• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I have a friend who thinks every movie he’s ever seen is awesome. I learned a few years back not to take his advice on movies. I wish I could enjoy everything as much as he does though. I guess it probably helps that he’s always drunk and stoned, and I’m neither.

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      8 months ago

      I’m that friend minus the drugs. I would say 9/10 times I like the movie. I just enjoy experiencing other people’s creativity. I do try to mention my bias when people ask me if they should watch something.

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        8 months ago

        To be fair, there’s a big difference between a film being enjoyable and a film being good. There’s plenty of enjoyable movies that aren’t any good.

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          8 months ago

          I disagree. The point of a movie is to entertain. If it succeeded at that, it was successful. Bad worldbuilding, plot, etc is only bad insofar as it breaks immersion/enjoyment of the film.

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            8 months ago

            Many people consider the Sharknado movies to be entertaining but they are obviously terrible and cheesy. They are bad movies. Just because there’s entertainment to be gleaned from a movie doesn’t make it not bad. But it’s okay to enjoy a bad movie. You don’t have to pretend like a bad movie is good just because you found it entertaining.

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        8 months ago

        I enjoy almost everything I see in the theater. There have been a fair few movies that I enjoyed on the big screen but on rewatching at home was like “Why did I like this shit?”

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          8 months ago

          I find that I don’t go to the theater as much as I used to so I end up saving it for movies that I think will be better there.

          I can over do it though and be burned by my expectations. I was very disappointed in the Avatar sequel because I felt the movie might have looked better at home where I can turn off stupid things like changing refresh rate.

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      8 months ago

      I’m not like that but I think that movies are made to entertain, if I watch a movie till the end the movie was good enough and it didi entertain me

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
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      8 months ago

      to be fair, if someone watches the whole movie, then it’s probably because it’s a good movie. otherwise, that person would’ve stopped watching once they realised that they didn’t like what they were watching.