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Well I think citizen kane is powerful and parasite is terrible. So what have we proved? Taste is indisputable, I guess.



Well, I, for one, dispute personal taste.

Taste needs to be cultivated.

Even if two people with cultivated tastes don't agree on everything (or anything), their opinions on say movies or music are worth more than some guy's who just "likes what he likes" and never really got into exploring that space any deeper.


If taste is indisputable then appealing to classics as a must watch cohort makes even less sense


I was responding to your tl;dr not the GPs point. I think people who love Citizen Kane should encourage other people to try it, and people who love Parasite should encourage other people to try it, and we shouldn't make broad pre-judgements like "because you are younger than X years you won't like this movie that's more than Y years old." Obviously if we know someone else's particular taste we might be able to guess that they will strongly like or dislike a particular movie (e.g. my mom dislikes any violence, she would hate Parasite).


Sure, great. That’s yet another argument for not putting “classics” on a pedestal as the “best” movies.


Well, classics and "the best movies" is pretty much synonymous: the classics are what are considered the best movies.




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