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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9635616">I am just personally very interested in other peoples reactions to things. So while I will often look for reviews by people who know what they are talking about, I will also look for people who are essentially just talking (and often saying a lot of factually wrong things but occasionally making interesting points). As an example, I read Frankenstein again last year which I have mentioned. And after I did, the first thing I looked up were lectures and essays by professional academics. And because I read the 1818 edition, I looked up academic resources on the difference between editions. But then I also took a look at some of the reviews on youtube by people who had simply read the book. Some understood the tradition it was written in and some just liked horror. I found getting all these perspectives valuable. It was also just nice seeing the conversation around this book. When I re-read Hamlet I did something similar (i.e. looking up differences between editions, academic explanations of the meaning, I also watched every version of Hamlet I could find on streaming, but then I wanted to see what people on YouTube had to say. With niche genres of film, I think it can be very handy to get a wide range of opinions. Obviously the more someone has seen from a genre, the more weight I will give their opinion (especially if they are listing off facts or something). I know people for example, just in life, who have no academic or professional background in films, but are movie buffs who have seen everything under the sun. They usually have pretty insightful thoughts. And they can often make comparisons between films that few other people could make because most people simply haven't seen as many movies as they have.</blockquote>

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