What’s more important to you when watching a movie: entertainment or plot/story

plot and story are different. Plot is the sequence of events that happen in the narrative, the story is usually the characters emotional arc & journey. Oppenheimer’s plot is about the creation of the nuclear bomb, the story is about a man coming to grips with the guilt of negatively changing the world forever.

But to answer your question, entertainment always wins out.

I don't need to read Earnest Hemingway on the screen or similarly watch The English Patient anymore....



Tarantino said JAWS is the best movie (not film) but he said movie of all-time....because of its entertainment value with such a simple story....a fricking shark terrifying everyone. Movies exist to be purely viscerally entertainment. Films (which are a different category) tend to strive to tell a point of view, a reflection, a philosophy...comment on the moment or history.

Eh....nowadays, just give me JAWS....I'm past film analysis.

Tits. Tits are more important.

Just depends on the movie.

22 Jump Street? Plot was irrelevant and those movies were fun as hell. Same with Bad Boys 2 (the most fun theater experience I've ever had).

Now, Hereditary? The Wailing? Heat? Margin Call?

Or mor extreme art house movies like Stalker? Seventh Seal? The Princess and the Warrior? Three Colors: Blue? The Holly Mountain? The Return? Entertainment is not the top priority.

I need to find a character I like and can cheer for.

The dark and depressing movies are not for me, and many of the dystompians are too dark.