Thread: Oscars 2022
View Single Post
Old 03-31-2022, 11:02 AM   #616
Hack&Lube
Atomic Nerd
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
Exp:
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
See, there, for example, I don't understand how anyone could possibly justify Wrath of Khan as being a better example of movie making than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or Terminator being a better movie than Moon. Let's be serious.

It's like comparing schlocky 50s westerns to Unforgiven.
Ranking movies is stupid anyway. It's like "Starting with Apples and Oranges, rank the top fruits 1-100"

They are all different in their own way and have their own qualities. Unforgiven is reactionary film to the heroic traditional Western but it wouldn't have existed without those traditional John Ford westerns that are landmarks in their own way.

How do you fairly compare Fritz Lang's Metropolis, made over a century ago to a modern science fiction film like BR2049? They have their own qualities and impact on the genre contemporaneous to when they were made.

Last edited by Hack&Lube; 03-31-2022 at 11:05 AM.
Hack&Lube is offline   Reply With Quote