the bar for being a movie that I like is literally on the floor:

• don’t cause lingering psychological harm when I watch it
• have at least one (1) thing that I think is cool or stylish or clever in some way

and yet…

some of my favorite movies of all time boil down to “if you ignore half of the plot and cut out most of the scenes and ignore the subtext…” I’m basically just 100% there for the surface-level vibes

my favorite horror movie is the first 2/3rds of most horror movies - when they’re being atmospheric and spooky and not taking things too far

examples:

• the first half of As Above So Below
• the surface-level vibes of the first 2/3rds of We Are The Night, but you have to ignore all of the subtext and foreshadowing and pretend a lot of scenes don’t exist, especially that part (this is one of my favorite movies of all time btw)
• the first 2/3rds of The Dyatlov Pass Incident
• The Thing, except I can’t keep track of who any of the characters are (I couldn’t even tell you how many characters are on the research base) and I mostly just like the vibes of an isolated research base in the snow
• the first 2/3rds of Phoenix Forgotten
• The Martian as long as I deliberately don’t think too much about Mark Watney’s health or comfort

I would actually really love to watch the new Ghost in the Shell movie. the one that was controversial because Motoko Kusanagi was played by a white women or something. because it just looks really fucking stylish and that’s all I want/need

but then I read the plot summary and it reads like it was created entirely out of tropes that I find triggering. this is true of the vast majority of scifi movies btw