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Imo most movies are kind of bad and I usually regret watching them.

But I kinda feel like this is because I can easily think of other things I would have had more fun spending that time on. So it's a tangible loss to me.

FWIW I keep watching movies because I have seen a few that makes the pursuit worth it.

This is why I hardly ever recommend movies.

My criteria pretty much boils down to "did it hold my attention" during the runtime?"

A "good" movie holds my attention An "ok" movie doesn't hold my atttention 100% A "bad" movie 'pushes' my attention away

Watch both Judge Dress films to understand the difference between a good film and a bad one.

I did a Final Destination marathon recently to prep for Bloodlines.
While all the movies have their flaws and weaknesses, FD4 was garbage. Even as a easy to please person I couldn't handle it.

Genuinely terrible, I am shocked they wanted it to be the last one in the franchise, to the point they called it "The Final Destination"

We've got a community on mastodon called monsterdon that watches bad movies for fun. Just search the hashtag, main event is Sunday nights but there's some spinoffs.

This is exactly why we mainly get dogshit by people with nothing to say or any life experience.

So do they also just enjoy jingling keys for 2 hours?

Like it's not that hard. You enjoy it or you don't and everyone has a criteria on what's good or not.
Some people like to think about high concept stuff and a good movie gets their moral queries up.
Some like professionalism and it's about shot compositions and good editing.
Some want jokes and as long as they laugh it's good.
Some like Neil Breen stuff that's none of the above.
Truly exceptional movies usually are able to satisfy multiple groups of people and also may get you interested in lines of thought or art that is in a different realm than your normal standard of quality.

Saying you turn off your brain and have no concept other than colors make time pass is beyond a lack of critical thought.

Books are good when you don't realise you are reading.

Any film that makes you realise you are watching a film (bad sets, acting, dialog etc.) is bad.

I had this exact train of thought when I was eighteen and ended up building a career and a half on top of that particular crisis.

I was going to say no regrets, but... you know, some regrets?

I can tell when a movie is good now, though.

Weirdly, that somehow became a huge political problem on the Internet and ended up killing democracy. I guess that's one of the regrets.

The Room is considered a movie so bad it's good, but if it turned out that Tommy knew what he was doing the whole time, would that make it just a good movie?