I work as a preschool teacher, and that means I'm surrounded by all things Frozen. It's insanely popular right now, and as much as I liked the movie, I'm started to wish the kids would take a liking to something else. The Lion King, maybe? Toy Story? Tangled? Anything! It's everywhere! I started wondering how much the ubiquity of a film affects my opinion of it.
When I first saw Napoleon Dynamite, it was still in limited release, nobody had heard of it, and I saw it in an almost empty theatre. I thought the film was hilarious, and I told all my friends about it. As time went on, the movie blew up. Napoleon Dynamite merchandise was everywhere (thanks Hot Topic!), and everyone was constantly doing Napoleon impressions. I remember it getting on my nerves, and saying things like "GOD, it wasn't THAT great! Everybody needs to CALM DOWN." I took a long long break from the movie, a movie that seemed less great now that it was everywhere. The same thing happened with Borat. I never wanted to hear "Very nice!" in that Borat voice ever again. But when I think about the films by themselves, stripped of the impressions and pop culture impact, I still like them. I just need a long break to see the movie again with fresh eyes.
Do you have a similar experience with a particular film? Are you able to enjoy a film the same after it gains a lot of popularity? Does a film suffer when Hot Topic gets its hands on it? Are we all just snobs and hipsters?
This happens to me, too. Not just with movies, but the overexposure to things can make them so boring and irritating. It happened to me with The Avengers (which I still haven't seen because there was so much hype before it, I couldn't bare to go see it), The Hunger Games franchise, and so on. Anyway, yes, I totally agree. I don't know if it's because it's popular or if it's just because it gets old pretty quickly when everyone is talking about the same thing.
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