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Originally Posted by totem
What I'm really into is never the movie, but my relationship to the movie. In the end, the impact it has on me - to the degree it can get me thinking and keep me thinking - is what determines the amount of love I have for any film of any genre.
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It's kind of the same for me, although it's not nescesarily because a movie makes me
think - sometimes it's because of what it makes me
feel. I think there's value in both.
I also have to admit that sometimes I love a movie simply because it's visually beautiful... I guess that's the artistic debate again. It doesn't always mean that the movie as a whole is any good, though.
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Originally Posted by totem
Of course, I have my lists of movies I respect or admire for one reason or another & most of them are on the standard "top" lists you'll find on any given internet search. I honestly would never own most of these though.
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I can relate to that completely. There are plenty of "great classics" that I definitely respect, and would never deny that they are extremely well done, but they didn't really move me -or make me think. And that brings me back to what I said earlier, about art - there IS such a thing as personal taste that just isn't "right" or "wrong".
I'm sure we can all find a famous painting by a famous painter that we would never hang on our own walls, even if we acknowledge that technically, it's perfect.