You misinterpreted my line. All I said is that entertainment shouldn't be the only reason for the existence of movies. I never said anything about what's most important.
I think that these are completly different things. Some music doesn't need words to express itself.
-BigJustinW-
Well, neither do movies. One of the most memorable things from the movies is the sight of E.T. on a bike silhouetted by the moon. We don't remember the dialogue from that moment (because there was none). We don't even remember music. That image from the movie stood all by itself.
As for your Tetris example, I believe you are selling the game short. Sure, it's shallow, and anybody with a decent knowledge of C++ could create it. But honestly, would you have come up with the idea behind that game? Remember especially that back in the day, puzzle games didn't even exist. Maybe it didn't require a lot of skill, but it certainly took some inspiration. That's part of art, too. It takes a lot of technical skill to create a music recording with crystal clear sound and very complicated mixing. Yet there are lots of songs that were very well-engineered and are completely forgotten by now.
Why can't art be entertaining? Why can't entertainment be art? If music has catchy tunes and beats so that it entertains, that's fine. But music is also capable of doing more than that, and the songs that do are generally the ones that are remembered many years later. Consider Michelangelo's Statue of David. It's been analyzed to death. Scholars find all kinds of subtexts in its creation especially because it was apparently groundbreaking in its day (I wouldn't know. I'm not an art major). That's why it's one of the most famous statues in existence. But back in the time when Michelangelo carved it, the Statue of David had only one purpose: to look good. And most people still think it looks good. The best movies, music, books etc. are the same. They can still be enjoyed as entertainment. It's just that there was something extra that made them especially memorable.
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