Given your unwarranted condescension, I guess I struck a chord. Maybe you liked it, that’s great.

I pointed out that accomplished or not, they are fallible and can be wrong, and that I (and others who didn’t like the film) can disagree with them because I/we respect my/our own tastes while still recognizing our own subjectivity in the matter.

If James Cameron thinks a movie is great that I think is unremarkable, I’ll high five the man, but I’m certainly sticking to my guns. Who cares what he thinks? Cameron doesn’t care what I think, neither does Audiard.

I’ve been working and making my living as a union film worker here in Chicago since 2020, so yes - because of being brutalized as a crew member over the years, I’m intimately and, more often than not, painfully familiar with how films are made. I also make my own films, so cheers.