re: The Days of Great Movies Are Gone With the Wind

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I think the point is about Best Picture winners and nominees used to fall more towards films that were both critically and financially successful and there in laid the metrics for rewatchability.

Now the rewatchable movies are less grand and the nominees are falling more towards literal who's.

I enjoyed the shape of water. But it's audience was del Toro fans, classic horror sci-fi fans, and critics. That's a narrow narrow rewatch group.

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But this also goes in line with the changes in film financing. Making a real film, without special effects, is far cheaper than it used to be. That's why I think we've actually seen more low-stakes film hit the box office than in years past. BUT the capitalist nature of films mean they are going to go for the home run more often, hence the explosion of the blockbuster post-1994.

The question is: Does a quality film require big financial success to be considered an overall success? Or do we just hope they do? Does the Academy need them to be before they nominate them?

Again, this falls on the side of the Academy and Big Studios. The legitimate content is THERE. And like Baloo said, I think films are FAR more diverse now than they've ever been - especially in typically fringe genres like horror.

Rewatchability is a stupid thing to hang your hat on too....that's different for everyone. I'm probably the only one here who has rewatched The Guest like 10 times. It's a great film, wonderfully off-kilter.... TO ME. I only want to watch Gone with the Wind Once. Maybe twice. It's, obviously, a better film than the Guest, but it isn't fun to rewatch.

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Forest Gump is much better than Pulp Fiction.

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They are both pretty awesome in their own ways