My Worst Movies from 2019
No top ten this week. I don’t go out of my way to watch bad movies. I’d rather avoid them. But, sometimes, they find me. Other times (like with J.J. Abrams‘s The Force Awakens) I fear the worst but hope for the best. So this is just six movies that I stumbled upon from 2019. What makes them among my worst? There are obvious symptoms: poor plotting, terrible story, one-dimensional characters, etc. But there’s also another symptom – a symptom I experience: feeling physically ill. Some might consider that an exaggeration. It’s not. When I sit down to watch a movie or television show, I come into it totally open.…
Character Justification
When it comes to characters, something else I ask myself is this question: Is the character justified? A simpler way of putting this is do I believe the character is who the story purports them to be? I beat on the new Star Wars Trilogy last week, and will do so again, because it’s an easy target due to its shallow characters that are never meant to be more than archetypes – the humble hero, the cocky hotshot, the frightened sidekick comic relief. Can I believe that a scavenger who’s had no training of any kind whatsoever is capable of being a fantastic pilot, a great mechanic, a brilliant shot…