Great analysis. Our culture has been reduced to art that's designed to be liked rather than felt, which produces the exact kind of consensus mediocrity that nobody remembers.
I was at college when Blue Velvet came out. That had the most polarising audience reaction that I've seen. Some cited the film's subversive power while others reacted with an almost visceral hatred. I noticed that the former were almost all men and the latter, women.
With that in mind, when I rewatched it I tried to see it with a different viewpoint. I think it's power has been blunted by time or perhaps familiarity with the story knowing how it ends? But I still struggle with the question about whether David Lynch is exposing exploitation and misogyny? In which case it is a great piece of filmmaking. Or is he an exploiter himself and his film is a misogynistic piece of shit?
Mysoginist or not? It could have been easily about violence, period. Really there were so many outstanding facets to the film when it came out... the quality acting foremost, the weird aspects of the script, the music, the cinematography, the lack of Hollywood predictability, etc.
Is this a rewrite of an older post? I remember asking if the standard deviation for movie genres was the standard deviation of all reviews within that genre or if it was the average standard deviation of each movie in that genre.
Interesting analysis, and I'm enjoying reading your posts!
A thought on stats: Personally, I find it difficult to interpret the variance of a truncated variable; I'm not sure if the differences between movie genres is big or small.
A suggestion: If you have discrete ratings available for each movie, it might be useful to report shares of 5- and 1-star ratings to capture polarization. I mention this for two reasons. First, it's common to report shares of positive/negative ratings for sentiment analysis. Second, metrics based on shares of discrete categories have the added advantage of being bounded between 0-1, which makes them easier to interpret.
Just a thought! Again, nice analysis and an interesting read.
This was fun and well-laid-out, thanks! There was a pleasing symmetry to seeing both ROCKY HORROR (which I adore) and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (which I can't stand).
I too was a film major & Lars Van Trier was, for a time, my favorite director. These days I'm not even sure I'm a fan, but I'd still rather ingest something ambitious but irritating from him than 90 minutes of standard, play-it-safe white-bread from a studio.
Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece
Great analysis. Our culture has been reduced to art that's designed to be liked rather than felt, which produces the exact kind of consensus mediocrity that nobody remembers.
I was at college when Blue Velvet came out. That had the most polarising audience reaction that I've seen. Some cited the film's subversive power while others reacted with an almost visceral hatred. I noticed that the former were almost all men and the latter, women.
With that in mind, when I rewatched it I tried to see it with a different viewpoint. I think it's power has been blunted by time or perhaps familiarity with the story knowing how it ends? But I still struggle with the question about whether David Lynch is exposing exploitation and misogyny? In which case it is a great piece of filmmaking. Or is he an exploiter himself and his film is a misogynistic piece of shit?
Have you seen it? What do you think?
Mysoginist or not? It could have been easily about violence, period. Really there were so many outstanding facets to the film when it came out... the quality acting foremost, the weird aspects of the script, the music, the cinematography, the lack of Hollywood predictability, etc.
Is this a rewrite of an older post? I remember asking if the standard deviation for movie genres was the standard deviation of all reviews within that genre or if it was the average standard deviation of each movie in that genre.
Interesting analysis, and I'm enjoying reading your posts!
A thought on stats: Personally, I find it difficult to interpret the variance of a truncated variable; I'm not sure if the differences between movie genres is big or small.
A suggestion: If you have discrete ratings available for each movie, it might be useful to report shares of 5- and 1-star ratings to capture polarization. I mention this for two reasons. First, it's common to report shares of positive/negative ratings for sentiment analysis. Second, metrics based on shares of discrete categories have the added advantage of being bounded between 0-1, which makes them easier to interpret.
Just a thought! Again, nice analysis and an interesting read.
This was fun and well-laid-out, thanks! There was a pleasing symmetry to seeing both ROCKY HORROR (which I adore) and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (which I can't stand).
I too was a film major & Lars Van Trier was, for a time, my favorite director. These days I'm not even sure I'm a fan, but I'd still rather ingest something ambitious but irritating from him than 90 minutes of standard, play-it-safe white-bread from a studio.
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I'm really surprised The Last Jedi (a movie I like) is not on here. I wonder what different dataset you would have to pull from for it to appear.