Things That Make You Go "Meh"

Last year, when I saw the killer-on-a-plane movie Red Eye, I sort of enjoyed it. The note I made for myself for future blogging was that it was refreshing. It isn't one of those "there's a killer torturing our hero and we don't understand his plan until the third act" kind of movies. Its plot is simple. We know what creepy-pretty Cillian wants right up front -- he needs Rachel to make a phone call to put a politician in the right room at the hotel where she works, so his team of fellow mercenaries will be better able to assassinate the man. As collateral, Cillian's got a site trained on Rachel's dad. It's clear and the stakes are plenty high. No mystery is required. It doesn't always have to be a mystery!

I thought this was a reasonably blogable point despite the fact that the movie didn't exactly wow me, and I admittedly haven't thought of it much since.

Then this week I saw this post by friend and former student Averyslave at Trekking the Uncanny Valley.

Damn. He's so right. Well done, Grasshopper.