At first glance the upcoming film HANCOCK seems like an obvious fit to me. Will Smith plays a drunken superhero, co starring Jason Bateman? It should be a home run for me, right? But then the more I hear about it the less excited I become. IO9 had some spoilers they posted a while back which really made the film seem unappealing to me. The final nail in the coffin is the fact that Peter Berg is the director of HANCOCK.
I recall listening to a spirited discussion of the film FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS at the Telluride film festival last year which I could not participate in since I had not seen the film. The reason I've not seen any more Berg films is that I saw his first two. After watching VERY BAD THINGS and THE RUNDOWN I never had any desire to see a film by this director again. You can only piss in my eye sockets so many times before I stop coming back for more. Maybe HANCOCK will be the film to lift my Berg ban, we'll see. (I strangely actually kinda like Berg as an actor, so go figure.)
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