That's the best line from Rocket Science, which I just watched. I had another post planned for tonight, but now I just have to talk about the obnoxious writing in the film. This is what happens when writers want to impress you with cleverness:
"Suitcases end marriages and farming subsidies launch cataclysms."
"Then on Thursday - it could have been any day, but it wasn't, it was Thursday,"
Honestly, I believe that if you're sitting there trying to be funny and clever and witty then you're going to fail and be annoying. And I could just hear the writer trying. It didn't help that those two lines were delivered by a narrater who disappeared for a chunk of the middle of the film and wasn't missed.
It strikes me as amazingly unfortunate that a story about finding your voice failed miserably because the writer's voice sounded so hollow and contrived. The goal of all that advice floating around about "finding your voice" to write is aimed at avoiding junk like this movie.
P.S. I also found every character in the film really creepy, with only two exceptions, which made the writing come across as even more annoying.
*I've always really liked cellos and have been thinking lately that after I'm satisfied with my piano skills and learn to play D's guitar and can afford to buy one, I might learn to play the cello.
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