“The problem is that death at the movies has died”

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The problem is that death at the movies has died. The movie industry has corrupted one of cinema’s — if not all of fiction’s — most emotionally taxing moments into hollow formula, the kind of thing that passes in the blink of a plot point leading to a literal, if not figurative, explosive finale that takes up half the budget

Alexander Huls, “How Hollywood Killed Death”, The New York Times Magazine (20 April 2014), 44.

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