Irrational Viewing Habits Explained

Over the past few weeks I have been mesmerized by the trailer for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. Now this really should not come as a surprise because I am a pretty nerdy guy, but here's the troubling thing I KNOW that it isn't going to be good. You see usually when I see a preview for a movie I can tell by the end if it looks completely horrendous, is something that I'll wait and rent or is something that I have to see in theaters.

So if I am fairly confident that it is going to be disappointing then why do I get giddy as an 8 year old on Christmas morning when I watch the trailer?

It's simple. The rational (rather cynical) side of my brain says, "Good god that looks like a typical over hyped summer movie with slick CGI to cover the thin plot and stilted dialogue". While the other more base impulse of my brain goes, "Whoa Wolverine just totally clawed that fucking helicopter in the air". You see a friend of mine put it perfectly in that sometimes you want to view something that numbs the mind and that you have to make zero to no effort in thinking about what's going on. Essentially you just go with it and preferably it has explosions.

You don't have to tell me that something like Transformers 2 will be bloated and predictable...I don't care in the slightest because there will be robots fighting. I'm actually excited to see GI Joe this summer even though I know it's not going to win any awards or teach me anything useful. It's like owning a really nice looking car that gets shitty gas mileage or something. The equivalent of eating comfort food in that you know it's not that good for you, but you still love it to death.

That's why when Dead Pool cuts a bullet in half and it kills two guys behind him one side of my brain responds with, "YES! THAT IS AWESOME! I AM TOTALLY WATCHING THE EVER LOVING SHIT OUT OF THAT", while the other side is rolling it's eyes.


-Astroboy