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[overly-intellectualized-art]

In defense of "bad" art

All art especially story-based mediums cant have bad art. It can be offensive or poorly made but no art can be arbitrarily universally bad imo. Everything that has ever been made has at least ONE person who does or would enjoy it. Even movies that are critically panned are not entirely bad. Even the Cats movie which was definitely a thing made

Neoclassical theatre makes a bunch of arbitrary rules about what makes good art. Everything has to be realistic everything has to be in one place and everything has to be done in 24 hours. But a rubric does not immediately make something good. It just makes it abide by standards listed by others. Which makes sense as this style of work was made by the French or better known as the people that have a government department focused on the purity of their language

Phèdre is a Neoclassical piece by Jean Racine who was Louis XIV glorified lap dog is a play about a woman with a reverse-step-oedipus complex. Apart from that... interesting set up its beautifully written and has really good characters. It does however take three hours long and there are monologues which are pages long. Its good, but it's just not that interesting if you can't get into the drama of it. Just because it's well written doesn't make it that interesting to watch

But there are some movies which are widely entertaining to watch, but are technically bad. Like Cats are Sharknado. Both have some flaws sure,but if you stop caring about them,you can actually have a fun time. Sharknado is a terrible B movie with mediocre CGI and a script that would make Shakespeare cry, but also... its just not that serious so have fun

Like how can you say that's not entertaining

So TLDR; leave people alone if they like something you dislike. everyone has their own taste and you aren't better for liking something that people say is good