Canadian Politics Today

If your "rules" didn't allow for the possibility that a silly movie could give you a genuine laugh, your rules may need to be reexamined.

I have no set 'rules' per se, but my point is that you can't imagine what you might like as you are a human.

A really simple "rule" I believe in... did the movie accomplish what it set out to?  If so, then it's quality.  A comedy that makes you laugh?  An action movie that provides thrills and excitement?  A speculative fiction film that makes you think about the future?   It's unreasonable to evaluate a story by standards it never intended to meet.  If you're watching a Jackie Chan movie and you're upset because the movie didn't provide thought-provoking social commentary, you missed the point.  That's not Jackie's fault, it's your fault for watching the wrong movie.

I like movies where you don't know what they were trying to do.  I'm thinking of 'Holy Motors' right now.

 

I'm not suggesting otherwise. I'm just saying that that sense of awe and wonder was a "real" and "valuable" experience for me, and that a movie that can provide me an experience like that is worth my time.  It doesn't matter to me whether the movie will be looked on by critics as a masterpiece of high-brow entertainment, and it doesn't matter to me whether in 25 or 50 years the movie will still be remembered.
 
 -k

Here's the test of the escapist-lover.  If they feel that a movie made them uncomfortable, sad or somehow didn't delight their senses then they think the movie is 'bad'.  It doesn't matter if the story affected them, or stayed with them - they just don't want to be affected in any way except trivial amusement.