What makes a good movie

I've been watching for a very long time I watched all kinds of styles and genres of films. There are films I loved and some I don’t like. My personal criteria of what makes a good film are ones that connects to the audience. What I mean by this is the audience must look at the film and think I could relate.  The movie that I chose is for example is Kevin Smith's film Clerks. This movie is about a store clerk that gets called in on his day off and gets into crazy situations as he's working at the convenient store. He finds out that his current girlfriend has given oral sex to many men, his ex girlfriend is getting married and his boss went to Vermont instead of taking over at noon like he promised. The way people can relate is people don't like to be called in during their day off and find crazy facts about the dysfunction of their love life. I can relate as well because I had crazy things happen to me and I laugh about later. It goes with my favorite term Schadenfreude which means happiness to the misfortune of others. When I write a comedy I say no one cares about someone having a good day. They want to see someone that had a lousy day and laugh about it. It's so funny how Dante(Brian O'Halloran ) as his day was bad it get worse and worse.
The other kind of movies I enjoy that touch up on history. I think of them as inside jokes if you don't know the history then you're not going to get the movie. The perfect example would be History of the World Part 1 by Mel Brooks. It make fun of world history in a clever way. There are some dark humor in it as well and I just enjoyed that. It also got me to do some of my research of the events they would make fun of then I would understand the joke.

History of the World Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNd8nvnmhyM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNd8nvnmhyM

Clerks