[quote=Mr Minio]Many critics are posers and normies anyway[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff][quote=Mr Minio]Quality evaluation is subjective, too.[/quote]

What's even more important is that "evaluations" are not only subjective, they also tend to (sometimes) change with time. 

Critics - and regular people too - change their mind about filmed entertainment quite frequently, at least in my experience.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Quality evaluation is subjective, too. That's why I can say that I love Wiseau's The Room and it's the best American film of the 2000s and you can't do anything about it. 

That's because evaluating film by something like acting or cinematography is not really all of how films work on you. These formal aspects are just a part of the whole. And the whole is more than just the sum of its parts. Sometimes, paradoxically, it's BETTER if a movie is terrible formally. And sometimes it isn't better. And I can't really tell when it's better and when it isn't better. You just know that. I think at the end of the day, it's all ambiguous and you can't really be seriously mad at people for having bad taste because that's at least partly what they were born with (you can develop your taste but only so much). So I'd say bashing people for their taste is as stupid as bashing them for their race or something like that, which is wrong. But that's what makes it fun.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Yes, at the end of the day, you can just say it's my subjective opinion and somebody might think that, say, contemporary American cinema is superior to, say, Japanese cinema of the 50s. Well, of course, they [i]can[/i]. as it all seems to be subjective. That's why arguing about taste is so fun. Arguing as in having quarrels, not arguing as in debating.

But.. if that's really their position you can bash them for this obviously ridiculous opinion that modern American cinema is greater than the greatest era of any national filmography ever and they can't really form a good reason for why because it's literally impossible. If anything, it's possible to do the opposite and say why 50s Japanese cinema is the best. But it should be obvious intuitively. That's what having good taste is, after all.

Anyway, these are just fun & flippant shoutbox 
shouts tantamount to Twitter hot takes, not some weird introduction to philosophical debates on art that you always take them for.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]The sample is just one side of things. The other side is the quality evaluation itself.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Have you considered the possibility that you just personally really prefer Japanese cinema?[/quote]

[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]