I recently rented Annie Hall to see what all the fuss was about and
absolutely hated it. What's your biggest cinematic disappointment? --Andrew Plinska
I'm drawn to your question partly in horror -- he who hates Annie Hall, Andrew, hates life! -- but mostly because of the interesting and insidious
notion of cinematic disappointment. I know it's difficult to approach a
movie without ''fuss'': New titles are launched with PR battle plans, big
box-office receipts are misread as signs of quality, and lauded older
films generate archives of praise. But approaching Movie X with a
prove-it-to-me attitude (or, worse, with the notion that it can't
possibly be as good or as bad as you've heard) obscures the ability to
take in what Movie X actually is. So how about this: I'm disappointed
that Woody Allen's last picture, Anything Else, was such a wan,
befuddled iteration of...Annie Hall.
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