Inexplicable It used to be that movies, even action movies, were expected to abide by some basic rules of narrative storytelling. Beginning, middle and end. Every serious filmmaker subscribed to these basic dramatic tenets, laid out 23 Movies are no longer about the needs of the characters.
Movies are all about the needs of the filmmakers.
A filmmaker's job, like God's, was to create a unique world and control it, but to be invisible. Everything that happened felt like it was a necessary part of the fictional world, caused by other events in that world. If the hero jumped out of a plane or crashed his cool convertible or blew up a boat, it was because he had to do it in order to stop the bad guys, not just because the director or star thought it would look neat. Well, forget all that motive and narrative logic crap. Forget about walking out of the theater and having anything to talk about except where to have dinner.