Glenn Weldon

This is the thing.

Like, that's when the goofiness is the point.

And here, I don't know what the point is here.

Because if you're going to be this glib and this frictionless with how you treat violence, you need to make that the vibe.

It needs to be frenetic.

It needs to be breathless.

You need to turn this thing into a transporter or a crank.

Yes.

And otherwise, you're just doing whatever this is.

For the death.

You pointed out something that factors into my theory of the case here.

I feel like this movie was made for streaming with all the narrative training wheels that streaming content has nowadays, where characters just stand around and state and restate who they are, what their relationships are with other characters, what they're about to do, what they're doing, what they've just done.

And if your audience is on a couch on a Sunday afternoon, you can get away with that.

But I'm telling you, every time one of those flashbacks came up, every time somebody told me who they were, what they're about to do,

In the theater, I just felt trapped.

I felt prodded.

I felt talked down to.

I felt condescended to.

And look, I want people to enjoy films in theaters.

I want movies to come back.