Brendon Connelly Is Awesome

18th February 2010

Brendon Connelly is an awesome man, and an awesome film blogger.

He has left a message on his film ick blog recently.

“I’m somewhat bemused that it’s a group of people who think taste in films comes down to just that – taste and nothing more – that seem to be the angriest when I express an opinion on cinema that they don’t like. If you think my dislike of Scorsese’s movies is just taste, then why should you care? Different strokes and so on, eh?

But I don’t personally believe it’s just a matter of taste. Indeed, I think there are a good number of objective criteria for the discussion of a piece of film craft. I’m looking forward to a future where evidence based objectivity is applied to film discussion at least as much as it is to music by musicologists. In fact, I think a scientific discussion of film craft is long over due….”

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