"Grace Kelly's wardrobe."
Yeah, that's me, a regular Siegfreid Kracauer.
Do you really think any of us who've seen RW must've been so woefully unprepared & poorly educated to take in all the shit you so helpfully pointed out?
Um, no. I said very specifically that I would expect most people who would see that movie to see most of what I pointed out. It was Andy I was talking to, not you.
Actually, I think the dickishness began with "What did I miss?," which is always a tendentious question. Andy said the movie bored him, and you know what they say about being bored, and I shouldn't even have offered an answer, except that he trumpeted it as a victory that nobody was bothering to.
"What did I miss" is always a hostile question, because the person asking it knows that he isn't going to get an answer that will satisfy him. He already knows what he thinks. He just wants to embarrass all the nameless others who have told him it was a great movie by putting their representatives on the spot and letting them waste their energy defending something that really doesn't need any defense.
I shouldn't have fallen into the trap. Having come this far, let me offer another answer, but I don't expect it to impress him any more than the first:
Andy, you missed that it is a very good movie, cleverly written and stylishly directed, with interesting characters and an engaging plot.
