I’m the one at the Party when your favourite film question comes up that looks blank while other party attendees and lovers of a good quiz with an encyclopaedic memory rattle off their favourite films with me in the background saying to myself.
” Yeah , that was a good one!”
I can’t help myself , I don’t categorise things I like , I enjoy them at the time and move on. Is that wrong? Should I gather all my likes and dislikes and like a good librarian file them away so I can pass them on to the next person.
Or at a Party is it just friendly banter , to show your love and knowledge of all these wonderful and not so wonderful creative projects by discussing and grading with others ,what , could be, for someone their lifetime’s work.
The number of films produced in numeric terms, today , is almost infinite. I spend at least half an hour browsing through Amazon Prime, Apple, Channel 4 and BBC I player before even making a choice. I very often find a gem and it’s a delight to watch something that you didn’t even know idea existed until it turned up on one of the above platforms .
There are at least a 100 films I could watch again and again, some are old and some are current. It’s a good feeling when you experience a good film, one that makes you think differently or laugh out loud.
That is why there is so much creative effort and indeed money put into making movies that we watch. The makers probably don’t care if they make my top 10, they have their eyes on the bigger prize of entertaining or educating me.
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