/lit/ - Literature

>>17919078
Desu, I watch films to have a good time. So I'm not really into arthouse. I see them as propaganda pieces that exist to dive home the director's beliefs, and since they're not a book, the limited time doesn't allow them to do anything. I've watched Bela Tarr, I've watched old B&W flicks, modern B&W arthouse, whatever. Unless it's something truly original with great camerawork, I find it a waste of time. Platitudes spouted by caricatures, with the camera remaining static or moving like a spastic because
>muh art
When I watch a film, I want either some good visuals and an engossing experience, or just a good and interesting story. No film can touch /lit/ because it's an entirely different artform. When it tries to be /lit/ you end up with
>[insert philosophy/political view] Best Hits: The Compilation (Vols. 1-5)
It just doesn't work like that.

So, for me, a film must be "eye-catching". It needs to have atmosphere, something that Michael Mann excels at, with his moody , melancholic films. It can be just a visual teat, like Malick's works (when he's not off his rocker) and just induce pure emotion in you, through the mixture of video and sound. It can be a drama with good dialogue and chemistry between the actors, like something such as Michael Clayton, Leigh's Naked or Fincher's stuff. The Coens always have a mood in their films that hits my buttons. And I can just enjoy a comfy flick like Cruel Intentions because it's fun. Or a good blockbuster like Interstellar. My taste is all over the place, and I'll ty any kind of film, as long as it does "something" instead of being some hack's personal hamfisted beliefs. I didn't much care for Tarkovsky's Mirror, but the visual treat, the dreaming nature of it, was interesting and engrossing.

At the end of the day, I count Stone's Alexander amongst my favourites, simply because it felt like an Ancient Epic. It's not perfect, it's not exactly accurate, but it has that epic scope I'm looking for and it touched me. I love The Great Beauty too, but for different reasons. That is for its story, directing, cinematography and script. I can watch Collateral or The Social Network on and on, due to how well they capture the mood they set out to create. Polanski's Carnage and Venus In Fur are pretty much stage plays but they pull it off.

TL;DR I look for films that entertain me, just in different ways.