Quote from: RakaiThwei on Jun 30, 2014, 05:57:38 PM
Something I don't get.. Why in the hell do people trash on others who happen to like installments in a franchise which are not popular with the majority?
In the main - Because it's easier to adopt an air of intellectual superiority when trashing something rather than enthusing about it, safe in the knowledge that there are plenty of others who've had their opinions spoon fed to them by the internet hive mind to back you up.
I wouldn't say that's the case on this forum when discussing these movies because people have joined this forum because of their liking for the franchises , so there's a passion here that you don't see on general discussions I guess.
On the whole, though - it shouldn't - but it really does irritate me. Read the headline "Paul WS Anderson is making..." and before you've even got that far into the article, people are commenting "It'll be the biggest pile of shit ever," "NO WAY this movie is dead" "It's going to SUCK!".
Really. And we know that because... well, all the people on the internet keep saying he's rubbish so he must be. I use him as an example, but it could be anything from Batman vs Superman (a film that the hive-mind seems to know the plot, script and execution of and just why it won't be as good as Marvel - before we've seen a frame of film, naturally) to "Disney buys Marvel" and we all know that every single movie that will be produced in the future by this company will be a pile of watery shit (can watery shit form a pile? A splodge, then).
The thing is, as we know, there are objectively good and bad films. There are a million and one (probably ten times that, to be fair) people who will tell you that Paul WS Anderson is a shit director. Only a tiny percentage of could tell you
why he's a shit director (messing with the life-cycle doesn't count).
Opinion is a different ball game - its not a fact. It's a point of view - in this case, messing with the life-cycle DOES count for instance.
I LOVED AvP. It did what it said on the tin, had some great ideas and could (and probably should) have been a better movie. How much interference Anderson actually had from the studio is something I'd love to ask him (when he's retired as the truth will never out if he wants to work for Fox again) but if you view the comprehensive set of Special Features and listen to the commentaries, it's clear that he really has a load of passion for this piece. It wasn't a pay cheque, it was an opportunity. That's what it felt like to me anyway.
But that studio theory -that's my assessment. My opinion. My point of view. I could be wrong. I could be right. But I don't know.
To address the question of why does get so personal at times, though. Maybe the anonymity of the internet? Sometimes I read stuff that I've written and realise that I'd never be that much of a tool in real-life (or at least I'd hope not. Both my friends say I'm not a tool). Similarly, I read posts by others and think that they're utter c**ts, but they can't be like that all the time. Or at least you'd hope not. Then again, some people do swap a personality for an avatar, so you never know.
But anyway - I'm confident that Shane Black will do a great job (see how I expertly turned that back on topic there).