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CatBus
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Is a Star Wars movie your favorite movie?
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7-Nov-2016, 4:31 PM

canofhumdingers said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Nah. I have a list of the top ten movies I consider the best, and Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are on the lower half of that list. The original trilogy are some of my favourite movies, but none are number one.

This brings up an interesting point.

For me, there is a clear distinction between “best” movies and “favorite” movies. As an example, I consider Seven Samurai and Lawrence of Arabia some of the best movies, and I really like both of them a lot. But at the same time, I still personally like my favorite Godzilla movies more and would rank them higher on a list of “favorite films” even though I can easily recognize they are obviously not superior to the aforementioned “best” movies in any kind of reasonable or objective critique.

IMO that’s just guilt needlessly pruning your perfectly acceptable “best” list. The world would be a boring place if we all agreed on what’s best. I can say I love Buckaroo Banzai and the critics may sneer at me, but I get a good reception around here. I can say I love Cabin Boy and make no friends at all. But they’re not shuffled off to some second-tier list due to lack of overlap with the BFI 100 list. Let that freak flag fly!