The Fantastic 'Chores'

Why do people in the world think that we need some sort of superhero to solve their problems? What? The human race isn't capable enough to take care of itself? This is the image that is now portrayed - unfortunately - in the cinematic view and most popularly, in Hollywood where stories and movies such Spiderman 1 & 2, The X-MEN 1 & 2, Constantine have only invaded the scene of late with promise of another tomorrow with the dashing help of these cloaked and masked riders who often go into the sunset without so much of a thank you but a charming kiss from the soft pouted lips of a heroin.

The Fantastic Four, although I haven't seen yet, even though it has just been released today - with the exception of the special screening that went on in the Shatti Plaza last Sunday - plays on the same trend. Good and evil are born inside some unknown city on Earth sometime in the past or the near future. They clash. Good quarrels with itself on how to do a good job about saving the world. Evil smirks down at them slyingly. High-ho whactchamacallit. And there you end up with a big bang of of dramatic action sequences that blur the eye, distort the brain, leaving shockwaves in the nervous system even after the movie is finished. And the person behind screen is like 'more! more!' - so what does the studio behind the movie do? Green light a sequel. As if all this wasn't enough.

If the world existed with such people playing on the universe's fate then humanity would not have survived this long and had long world war battles between them in a struggle of power and domination of who rules the nothingness that is left in the end.

Here's then to humanity..