Damon Lindelof Says Fanboys Won’t Admit to Liking TOMORROWLAND

So there seems to have been a bashing of Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof’s Disney sci-fi film Tomorrowland on Twitter. I actually really enjoyed the movie, and you can read my review for it here. In an interview with Vulture, Lindelof talks about the reactions that he’s seen for the film, and says that fanboys won’t admit to liking the movie because they want to appear cynical and cool. He explains:

"There's this great thing in all of us where we want to hope, we want to believe. But then what happens? We saw that hope with Obama's first election … and then, with the second election, the cynicism sets in. We all want to be activated, but... it's so easy to default back to cynicism. 
"Which isn't to say that you have to love everything. Obviously, we have to open ourselves up to some level of criticism. But when we all took this on, people were saying, 'You can't make an original movie anymore, and you certainly can't make an interesting Disney movie. If you make a Disney movie named Tomorrowland, it's gotta have Space Mountain, and you basically have to sell tickets to the amusement park.'"
"Now, I don't want to start a war, but as a self-identified fanboy, I think that with this movie, it's gonna be really hard for fanboys to say, 'I really enjoyed this movie. It made me feel good.' God forbid you tweeted something like that! What would happen to you? You'd lose your readership! 'You sold out!'"

When I attended the press conference for the film, I noticed a lot of cynicism while I was listening to people of the press talk about the movie. I didn't know what in the hell they were talking about! The movie was actually incredibly fun.

I got into this business because I love movies so much. If I ever stop liking movies, and can’t enjoy a fun film like Tomorrowland for what it is, where’s the fun in doing what I do? I like a lot of movies because this is the attitude I have when I watch movies. Of course there are some movies that I don’t like that I can’t help but go off on. I didn’t see anything like that in Tomorrowland. I guess some people just have fun bashing on movies. To each their own. 

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