Post by moviemouth on Feb 12, 2018 10:35:52 GMT
You have to admit that most people like a lot more movies than you do. Director Edgar Wright compiled a list of his 1000 favorite movies for example and there are critic lists of the 1000 greatest movies ever made.
like if you mean in a basic sense of asking people, 'Do you like Movie A or not?' with a simple Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down answer. then yeah, I would expect most people to like more movies than myself. but... I wonder how many of those movies really stick with people? ; because, as I have already mentioned many times before, I can't really see praising a movie only to mostly forget about it and move onto the next movie etc and pretty much never bother with that movie again (or rarely see it again) as in this regard I suspect the 'quality movie' field would be much less going by this standard and in this regard I would not be surprised to see people be not all that far apart from myself in that not too many movies stand out to a higher degree. sure, even if that was true, you could probably still make a decent claim that most people still like more movies than I do and you may easily be right.
also, those critics who make say '1000 greatest movies ever' seem to be more concerned with what they think everyone wants to here instead of their own personal opinion on what they personally like a lot etc. I would rather have these people pick movies they personally like a lot instead of that standard like that's mostly the same with critics in general as then it would at least be honest on the critics part instead of going with that 'ahead of their time' and the like BS they seem to be more concerned with.
There are more than 100,000 movies out there. There are more than 5000 movies that have a 7/10 or higher on imdb just so you know and there are more than 50 movies each year that get a fresh rating on Rottentomatoes.
but assuming that '50 movies each year get a fresh rating on RT' is a rough guideline for what's liked(as in Thumbs Up) in general then... yeah, that further aids your claim that people like more movies than I do.
but with that said... I have a feeling some people give a movie a positive score but then mostly forget about it in a few years time. this is why I feel that just going by movies that have a 'positive' score (and the like) ain't completely accurate in terms of what's a 'true gem' vs 'just another movie' for most people sort of thing (but maybe my comments about 'Classics' are some sort of rough guideline for how the masses see the 'true gems'(i.e. classics and the like) vs 'just another movie'(i.e. forgettable movies for the most part)). in this regard I expect the volume of 'gem' movies to be MUCH less than the 50 movies a year thing you mentioned with RT. because if there was like 50 movies a year that were classics for an average we would have boatloads of movies that a lot of people praise and I don't think that's the case given what I can tell. like that 50 quality movies a year for an average claim... that would put the total something in the ball park of 2,500-4,350 movies (i.e. last 50 years (2,500 movies) 1930 to date (4,350 movies)) and I suspect there is no where near that many movies that the masses would consider of any real worth even though I admit there is more than I personally like as there are definitely movies I don't personally care for that I would have to count when looking at Classic or mass appeal status and the like.
hell, even if we use your guideline of 'more than 5,000 movies with a 7.0/10 average score or higher standard' as a 'quality movie' that's still very little in comparison to the 100,000+ total movies out there that you mentioned. say roughly 5%.
but, who knows, it's probably difficult to get any exact measurement on this sort of stuff as about the best we can do is guesstimate these things like you and I just tried to do.
p.s. as I have mentioned before... most movies (as in majority) I see are good enough not to have wasted my time but in terms of movies worth re-watching(which as you already know plays a big factor for me for a movies real worth long term), that figure drops off a lot.
so basically, I would say in terms of percentages of those two things in the "p.s." section above...
-Worth re-watching level = about 1 out of every 4 movies I see (i.e. about 25%)
-Decent enough to not have wasted my time level = guesstimated at about 65-75% of all movies I have seen (at the most = about 80%).
so as you can see... while I do give plenty of movies a Thumbs Down, because their lack of re-watch value for me, in terms of whether a movie wastes my time or not then I don't think I am that much different from most people(?).
I rate Jerry Maguire 9/10 and it is among my 100 favorite movies.
I do re-watch movies btw, just not as often as most people. I have seen Jerry Maguire about 5 times for example.
thanks for the info.
p.s. I am not exactly sure how many times I have seen Jerry Maguire but just since Dec 27th 2011 to date I have seen it twice... March 4th 2013/April 19th 2016. but with that said... I would guesstimate I have seen it at least 5 times given I would say the general volume of movies I started watching shot up around 2003+. so it don't sound like a stretch for me to have seen it at least a few times before Dec 27th 2011 to date. but it's hard for me to say for sure but I think it's fairly safe for me to say 5+ times.
You have a different definition of what it means to be a good movie. You only consider personal favorites to be good movies but that is not the way I look at it at all.
There are at least 1000 movies that stand out for me and have lasting appeal. I consider lasting appeal to be movies that stand out in my memory. A movie that I still remember very well even if I have only seen it once 10 years ago.
