Imagine my horror when I went to the opening night showing of Bloodshot and found myself in the company of no more than seven people. He’s like Doris Day, in his way, so extremely specific and protected is his screen image. Whether he’s driving cars into space or singlehandedly making alien species extinct, Diesel’s carefully curated persona is a tonic against the horrors of reality. Diesel is more god/movie star than man, and watching him defy death at every turn has become an internationally shared experience. We truly could have used the oiled hubris of Vin Diesel right now. Wash Your Hands: It’s pure coincidence that a movie about a man who can’t be harmed by anything drops at the height of a pandemic, but that’s the way of these things. All things considered, it could have been worse. For me, that was Bloodshot, starring Vin Diesel, an off-brand superhero movie based on a graphic novel about a super soldier who regenerates his flesh when you shoot him thanks to nano-technology. At a certain point, everyone will have to remember the last movie they saw before they stopped going to the movie theatres so as not to stoke their fear of illness and death. Fear of contracting the virus COVID-19 in the year 2020 meant that most public gatherings have been cancelled.īy the time you read this, most of the films you may have been anticipating have been yanked from release calendars, for fear studios will take a bath, opening films to empty houses. A strange finality sets in as events take a turn.
In the midst of all this, landmarks and macabre ways to mark time. Disease and an election that seems fixed to keep the rich and powerful precisely where they wish to be.
Every day a new onslaught of panic and paranoia, erasing the one from 24 hours before. The Pitch: It may be tough to remember a time before the present moment, considering the speed at which information, most of it catastrophic and unsettling, moves now.
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