what are authors even trying to do?

Rather than saying "bad movie lol", Big Joel deconstructs The Room and asks the difficult question: what are authors even trying to do?

This is a fundamental question that your high-school teachers failed to teach you. While they quizzed you on Symbolism™ and Metaphor™ and Foreshadowing™, they fumbled the underlying lesson: people sometimes make stuff for reasons.

• Can they understand the cat in Stewart Little?
• Dig for authorial intent in Grown Ups 2.
• Overanalyze Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Why did we watch a 2-hour documentary about a video game we've never heard of?
• Listen for leitmotif in Lord of the Rings.
• Become a film conspiracy theorist.
• Engage in terrible writing.
• Study idiot plots.
• Is 300 facist?
• Meet the Robinsons was underrated.
• Look for inivisible choices in video games.
• Avoid holes that were made for you.
• Skin Theory in Spongebob Squarepants.
• Understand the temporal pincer maneuver.
• Soulja Boy provides his thoughts on Braid.
• Experience visual comedy.
• Find ludditism and neophilia in Jurassic Park.