Sean’s movie thoughts

 5 (or more) Things I don’t like about movies Flashbacks (This is probably not surprising if you have read earlier blog posts by me.)  I have become anti-flashback in the last few years and even if I don’t mention this sometimes in a blog posting about movies, this remains true. Too Much comic relief is something that has bothered me for years. Sometimes I think the amount of comic relief in movies or movies being too jokey is getting better. Every so often another movie comes along that is too jokey or has too much comic relief. Sometimes I wonder if I have just adjusted to the fact that some movies have more comic relief than I’d like. When the movie poster/box cover/thumbnail promises more of an actor than the film delivers. I get it promotional materials are designed to get people interested in a movie. I think if Scott Adkins, for example, has a supporting role in the movie, the promotional material shouldn’t make it seem like he’s the star. Maybe this is related to too m...

I used to complain about too much comic relief in movies. Now, I am complaining about too many flashbacks. I am not anti-flashback but I have seen a few films that have too many flashbacks, the most recent one might be Tolkien. Tolkien is not terrible but it has so many flashbacks. The movie would start to get interesting. Then the flashback would end and the movie would be in “the present”. Then I would get interested in the present but then was another flashback. The Social Network had a similar structure. The new Valley Girl, it is supposed to come out to digital video next month, looks like it might have that kind of structure.