When you deal with a studio, independent financiers, and multiple producers, and a writer/director seldom do the best choices make it to the screen. The keenness of an editor aside, garbage in garbage out my friend.

When you deal with a studio, independent financiers, and multiple producers, and a writer/director seldom do the best choices make it to the screen. The keenness of an editor aside, garbage in garbage out my friend.

When I said people didn't understand it (or get if you will) I wasn't attacking anyone's intelligence. Getting a movie has nothing to do with intelligence. There are movies that I get but hate. There are movies I don't get and like very much.

I think it's a bit unfair to split Kelly fans down the middle, especially with the absurd delineation mark being that people that don't like his stuff don't get it. There were elements in Donnie Darko that I didn't get because they were so open ended, but I like Donnie Darko a lot. There were zero elements in The Box that I didn't get because the movie, for the most part, serves it up on a silver platter or over-explains, and I clearly wasn't in love with it.

I don't think it's a terrible movie. I just think it's pretty average. But I think questioning the intelligence of people who didn't like it (however tacitly) is pretty cheap.

The problem with any Richard Kelly film is that the audience always seems to be split down the middle. Half the people adore it and the other half despise it. In most cases people who don't understand the work tend to dislike.