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10 “Unnecessary” Movies That Turned Out To Be Indispensable

There are a handful of words that, in the context of discussing movies, or art and pop culture in general, tend to be exceptionally gear-grinding, for me at least. “Unfunny” is one word that comes to mind, a term that may indicate that the described item lacks humor, but certainly demonstrates that the subject doing the describing lacks it altogether. “Unnecessary” might be at the top of the list of words that have virtually no meaning when it comes to labelling movies.

9) Every Woody Allen movie ever

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Do we really need a new Woody Allen movie every year? That’s a bit of an existential question. Each year, and each Allen movie that accompanies it, comes with its own ups and downs. There are some good years, and some bad years, some Purple Rose of Cairo’s and some Hollywood Ending’s. But as with life, sometimes it’s the valleys that make the peaks even more special. Even if they aren’t pleasant to get through, the most difficult of trials teach us something about ourselves, and we emerge stronger and smarter than we did before.

The same goes for relationships. The sign of a good relationship doesn’t have to be its longevity, or any specific criterion, but can often be on the mere fact that we were able to take something from it, to learn something, and for the positivity of the experience to outweigh the downside. The fact that people keep going back to relationships, and for many of us, back to Woody’s films, is that they can’t help themselves—they come in all forms, and carry with them both good and bad, but at the end of the day, to quote a seminal line from Annie Hall, we need the eggs.