[quote=Mr Minio][quote=Yoda][i]or[/i] that there weren't survivorship bias problems with the fact that they could be found easier than others.[/quote] They were literally unavailable / considered lost until like a month ago. Plus they're super obscure.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio][quote=Yoda]I'm not sure this disproves the idea.[/quote] I've seen 2,000+ Japanese films and 18,000+ films in general and Japanese cinema is easily the best. But you'll call it the argument from authority...[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]"If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?"[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=Mr Minio]So I'm not looking through the prism of "a few films that were great" as Yoda often likes to point out in a supposed belief that I'm biased and only cherry-picking the good films. Some Japanese films were unearthed, I watched them, and they're sooo good, with at least one of them being better than 99% stuff they make today.[/quote]
I'm not sure this disproves the idea. There's a ridiculous number of films out there, and I have no idea how you picked the ones you ended up seeing, so it seems pretty unlikely it's a statistically significant sample [i]or[/i] that there weren't survivorship bias problems with the fact that they could be found easier than others.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Apparently watching 35mm full matte rips is all the rage now. Probably the closest you can get to an actual screening without an actual screening. I'm yet to watch anything that way. It doesn't help that the rips are like 20 GB and only a few are available of some mainstream films I'm not that interested in rewatching.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai][quote=Mr Minio]Also, digital freakin' sucks if you don't know how to use it, and 99% filmmakers don't.[/quote]

I don't think it sucks, but I tend to prefer films that were shot on actual film, so I tend to agree it is the superior medium.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Also, hate spring and summer because it's so light outside for so long, and it's best to watch movies when it's dark outside.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Also, digital freakin' sucks if you don't know how to use it, and 99% filmmakers don't.[/quote]

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[quote=Mr Minio][quote=Sedai]Downgrade all you want. I will continue to adore and watch this excellent film. Have fun storming the castle or whatever.[/quote] I won't because I don't have any reason apart from doggedness. I used to be more dogged and opinionated in the past. I've been less and less every since I started to think more and more. I hate this. :([/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]So I'm not looking through the prism of "a few films that were great" as Yoda often likes to point out in a supposed belief that I'm biased and only cherry-picking the good films. Some Japanese films were unearthed, I watched them, and they're sooo good, with at least one of them being better than 99% stuff they make today. This just doesn't happen anymore.

The US was good this way, too. The made like 2000 film noirs and so many of them were at least good. Not every single one of them. Poverty Row produced some weak films (but some good ones, too!) but the general tendency was that films were quality, much more quality than nowadays.

But yeah, if you're directing, writing, or shooting a film and literally your life depends on it because if you do a bad job you can lose it and your family will starve, of course, you'll give it your all, even it the film is just a cookie-cutter crowd-pleaser.[/quote]