34609, What's the happy medium? Posted by Professor Calculus, Sat Jul-09-05 11:51 AM
Sometimes I feel as if my tastes are caught between King_Friday and Orbit_Established--the snob who proclaims a love for Iranian films while getting beat up by the guy rehearsing lines from Evil Dead 2. It's as though I got a pair of devils on my shoulder: to the left sits Joel Silver and to the right you'll find Fassbinder. (No disrespect intended to any okp and only partial disrespect meant for Kiarostami.)
I treasure John Hughes and Jean-Luc Godard the same. I think Scream is on page with the same greatness as Diabolique, while Ghostbusters is up there with The Exterminating Angel . At once I self-consciously value experimental subtitled allegories, but then I may try to justify Three Ninjas Kick Back as a great artistic achievement.
All helplines aside, am I alone?
Is there a movie that the "elitists" and the "bottom-dwellers" can enjoy equally?
I'm gonna go with The Wild Bunch for a starting suggestion.
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