A Cure for Wellness - This Is What Disappointment Looks Like

Some movies are good, some are bad, others are just disappointing. A forgettable movie is more unforgivable than an outright terrible one because if it leaves no impact and is discarded from your memory a few hours after seeing it, then that's two hours of your life that you'll never get back. But the most frustrating kind of disappointing movie to me is the kind that has so much going for it, has the seed of a good or even great movie buried deep within it just dying to break through the soil and blossom, but is bogged down by one or two fatal flaws that hamstring the entire experience. A Cure for Wellness, unfortunately, falls strictly into that category.

The Lego Batman Movie - Everything is Still Awesome

Batman has become one of the most overexposed characters in recent memory. Whether it be in comics, movies or television, the Dark Knight has no shortage of stories written about him, but ever since Frank Miller gave him the ultra gritty makeover in 1988, and The Dark Knight permanently reshaped the cinematic landscape for better or worse in 2008, the popular consensus seems to be that Batman should only be this dark, brooding, overly serious character despite the fact that he's a billionaire who fights crime while dressed as a flying rodent and whose arch nemesis is a clown. While some of the grim elements of Batman have always kind of been there, a lot of people tend to forget that the franchise wasn't always so stuck up its own ass and had an element of self-awareness. Comparing the silver age comics and the 60's Adam West show to Batman: The Animated Series and the Nolan trilogy is almost a night and day difference. That self-conscious lampooning is what made Batman one of the best parts of The Lego Movie, a movie whose entire modus operandi was pure, unadulterated joy with meta humor coming out the wazoo. But is this incarnation of the Caped Crusader enough to carry his own movie?