I saw See How They Run on HBO a week ago and was enchanted. So clever, so self-referential, so full of easy charm. Just darling. Nominated for a BAFTA.
Somehow, unhappy people have given it a low score of 6.5 on IMDB. I don't know why these dour people kept saying, "Not that funny." "Thinks it's so clever."
It was clever! It was funny! If you've read more than Agatha Christie story it was really clever and funny.
Honestly, someone should track down these reviewers, preferably by alphabetical order by residence, and give them all whooping cough.
If you have read more than one Agatha Christie mystery then I highly recommend it.
Some people do miss out on "self-referential" via a lack of exposure. And some people don't want easy charm, they want gritty/heart-wrenching/etc. But sigh for a lack of appreciation.
(I do think some ratings are just "this is not my sort of thing"; someone at my book group proposed each giving a star rating to each book, and I'm oddly hesitant to do that without classifying the books, because "five stars for a book that required zero brain activity [and did not reward brain activity] but which was great for one of those books" is not the same as "five stars for a self-help book that exactly addresses an issue I am currently having but which I doubt would be helpful for 90% of the population" and neither is the same as A Five Star Book.
Posted by: KC | March 15, 2023 at 11:09 AM
Close parenthesis.)
Posted by: KC | March 15, 2023 at 11:09 AM
KC - Well, that might be true, but I'm still convinced those poor reviewers were just angry, sour people.
Posted by: theQueen | March 15, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Sigh. It would be nice if there was a lower percentage of angry and sour out there. (and also a lower percentage of sour inside ourselves, honestly, and ditto for inappropriately angry, but I think we should probably be angry about some things. But probably not sour.)
Posted by: KC | March 16, 2023 at 01:32 PM
KC - I have some rule left over from childhood that only one person in the household can be emotional and sour. I tend to keep my sourness inside.
Posted by: theQueen | March 16, 2023 at 08:35 PM
... that is both a good rule (for reducing the chaos of dysfunction) and not a good rule at all.
Sourness sometimes needs ignoring - it will go away with time and perspective - and sometimes it needs sunlight and/or a fridge cleanout. Depends on the type of sour, I think.
Posted by: KC | March 17, 2023 at 11:04 AM
KC - there is a time for fight and a time for flight, and time to be sour and a rime to restrain from sourness.
Posted by: theQueen | March 17, 2023 at 10:33 PM