distasteful escapism

Rating: 1/10 (1 February 2007)

I have a buddy who hates the back-stories in superhero movies, which he finds unsatisfying. True enough but that goes double for the conflict, the villain and the resolution of each new calamity, which are as predictable and shallow as video games.
Within a year of watching people fall to their deaths from a collapsing World Trade Center, we're entertained by a movie which features Kirsten Dunst about to fall to her death from a damaged skyscraper. That's entertainment? No that's bad taste. You'd have to go back to Murder on the Orient Express and watch author Agatha Christie recycle the Lindbergh kidnapping to sell books after too short a passage of time, to see anything more cynical.
Instead the correct means of channeling fear and unresolved feelings over 9/11 is to pester two kids who scared the dumber members of the culture with light-brights, featuring the Mooninintes. While the 30 percent of the culture that still supports Bush, call for their heads. Oh yeah, we're going to be just fine.