If I wanted to craft the worst metaphor you’d see all week (on this site, at least), I’d say the following:
“Dark Corners (2006) demonstrates that now matter how gorgeous and durable your collection of yarn is, it doesn’t mean a damned thing if you don’t knit the stuff into a sweater.”
But, of course, I have no ambition of presenting you with a really bad metaphor. So that comment above? I never said it. Must have been a bad dream.
#1 by KeithA on May 1, 2008 - 9:36 am
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How come the people who live in horror movie apartments never bother to wipe down the walls in their bathroom? Come on people! Scrubbin’ Bubbles practically does all the work for you!
#2 by Blake Matthews on May 1, 2008 - 1:51 pm
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So basically, a good screenplay/story will make sense (and answer most basic audience questions) the first time around, whereas a not-so-good screenplay/story will take multiple viewings to make sense of. Did I get that right? Hmm…whenever someone talks about that, I think of “Kung Fu Cult Master”, which had a trilogy worth of characters and plot twists in a 90-minute film, such that I could only follow it after watching it three times. But then, that’s probably not what you were referring to with this film.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on May 1, 2008 - 1:56 pm
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Even if it doesn’t entirely “make sense” (which are words you’ll note I didn’t mention in my review), the movie should be in some way aesthetically pleasing and cathartic on a single viewing. It shouldn’t leave the average viewer (or the well-above-average viewer, especially) thinking, “Huh? I didn’t get that,” and expect him/her to rewatch it in the hopes that doing so will cause it to make sense. Whether it does or not, the filmmaker has ignored the implicit deal with the audience that they will not be left feeling that their experience was unsatisfyingly incomplete after a single viewing.
#4 by Thomas on May 2, 2008 - 1:04 am
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I haven’t seen the film, and I’m not suggesting it’s at all the case in it, but! Sometimes film makers frustrate expectations on purpose. I don’t know why I’m saying that, since you know that. This post is pointless and irrelevant.
In other news, “hello”.