Hancock

I enjoyed this piece of Hollywood fluff because it moved right along and surprised me several times and was funny. H didn't like it because it was "implausible." Good grief, 99.9% of the movies made in LaLaLand are implausible! That's like saying you didn't like a sonnet because it rhymed. Implausibility is a given in "the Hollywood movie." This is the landscape of hopes and dreams, with only the most optimistic connections to the world outside under the threatening sky. This is "wouldn't it be nice if" country. This is film as pop entertainment. And in films like Hancock and Titantic, Hollywood does what it does best, make an entertaining piece of fluff that rakes in obscene amounts of money. This is Show Business. When the hell does anyone ever talk about Show Art? Even feels strange on the tongue.

Anyway, I thought Will Smith was a hoot. Textbook story structure. Good twists. What else do you want to watch with your popcorn?

Arriving today from Netflix was a failed film, financially, Cradle Will Rock, that I greatly admire and will watch later today or soon. The only reasons films like this get done is that stars and other participants like them and work cheap. I think it lasted one week in theaters here. It's a zillion times a better film than Hancock, IMHO, but it ain't fluff and it makes you think.