It is impossible to read it without thinking of the summer that Mr. Gore's father put him through an equally pointless character-building exercise, making him clear 20 hilly acres with a hand ax.
There is a pointless quality to his character.
Perhaps the real achievement of Boyhood is that Linklater was able to successfully trick his audience into applauding a movie with a pointless lead character wandering through a cringe-worthy series of scenes.
Although the big second act action beat is unexciting because it's relatively pointless (it's a character who can't die or hurt others, being chased by another character who can't die or hurt others), the climax of the film is genuinely exciting and suspenseful.
Now a high-class prostitute, Lulu negotiates and flirts with a couple of customers and also gets into an argument with Eleanor, who attacks her character — a pointless exercise in the case of an archetype like Lulu.
Overall, he feels that fretting about each hateful perversion of a formerly pure meme would be pointless as "once a character or idea gets popular enough, It's bound to be misappropriated in that direction.
To do that to me, the audience, is to render the whole series, the whole arc of Alicia Florrick's character, as pointless as the empty mysticism of Lost, the chicanery of Bobby Ewing's death, and the bait and switch of how that guy married their mother.
It's a delicious, riveting mess of nonplot and odd characters, of pointless incident and pointed drama.
It's a pointless, predictable exercise, with characters who are blander copies of the already bland cast of "Cars", and plenty of witless banter of the "Ooh, that's gotta hurt!" variety.
Halfway through the final part of The Line of Beauty (BBC2), two boorish film producers complained that a movie adaptation of a Henry James novel would be pointless because the main characters don't get together and there isn't a satisfactory resolution.
