#they should make more movies that don't suck immeasurably

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an unsolicited rant about moviefilms by me

when people find out i was a theatre major they always want to talk to me about film. to me this feels like if i told someone i speak french and their response was "oh cool so you understand spanish?" and it's like no dude. what i love is theatre. film is its own, different thing that i know fuck all about. i also honestly dislike a lot of movies that are considered good/cool/classics. i don't enjoy popular american movies in general. like i hate pulp fiction and fight club and all such tryhard fakedeep hollywood garbage. i also strongly dislike wes anderson and quentin tarantino is the worst. also larry clark and gus van sant are simply awful.

but to be clear there ARE plenty of films i love. my favorite movies are aguirre, wrath of god eraserhead, the 400 blows and ratcatcher and this film called fishtank by andrea arnold. i love lynne ramsay and the cohen brothers have some hits like barton fink. and charlie kaufman is usually pretty wonderful. and i like darren aronofsky too for the most part. oh and tarkovsky forever and ever; the mirror lives deep in my heart. there's also this movie called come and see by elem klimov that's really important. and i appreciate harmony korine's willingness to experiment and take risks and make different kinds of films. i don't like everything he's made, but i think he rocks as an artist. julien donkey-boy is one of my all-time favorites and i love mister lonely too. sofia coppola is actually ok with me for reasons i cannot fully articulate. that marie antoinette movie is my guiltiest pleasure lol and do not get me started on emma watson's brilliant and criminally underrated performance in the bling ring. i also like 3 women and who's afraid of virginia woolf and russian ark. buffalo '66 was cool and so was la haine. and fucking days of heaven; terrence malick is top notch. anywayyy i need to try to accomplish something besides internet diary entries today, so this concludes today's rant no one cares about/list of shit i like. summary/tldr: my theatre education does not qualify me to discuss film, and also i like some movies but dislike others. thank you for your attention and yes this will definitely be on the test.