people were watching 'em, I watched them and kinda liked them even though they were goofy and not really what got me interested in Trek - but if I hadn't been in those situations, I would never have actively looked for those movies). Like even knowing Iain McCaig worked on Jurassic World doesn't grab me, and I figure I'll go see Battle of Five Armies for closure rather than because I particularly expect it to be a good movie.