Mystery and Intrigue GONE

I like listening to movie reviews while I'm working on things and something has been brought to my attention. Film reviewers ask a lot of questions. Yes, I know Demise of Film is kinda a review site thing, but I try to talk about movies just on the level that it's a movie. I don't think I'm the best at it, but I do what I can with the little talent I've been given.

That's right, I'm just like Kirk Hammett.

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It seems nowadays you have to explain that something is a joke. You see, that's a joke because I'm using a famous Dave Mustaine quote to poke fun at myself with it. Ha ha, funny.

When did film criticism become a game of 20 questions? The main question of film critique used to be "what is this character's motivation?" However, within the last probably ten years I've seen questions as

• "How long has this person had this power?"
• "When was this organization established?"
• "How did these people meet?"
• "How long have these people known each other?"

Maybe this is my fault. I've always looked at film like a short story. We step into this person's world for a short amount of time and leave. Don't believe me? Look at any of my movies. I don't try to explain Kevin's relationship to Michael. Kevin is a guy Michael works with and is a pervert. A negative Keeping Justice review complained that I didn't properly introduce Kevin.

A Final Hit comes to closest to answering a lot of questions and they're the most clunky scenes in the movie. The biggest reason was because someone who had been reading my scripts at the time thought I should expand upon Mark's backstory. Movies shouldn't answer every question an audience member has. They should be short stories told visually.

• Why does Michael Myers want to kill the babysitters? Because that's what he does.
• How does Doc know Marty McFly? Who cares?
  
• Why is Babs Johnson hiding out in a trailer? Because she's filthy.
• Why did John Travolta want to be a foley artist? Because that's his career path.

Part of me suspects that the constant flow of sequels are a big reason why people want all these questions answered.

• Why did Darth Vader become a bad guy? Because he was afraid of his wife dying.
• Why is Jason Voorhees alive and evil? Because he was really a worm the whole time.
• What's going to happen to John Wick now that he's killing people again?

Another part of me blames CinemaSins.

The face of the man who ruined film criticism

Yes, I'm going to mention Cinemasins again. As I stated previously, CinemaSins is a bunch of nitpicky morons who have devolved film criticism on the whole. Sure, they CLAIM that they're just joking, but the problem is they offer real criticism alongside what they claim to be jokes.

Now every retarded neckbeard with a camera thinks they can question literally everything in a film. Actually, I take that back. EFAP doesn't even have a camera and rely solely upon a microphone.

I guess ultimately I just want movies to stop trying to answer every single retarded question that some redditor has. "Yeah, but how did he get the Millenium Falcon?"

HE STOLE IT!