Control: Movie Failures
I, Dalton Lewis, noticed that the movie Kraven the Hunter failed in December. It flopped badly. People didn’t watch it or care. Some bigwig lost his companies tens of millions — or hundreds of millions — of dollars. Someone got a lot of people fired, too, probably, people who worked hard and wanted to be a part of something. I watched the movie. It was passable comic book origin story fare. It was an okay movie in which a character fought lots of bad guys and saved the day from a bad guy who seemed indestructible.
We’ve seen that already, though, haven’t we? That’s what the experts are saying. I am saying that the experts are full of shit. They hate my novels — I work hard on my novels that they call woke liberal stupid bullshit. They think that the superhero movie is failing because of fatigue. I don’t think it’s failing because of fatigue. I don’t think people are tired of a good superhero movie. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Deadpool 3 both proved to be excellent movies that lots of people went to see and loved and cared about. They were events.
Why were they events? Because we have boring terrible lives and it’s fun to pretend to be the hero in those sorts of stories. It makes a terrible existence a little bit more bearable. Also they were events because they were good comic book characters that people responded to and felt something about. Spider-Man, Deadpool, and the like are beloved characters. Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven are not beloved IP’s. They’re Spider-Man villains that no one cares about. How about a Black Cat movie? I’d like to see her. She’d be great. Have her fight Gwen Stacy. That would be fantastic.
Kraven was not an event movie. No one cared. No one noticed. A lot of people are creating stories that no one is noticing these days, and it’s because of two reasons. One, there are too many stories and not enough time for people to appreciate them, and two, most writers suck at writing. They aren’t very good. The writers of Kraven made a passable movie that was fun but didn’t make it into the greatest movie of all time. Every movie should try to be the greatest movie of all time. Instead they made a nice little origin story for a character that no one noticed or wanted to see in a universe with Morbius and Madame Web and Venom — after Venom was retired from doing movies. They just made a good little movie that was entertaining. They should not have made something good. Good is terrible. Good is dogshit. Good is the worst fucking thing that you can write.
It should be great or it should be terrible. Writing should not be nice and halfway. Writing should not be people telling a nice story about wonderful people stopping bad people and disagreeing somewhat before learning an important lesson about themselves in the end. Do you know what movie was good? The Joker, and he was a bad guy, and this year’s sequel was awful because the Joker didn’t commit any crimes. He didn’t do anything except mope. Can he run around killing everyone whose name is a palindrome again? That one was classic. Instead, he moped and talked about how worthless and pointless he was and reality was and how nothing mattered. Yeah, we know, but we don’t want to hear that. We want the Joker to do something to fight the status quo — to stand up to the system that is broken and has broken us.
What I’m trying to say is that Kraven the Hunter is a pretty decent movie about a guy who fights like animals and hunts people and kills them for doing something wrong. It’s like a Batman clone — only he kills people. It’s fine. It’s neat. It’s not the worst movie of the year like some people are trying to say — and it’s not the greatest movie of the year like others are saying. It’s a story about a broken family. That’s all. A family with abuse and betrayal and heartbreak.
Why am I so mopey right now? It’s simple. I wrote a shit novel that didn’t do well. It’s called Death Love Madness, and I gave it away free to 1500 people and no one read enough to care or review it. Ouch. I wrote a bad fucking novel — that’s what that seems to mean. You, reader, can be the first person to buy and read the novel if you so desire. I did work like crazy to write a terrifying horror story about a group of mentally ill people who claim to be the victims of a conspiracy. I worked my ass off for a full 45 days or so to write a 200+ page novel. I tried to write a masterpiece. I clearly failed.
I’m done writing ideally and correctly. It didn’t work. I’m writing wrong. I’m just explaining what’s wrong with life — and damn the consequences. Right now, Kraven the Hunter had the misfortune to be pretty good after dozens of other, similar movies were also pretty good. That’s what the experts say. I just say that they started using characters people don’t like or respond to. No one notices Kraven. No one loves Kraven.
Sorry.
That’s it — goodnight for now.
