Unpredictability is not a universal virtue in storytelling. You pretend you are above spectacle, but your enjoyment is so dependent on the spectacle of clever twists and subversion of expectations that you can no longer appreciate the value of a masterfully told straightforward story.
I don’t see where I pretend to be above spectacle: I highlighted a correlation (most movie with those things are not of my liking), not a prerequisite.
I’m actually a big fan of James Bond movies, classic ones (very “shallow” by modern standards and still good imo) and new ones too, and there’s plenty of fighting and explosions in those.
I explained why to me it was a boring three hours in a very comfortable movie theatre armchair, so that you see why some people didn’t actually enjoy it as much as you did. On the masterpiece part, I’ll agree to disagree :)
