Woody Allen's movies in general

I'll tell you what I think about Woody Allen's movies.

His movies are all-verbal. Everything is verbalized either in dialog or voice-over narration. There was Alfred Hitchcock's thing about "pure cinema" by which he meant movies that were primarily visual. But Allen's movies are pure cinema as well in that they can't be translated into any other narrative form.

Remember Manhattan, the scene were Woody Allen disapproves of Diane Keaton writing movie novelizations? I don't think you could do a novelization of most of Allen's movies. I don't think you could write a coherent synopsis of half of them, especially Radio Days.

I never quite understood people who said that his early comedies had no plot and were just a series of gags. Of course they had plots. They had a structure to them. What they thought of as plotlessness gave them kind of a richness. We learned things about the future in Sleeper that you'd never get from something with a tighter storyline. His more serious movies weren't that much different. Kind of disjointed.