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user-inactivated  ·  3303 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ May Return to Theaters in 2016—in Black and White

It might be impressive visually, indeed, but it's not what I'm looking for in a movie. I consider Avatar and Interstellar both inferior stories because they rely mostly or solely on visual effects; thus, I consider them worse movies overall. Sure, both are achievements in their fields (that black hole in Interstellar, goodness gracious), but it doesn't excuse them from not having an interesting story that makes sense behind it.

That being said, I recognize that aesthetics are important in what I can only refer to at this point as "artistic arts" (painting, music, comic books, story-driven videogames etc.) and I understand how people might enjoy what appears to be an inferior product from someone's perspective: for example, I often enjoy low-brow, shitty-lyrics songs because of the sound they produce. If that's your cup of tea, I don't blame you and I understand what you feel, but I do believe arts should be a notch better with what moral issues they present and resolve.