Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest filmmakers to ever do it, has a quote about his greatest fear. No, it’s not about being eaten by a shark or dinosaur, or making a sequel to Always. It’s this;
“The thing that I’m just scared to death of is that someday I’m going to wake up and bore somebody with a film,” Spielberg says.
Boring people is one of the cardinal sins of entertainment; I’ve sat through countless monstrosities in my day of being a movie fan (i.e., 2019’s Cats, 2018’s Welcome to Marwen, Matt Chambers’ high school graduation speech), and each of them at least had one redeemable quality: they weren’t boring.