A disappointment one too many...

I feared it.

Since the moment I saw the trailer for the first time, I knew it.

I wouldn't like the curious case of Benjamin Button as much as the other David Fincher films. Damn!

Now, "why" is not really the question here, because it would take me a while to explain how he tried to make a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film and kinda failed. No, the real problem today is "why oh why do all my heroes fail me?"

I'm not sure about the chronology but I guess the first big disappointment came from my favorite singer-songwriter Tom McRae when he released his fourth album, King of Cards. We all wondered "Geez, what has he done? Where has his genius gone?" And all of a sudden it became less easy to fight for the cause and to spread the word about his music being not heard enough.

But then the same happened with all my other favorite singers... Rufus Wainwright, Josh Ritter, Teitur, Duke Special...

They all released albums that were just not as good as what they had done before!

And I can't say I have been listening to their music much in the past year...

I used to be a big fan (Some might call me a groupie) of theirs and well, now my feeling is just "meh"...

If we go back to the movies, let's take a look at all my favorite directors from the past few years:

Soderbergh and Che : where are the ideals?

Baz Lhurmann and Australia : come one, where's the genius cinematography?

Clint Eastwood and The Changeling : where's the subtlety and ambiguity?

The Coen Brothers with No Country for old men : where's the Tommy Lee Jones character from the book?

Night Shyamalan and The Happening : ... no there's no words to describe how bad that was...

And if you think about Batman and Indiana Jones that nearly made me cry out of disillusion...

No, no, there must be something wrong with me... Have I changed so much? Am I that desperate to stay in the past? Will I have to stick to the good old things to be happy? Will no-one ever surprise me again artistically speaking?

No-one?