Some (un?)intentional suspense in this article, see if you can spot it. Wish he'd gone a bit deeper but that's also exactly why I'm posting this here.
The phenomenon of applause of any kind in a movie theater is bizarre, but especially so when elevated to the point of "cheering for murder."
Hall Pass wasn't a good movie. I watched it anyway. My stomach knotted up when the textbook climax involved gunshots and gun wounds.
Inception is widely considered to be a good movie. I wasn't fond of it. The score is pretty intense but mostly I wasn't into the use of gun violence in a film about dreams. DREAMS. In storytelling you can go anywhere and do anything - adding DREAMS to the mix only heightens the go anywhere/do anything qualities of regular old storytelling. This was evident in the early going of the film, where reality bends in on itself and the actors literally master their surroundings, yet the second half was like the worst kind of Cold War "good guys vs. bad guys" story I think I've ever seen.