However, there's a curious lack of exhilaration to them that makes them feel like they're perfunctorily checking off
boxes of audience expectation rather than in trying to tell a good story.
Although we've seen many films of similar ilk in science fiction, from Sphere to Event Horizon, the writers are well
aware of audience expectations, putting enough fog and mirrors in the mix so that we are never exactly sure.
Little Fockers represents the third in the lucrative Meet the Parents series, and its par for the course as far as intent and delivery, no better and no worse than the
fulfillment of audience expectations.
It is also apparent that some major and last - minute editing was performed; one entire subplot involving Hunt and Mrs. Phelps is so obscured throughout the film that its sudden reappearance at the end of the film is as much a surprise as a
clarification of audience expectations.
Sadly, it is not to be, as the studio
perception of audience expectations sees what could have been a light, touching romantic comedy marred by injections of crude humor and silly shenanigans simply to placate the juvenile - minded audiences that have made Sandler a success.
I like the freedom and I like the — What I set out to do was to make a big action - adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in
terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.
With Beta House, we have no creativity whatsoever, with screenwriter Lindsay and director Waller merely checking the standard
boxes of audience expectations, filling up enough of what we expect to provide an adequate feature length experience.
This subversion
of audience expectations is often jarring because, as a reader, you are bound to notice actions and emotions that are not what you assumed would happen.