Ah, I forgot that bit at some point during the two years between films.

A PI can investigate whatever their client* hires them to. That’s their job. And most detective films are about L.E.O.s (even Jack Reacher is at least a former M.P). The kid in Brick did not have any job to do that and exists in a world with police, so he could have just told them what he knew and let them handle it.

Scooby Doo does not have good writing, but at least they’re typically just investigating a haunted amusement park or something rather than a homicide.

Maltese Falcon has heightened dialog. Brick has entirely inappropriate behavior for its characters.

He does say that Snoke accurately describes Poe as too weak to be reliable, which then makes it stupid that he relies on Poe to kill Rey rather than having her promptly executed by less insubordinate henchmen.

I liked Rogue One for showing the forgotten stories of relatively ordinary grunts. I had hopes that Rose would provide something similar in TLJ, but then her sabotage of Finn just ruined the character for me.

The “Very Scary” door had a walking pair of legs without a torso, if I recall correctly. Which actually isn’t especially scary, since the worst they could do would be to kick you.

In this film they actually do discuss how its nature is determined by its form, but the result is dumber.

Not as far as I can tell. There are Star Wars fans with a lot of time on their hands. I guess people who saw the first during its initial theatrical run have a different relation to the series than someone like me whose first theatrical experience of them was with the prequels. And from what I recall of the film,…

Juno’s dialog was better than Brick’s, as well as Looper’s take on time travel, which only works in a comedy like Back to the Future where the scifi conceit is just an excuse and not load-bearing.

I don’t demand strict realism, but that there is an internal logic. That film did not take place in some kind of anarchic setting in which it would make sense for kids not to rely on the police.

Hey, my blog is WAY less entertaining.

People in real life didn’t talk like movies, but the investigation of homicides was still up to adults who had that as a professional responsibility rather than kids in highschool. Characters should act in a way that makes sense for their situation, and the situation of kids in a suburban highschool has no resemblance…

Hey, he liked Brick and I don’t, so I still get to be special.

The ending was godawful and in complete contradiction with what we’d been told about the house. It’s the result of trying to turn the story into an uplifting family drama, which turns out to be a terrible idea.

I really hated Brick, but that was mostly because it was stupid for modern middle class suburban highschoolers to be imitating noir characters. An Agatha Christie-esque film seems much more interesting.

I am Legend is still the adaptation I’m angriest about. I was sure if they retained the original title that they’d have to keep the ending.

I’ll agree on his movie track record, but not his Hill House miniseries.

I think that Will’s reconstruction of the Leeds murders in the third season was basically the only time that season remembered that deaths have weight. The rest of the time it was treated like a joke. They did do an awful job of the Red Dragon plotline, partly because the show was so much more interested in Hannibal…

The show definitely got to burning plot as a surprising rate. It was impressive they managed to pull that off for a while, although they crashed and burned when they got to the third season.