So I popped in
The Rock and
Pearl Harbor and skipped through them. (I've seen them before, and no, I don't own them, they're my roommate's. Shut up.
) What stood out to me, above all else, is the incredible attention to
visual detail, almost to the exclusion of all else. In that sense, his movies are impressive. All the details are meant to paint the picture of something huge. He almost completely ignores any kind of coherent character development, and deals bluntly and curtly with interpersonal relationships, treating them very one-dimensionally.
I've rethought the
PoLR thing, and I actually think he has thought this stuff out much more than I would have thought. His movies actually make sense within their own world, and its self-coherence, rather than real-world correlation that is important to
. With a likely unvalued
, and valued
,
, and
, ILE sounds pretty good to me.