by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
SPOILERS FOR “A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE.”
SPOILERS FOR “A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE.”
SPOILERS FOR “A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE.”
Ok, this movie really irritates me on a number of different levels. Though I do find it amusing that the president is clearly meant to be sane like Obama, not insane like Trump. So, I’m assuming they thought the Blues would be so pleased at seeing a sane black president that the Reds would assume that sane black president made the wrong decision — even though we never find out what the fuck the decision was.
I assume. I got so mad at the plot that I skipped forward a little bit to see if Chicago blew up or not.
And I — and the rest of the audience — never found out.
That is the fatal flaw of the plot. I found this “we’ll never know” element of the story to be a big old gimmick and very annoying.
What *I* would do is maybe something like this — instead of giving the audience creative blueballs by pausing to give different POVs on the events, have one POV and have the explosion — or not explosion — of Chicago be the end of the second act.
Or, if you really wanted to be interesting, have the non-explosion of Chicago the end of the FIRST act and the rest of the movie is different people, from their POV, explaining what they did and the mistakes they made along the way.
Much better. It would be far more interesting and make for a far more serious movie instead of the bullshit that we got.
