![]() Eh, I know: not a good excuse to put you through all that. So, if the first hour of Serenity was laughably bad, it is because it was technically written by a heartbroken teenage boy. But this is where Serenity starts being interesting. I know, this plot twist is equally stupid. He is a character living inside a simulation created by his son Patrick. After suffering through an hour of a hardboiled episode of Days of Our Lives, Steven Knight hits you with the big plot twist: Baker Dill is not real. But… it is sort of stupid by design? This is where Serenity becomes somewhat of a mindfuck. If this synopsis sounds profoundly stupid, it’s because it is. A man who fucking hates Dill’ thirteen years old computer wiz son. One day, Dill’s ex-wife Karen ( Anne Hathaway) walks back into his life and casually offers him ten million dollars to kill her new and extremely violent husband ( Jason Clarke). ![]() Serenity tells the story of an intense fisherman named Baker Dill (the immortal Matthew McConaughey) who is not very good at making money from his profession, because he’s too obsessed with catching a giant tuna fish. In fact, Serenity is the worst movie I’ve ever seen that was almost great and I’ll forever have a morbid fascination for it. ![]() That makes Steven Knight’s Serenity an unconventional bad movie, because it sucks for neither of these reasons. ![]() or 2) it is inept at telling a compelling story. Low budget for its ambitions, lack of technical moviemaking skills, etc. A bad movie is usually bad for one of the two following reasons: 1) it is ineptly produced. ![]()
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