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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8599718" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>My own feeling is, honestly, that I judge a movie (like most other things) on two grounds:</p><p>1. Does it speak to me in some fashion? That doesn't actually say whether its thoughtful or thoughtless, because of the appeal of some movies isn't the same as others; but I can have both emotion-grabbing (whether by be an action movie or by playing to my softer emotions) and intellectually stimulating movies that do or don't work for me, and it isn't always about the quality of the film.</p><p>2. Does it do what it seems to want to do? To some extent I'll judge a movie by how well it seems to meet its own expectations, even if those expectations aren't mine. This can sometimes be tricky, of course, as subversive movie making is a thing, and its possible to be oblivious to the other side of a movie doing two things at once (though I know there's distinctly mixed feelings about it, Besson's <em>Lucy</em> is a movie you have to really look at from both ends at once or it will absolutely be disappointing). I'm prone to looking far more negatively at a film that seems to fail at what its trying to do, more than a film that succeeds (as best I can tell) at doing something I'm not interested in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8599718, member: 7026617"] My own feeling is, honestly, that I judge a movie (like most other things) on two grounds: 1. Does it speak to me in some fashion? That doesn't actually say whether its thoughtful or thoughtless, because of the appeal of some movies isn't the same as others; but I can have both emotion-grabbing (whether by be an action movie or by playing to my softer emotions) and intellectually stimulating movies that do or don't work for me, and it isn't always about the quality of the film. 2. Does it do what it seems to want to do? To some extent I'll judge a movie by how well it seems to meet its own expectations, even if those expectations aren't mine. This can sometimes be tricky, of course, as subversive movie making is a thing, and its possible to be oblivious to the other side of a movie doing two things at once (though I know there's distinctly mixed feelings about it, Besson's [I]Lucy[/I] is a movie you have to really look at from both ends at once or it will absolutely be disappointing). I'm prone to looking far more negatively at a film that seems to fail at what its trying to do, more than a film that succeeds (as best I can tell) at doing something I'm not interested in. [/QUOTE]
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