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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 215296" data-attributes="member: 446">You can be a serious movie fan, sure.  But if you've shut out those rather enormous categories of films (I don't know if you have), you can't be a serious movie critic.  You can still be a serious action movie critic, I suppose.There's nothing wrong with that.  Many all-time best movies are entertaining and nothing more.  But most are something other than just entertaining... important, informative, thought-provoking, devastating, truth.Do you watch many entertaining movies made before 1980?  Before 1960?  Just curious... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />I don't think it's #1, but it's certainly in the top 10.  And I didn't go to film school, or even take a film class other than a sort-of class during a summer camp when I was 17, and probably a little too young to understand stuff.  I'm curious what you think is wrong about people who think it's a great film, even the best film ever.  I find it extremely entertaining... even without explosions.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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