It's not terrible, but it's also nothing I'd point to in order to convince people of King as a writer.

King's Cell gave me vivid zombie nightmares for a few months and then once a year for a few years. Which is weird, because I didn't find it so scary or even just good when reading it.

As much as I love the stories, the characters and the jokes...

It's the humanity that stayed with me the most.

Jackie Brown also gets better the older you get. Not saying you need to be old to get it, but having at least a perspective on aging is invaluable. A lot of stuff in this movie doesn't register until you realise everyone is way too old to be doing what they're doing and are kind of stuck in their life.

It's not just Jackie and Max. Even stoner hoe Melissa and 21 Jump Street impression cop Ray Nicolette should have outgrown their shit, but haven't for one reason or another.

Since you mentioned Brave New World: Pretty much everyone in that world is excessively happy and they have very pre-determined lives. Maximising everyone's happyness is the ultimate goal of that society. It just raises the question if happyness by itself is so valuable that we should see it as absolute priority.

I have done it many times and feel like it's unfairly judged. You're sitting in the dark and quietly enjoying a movie. There's no real need to do it in company. Enjoy yourself!