I was making eggs and thinking about cinema (as ya do) and I wondered something.

As I have watched more and more of the "classics" has that changed my taste in film? The answer, overall, is no.

Now, obviously, it's a bit of a cheat in my case since I grew up watching classic films with my mom and grandfather. But obviously filtered by their tastes. But I had, for instance, seen most of Hitchcock's most notable films by the time I was 13.

So, you could argue that was already baked into my taste. But as an adult I still largely ignored the classics until my early 30s, instead focusing on horror and modern indie films for the most part along with the big geeky stuff.

But no, I don't think having spend much more time watching and analyzing the "classics' has changed my tastes that much. I still love superheroes and low-budget horror just as much.

Which isn't to say there isn't a benefit. I think it's increased my overall love of film. It's helped me understand why I love the things I love about film and why I don't love the things I don't.

For the record, I actually think there's as much of a benefit from watching terrible movies. Watching genuinely really, really bad movies (hint: The Room is not a really, really bad movie. It's just an amusingly idiosyncratic bad movie) helps calibrate your opinions.

I'm just saying, I'd trust someone who has seen all of MST3K for film opinions as much as someone who has seen a good amount of classics.

I'm not sure what my punchy conclusion for this thread is lol. I think there's something very reassuring about knowing that I like what I like. Sure, some things change in the margins with time but overall.