Danny Vliet “won 2015 Emmy for “Best in Interactive Media” as a Production Coordinator on Bravo’s The Singles Project.”
I worked at Sbarro when I was 14 and Olive garden is the best authentic Italian food in the world.
It seems worth mentioning that was a juried award, determined by a panel of professionals in each respective peer group.
Deliberations include an open discussion of each entrant’s work and, at the end, voters are asked to answer the question “Is this entry worthy of an Emmy award – yea or nay?” Only those with unanimous approval win.
As someone else with a film degree, there are movies that are far longer and have far more dialogue. Stop trying to make that into an elitist thing. Or go watch Jeanne Dielman on repeat until you can’t get off to high brow cinema any more
As someone who doesn’t have a film degree, I’m surprised that the degree doesn’t teach OP that movies are subjective.
As someone with a film degree, I can safely say film buffs are among the most gatekeeping of gatekeepers, right along metalheads (which I also am). “Subjective” is not a word in their dictionary.
It’s true with any art.
Art is something so heavily based in opinion that you don’t actually need any formal knowledge or training on the subject whatsoever to have an opinion on it.
This leads to every know-nothing shouting their opinions because all opinions are “equally valid” in this context of subjectivity. After all if you watch a lot of TV, you must know a lot about it right?
Lonesome Dove fits that bill and it’s fantastic.
“Sometimes doing the right thing costs ya a few feet of good rope.”
I need to go back and re watch that. Wonder if it ever made it off of VHS
As the overeducated on the subject child of someone who founded a film history department at a major university, I’m less qualified, but I agree with you 100%.
And Avengers: Endgame was 3 hours long and had tons of dialogue, so if that’s the criteria for ‘too highbrow for the normies,’ then the bar is set pretty low.
Its possible that people appreciate different things about movies and that arguing about subjective interpretation of art is pointless regardless of the qualifications.
But he specifically said that not everyone has to like it.
It is possible something is objectively very very good (depending on the criteria picked) but is still disliked by many. Similar with a lot of stuff happening around the fight against the speed of climate change.
But he specifically said that not everyone has to like it.
He said not everyone can handle it, implying there’s something with people that don’t like it.
There’s this irritating Emperor’s New Clothes thing with movies and TV lately where creators can make the most boring stuff imaginable, and then when people say it’s boring you simply imply they aren’t smart enough to understand it.
Good point.
And to add to my previous point: even if he has objective criteria, they are worthless if he doesn’t specify them.
I would actually even argue that with movies the subjective rating is part of its objective success. You can do everything by the book and still lose if no one likes it.
How many Emmys did Sheldon Cooper get and how many did Michael Scott get?
Well, Michael Scott never got an Emmy, so I can only assume Sheldon Cooper got more than zero, considering Michael Scott is a brilliant character.
I mean, just because you won awards for your own shows doesn’t mean your opinions on other people’s movies are more valid than anybody else’s…
Sometimes certain Academy Award nominated actors can still be in bad movies…😞
