Eh, personal taste is a thing. Not every film is going to resonate with everyone, even if there’s some pretty impressive or neat shit going on at some level, and that’s ok.
Do think it’s worth giving most movies a shot though, for no other reason than you can have a discussion around “I thought it sucked, and here’s why.”
Example: I love Eraserhead, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Pink Flamingos save exactly one scene, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and All That Jazz. I also completely understand the grounds on which someone else would say any of these suck badly, and welcome their contribution to the conversation.
As I once said, drunk, to some university student waiting for a bus outside a bar across the street from a movie theatre, who had just watched Un Chien Andalou: “You can appreciate the cultural value of a piece of art and still not like it. Don’t just feign praise because others do, you’re allowed to just straight up not like things, and the opposite is true too.”
Eh, personal taste is a thing. Not every film is going to resonate with everyone, even if there’s some pretty impressive or neat shit going on at some level, and that’s ok.
Do think it’s worth giving most movies a shot though, for no other reason than you can have a discussion around “I thought it sucked, and here’s why.”
Example: I love Eraserhead, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Pink Flamingos save exactly one scene, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and All That Jazz. I also completely understand the grounds on which someone else would say any of these suck badly, and welcome their contribution to the conversation.
As I once said, drunk, to some university student waiting for a bus outside a bar across the street from a movie theatre, who had just watched Un Chien Andalou: “You can appreciate the cultural value of a piece of art and still not like it. Don’t just feign praise because others do, you’re allowed to just straight up not like things, and the opposite is true too.”