I would have thought it's obvious why it's better to recognise high quality films rather than low quality films. It's the same when evaluating anything in life.
It's just that "quality" is a relative metric, or rather, people can take value from many different aspects of a film.
It's not like figuring out the best brand of toothpaste--it's art.
That's not boring it's just the nature of "Top 100" lists. The fun lies in seeing which order the top players are ranked.
Watching the same list of films get slightly reordered is boring to me.
I know what you mean by having fun seeing where different films land, but to me that's just not very enjoyable. I'm not bashing you (or anyone) for getting enjoyment out of seeing where different movies rank, but it doesn't do much for me. I'll probably get a lot more fun out of reading everyone's lists than the final result.
If we were doing a list of the top 100 works of art I would include the Sistine Chapel but not the drawing my young daughter did at school, despite it being of personal importance to me. One of those is a breathtaking masterpiece of utter genius. The other, regardless of how much I might like it, is rubbish.
I was hoping you were going to say, "One of those is a breathtaking masterpiece of utter genius. The other is a chapel."
I understand what you're saying here, but there's a reason that I like
Brain Damage and it's not purely because of personal sentiment. Something in the film, something about the ideas being expressed by the creator, resonate with me. It's not coming from a place of personal relationship or sentiment--but from something the creator managed to communicate. I believe that I could mount a defense of its technical elements: special effects, acting, writing, etc. These technical elements brilliantly serve the film, and they are what makes it effective. There are plenty of horror movies that use an addiction allegory, and this one stands out for a reason.
Ultimately we just have a different perspective on what the list should be and that's fine. It would be boring if everyone approached it the same way.
Agreed, this is not a "pistols at dawn!" situation.
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totally agree with that.
