re: Critically Acclaimed Movies That You Hate

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Because one of the reasons you don't like the movie is because you loathe bad people in movies. That's about the most pathetic reason I've ever heard (at least from a man) for not liking a movie

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There's a difference between complex characters who do bad things and characters who are basically detestable without significant redeeming quality. When the movie asks me to care about these people as protagonists, sorry, it won't happen. That makes the movie uninteresting at best to me.

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The other big problem is that even if you take Michael as the protagonist, he has absolutely no real agency as a character. But that's the way I read it. He does not act on his own accord, which, again, makes him terribly uninteresting.

This is also a big argument for people, I know some will vehemently disagree, but I think there's a lot of evidence to support that claim. He's actually extremely weak willed when viewed through a particular lens, which is the exact opposite intention of the ending.