I’m shocked that anyone could ever sit through the entire Holiday Special. I think I might have made it through five or ten minutes at the most.
I watch it on YouTube all the time. Bea Arthur is great. It’s definitely better than the prequels and special editions. No, that’s not hyperbole. There is nothing in the Holiday Special worse than jar-jar or that Jedi rocks musical crap.
No, it’s not better than the prequels or SEs.
Art is objective, not subjective.
The idea that there’s a skill behind filmmaking makes it not subjective but objective.
Skill used to create compelling art does not make it an objective art. Skill used to paint does not make those paintings an objective piece of art because everyone interprets art differently. If film is objective, then there is a measure in which to tell how “good” a movie is. Each film would have a certain measure of how “good” it is then and most people would technically either be wrong for thinking it’s better or worse than it actually is. And how do you know who actually holds this objectively correct opinion of the film?
TLDR: There are skills and techniques that help make a film that will have a better chance of connecting with an audience but art is subjective, and film is art therefore film is subjective.