When you give a rating for a piece of media do you rate it based off of your personal enjoyment or the objective quality?
Personal enjoyment of media
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Don’t say both I know you fuckers lean more one way than the other I just need to know which one is what I’m supposed to do

A poll of what’s most common to do isn’t gonna tell you what you should do…

But also, what even would be meant by “i think the objective quality is good”?

How could that have a different meaning from “I enjoyed it”?

I mean. I rate Tron (1982) higher than Tron (Legacy). I suppose I can imagine a viewpoint where one makes that decision while also believing Legacy has better “objective quality.”

After all, Legacy has more polished cinematography, more advanced special effects, a neater plotline that feels “symmetrical” in terms of both the pacing and the little references that call back to earlier points in the story.

And yet, to me, this doesn’t feel like better quality. It feels like comparing the aesthetics of a Ferrari to the aesthetics of a Dali painting.

I like paintings more than cars. I like when you can see the little imperfections in a piece of art, and work them into your own interpretation.

I like when a story is a little chaotic, like real life, and not every line and frame is forced to have a Purpose in the Structure of it all. (And some of that really does feel forced to me, in Legacy, I’m sorry to say. Nothing feels forced to me in ‘82.)

I don’t know. I think personal enjoyment is the same thing as quality, tbh.