"Here is the most fundamental rule of film criticism: A movie is not about what it is about, but about how it is about it. The subject does not and cannot make a movie good or bad. Only the style, the approach, the method, the craftsmanship, the purpose and the message can make a movie good or bad." - Roger Ebert

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@noelle though, is being pro something awful something a movie is about, or is it how the movie is about the something awful?

@confusedcharlot I think that's "purpose and message". You can make a movie about Nazis without being pro-Nazi. It's the being pro-Nazi that makes the movie bad.

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