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Originally Posted by neverending
Can we not enjoy a film because of its artistry?
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I didn't say you couldn't. In fact, I believe part of my point was that a few folks, including you, probably will determine your favorites by their quality as an art form.
I think I'm realizing that the biggest challenge for me is that 95% or more of the films I watch probably would not qualify for this list. The ones I enjoy the most do tend to be of the more challenging variety, not that I think that's a requirement to make it a good film: Martyrs, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Lars von Trier films. I even considered leaving Trainspotting off the list because I didn't want to have to debate whether or not the hallucinatory horror and terrible situations would qualify it as "half horror." Point being, I don't get too excited about my capaciity for artistic appreciation being dumbed down to whether or not it had enough explosions. All I'm really saying is that outside the realm of horrificish films, half of my top 20 is going to just be films I've watched a bunch of times over my lifetime, and not all of these are terribly challenging or artistic.