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What makes a movie great (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Rextreff@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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I hear sometime people call a certain movie 'the greatest movie ever made' but what's the criteria?

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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's subjective. Some people have education or a lot of experience with the art and technicalities of filmmaking, some people just like what they like without thinking about it too much.

Speaking for myself, I rate movies based on how much I enjoy them and how often I watch them again. Which puts Resident Evil and Jean-Claude Van Damme movies at the top of my list. Movies commonly cited as the greatest ever made (like Casablanca or whatever) don't interest me at all.

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same for me, I honestly don't care what critics say if I enjoy the movie, Casablanca is for some reason ridiculously overrated, I watched it once when it was on TV expecting like Godfather quality and it was boring asf.

And Resident Evil is peak fiction.