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So do they also just enjoy jingling keys for 2 hours?

Like it's not that hard. You enjoy it or you don't and everyone has a criteria on what's good or not.
Some people like to think about high concept stuff and a good movie gets their moral queries up.
Some like professionalism and it's about shot compositions and good editing.
Some want jokes and as long as they laugh it's good.
Some like Neil Breen stuff that's none of the above.
Truly exceptional movies usually are able to satisfy multiple groups of people and also may get you interested in lines of thought or art that is in a different realm than your normal standard of quality.

Saying you turn off your brain and have no concept other than colors make time pass is beyond a lack of critical thought.

So we're going to ignore the assholes that talk in the theater too huh?

Books are good when you don't realise you are reading.

Any film that makes you realise you are watching a film (bad sets, acting, dialog etc.) is bad.

Yes. This is why I hate movie critics. Your PhD in post romantic Spanish literature does not qualify you to make a determination if the power rangers movie was good or not.

That's why I watch video essays that are longer than the actual movie and explain why it's bad instead of watching the movie

Enshrining illiteracy is a proud American tradition.

I'm often very enamored by camera work, type of shot and things like how they translate certain things to film with limited options.

Especially when it's Drama related and has to do with heavier emotions or things like disorders and other issues.

But usually i'm just a: "watched movie, had fun" kinda guy.

I watched a stoner movie a while back about some guys that got stranded in their van and hotboxed their asses back or forward(can't remember) 30 years...as an avid non drug user i had fun but i did think it was a shit movie tho.

Sounds like someone who never watched House of the Dead in theatres.

Know how to tell of a person is a movie snob? They'll tell you.

I too have no media literacy

And that's awesome!

But please, don't rate the movies you watch 9/10. For those of us who watch most movies, an average of 90% is inarguable insane.

I'm so moved by this post that it consider writing a review of 5/10. Fortunately, I don't have enough to say to reach that IMDb character limit so 7/10 and no comment.

Oh and tv shows...if you're giving every episode 9/10, please stop, some of us are watching these things a decade later and it's best to know if it's actually worthy a 9.

That's also when reviews come in handy, because the reviews become our research. We don't write review for you, don't take it personally.

It's ok to be baffled. Some of us are used to seeing out the answer rather than post our brain droppings.

Turns out I had more to say than I thought.

✅ No spoilers.

I'm exactly like that, but the other way around. 90 % of the movies I watch I don't enjoy. Mayhap it's just not my medium. Makes the 10 % I did enjoy realy worth it tough.

I 100% get this and I think a lot of people are missing the point. It's like going to a football game without knowing the rules, which team is better, or who is winning and having fun anyway. It's not having fun watching people suck because shitty football can be funny.