Canadian Politics Today

What words ?  "Trash" ?  It's a term of endearment, and I am guessing you didn't know that and maybe didn't believe me.

It is a term of 'endearment' used by snobs who feel the need to rationalize their viewing choices to those who might think less of them because they like movies with certain characteristics. The word 'trash' allows someone to virtue signal by declaring that the movie is inferior on the movie snob mandated scale which means they should be forgiven for liking it.

Red Dawn wasn't the greatest but if you gave up the flawed premise there was a good flick in there.  If I only watched liberal movies I would have missed out ... is the point.

Sometimes the premise is too stupid to get over. Like Diehard 2.

It is a term of 'endearment' used by snobs who feel the need to rationalize their viewing choices to those who might think less of them because they like movies with certain characteristics.

Bullshit.  I loved trash before I loved art.  You don't know what you're talking about.

The word 'trash' allows someone to virtue signal by declaring that the movie is inferior on the movie snob mandated scale which means they should be forgiven for liking it.

No.  Wrong.  It's a genre, like 'softcore ****' 'French New Wave' 'Wrestling Picture' 'Action Picture'.

You choose it like any other.  I have more disdain for Oscar-bait than trash any day.  Nothing makes me roll my eyes more than an Oscar-worthy big-star biopic with Southern racism as a theme.  If there's anything to be snobby about, it's that.

And speaking of snobby, isn't looking down your nose at didacticism snobbery too ?

 

Having the expanded Best Picture nominations list is nice also because it gives more exposure to more films.  One of the things that would come after the nominees were announced is renewed interest in the films and they would be put back into theatres and people would see them both before and after the awards, plus I'm sure it would spike home movie (VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray etc) sales.  I've seen 5 of the 9 nominated movies this year and hope to see 2 more I'm interested before the Oscars.  Kind of irrelevant since everyknows Three Billboards (or maybe Lady Bird) will win because of #MeToo.  Now nominees & awards are given out to please victim groups quotas, the Golden Globes was horrible...Oscars doesn't want bad PR from a #OscarsSoMale backlash this year.

Box office performance should be irrelevant to the nominees.  I think things have changed a bit since the big budget movies are usually sci-fi/fantasy/superhero films and sequels now, that's where studios put a lot of their money, and maybe less in epics like Dances With Wolves and Braveheart etc., and then they use smaller budgets to fund more artsy movies and dramas, which usually have better acting etc.

Personally who cares, a good movie is a good movie, awards for art are mostly meaningless anyways. It's just a fun show.

And how does one determine objectively was the 'best art' is? The praise of people who happen to like certain styles of movies does not make it 'art' because art is inherently subjective.

If you want to know how to evaluate art, you should look into it.

If you want to know how to evaluate art, you should look into it.

It was a rhetorical question. Art is subjective and there is no real distinction between the "art" loved by small groups of people and the "art" loved by large groups of people. Nor is there is any reason to say that movies loved by small groups of people who have particular definition of what they call "art" are better than "art" in the form of mass marketed action films.

And you can only land on an airport without your instruments if there's path of fire lighting the way.

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