Exactly, you should still read texts that challenge you to deepen your skills, but the majority of what you read should be what you like to read (unless it's just full of spelling errors an incorrect grammar, there's a line of course).

Not all classic were complex in their time, but modern readers will always struggle with older texts just due to how language changes (not to mention unfamiliar tropes and genre conventions).

Shakespeare is a great example (well, it's theater not literature, but you get the point).

Reading large volumes of mediocre easy-reading literature does have some benefits you can't get by methodically going through complex classic (and vice versa, naturally)

Ideally you should read a mix of both, but the optimal ratio varies from person to person.

Yeah, it's clear that they didn't originally plan to take his character in the direction they did.

I mainly rationalize it as a defense mechanism. He's forcing himself to be cartoonishly evil and fanatical to try and suppress his conscience.

wasted creepy murder hallway?

It feels like Coogler is saying "Remember this is a horror film? Look at these horror things!" but the rest of the film is solidly a thriller, so it just feels like the film has an identity crisis.

But still, a very enjoyable watch.

Hell, even when they finally get invited into the building they're not jumping through windows or breaking down doors. They slowly open the main door and dramatically walk in. Sure, it's cool and sets up an epic showdown. But it's not even trying to be scary.

So why the snake jumpscare? Why the

only jumpscare in the film.

The white woman going through the dark hallways calling for her husband who has just been killed is a great setup, but then nothing happens. The vampire and her newly-turned husband are just sitting there chilling and then we cut away and she just dies off screen.

Hell

My only complaint is the film doesn't really feel like a horror film, it's never particularly scary, it's more a supernatural thriller. That would be fine, except it's clearly TRYING to be horror film.

The snake jumpscare towards the start of the film feels forced and out of place because it's the