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It's kind of weird, but I find that the higher a film is rated by film critics and websites, the less I tend to enjoy it.
A lot of film critique industry is based upon fart-sniffing snobbery.
It’s like a game of one-upsmanship on how much “meaning” you can ~~invent~~ derive from dull, self-important drudgery and the more masochistic your movie-watching experience, the more “refined” you are.
Source: had to study media crit and industry a lot in school.
It's like the
modern art
money launderingIndustry...but at 25 frames per second!
(Or some arbitrary frame rate to stir further controversy)
I prefer art to run at 60 FPS.
you can really taste the extra perseconds
you can’t just say perseconds
Pretty sure they just did.
That's the stuff, 144 if I can get away with it! 😜
Maybe not for films tho hahaha
I can't remember the name of the film but there is one film released relatively recently that's just a series of photographs. Set to music.
It's literally slower than one frame per second.
Respectfully of course, that sounds quite literally like it's a really long slideshow? 🤔
Is it a Terrence Malick film?
but what if i like the way quentin tarantinos ass fart? what therefore then?
foot
you make an adulterously valid point
That's why I find it important to look at both critic and user reviews. If they agree, they're probably right. If they disagree things get interesting.
If critics liked it, but audiences disliked it, it's probably technically good but boring. If critics disliked it, but audiences liked it, it's probably kinda bad but exciting.
Both are also affected by social media, especially user scores, so if "the Internet" hates/loves something if can be unfairly inflated/deflated.
New, but not brand new, films also usually have a more accurate score. I enjoyed The Godfather, so I would rate it positively, but if I didn't like it I'm probably not rating it at all. I saw it X years ago and unless it was absolutely terrible or I have a vivid memory of disliking it, I'm just going to ignore it.
Or it's something fresh instead of the same junk that critics had seen hundreds of times (literally), whereas most of the public can't be arsed with original but marginal concepts.
I imagine if all you do is watch films, you get tired of common stuff. You've seen it before. But if you only watch films sometimes, some of that is still interesting to you.
Kind of like how some video game nerds will be only "only double soj 2x blan Blah is viable" but like other builds do fine for everything except some optional mega bosses
Full time critics must be weird to talk with for any length of time. I know my own work bleeds into my perceptions and interests, and can't help but think that critics have their judging hats on for routine, everyday affairs. Imagine your partner sitting in the passenger seat, idly commenting on the lighting of a city park as you drive past (I don't have to imagine, lol, because my partner does amateur film work as a side gig and he loves to talk about his cameras).
There's a reason McDonald's is popular.
For me, I do enjoy a movie that's deep or well written or has great cinematography, even if it's a bit boring. I also like movies that have entertainment value. Both can exist.
Only gripe I have is shitty popular movies prevent smaller indie movies from being shown at my small town theater.
That's called being a contrarian
The inverse of Rotten Tomatoes is a good measurement of how I'd enjoy a movie.
Film critics are like friends: you need to choose a few that share your taste, and stick with them. For me it's Moviebob, Redletter Media and Patrick H Willems. They appreciate whacky shit as much as I do.