So, I've had this stirring in my head all night, and I just need to rant a bit to blow off some steam so that my opinion is out there in space and not trapped in my head, because this is something I truly believe in.

Art is not subjective.

When someone says "This movie is better than this movie" someone always replies with "Well, that's just your opinion, all art is subjective." And they're wrong. There are pieces of art that are in the literal sense better than other pieces of art/media.

Let's look at video games. If we compared Sonic Boom and Sonic Adventure, it be pretty unanimous what people thought was the better game, Sonic Adventure. You may like Sonic Boom more than Sonic Adventure, but that doesn't trump the fact that more time and effort was put into making Adventure a good game.

It's the same with movies. There will be people who will say "Transformers was the best fucking movie ever!" and then watch a really good movie like There Will Be Blood and say "It was so boring, I didn't get it, who cares about oil? That movie sucked." It doesn't mean Transformers is better than There Will Be Blood, it's just that those people are dumb. Not matter what people's opinions are on the matter, there is no denying that more talent and passion was put into There Will Be Blood.

If there are two pieces of art, and one piece had more talent put into it than the other, then that piece of art is better in the literal sense. Some people will like the other piece of art more than the one with more talent put into it, but the one with more talent put into it is better.

It's not the art that's subjective, it's just people's tastes in art. Some people like different things. I might just be talking out of my ass, but I truly believe that some things are just plain and simply better than other things, no matter what the popular opinion is on those things.

Oof, well, I'm off to bed.