I've read somewhere that humility is the best quality one can have, and in my opinion, it's the hardest to attain.
Because humility is about knowing where you are in this world, assessing yourself objectively by your own standard, and assessing yourself against society standards.
Thinking that you're the smartest person in the room is arrogance, but thinking you're pretty smart but also understands and aware that someone in the room is probably smarter than you is humility.
And placing yourself somewhat accurately in the hierarchy - if there is any? - will do you a lot of good.
I think with humility, you can also create a good balance in yourself, and not beat yourself too much if something goes somewhat wrong in your life.
With humility you can assess whether you're punching above your weight - great for you! - or underperforming, or even performing as expected which is fine.
Humility is about balance, I think, and with humility, you're a little bit closer to knowing yourself.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising is here, with it, the extremely polarized movie discussions arrived.
In my office, the questions is whether the movie is bad or really bad, and I think that questions reeks lack of gratitude and of course it's a fucking snobbish question.
let me quote the Pauline Kael - in which I found on Roger Ebert's review of Gamera
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
A lot of movie is bad, most movies are average at best, and only time will tell whether a movie will be considered as greats - usually Criterion Collection is an indication.
One must be able to differentiate a good movie and a good movie going experience, as Ebert put it in his review of Gamera.
Transformers is not a good movie, but it's a good movie going experience. So does all those disney movies all these people love dearly, they're average at best, but you're having a good time with it.
The best of movies in my opinion is movies that changed you, give you some sort of feeling of wonder, thinking, "Thank God I watch this movie", it's the kind of movies that transcends entertainment, and trying to say something.
And for me, I have experienced this feeling while movies ranged from Schindler's List, Wall - E, and Batman v Superman, to Speed Racer, Power Rangers, and Summer Wars.
I guess what bothers me the most is the insistence of watching some movies just to proof your expectation of how bad it can be. I mean yeah it's your money, but 35k can be use to buy McSpicy Chicken instead of a ticket to a movie you know you'll hate long before the movie came out.
And under this logic, I'm against putting a score to a movie, I mean Speed Racer is fucking 9 in my eyes for a lot of reason that I can articulate but you know how is the general opinion right?
It's like comparing Makoto Shinkai's Garden of Words to Mazinger Z: Infinity. One is trying to push the boundaries of animation, the other is another fun action anime movie.
It's like calling Watchmen a Superhero Movies and Romeo and Juliette a Romance. Both movies are tragedies.
We, at first, have to assess the purpose of the filmmaker, who is the target audience, is it an oscar bait? or is it a no holds barred fun action flick? And from there we judge them accordingly, or you can just enjoy it, or not, it's up to you.
OH AND WHAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST
Is that these rotten tomatoes snob doesn't even watch the basic movie snob watch list. One of my friends is a huge fan of Rotten Tomatoes, loves Nolan, Edgar Wright, and Wes Anderson.
Then he asked me what is my favorite romance movie, knowing this is a snob game, I told him "Before Sunset", he haven't watch it.
I mean if you're trying to be a snob, go full snob, watch movies from 70s, Lawrence of Arabia, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, all those Kubrick shit.
I mean in my snobbish days, I even watch Schindler's List, and I unknowingly fell in love with it.
I'll say it again, if you want to be a snob, go full snob, only watch oscar bait movie.
