I’ve sort of talked about this topic before but something recently has brought it back to the front of my mind, and that’s the idea of non-film lovers’ discussing film. I’ve written about what I think about what I recommend to people as well as talking with non film fans about movies, but somehow both of these topics came to a head the other day when I found myself sitting at work and listening to people talk about movies around me.

I took my own advice, I calmly nodded as I heard one man bad mouth Talladega Nights as another talked ill about The Social Network – two films in particular that I love a lot. I came to realize something that I do hate about myself: I hate not “correcting” people on film opinion.

So there are so many things fundamentally wrong with my previous statement, but I can’t help it. I loathe sitting in a room (especially one that I know I’ll be spending a lot of time in) and hear people talking about these films and discrediting everything that’s great about it. Claiming that The Social Network was a bore and Talladega Nights was amazing, until the final man on man kiss moment which invalidated a entire movie of awesome. Then when I start to argue for this movies and bring up things like Antichrist and Caligula people all sit there baffled at my points.

I guess what this really comes around to – other than me attempting to cleverly recycle an article – is me wondering about the rules we make for ourselves. I’m not quite sure about you all, but socially I try very hard to taper my enthusiasm for certain things at times. Especially when I’m not in the presence of a film enthusiast such as myself, because I feel like I’d be boring the person with a lecture that they wouldn’t care for. I was wondering even more than just the rules we make for ourselves but also when we end up breaking them.

This is a convention in film that’s been ongoing for a long while. It’s noted in movies where the people in them make a note of a rule they have for themselves that at some point within that movie (more than likely within the third act) they will break that rule (eg. Fight Club and Zombieland). So is this me proving the films portray life a lot better than we imagine? I don’t know. But it was just a thought I was having.