___ Robert ___
| I might have missed something there--``every friend I've
| had who has watched `Mulholland Drive'.....'' ?? Did you
| mean to say they all hated ``Mulholland Drive''? Wasn't
| sure on that...
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Whoops. Yeah. I guess I deleted the rest of the line somehow. Bad
backspace key. Bad.
___ Robert ___
| You repeat a cliche about film critics, that they like films
| that audiences hate.
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There can, of course, be overlap. To say that many films critics like
general audiences hate isn't to say that every film general audiences like
critics hate.
However in general there is a very wide divide between the aesthetic of a
critic and the general audience. This isn't necessarily bad. Even in the
more general audience we can make various groups based on preferences. For
instance some like horror movies while others don't.
What I worry about is a kind of elitism where some like a certain genre and
then call that "good" art. If there is one consistency in philosophy of art
it is that people don't agree on what is "good."
-- Clark Goble --- [log in to unmask] -----------------------------
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