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I was making eggs and thinking about cinema (as ya do) and I wondered something.
As I have watched more and more of the "classics" has that changed my taste in film? The answer, overall, is no.
As I have watched more and more of the "classics" has that changed my taste in film? The answer, overall, is no.
Now, obviously, it& #39;s a bit of a cheat in my case since I grew up watching classic films with my mom and grandfather. But obviously filtered by their tastes. But I had, for instance, seen most of Hitchcock& #39;s most notable films by the time I was 13.
So, you could argue that was already baked into my taste. But as an adult I still largely ignored the classics until my early 30s, instead focusing on horror and modern indie films for the most part along with the big geeky stuff.
But no, I don& #39;t think having spend much more time watching and analyzing the "classics& #39; has changed my tastes that much. I still love superheroes and low-budget horror just as much.
Which isn& #39;t to say there isn& #39;t a benefit. I think it& #39;s increased my overall love of film. It& #39;s helped me understand why I love the things I love about film and why I don& #39;t love the things I don& #39;t.
For the record, I actually think there& #39;s as much of a benefit from watching terrible movies. Watching genuinely really, really bad movies (hint: The Room is not a really, really bad movie. It& #39;s just an amusingly idiosyncratic bad movie) helps calibrate your opinions.
