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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 170 points 1 month ago

Whether you had fun and the quality of the movie are not entirely related.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago

Says who? Is the whole point of movies not for you to have fun?

[-] StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 102 points 1 month ago

In the same sense the point of food is to get you full. There's more nuance to it.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

That's why I find myself staring at a half eaten jar of green olives or an empty sleeve of crackers during the wee hours. Sometimes we just want to get to the point and not bother with the journey.

[-] SeekPie 11 points 1 month ago
[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Great analogy. I'm going to use this next time someone tells me I should just ignore the shitty writing in self published books and have fun reading it.

Fuck you, I paid money for this, I get to bitch about why it sucks.

[-] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, but if I enjoyed eating the food it was good food.

[-] 9bananas@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

junk food is still junk food, even if you enjoyed it.

that was the point of the comparison in the previous comment.

the nutritional quality of food has little to do with your enjoyment of it.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 35 points 1 month ago

Children of Men, good movie, not fun

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Also Pig, too autheur for me, not fun, but i still like it.

[-] wpb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What makes it good to you?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Some movies are intentionally not fun, because their message isn't about fun things.

Leaving Las Vegas isn't fun.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago

Evolution (2001) is an objectively bad movie.

It is also one of my all time favorites because it's fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.

Schindler's List is an objectively good movie. It is decidedly not fun.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yo, I completely forgot about Evolution! Definitely putting that on the rewatch list.

[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Nah movies are ranked on a set of objective criteria such variety and use of color, the use of varied angles, runtime:budget ratio, and so on. Technically speaking the best movies are usually produced by accidentally dropping a cellphone from a hot air balloon

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

I think you should read my previous comment again.

One can have fun watching a bad movie. One can have no fun watching a good movie.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

One can have no fun watching a good movie

Requiem for a Dream

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago
[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I had a lot of fun watching that. I played a drinking game where every time he took a drink, so did I.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

How are you posting if you're dead?

[-] NecroParagon@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Such a perfect example. I had the opposite of fun watching that the first time but it's still one of my favorite movies.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Dancer in the Dark

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Schindler's List is not a fun movie.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Imo if it's fun then it's good, but being fun isn't the only path to "goodness". Lots of good movies out there that are the opposite of fun

[-] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No idea why you’re getting downvoted. Did all the lemmings forget how to experience joy? If you like the art, it’s good art. That’s the whole point.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Dancer in the Dark

Often times I find that highly rated movies aren't fun to watch. They follow the 'good movie' formula and it shows. I really only like comedy and action movies, personally, but don't want every movie to follow the hero's journey. I don't need them all to be the tale of an underdog who really has the greatest power. I don't need the camera framing to hint at who the antagonist is.

I just want to see the girl and her dog defeat Predator or James MacAvoy's beastly terror in Split. If they happen to also include some of the formula, that's okay but it certainly isn't what made the movie good to me.

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