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November 25, 2008
Movie Watching Tip: Don't Let Film Snobs Get You Down
Film is a lot like cuisine. There are plenty of choices from around the world to match any taste. There are easy to swallow, simple courses and there are more refined selections for those with complex palates. Like you will find with food geeks, film geeks can be an insufferably arrogant lot who take their passion for cinema and use it to make themselves feel superior.

If you don't like Goddard, Fellini, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky or even Hitchcock or Woody Allen, don't let film snobs make you feel stupid. To be honest, while these guys have made some great works, many of their films are deathly boring or confusing when taken out of the context of film history. I've seen far too many film snobs snit at average people who don't "get it" and hear them call them moronic for not troubling themselves with learning about the intricacies of cinema. Listen, films are wonderful and learning about them is one of the pleasures of my life. If they're not your thing then so be it. Just because I know something or "get" a work of art, big deal. I can't fix my car and I know nothing of physics. Never let film geeks snort at you for not wanting to gulp down films that are acquired tastes.

If a film geek really gets in your face threaten him. Almost all of us have no upper body strength and shrink at the first sign of a fight.


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