Yeah, don't worry about what I said, Pike. Your list is good. Just doesn't meet my exorbitant standards.
What kind of emotions is someone's Top 100 supposed to make you feel, exactly?
Either:
a) something like "Wow, this dude gets it!" when their list contains the majority of picks I agree with and no picks I find ridiculous in other words if I can greatly relate to the taste of the person
or
b) something like "Wow, that's a very offbeat / interesting / original list. Some films I never heard about but seem very interesting and worth checking out
It's like "your favorite film ever" thread. When somebody says it's Satantango you feel the first. When somebody says it's some obscure film from Bangladesh you never heard about it's probably the second (even if they sound like a poser). However, if they say something like Shawshank Redemption you're all like "Man, that's such a boring pick it's top 1 IMDb atm. You like it fine but why don't you watch some more films". It's tiresome and I'm so jaded to see the same picks over and over again and even more so if the picks are just mainstream American cinema.
I don't follow. You want to hear about a film for the first time and immediately be unable to wait to see it?
Absolutely! A non-cinephile wants to read about the film beforehand, think about a week whether they want to see it, and then maybe finally decide to give it a chance. I don't have time to think. If it picks my interest I watch it instantly so as to not let the excitement wane. If I wait too long, it most often ends in me losing the desire to watch it.
I think you can imagine stumbling upon a film you either never heard about or maybe heard about only once from a movement or genre you love and deciding "I was supposed to watch another Pabst today, bot nope - change of plans - I'm watching THIS instead". And then movie-watching is all nice and exciting again even after 10k films seen.
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