Are you a failed cinephile?

cinephiles are insufferable, why would you want to be that? that's like wanting to be an weeb otaku

"Are you a failed cinephile?"

Maybe.

Kind of lost interest when everybody started to praise nonsense like Gladiator (2000). When 300 (2006) came out and was the biggest thing at the time I decided "I am watching only cartoons now and maybe special effects heavy titles!"...and MCU started in 2008, had a lot a stinkers and somehow managed to make me hate special effects after Endgame.

Also don't let me started on how I hated Harry Potter being more popular than Lord Of The Rings and how deeply disappointing was The Hobbit (I mean, it had interesting moment, but as whole total trash).


"I wanted to become a cinephile"

Maybe you had somehow too idealised idea what cinephile means.


"had very mixed experiences"

Searching to refine your knowledge and understanding is suffering.
You are not supposed to like every experiment, just to get the idea what and where those artists were searching...also were they self indulging pseudo art pretenders.


"What's your experience with older/experimental/artsy anime?"

Here some random experimental stuff (you are familiar with part of it) - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/4645

@valico
Because I look up to people who seem to know their shit and flaunt their superiority on the plebs.
I keep thinking "I wanna be just like them".

Also, your comment reminds me of one I got earlier this year when I wrote a thread on /tv/

I really wanted to like Kanatagatari since I like Take's artstyle, but those dragged out, circular dialogues that say nothing and go nowhere were like torture to me, reminded me of Fate/Zero.

@thewiru well you're already largely insufferable, so you're halfway there. since you seem to lack the ability to understand the media you watch on a subsurface level, you might as well just fake it at this point. all cinephiles do is flaunt the common "uncommon" opinions and get reinforcement from other dickheads who want to lord that over people who aren't concerned about being part of an in crowd. authenticity is bunk for them anyways. it's all about appearance.

this also applies to anime elitists.

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@thewiru literary education for a baseline. life experience beyond that.

The problem is that you always want to become a specific thing to brag about it or feel special because of it. You want to show people. Otherwise it's worthless.


My experience is that you, rather than do things just so you can lecture strangers on the internet about a certain field, should do things you actually enjoy doing. Even if nobody cares or ever knows about it, in the end :)

People might not praise you or find you interesting then.
But hey, you would do something just for you and not for cheap MaL Interactions. That would be healthy.

@thewiru Acknowledging that other people other than you exist.

I'm complaining for months on end that I have nobody to talk about seasonals with.
If your logic was correct, I would've stopped watching seasonals long ago, no?

@valico
What do you mean by that?
How would I get such literary education?

I'm complaining for months on end that I have nobody to talk about seasonals with.
If your logic was correct, I would've stopped watching seasonals long ago, no?

@thewiru do you realize you have discussion tab under each anime on mal?

Did people stop making threads for new episodes of seasonal anime on /a/? I haven' been there in years now but you could always find a thread about a seasonal whenever new episodes dropped. Some were obviously more active than others but there would usually be at least a handful of people discussing every anime

@jacobPOL
I answered this in other threads, but episode discussion threads aren't what I'm looking for, and for a plethora of reasons.
If you want, I can explain them.