The next two weeks give us more of the skitters and less of the dumb plotting; hopefully these are a sign of more good to come.
Noah violently turning Claire's life upside down is meant to be trashy fun, but Cohen and screenwriter Barbara Curry don't have the deranged heart, or the skill at smoothing over dumb plotting, to make disreputably pleasurable exploitation.
#StarWarsPremiere pic.twitter.com/k6ybfeiWzC Everyone seems to agree with me: Star Wars is over-hyped, incomprehensible gibberish featuring ludicrous characters & even dumber plots.
But after two seasons of some of the "dumbest fucking" plot twists in recent television history, it's hard to imagine that many are still capable of watching this show with a straight face.
What's interesting is that Derrickson's last film, Sinister, was actually dumber in plot (oh, those calls to the library!) but just barely squeaked by on tone and Ethan Hawke's performance.
May 3. * "STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES" Fans are still debating that dumb title, though plot details are rare.
Jerome's main rival is Jonah (Matt Keeslar), a handsome square (to say just how much of a square would be to give away a dumb but amusing plot twist) whose amateurish paintings inspire almost universal enthusiasm.
Thankfully, there isn't too much thudding exposition; no amount of dialogue could make the dumb Lucas-penned plot any more sensical.
This college was created in musical comedy land — more specifically, for the 1927 Broadway megahit "Good News!" A happy amalgam of everything that was wrong with musicals of the era — one-note characters, silly plots, dumb songs and meretricious dances — "Good News!" exists only to entertain.
The film has also been cited as being "the perfect bridge to the American slasher film", with its emphasis on "violence and sex" and a plot "dumbed down to the barest minimum".
