In college, I saw the movie Four Months, Three Weeks, and Two Days with some friends. An independent film at a theater that specialized in independent films.
The movie had received dozens of awards. What could go wrong?
A lot, apparently. It was super boring.
It revolved around some controversial issues, yes. But it was boring. It was like watching real life, including a 15-minute casual conversation around a dinner table.
Ninety minutes later, we left the theater scratching our heads.
Over the years, I came to find that movies that received numerous awards or between 97-100% praise on rotten tomatoes would also be like this. Not particularly stimulating, yet oddly realistic.
I've come to appreciate that I must judge films on a different measure of quality.
I'm not the type of person who watches movies for the realism. But, the givers of awards are. It's a different axis to appreciate.
And so, when you think you don't like something, maybe it's not total crap.
It's could just be a type of quality that's not your type of quality for that medium.
And that's okay. If all art were for everyone, we would probably explode.
No exploding necessary!!!! Haha!!