Just awesome like that
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The Room aside (and even that's dubious), none of those films are generally regarded as bad films. Immoral by today's standards (and even by the standards of yesteryear)? Certainly. But badly-made, non-influential films to be tossed aside? Never.
Whether or not a movie is good or bad depends not on how entertaining or morally sound it is or isn't. It depends on how well it is made. That is the art to it, from an objective standpoint. How people interpret and enjoy it, on the other hand, is wholly subjective.
edited 8th Jun '13 9:56:47 PM by 0dd1
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Indeed true, and perhaps I wrote my point too simply. What I was trying to contest was the point that "if someone likes it, that means it's good." That "someone" might not have a good reason for liking it.
edited 8th Jun '13 10:16:39 PM by Tuckerscreator
The Permanently Confused
We had to watch Triumph of the Will in film class. It was probably one of the more horrifying experiences in my entire life. So many happy Nazis...
Same here. But it at least makes me happy that even back then, parodies were being made of it.
Just awesome like that
@TC: Ah, well in that case, I agree!
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No movie is bad.
The Room. Triumph of the Will. A Birth of a Nation. If those films succeeded in genuinely entertaining a person, not ironically entertaining them, then there's something very wrong with there.
edited 8th Jun '13 9:11:21 AM by Tuckerscreator