"mindless entertainment" vs "true art"

[Plaidman]

I like a wide range of movies, from mindless action to foriegn dramas.

The only genre I try to avoid to see, but usually get dragged into it for one reason or another is romantic movies. I never feel good during it or afterwards, but family and friends act like I should think it's the best and beautifl movie of all time.

I do prefer over the top action movies and/or fantasy movies. Belive it or not, Shoot 'Em up is one of my all time fave movies. Nothing like a man just slaughtering masses amount of bad guys. (Him using the bungie cord while going down the stair case while spinning rapidily and killing waves of idiots was priceless).

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of a forign film that was here recently. I drag my ma and sis to see it, and they loved it. Sucks but, I'll one day remember the name -_-.

[Rageaholic]

By "mindless entertainment", I mean most stuff out there. Action movies, comedy, romance, reality TV, and anything that's popular and doesn't try too hard to be original or edgy. Usually full of cliches, epic one liners, and lots of lols.

By "True Art", I mean a small majority of films that more often than not are praised by critics for being original or edgy. Typically, they go out of their way to be original, breaking all the norms of movies, either leaving audiances bewildered or unsatisfied. Either that or they try to get across some sort of hidden message about how frail humanity is. Here's the TVtropes link I just found on it, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueArt

You know, after years of reading film critics opinions, commentary on internet forums, and even taking a college film class, I am fucking sick of "True Art". I wouldn't be so sick of it if these people who enjoyed that stuff weren't such condescending jackasses to those who like to see "shit blow up". In that film class I took, my instructor even said that just because we enjoy a movie doesn't mean it's a good movie. I say bullshit to that because what's good to one person may not be good to another. Most of the movies she liked were either super depressing, made no sense, or a combo of both. And this was a person who said she hated romantic comedy's because they're too happy for her.

The way I always looked at it, movies are meant to be enjoyable, not depressing and hard to figure out. Sure, some people may actually like that stuff, but that's because it's their taste. My taste happens to be action and comedy. It doesn't have to be completely original to be good either. And just because something is original doesn't mean it's good either. Maybe there's a reason movies follow certain formulas or borrow from others, IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE THAT STUFF.

I'm not trying to bash anyone for having different tastes or tell people what to like. Quite the opposite actually. If someone likes the "art" movies, all the more power to them. You don't have to follow the crowd. Just don't act like you're better than everyone else.