Fun actors. Fun premise. Fun locations. Fun timeline.
but ...
Drama over reality... For example, several times a cellphone would have solved a predicament.
Check list of PC situations... gets old and obvious.
And the writers couldn't seem to move past using vapid vocabulary here and there. Our language has SO many great words. Stop using the ones that gross us out, well those of us who still see the imagery of words and feel cheated when a clever one could have been used instead. There's already too much ugly in the world, don't add to it. I realize this goes against my "drama over reality" complaint since in real life the language would have been gobs worse, but this film had a chance to give us a romp w/o patties and it chose not to.
Another pet peeve... Surprises. If you think about it, they're more for the giver than the receiver. If you care about someone, you don't leave them worrying, you let them in on what's what. There are other ways to produce suspense.
but ...
Drama over reality... For example, several times a cellphone would have solved a predicament.
Check list of PC situations... gets old and obvious.
And the writers couldn't seem to move past using vapid vocabulary here and there. Our language has SO many great words. Stop using the ones that gross us out, well those of us who still see the imagery of words and feel cheated when a clever one could have been used instead. There's already too much ugly in the world, don't add to it. I realize this goes against my "drama over reality" complaint since in real life the language would have been gobs worse, but this film had a chance to give us a romp w/o patties and it chose not to.
Another pet peeve... Surprises. If you think about it, they're more for the giver than the receiver. If you care about someone, you don't leave them worrying, you let them in on what's what. There are other ways to produce suspense.