In the future do you think anyone will ask where were you
when The Avengers was released? I was there for the 10am showing on the
first day of release and I was alone. But I didn’t care. Some things are too exciting
to be shared with anyone else, anyone apart from a roomful of likeminded
strangers whose verve and passion equals your own….and who also don’t have to
work that day.
But I felt sludgy afterwards. Like the Ben and Jerry’s I
treated myself to. Cold and sludgy. Sick to the stomach. In a mud-like
depression. Heavy and slow. I was left feeling film-noirish. Pretty uninspired.
Pretty dry monologue running in my head. I thought The Avengers would complete me.
The ultimate high in all my favourite strands of make believe colliding together.
Instead it left me pondering why I hadn’t laughed as hard, or been as convinced
by the formation of these characters as everyone else.
I sat by the fountains where I live, and thought about Loki
and how pantomime the whole film felt. Fountains seem like the kind of placeJoseph Gordon-Levitt would sit and think in 2012. But probably not about
Loki. About girls and moving into
production and how he could be better, better then Franco, better then Tatum.
After all, Tatum was getting credible. He had a production credit to his name.
He had a biopic made about himself.
I spend a lot of 2012 hanging around water features.
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