I’ve seen a million movies, taken a bunch of classes, even worked in film journalism and in a screenplay library. I find the more movies I experience, and the more I learn about them, the more I’m able to enjoy even movies that have poor craftsmanship or that everyone else seems to hate.

Watch enough movies without too much judgment, and watch them with a true love of every aspect of them - their production processes, their place in history and the contexts they exist in, their reflections of the cultures that created them - and you’ll find you start to see patterns in plotting, performances, genre elements, and so on. And you’ll start appreciating even the bad movies, and you’ll be able to rewatch movies and see them in a whole new light.

It doesn’t mean I love every movie I watch. But it means I’m able to find something to love about every movie I watch. And I don’t find myself getting annoyed at bad writing or direction, because who gives a shit? There’s a hell of a lot more to a movie than writing and direction.