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Just because it's weird doesn't make it art


Just because a movie is on the weird side, is not linear in it's storytelling, is disjointed, etc. doesn't make it art. Or good. Sometimes it means the movie is weird, is not linear, is disjointed, and just plain bad.

I saw this last night. I don't think it was awful. It just was too disjointed and it had too many "WTF" scenes. To me, that makes it fail in trying to impart any message or to tell any story.

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It's about an alien on Earth being corrupted by humans so it should be weird.

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