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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Ranking movies is stupid anyway. It's like "Starting with Apples and Oranges, rank the top fruits 1-100"
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I mean you say that, but papayas are pure garbage tier.
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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.
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You can appreciate a movie for being a landmark - Star Wars is certainly that - without thinking it's great on its own merits. If you want a list of the most culturally important sci fi films, it's probably #1. But that's a separate standard.
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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.
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Just under a century ago. I have never seen the whole thing, just bits of it. I gather it's a fairly simple class warfare story, and given the limitations of the medium at the time I cannot imagine it's particularly great. I absolutely think you can compare the two - they're both using a medium to tell a story with a thematic purpose. One just has shackles the other doesn't that contribute to it not being able to realize its vision as effectively. That's not something that's disappeared; a film student can be brilliant and have a great concept for a sci fi movie, but if there's no budget, it's going to be worse than it could be.