My friends are mocking me for saying The Irishman but they hate it just because I defend it so much. From them I’ve heard: Oppie Top Gun 2 Dune 1 and 2 Endgame or Infinity War One Battle Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (which I could agree with)
Those monoculture zeitgeist movies are really rare nowadays. There is never going to be something like Titanic again. Even the big blockbusters are mostly just consumed and then people move on to the next sequel or reboot.
at this point it's just semantics but part of being a classic or a canonical movie is predicated on it being a movie that has been seen. i think of it as being akin to something like a pitchfork BNM record that is from a band with 2k monthly listens on spotify or something. it can be something that is Great but it isn't necessarily something in the canon as a classic record/movie/book etc. if its something the vast majority of people out there have never heard of let alone engaged with
Not everything that is very good is a classic imo. Some of my favorite records ever are things seemingly only I care about.
Culturally agreed upon “classic” albums seem more common than films in the past 10-15 years. Brat is a “classic”, even if I do not like it very much.
By strict definition of the word itself, mainstream notoriety and mass appeal aren’t requirements to be a classic. But I get the impulse to try and find the balance point between quality of the work/critical appraisal and ubiquitous audience appeal.
The distinction really is are you talking “historically memorable” classics, which might include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood/Oppenheimer (or Brat), or are you talking “examples of enduring excellence” classics, which, there are examples of at least a couple incredible films that will be remembered and discovered and rediscovered for decades released every year (Drive My Car, Nickel Boys) For what it’s worth even though they were all suggested by others, I consider all the works I cited (including Brat) classics
I don't want to be dramatic, but 90% of the movies I watch are because I hear about them on this website and none of y'all said anything about it till now
That’s another movie where I appreciated the craft, but I just could not get past the first-person POV.