filmmaking.net is a site for new and independent filmmakers, and the purpose of the forums is really to discuss the art and science of movie-making. Reviews, criticism and discussion about movies in generate are really beyond the scope of this site. There are plenty of other sites out there that are more appropriate for that sort of discussion.

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If film analysis doesn't fit within the scope of this size, then I'd say you should make haste and fit it in.

At a film review site, reviewing and critiquing movies is a form of entertainment for people who have no lives and have little else to do but gripe about the job someone did on a film that they wouldn't even know how to make themselves. Here, it's a form of education. You find out what works and what doesn't through analyzing, reviewing, and critiquing other films. Now, I haven't been through film school, but isn't learning from mistakes essential to good filmmaking? To me, it seems like if you were truly "discussing the art and science of filmmaking", this kind of thing should be included in that. If it's not, then you don't have a very complete discussion of filmmaking.

I'm proposing that you don't open this place up to the boob-critic that wants to just come here and talk about movies and say, "When are you guys going to make a movie that's worth watching?" I'm saying that we, as filmmakers (or filmmakers-to-be), take a film apart the same way the critics might/would, but for learning and building a community of filmmakers. What do you say?