Fresno_Layshaft wrote:But really, you thought Magnolia was a good movie?
I know you weren't asking me. But if you had been, I would have said it was a great movie.
Boogie Nights?
In a somewhat less enduring way, likewise.
Those are some awful movies.
I respectfully dissent. I do readily concede that they're some very long movies, neither of which is entirely conventionally enjoyable to watch. And one of which (Magnolia) is affirmatively conventionally unenjoyable to watch most of the time. So I can easily see why you -- or anyone else -- might dislike them. And I don't think it unreasonable that you do. But personally speaking, I don't see how they can be fairly rated as "awful" on their real merits and defects under any criteria, myself. However...
But its all subjective isn't it.
...it is. Or close enough to "all" as makes no difference, at least, when it comes to leaving more than enough room for legitimate disagreement. So I'm perfectly willing to assume that's what the divergence in our opinions of them is due to, absent any indications that it's not. And anyhow, whatever the case, you can't really argue with a final verdict by itself on such matters. You really need to hear the summation, too. Otherwise, we each might as well just be saying, "Is not!" or "Is so!" or "Is not!" "Is so!"
And where's the fun in that?
