Hi everybody, are you sick of Frozen yet?
Now before you start typing your angry death threat email towards me, let me say upfront that I don't hate this movie, but at the same time its not the greatest film disney has ever come out with. I think its characters are well put together, the animation is smooth and great to look at and the overall plot is decent at best. So why am I not excited for this? Well its a little thing I like to call 'The backlash effect'.
This repercussion usually happens when a film becomes so popular with its audience that people don't stop talking, singing and praising the film for years, this causes people like me to start tearing our hair out in insanity, and frozen is a big example of that. Even after more than a year from its release, you still see the movies merchandise in every shop window, you can still hear people singing the songs from the soundtrack over and over. Which then results in people saying its over hyped, over praised and that the movie itself isnt even that good to begin with, which in this movies case in my opinion isn't true. So this leads to the ultimate question, can a good film be destroyed by its popularity?
So it seems that while hype and over exposure can help a movie, it can also bring it down too. This affects us in ways that we are not even aware of, by changing our thoughts on a film even if the movie itself hasn't changed at all. But this usually happens with any film that is popular whether it be good or bad. So really, there's always going to be a film that people would obsess over for a while, just pray that its something worth watching. I would rather see a really good popular film like Frozen over a really bad popular film like Transformers.
So in the end hype can sometimes make a film annoying, but we are always going to go through a love and hate relationship over anything that's popular. But if your going to be sick of something you're going to see everywhere, just hope that its something that you enjoyed to begin with.