Expectations

I've seen two movies during my days off. Both defied my expectations.

I saw Dredd with my brother since action movies are kind of his thing, and I heard on the internets that it was actually pretty good. And it was. I wasn't expecting too much when I walked in the theater and I was even more skeptical when I found out it was 3D (I blame you, Avatar). I liked that it didn't force itself into fulfilling all of the typical action movie bullet points: Protagonist at lowest of lows and pulls himself up by his bootstraps after a life changing revelation? Romantic interest? No, thanks. It didn't fit the story so it wasn't in the story. Thank you, Dredd.

I absolutely adored There Will Be Blood so I was pretty excited to see The Master since they were both written and directed by the same man. I did not enjoy The Master. In my humble opinion it was a mess. There were parts of There Will Be Blood that were a bit enigmatic, some dialogue that seemed a bit odd, but they were easily forgotten as a part of the whole marvelous movie. The Master, was all odd bits that didn't seem to make a movie. I feel like I could be fancy pants and say something about how the ocean was a symbol of man's wandering nomad soul and discovery, or how sex and alcohol were used to demonstrate man's baser tendencies that were trying to be repressed by The Master to obtain true spiritual freedom. And how can you have freedom if you have a master, blah blah blah. But really, it was just pretentious and bad.