Someone Please Remind Me to Stop Watching Hollywood Super Hero Movies

Rating: 2/10 (30 November 2011)

Remember that scene in "A Clockwork Orange" when Alex has his eyelids forced open and is being conditioned to get sick from watching violent films? Someone needs to do something similar to me so that I will lose the urge to watch big-budget Hollywood super hero movies.
I told my wife about half-way through this especially stupid example of the genre to remind me next time I thought it sounded like a good idea to rent "The Green Lantern" or something about my experience watching "Captain America." I hate to be lost during a movie, but if I'm lost because the movie is especially intricate and complex, then I can at least tolerate it. But when I'm lost because the movie itself is so badly written and directed that ANYONE would be lost, I lose patience instantly.
I'm not even going to ask the questions about this movie that I want to ask, because no one is going to be able to answer them without making something up anyway, and because it would be giving the movie too much credit to take it seriously enough that questions are necessary. Suffice it to say that the two most entertaining things about the movie were the "let's see who can come up with the most ridiculous German accent" contest duked out between Hugo Weaving, Toby Jones and Stanley Tucci; and the performance of Tommy Lee Jones, who barks out dry one-liners as if he was born to fulfill that very task.
Grade: D