Well sometimes if it is about the movie it will just say something like, "this movie Sucks" followed by someone being like, "Maybe you can tell us why you didnt like the movie, or maybe you cant because you were too stupid to really understand it blah blah blah". The people who post these are just butt-hurt because someone didnt love the movie that they absolutely thought was "Brilliant". Anyone else with me, or am i going to get a bunch of hostile replies? -miguel
I agree that obviously inflammatory comments about movies tend to lead to very, very pointless "discussion". Someone comes onto a discussion board and declares a movie "Soooooo overrated!" and accuses those who like the movie of being blind, and then the lovers of the movie respond that the movie really is great and accuses the original poster of being "too dumb" to get it. Internet "debates" about the quality of a movie tend to go something like this:
Person A: This movie sucks and anyone who likes it is a retard!
Person B: No, this movie rocks and anyone who doesn't like it sucks!
Person A: No, this movie sucks and if you like it you're just a sheep pretending to like it because that makes you cool!
Person B: No, this movie rocks and it's one of the best movies ever made and anyone who doesn't agree just doesn't "get it"!
Person A: No, this is one of the worst movies ever made, you're just too blind to see how bad it is!
Person B: Notice how everyone who says it sucks doesn't give a reason for it - that's because they're too dumb and they should go back to watching "The Fast and the Furious" and "Gone in 60 Seconds" and leave the great films like this for us intelligent people!
Person A: I hate "The Fast and the Furious" and you're just an idiot and I'm smarter than you and you're just sucking up to the critics who just pretend to like the film in order to be pretentious!
Person B: No way!
Person A: Dude, it sucks!
Person B: Nuh-uh!
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LinkinSixEcho
10 years ago
Finally someone has summed up my entire IMDB reading experience for the past 5 years in one post. Good show!
I admit, like watching a bad movie (or even better, reading a bad movie review) there's something so viscerally delicious about how creative people can get with the basic "you're just too dumb to get it" canon of witty (?) rhetorical writing tropes. Who doesn't like a good flame war--especially if it's somewhat well-presented (acted) and has plenty of cheap, cliched pathos?
And of course, the spoiler/denouement/exposition by an excellent explanation that develops generics to an art (as the post above does) is the cake topper, for me.
Given how tastes vary, I'm not sure how enjoying Blink 182 has anything to do with liking, disliking, or even understanding this film any more than my like for Beethoven or Brahms makes me a more or less likely aficionado of the Adam Sandler oeuvre?
That all being said, I've never saw "Fast and the Furious", so I can thankfully divest myself of any "dumb," "pretentious," or otherwise cumbersome preconceived notions based on what breakfast food I ate that morning and just enjoy a movie.
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