The Dune books.
OK, not boring, but nowhere near deserving the praise they get.
I've only managed to get through the first two.
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This is how I feel about almost every Coen brothers movie. Basic plot structure exists for a reason. That reason is because it's good, and it's satisfying, and it connects with something inside of us.
If you have a good artistic reason to depart from the expected structure, cool, great, I hope the risk pays off. But at some point these auteur filmmakers are just being lazy because they know they can get away with it.
Like in the Hateful Eight, when instead of revealing the twist in an organic way, within the confines of, you know, filmmaking, Tarantino just relies on blatant, unapologetic exposition. That's not clever. It's lazy.
A good filmmaker can say what they want to say while being entertaining and making sense.
And yeah, that's also how I feel about the Godfather. Lots of great scenes, but I didn't enjoy it as a film. A film should be more than just a loose collection of great scenes.
Tarantino is a hack who just makes movies to say the n word
The first half of one battle after another.
....2nd half was ok.
What'd i learn? When revolution becomes permanent, it stops being about change and becomes another form of tyranny
whenever they box it out on the ground for 500 hours in every single modern movie
'The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford' was this for me.
What is this? a family guy funny moment?