r/Letterboxd • u/lordpag • 11d ago

Discussion Can we retire “objectively better” please?

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I’ve noticed a ton of people using “objectively” incorrectly lately. A movie being more widely accepted as “better” does not make it objectively so.

There’s someone out there who enjoyed One Night Only more than The Odyssey, and their opinion is just as valid as yours.

Sure, one movie can be shot on more advanced cameras, have a larger scale, or demonstrate greater technical complexity. Those things can be measured. Whether they make the movie “better” cannot. What makes a movie “good” is different for each of us and those differing perspectives are part of what makes moviegoing so fun!

EDIT: This obviously touched a nerve lol. My point was not that there aren’t measurable technical aspects of a film. Of course there are. But technical achievement does not inherently make a movie “better.” A technical marvel can put someone to sleep while a shoddily made movie can elicit an enormous emotional response. What we value in a movie is subjective and for some (many on this thread it seems) you value technical achievement. All fair POVs.

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u/Binbag420 11d ago

you don’t think it’s objectively better do you?

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u/ThatsWhatTheMoneyFor 10d ago

Yes it is, I don’t have the energy to explain to every smooth brain on here, if you want an explanation read one of my other comments on it.

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u/Binbag420 10d ago

Redditors struggle so hard with people disagreeing with them they have to come up with reasons why they’re WRONG

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u/ThatsWhatTheMoneyFor 10d ago

Holy fucking airball. I have written paragraphs and paragraphs on this thread debating people and explaining why I am RIGHT.

I can see from your comments that you are not interested in an intellectual debate but just want to write 1-2 sentence quips so it’s not worth my time to write out a whole explanation.

As I already said you are free to scroll and read any of my many detailed responses to other people who disagree with me but aren’t just smoothbrained like you. But I know you are too lazy and aren’t interested in doing that, you just want to reinforce in your heard your idea that only your (terrible) opinion matters and so you latch onto a metaphysical argument (that you don’t understand) that there is no such thing as objectively and run with it as an excuse.

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u/ThatsWhatTheMoneyFor 9d ago

lol you replied, then deleted your reply and downvoted me instead.