are you a cinephile, film buff, movie fan, or discriminating mooie viewer?
hog-skull-boy
a film buff wants to watch everything. he's into all things film. he
has to see old stuff, new stuff, foreign stuff, popular stuff; granted,
film buffs do have their preferences. buffs equate quantity with
quality. more movies they see or more often they see mooie over and
over validates their buffish greatness. buffs don't discriminate when
selecting mooies to see. they need mooies like smokers need
cigarettes. it's more a habit, an addiction. they need a fix all the
time, and it's mooies. buffs are idiots.
a movie fan is people who like big popular mooies as events. they don't
so much go to a mooie as attend a social event. it's a way of going
out on weekends, being in tune with popular zeitgeist. movie fans
don't feel to see ALL mooies but they have to see the mooies that
everyone is watching and talking about. they don't care about quality.
they will even see movies they know will be bad if they happen to be
happening thing--like the latest tom cruise mooie or some much hyped
horror mooie. movie fans are why we have hollywood blockbusters. on
occasion, even art film can attract movie fans. take blue velvet which
became a cool cult thing, a happening, something to see and to be hip
about. i no like mooie fans.
cinephile is not buffish. he or she is far more discriminating. but,
cinephile is snobbily elitist and esoteric. often, cinephile will
refuse to see big popular mooies just to be different. usually,
cinephiles prefer the obscure, artsy, foreign, independent, avant garde
stuff. they are intellectualish. they are in love with the fetish of
cinema as some monastic religion. susan sontag was a cinephile and
godard was a director for cinephiles.
film buffs will see cinephile stuff but cinephiles will not share the
buff's devotion to all things cinematic.
to be sure, cinephiles come in two groups. one is the intellectual
elitist group, like sontag. the other is the more cultish, b-film group
who love old forgotten horror films. at any rate, cinephiles have a
stronger sense of specialization than buffs.
what i dislike about cinephiles is their insanely high expectation of
cinema. they go to theatres--usually alternative art house holes in the
wall--like walking into some monastery or sacred museum.
if film buffs love the idea of belonging to an alternative nation,
cinephiles love the idea of belonging to a secret order.
even when cinephiles criticize the masses for not appreciating esoteric
art films, the very reason why art films are appealing to cinephiles is
precisely because art films don't belong to the masses. they belong
only to the cinephiles, so pristine and pure.
i dislike cinephiles, movie fans, and buffs. i don't feel i gotta see
everything. and i refuse to see something just cuz it's hip or
happening. and i don't see cinema as some kind of secret religious sect
for pompousites.
i just wanna see good mooies. don't care what they is.
in this regard, i agree with steve who also wants to see good movies,
pure and simple. problem is his idea of good and bad is insane.
Stu
I agree with watching lots of films, but only the ones I think are good
and not just because it has a good review. I am not a big fan of comedy
films, although meet the parent/fockers was up my street. I probably
see about a film a day and buy more dvds than go to the cinema (does my
other halfs head in sometimes). I do like martial arts films,
especially the older semi cheesy stuff like Van Dam and Seagal. Not
sure where that puts me.
Stu Wright
http://www.cateringappliancesltd.co.uk
Robert Birchard
"hog-skull-boy" <aegi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> i dislike cinephiles, movie fans, and buffs.
We're not particularly fond of you, either. BTW, you would benefit
greatly from taking a course in remedial English.