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I have been a cinephile for at least ten years, watching several movies per week. I agree with some of the sentiments expressed here, and I can say I have been

by arpa 5y ago

I have been a cinephile for at least ten years, watching several movies per week. I agree with some of the sentiments expressed here, and I can say I have been in a similar place in my film-watching hobby. It used to feel that "I've seen all the good ones", but no, not really. You certainly go into more obscure teritorry, but reasons for obscurity differ: it can be a bad movie, or it could be produced in Mexico, or it could have been produced sometime in 1934, or only available on torrents in 240p, or all of the above. Another thing that helps is knowing how you watch the movie: you're not watching Tarantino and Tarkovsky the same way. That would explain the disappointment with Lost Highway which has been rather coherent (compared to post Mulholland dr. Lynch). With this attitude, the author is locking himself out of a class of directors that are not catering to you (like Marvel does, lol), but require active participation and adapting from the film watcher. You can not enjoy El Topo or The Mountain by passively consuming.

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> the disappointment with Lost Highway It's OK to not like David Lynch's work, it isn't for everyone, what with the "doing surrealism in a highly literal medium" and the logic of nightmares used. To state that Lynch is "obviously awful movies ... had no clue .. disaster ... incapable" as an objective truth is just a category error. it's like saying that a Mondrian is an obviously awful painting because it's not a good landscape composition, or that Jackson Pollock has no clue, because he paints trees in an unrealistic colour.
zupatol 5y ago
The idea that you can start with the good ones doesn't make sense to me. It's the same with literature. There's no guarantee you'll enjoy the "classics". How many books you had to read at school did you really like ? Finding good works of art is a really hard problem, because what you'll like depends a lot on your personal taste and experience, and it evolves with time. Once you've seen a lot of films you can orient yourself by following directors you like, and if you're lucky you find a film critic you can trust.

by arpa 5y ago

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago

> the disappointment with Lost Highway It's OK to not like David Lynch's work, it isn't for everyone, what with the "doing surrealism in a highly literal medium" and the logic of nightmares used. To state that Lynch is "obviously awful movies ... had no clue .. disaster ... incapable" as an objective truth is just a category error. it's like saying that a Mondrian is an obviously awful painting because it's not a good landscape composition, or that Jackson Pollock has no clue, because he paints trees in an unrealistic colour.

zupatol 5y ago

The idea that you can start with the good ones doesn't make sense to me. It's the same with literature. There's no guarantee you'll enjoy the "classics". How many books you had to read at school did you really like ? Finding good works of art is a really hard problem, because what you'll like depends a lot on your personal taste and experience, and it evolves with time. Once you've seen a lot of films you can orient yourself by following directors you like, and if you're lucky you find a film critic you can trust.