Is it normal that i don't like woody allen's films?
I've seen many of his films, including what some would say is his magnum opus, "Annie Hall" (I would conclude that this film is enjoyable), however, I just can't figure out what it is that people like so much about him. His plots almost always involve complex love-polygons of some sort or another, his characters seem boring and either quirky, neurotic, or a mix of the two, and he seems to be under the delusion that referencing good writers in his work every 5 seconds will somehow make him a good writer, seemingly more for the purpose of giving viewers that self-indulgent pleasure of being the smart one who gets the name-drop or cultural reference (but otherwise seems to take up dialogue needlessly). He also seems to enjoy taking work from good writers (Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment") and making lame-ass homages to them ("Crimes and Misdemeanors"). His characters are almost always shallow, annoying, upper-class New Yorkers who are super-cultured and super-idle and almost have very few real problems to tangle with, save for ennui.