David lynch, bergman & kieslowski or Spielberg, Lucas, m bay?

there must be a reason why there good to you. Everyone's got different taste. Educational? Intelligent? Escapism?

Michael bay, transformers, bad boys. Yh persona is very good. But mulholland drive by david lynch is the one for me.

It's all subjective. I love some big budget Hollywood films, I love some super low budget indie flicks, I love some non-American films. They all offer something different.

Hey Jamee....and welcome!

Like Torgo says, it's all subjective...Some of the best movies I watched were ones that I stumbled across when I was channel surfing...Happened just last week when I found a movie called "The Impossible" , directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and written by Sergio G. S�nchez...IT WAS AWESOME...Based on the true story of Mar�a Bel�n (played by Naomi Watts ) and her family's horrific experience when they were caught in the "04 Indian Ocean tsunami....I think Watts was nominated for best actress...Anyhoooo, if you like reality based disaster films that come packed with positive messages, you will love this movie...

Anything but please please please, not Bollywood

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with a movie that breaks into a musical dance routine for absolutely no reason.

some of my favorite are independents, and some of the Scottish/English
horror movies are a close second... big Hollywood, not so much...

Mostly US movies and the occasional European one. The odd Dutch movie, but hardly ever. Dunno what they teach in Dutch drama schools, but it ain't acting, I can't be, as the acting is always so crappy, totally unbelievable. We used to have good actors/ actresses, the ones that also did theatre.
We got one quite good Dutch actress who's in GoT, the red witch, but I'm not totally impressed with her acting, she's done a lot better in (other) movies.

commercial hollywood is americentric and very political.

compare "Downfall" with "Valkyrie". One tries to understand Hitler, the other protrays him and his staff as ridiculously cartoonish charaquatures of people because audiences should dislike Hitler. Tell the truth and we would, lie lie and lie and we just dislike you. Understanding sociopathy isn't to be feared, it's to be celebrated. commercial-Hollywood doesn't get that, it just wants economic-aristrocratic backing for big budget productions and that means leaning into the small minds of nepotistic power brokers that own production corporations and want to influence the public mind towards their own agendas. That's commercial-Hollywood, a bunch of idiots selling bullcrap and dressing it all up with a massive budget.

Independents, arthouse and Euro productions will always provide more Art than salesmen with political agendas and producers bending over tables for them, to seek financial gain and celebrity status.

my thoughts exactly. Hollywood should be taken with a pinch of salt, not necessarily ignored but it burns that european, independent or small scale are occasional films.

As long as the movie has me in stitches, I don't mind. I also like erotic thriller movies. I can't stand Hollywood. I get nauseus just seeing a pic of Brad and Angelina in a newspaper. I think Hollywood is very fake and not that impressive. That's why I'm glad Britain doesn't have anything like it.

Hollywood reminds me of that 'Selfie' song that's in the current top 40. A bunch of americana and that's it. All I get in my head is americans going "Oh my gawd, blah blah blah", or just as annoying "Ewwwwwww", or "What is she wearing?". I can't stand it. I'd rather elecrocute myself ;) lol