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Originally Posted by Kipi  You have a point there, but then we come to the question, how we determine the quality? Is something terrible because certain people claims so, or if we study the phenomeon several years after? |
Some things are a matter of personal taste, and some of cultural taste. But there are also objective criteria we can employ to evaluate the arts based on craft. For example, when Bela Lugosi died during the filming of Plan 9 from Outer Space, director Ed Wood got a stand-in who didn't look remotely like Lugosi, and was much taller. He just moved around a great deal with a cape over his head. This is a blatant example of bad craft, but still an example of the kind of thing we can look for in a film's direction and writing.
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Should we take into account the support is has got? Also, if something, in this case movie, has very large fan support, can it still be terrible, as there are lots of people who liked it?
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Something can be terrible, even if a great many people like it. ABBA, anyone? Reality tv? Or are you a big supporter of TV evangelists, Fox News, and Silvio Berlusconi?
