Tag: The Rip

How I Would Have Told The Movie ‘The Rip’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

With minimal skipping ahead, I finally got through The Rip. It was pretty good, not at all what I expected. It weirdly felt as though the producers choked and didn’t give us the movie we might otherwise have expected.

Here’s how I would have done it.

I would have the movie pick off individual secondary characters one-by-one like a horror movie. Also, I would have really kept the audience guessing a lot more about who the protagonist was supposed to be. That would have made for a lot more interesting movie.

And, yet, maybe that would have been a more traditional, hackneyed movie? Is that what I’m noticing? That the movie was originial?

I’m Struggling Through NetFlix’s The Rip

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m an extreme storytelling snob, but here I am struggling — STRUGGLING — to watch the otherwise really good Netflix potboiler crime drama The Rip. I’m at just about the midpoint now and, sure enough, the “midpoint switch” is happening.

So, as such, it seems as though the screenwriter is doing things by the numbers.

The only thing I can’t quite figure out is if Matt Damon or Ben Affleck is the protagonist. I THINK it’s Damon, but I don’t know just yet. Which, I suppose is why this is a pretty good story — it keeps the audience guessing.