re: San Diego Comic-Con Mega-Thread: Updates and Discussion

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But I’ll tell you this - while I’ve become pretty cynical about a lot of this stuff in general, I haven’t become cynical about the enthusiasm that comes from Hall H. Yes, it’s a gladiatorial atmosphere, with six thousand people cheering footage and swooning over celebrities, but that enthusiasm is real. And it's magical. Whether it be getting swept up in incredible clips or experiencing the strange event of Francis Ford Coppola leading the room in a chant of "Nosferatu," the energy in those sweeping moments is indescribable. I’ll take this enthusiasm - based on the hope for something to be good, for something to transcend, and springing from the shared moment of being happy about it - over the enthusiasm you see coming out of certain film festivals. That enthusiasm, especially at Sundance, is made up of a kind of self-delusion, an enthusiasm that over-values perfectly mediocre movies. The Comic-Con crowd is getting over-enthused about their hopes for these films, while the Sundance and SXSW crowds are getting over-enthused about a finished movie that doesn’t deserve it.

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