No, almost never. If I don't like something I usually just move on to something else.
I don't find most criticism worthwhile. Technical criticism is useful - "this doesn't pay off because it's not set up properly in the first scene" - but reactive criticism is not. The latter generally boils down to another writer or artist having made the thing they wanted to make and not the thing I wanted them to make, and what's the point of that? My taste aligns enough with theirs to enjoy their work, or it doesn't.
I guess what I was asking you to do was technical criticism repair, so to speak. What are the creative solutions to solve some of the creative problems? (Though, obviously, some disagree with what are or are not creative problems.
As far as disappointed expectations go, my experience is that disappointment has less to do with setting one's expectations too high than it does with setting them too specifically, so I try not to do that.
For me, high expectations means, I'm walking in with, "this is going be a GREAT movie..." and then it's not (Prometheus...). I guess for me, I have a desire to see a film working on all levels. I think MOS works mostly on a visual level. I think the visuals are really great, certainly at a technical level. It's where Snyder excels. But, for me the emotional core of the movie is seriously lacking. And I don't think that's a high expectation thing.
With rare exception I don't see the superhero mega-movie genre as having much merit beyond an amusement park thrill ride, which is good enough. It's a largely vapid but commercially successful exercise that will continue to rise and eventually decline as the novelty wears out in favor of some other kind of visceral, visually immersive spectacle . That is distinct from whatever virtues the superhero tale holds in its native medium, comics.
Interesting. For me, I think the best ones aren't just vapid thrill rides... or at least, the ones that stick with me that I want to return to again and again have something that rises above just thrill ride--or they are making the thrill ride click on more levels than just "it's a ride!"
Dark Knight I think is a great movie and not just because there's a guy dressed as a bat... though we spend more time with him as Wayne... I think it's a great crime story, I think it's a tense thriller.
Looking at MOS, I think the cinematography wanted me to think and feel this is a serious movie and not just a theme park ride... and in the end what I got was a theme park ride.
Maybe by your definition that is high expectations, I don't know.
