re: "Subverting Expectations" (Ultra mild spoilers for a couple of movies)

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"Subverting Expectations This phrase is even worse than popcorn flick.

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Respectfully disagree. It’s still a useful club in a filmmakers bag, but when it’s the only club you have it’s useless

Knives Out had good acting, a good plot, humor, and suspense along with subverting expectations (but very little).

Last Jedi used “subverting expecatations” 95% of the time and the other 5% was fan service with Luke and Yoda.

Rogue One basically did the opposite IMO but had much better acting, unfortunately from characters whose name I will never remember bc there story matters nothing to me even as a Star Wars fan.