• magnetosphere@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    One of my biggest pet peeves is when critics judge a movie on what they think it should be, instead of what it’s actually trying to achieve. Sometimes it’s perfectly fine for a film to be big, loud, and nonsensical. Sometimes, a movie needs to be “complex” (although what critics call “complex” makes me think that a lot of them consider filmgoers to be idiots with the attention spans of goldfish).

    Are there plenty of problems with any given popular film? Yes, but if it satisfies the audience it’s for, shut up.

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      1 year ago

      I knew a dude that didn’t like any movie that didn’t teach him anything. That’s fine. That’s preference I guess no judgment… Until you had to work with him and listen to him drone on and on about how uncultured or unintelligent an animated Disney movie is for eight hours. Every now and then I see a review with someone complaining about how they didn’t learn anything/the movie is too dumbed down and I wonder if he’s still at it lol

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      filmgoers to be idiots with the attention spans of goldfish

      Why do you think big, loud, and nonsensical is so popular?

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      I agree 100%. Before rating a movie I always ask myself if the team behind it managed to reach the goals they set for themselves. If all they wanted to make was a cheesy but entertaining slasher movie and succeeded, it can get the same score from me as some Oscar-nominated drama with a triple-A cast.

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      Yeah but critics have to say good films are shit and shit films are good, because that way we think they’re really smart and have some god-level insight that we’re too dumb to perceive, so we keep giving them money to be smart while we carry on enjoying the shit films.

      If they said good films were good and shit films were shit then we’d all go “well duh” and not think they’re doing anything useful.