{"id":17836,"date":"2021-05-31T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T01:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T01:01:37","slug":"movies-that-dont-tell-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/movies-that-dont-tell-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies that don&#8217;t tell a story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched at least 3 movies that don&#8217;t tell a story &#8212; you basically have to make up your own. There are people who like these movies, but to me that&#8217;s completely baffling.<\/p>\n<p>For other types of movies where I disagree with other people on how good they are, I can understand how our sense of humour might be different, or our thought on how plausible it is might be different. But in these cases, it&#8217;s a bit more of an objective situation &#8212; other people agree that the movies are ambivalent. They just find something to like that isn&#8217;t there for me.<\/p>\n<p>If you demand a story in your movies, then I suggest avoiding these ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/enemy\/\">Enemy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/im-thinking-of-ending-things\/\">I\u2019m Thinking of Ending Things<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/early-august-reviews\/\">Under the Skin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched at least 3 movies that don&#8217;t tell a story &#8212; you basically have to make up your own. There are people who like these movies, but to me that&#8217;s completely baffling. For other types of movies where I disagree with other people on how good they are, I can understand how our sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17838,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}