RE: Review of A Quiet Place: Day One
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I have a rule too: If it's popular, I probably won't like it. That's true for books and for movies. This movie does not have one sex scene. Oh no! The violence is constant, but not gory. Oh no! I did read one comment where the viewer complained the monsters were not featured enough. Most people want a monster film to be monstrous. I want a film to tell a good story. I want it to be sharp, and to feature credible actors. I want it to be reasonably original. I don't want it to waste my time with fluff and fillers.
It's got to be a pretty good movie these days to hold my attention for every scene, to the very end. I don't have a problem with attention span. I have a problem with shallow scripts.
The IMDB rating for the show Landman is 8.1. That show is garbage. I couldn't even get through the first episode. Half way into it my husband turned to me and said, "You don't like it, do you?" I hadn't said a word. He just knew I would think it was garbage.
The list of authors and moviemakers for whom I have little regard is long. Many of those are popular. I don't care 😂
As you know, I am an ornery person with an independent view. Probably why I don't talk to many people :))
Ornery? You? Not at all 😂 😂
No sex scenes? That sounds right up my street. One of my many objections to modern movies is too many sex scenes, and same sex, even worse, though I know it's not PC to say so. I think the last really good movie I saw was 'As good as it gets' and that was 1997 😁
This doesn't offend me. What offends me is the deliberate insertion of a political view in the show/movie. It seems we have to count heads to see how many demographic groups are represented in the show/movie. We've gone to complete exclusion of groups (which was not 'real') to bean counting. It's got to the point where I say OK, there's the token so and so. It's just irritating, I agree.
I once lived with three gay men, so same-sex sex scenes don't particularly offend me; they just irritate me, for precisely the reasons you mention.
I think you have material for three books, based on your life :))