I would have thought it was obvious sandman - everyone is sharing their personal tastes - some with reasons why, some just listing them.
Some posters will validate your own opinions - for example, I am pleased to see that someone else thought Blair Witch was overrated.
Others you will think ''Oh, different folks, different strokes'' - for example, I am still fond of Truly, Madly, Deeply which is anathema to others.
Then there are films I haven't seen, which in the back of my mind will now be 'pre-warned' about - for example, Downsizing. The latter is interesting because personally, often how I react to a film, is how high my expectations were in the first place. So if in my mind going in, I will now be expecting it to be a shit/the lowest bar/LCD or whatever...I might find myself pleasantly surprised.
As for these types of thread, we are just chatting/finding a way to spend the time - I do like recommendation threads because I have found some lovely music and films that way, thanks to other posters.
For example, Chef and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. A song by Marina and the diamonds and a song by the DMs. Lovely posters put me on to all those. I don't mind a dislike thread either - as I said, it can inception you (I didn't like that movie either wink) such that when you finally see that film, it might end up better than you thought...or if you aren't feeling it, you'll know MN has given you permission to walk out the lounge grin
As for films that are odd/surreal - they don't all float my boat and I used to like seeing Arthouse movies - but some on my list I think are pretentious twaddle, that's just my opinion. If you have an adjective enter the English language because of your work - in this case Lynchian, then your output must have affected/reached/spoken to somebody. He's not my bag but doesn't have to be - I am sure others who liked Boots Riley's Sorry to bother you aren't going to be offended by me having eyerolled with a wtf halfway through. It's not personal, it's subjective like all art. I have enjoyed threads about modern art and conceptual art on here. Utter shit is hyperbole but just shorthand for not liking it, having an aversion or visceral reaction/not pandering to the hype or critics or top lists. I didn't like Citizen Kane. I've never seen Battleship Potemkin. I won't ever slate something I didn't watch but I can go against popular opinion for Moulin Rouge and denounce it as shite for me, whilst acknowledging it is perhaps others' favourite film they're wrong!
All the hate for Downsizing here has made me want to see it more.
I try not to have expectations of a film when I see it - for the first time at least. For a while I had a huge pile of VHS tapes with no covers that I acquired from somewhere. Each night for months I would close my eyes and shove one in - not knowing what I was watching till the opening credits rolled. I had rule that I had to watch at least 20 minutes before I could stop. I found some great films like that - I also found that most 1990s soft-core 'erotic thrillers' fail in both counts and chopsocky films (not a genre I'd explored before) are great.
I often rewatch films that I thought were utter shite the first time round and found I was wrong - sometimes after watching more of the same director's films and getting into their groove. I thought Dark Habits - Pedro Almodóvar's first grown up movie - was crap but, after watching several more of his films and falling in love with them (apart from Kika - which I really disliked but will obviously have to go back to), I went back and took another look... and fell about laughing. I just hadn't 'got' the comedy first time. Sometimes expectations get in the way. Though I doubt if any number of watchings of Bula Quo will make it any less painful
Not seen Battleship Potemkin (though there is a copy in my DVD to be watched pile but having watched Alexander Nevsky recently, which must have been very dated and old-fashioned even in 1938, it's slipped down the running order a little).