Dude, this is not some serious debate-site. This is the IMDb.
So, "of course I realize these are just my opinions" ;)
But, if I have to elaborate on your previous message, solely directed at me for some reason (even though I was just commenting on the OP's question and the other guy who started to talk about the Avengers), then I'll say this:
Of course they cannot possibly be terrible movies simply because you hated them. How and why does your personal reaction somehow negate that of the many other opposite ones?
Well, yes
and no.... Since EVERYTHING is (theoretically) objective - or at least everything regarding movies - my opinion (and yours for that matter) actually *does* count against the grand total of opinions.
I guess you just have +1 for the "This movie is great"-pile, and I have +1 for the "This movie is garbage"-pile. But nobody has the definitive answer to "Is this movie good?", as it's completely relative, depending on which context (ie. whose taste) we're placing it in! And in this case, it's an OP who - like myself - doesn't quite understand the high ratings for this film. But yeah, as somebody else just wrote (and I'm paraphrasing now, as I don't really have time nor the desire to check for the exact quote), "some people just like pretentious art-movies, while others don't!". It's as simple as that.
I don't like the taste of white wine or of mushrooms. Should I tell them the people who love them that they're wrong?
No - but if they ask you, of course! This was a thread with an open question, and I just chipped in. Personally, I hate green peppers, but I don't got tell everyone about it, unless they want me to eat it... same as this.
Somebody finding this movie to be boring is not surprising, for reasons already discussed in this thread. Telling us that you had that reaction ... really not interesting.
You don't say? Well, again, I was just chipping in, so the OP knew he wasn't alone on this subject.
Now, hating The Avengers is more interesting, and I certainly hope that if you expressed that reaction on the Avengers board, you explained why. It's almost always interesting to compare different reactions to films and see why it worked differently for different people. But the different reactions are not in the film. They're in your brains. That should be incredibly obvious.
Haha, no of course I didn't... that thread is already chock-full of Marvel-nerds who have written page up and down about that *beep* movie... and there's also a quite good Youtube-video called something like "Everything Wrong With The Avengers in [x number of] Minutes", which you could check out if you want to. My reasons for not liking it are pretty much the same as everybody else who disliked it. It's probably the most generic and dull superhero-movie ever made. I actually found Albert Pyun's "Captain America" (1990) more interesting!
Stop thinking that your reaction says anything objective about the film. It doesn't work that way. You are describing the combination of the film and your brain, and you're actually talking much more about the latter than the former.
Oh really? So then please tell me, what exactly is it that EVERY OTHER HUMAN ON THE PLANET does, when they watch movies? You're telling me that it's NOT a combination of the film + their brains?? LOL
End of excessively long reply-rant. I probably should've just ignored your post, but wth... NBA Fantasy-season is over, so this might give me some fun over the summer ;)
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