Intent is really important, along with a good script, good characters and the pacing of the story. The intent can be a statement, or an artistic vision, or just having a damn good story to tell. Originality is really important too, something I haven’t seen before or at least not told in this way.
I’m not too bothered about production quality as I’m happily enjoying movies from 70s exploitation and 80s b-movies to low budget oddities, art house flicks, auteurs and the occasional cineast pieces. There are a lot of hidden gems in the lower layers of the movie industry, made by people with a vision that worked with what they had to pull through.
I don’t care much for template big budget flicks like romance, action-comedy or superheroes, unless it’s something recommended to me as something that stands out from the genre. I don’t mind that people watch them, they just aren’t my thing. (Though I do sometimes watch series below my uptight movie snobbery as a sort of relaxing enjoyment and dirty pleasure.)
Anyway, I want a movie to be a journey and a great movie is something I’m fully immersed in and takes turns I didn’t expect and that is making me think about it after. I’m very subjective in what I like and don’t care much for neither clout or critics or cineast cred.
Recent great movies I’ve watched, not selected for any particular reason other than I found them great and watched them recently:
Intent is really important, along with a good script, good characters and the pacing of the story. The intent can be a statement, or an artistic vision, or just having a damn good story to tell. Originality is really important too, something I haven’t seen before or at least not told in this way.
I’m not too bothered about production quality as I’m happily enjoying movies from 70s exploitation and 80s b-movies to low budget oddities, art house flicks, auteurs and the occasional cineast pieces. There are a lot of hidden gems in the lower layers of the movie industry, made by people with a vision that worked with what they had to pull through.
I don’t care much for template big budget flicks like romance, action-comedy or superheroes, unless it’s something recommended to me as something that stands out from the genre. I don’t mind that people watch them, they just aren’t my thing. (Though I do sometimes watch series below my uptight movie snobbery as a sort of relaxing enjoyment and dirty pleasure.)
Anyway, I want a movie to be a journey and a great movie is something I’m fully immersed in and takes turns I didn’t expect and that is making me think about it after. I’m very subjective in what I like and don’t care much for neither clout or critics or cineast cred.
Recent great movies I’ve watched, not selected for any particular reason other than I found them great and watched them recently:
Walker (1987) by Alex Cox.
Tideland (2005) by Terry Gilliam.
Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005) by Sion Sono.