Sometimes being a critic is exhausting. You pick out idea after idea, study technique after technique, all for one thing: an improvement of your understanding. Suddenly, you know the potential of a medium and how it's used. You can appreciate art more in this light. But though good ideas are important, and quality executions necessary, there is something critics tend to forget. Entertainment is the goal. If something can be entertaining, then it has the capacity to change people's lives. Whether this change is temporary or lasting is left up to the perception; if you manage to entertain, then you have not failed. The new "Star Wars" trilogy is considered one of the worst sequels in recent years. It took something that fans adored and ran it into the ground with shallow characters, barely functioning plots, and money-oriented policies. But this trilogy is not a failure. It has sparked its own community and entertained many people. In some small way, it made these peoples' lives happier as a whole, even if some of them just love to trash it. So, if you're ever in that argument, the one with your stubborn friend who seems to criticize everything, just say that you were entertained. You don't need a justification because they aren't at liberty to fault you. After all, art is subjective and entertainment can always be entertaining.
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Zach P.
7/22/2020 08:36:48 pm
I agree with this, it seems that critics tend to forget sometimes something is just supposed to be entertaining. Maybe not to them but definitely someone out there.
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