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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2428182" data-attributes="member: 22622">So, by your own admission you stopped watching somewhere just before season 3 ended, missing more than half of the rest of the series and leaving a great season uncomplete.  YOu also could have stopped watching sometime into season 4 (which would have been months after Columbine) but season 4 was, imo, the worst season (though there are some episodes that are highlights).  Genius is either  going to be an objective or subjective word.  When we talk about writers , authors and mucisians its purely subjective.  Heck I love Poe more than most but I doubt his writing was due to genius as much as paranoid delusions from all the opium he put in his body.  Hemmingway was a man who wrote only when the bottle was nearby.  Modern day, Whedon is about the best visual fiction writer out here.  It's hard writing good scifi let alone putting it on any screen and making sure your ideas convey correctly.  Even some of the big gun sci fi authors have failed when it comes to putting their works on any screen.But, back to the subject. A good movie goes out and does what it pronounces to do.  Grudge, Ju'on, The Ring are horror movies.  I don't expect citizen cane when i go see them.  I expect to walk out scared.  My only basis for a good scary movie was was the scares original and were they frightening.  You admit the movies provide both but because no one had a 5 minute monologue tying up all the loose ends they were bad?  I can't name one well acted horror movie that has come out.  No modern day  horror movies nominated for Oscars. So why my friend do you place such high expectations on horror movies?</blockquote>

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