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One of the strengths of Apollo 13 is that it has only good guys in it, battling together against an unforeseen, mysterious and near-lethal twist of fate.
Apparently he hasn't seen many Cohen brothers movies...
Which isn't to say this undermines his overall point - such movies are the exception, and interesting partly because of that - just that his language was too forceful.
Or movies that are about relationships instead of stuff blowing up. There are plenty of good movies with plots and no bad guys.
There's a mystery novel that left me incredibly angry at the author because I was expecting an interesting complex cause tying all the murders together, but there wasn't. I'm probably a calmer person now, and for all I know, there may have been hints I was missing about what sort of story it was.
Gur Anzr bs gur Ebfr
...I think it's a sign of the times that I can read rot13 to the extent that I know what book you said. Dammit, I was going to read that book one day.
Apologies. I've seen a post with a link to a rot13 page-- I'll see if I can make that work for future spoilers.
You still might want to read the book-- it had a lot of engaging detail and characters.. That's why I was so angry at not getting the sort of ending I wanted.
It probably isn't a common enough affliction to have to worry about.
But yeah, I'll pick the book up some time.
I read Sbhpnhyg'f Craqhyhz before Gur Anzr bs gur Ebfr, so the nature of the ending was no surprise to me; but I still enjoyed the book.