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So although I want to thank everyone, I do want to thank one smaller group for never backing down. You see, I watched this director's first film when I was 17. I mean it was a war movie, come on! And I promptly hated it, fell asleep, tried to watch it again, but turned it off. Ugh. Ok, next try. How about yet another historical event, a kind of mesmerizing trailer and some young talent? Nope, it might have been even worse. So I was done. Granted 2 films isn't a big set of films, but considering the director's limited output, it was about a third of what he had put out at the time.

Malick?

I do like discussion and I do try and live up the this simple credo: it's fun to like things. There are things I don't like, but there is so much out there to enjoy, I'd rather spend my time praising those things I like then decrying what I don't. Besides, it's a big world and it takes different strokes to move it.

I may disagree with someone's impassioned defense of a movie I dislike, but I appreciate it. Maybe it makes me see the film in a new light, or maybe it gets me to check out a different work by the same director, and maybe give it a more fair first watch.

I've pointed this out before, but there are more films and TV shows in existence and available to me than I could ever watch. It is a massive amount of stuff in the world. And it's fun to get to explore all of that, and we need other people to help us on our own quest through the wilderness. This board gives you ideas on what to seek out next, and it's always fun to debate the finer points of something you love.

But Wes Anderson's films still suck.

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Posted by Freauxzen

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Posted on 5/19/14 at 3:13 pm to Baloo

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Malick?

Yup.

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I do like discussion and I do try and live up the this simple credo: it's fun to like things. There are things I don't like, but there is so much out there to enjoy, I'd rather spend my time praising those things I like then decrying what I don't. Besides, it's a big world and it takes different strokes to move it.

I agree. Although I think the more we see things we don't like, and understand them, the better we can know what we do like.

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I may disagree with someone's impassioned defense of a movie I dislike, but I appreciate it. Maybe it makes me see the film in a new light, or maybe it gets me to check out a different work by the same director, and maybe give it a more fair first watch.

I've pointed this out before, but there are more films and TV shows in existence and available to me than I could ever watch. It is a massive amount of stuff in the world. And it's fun to get to explore all of that, and we need other people to help us on our own quest through the wilderness. This board gives you ideas on what to seek out next, and it's always fun to debate the finer points of something you love.

Exactly. It's really about change, both looking for it and allowing it. I mean, the idea of art is to communicate, and that, in effect, can change SOMETHING in us, no matter how slight.

But sometimes no matter how much we can detest something, there's a chance that it's something we can really enjoy if we just gave it a chance.