That’s what I heard, and one of the reasons I haven’t seen it.
That, and it looks longwinded and slow.
I don’t get it. Is BG not considered SciFi, or do you just not like people who dismiss an entire genre?
I took Mahaloth to be vexed by people who dismiss a show sight unseen based only on the genre rather than its merits.
I can’t speak for Mahaloth, but to me, that’s like saying “I don’t want to watch The Godfather, I don’t like period films.”
There is so. much. more. to it than that.
This is true. But it is also not what Knorf is talking about.
Oh, I dunno. At least in my case, when I tell you “I don’t like romantic comedies”, I really mean, “I don’t like the vast majority of romantic comedies - I recognize the utter brilliance of Gross Pointe Blank, but please do not expect me to spend two hours of my life on something unlikely to entertain me when I can be watching The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes instead.” I don’t consider this abbreviation unreasonable.
But in that example, you’re not ruling out any specific widely critically acclaimed and (relatively speaking) immensely popular title because of your predisposition.
If you had said you wouldn’t watch Grosse Pointe Blank because you don’t like romantic comedies, I’d feel just as sorry for you as I would for someone who won’t watch Battlestar because they don’t like science fiction, and for the same reason.
Every now and then I’ll read something that reminds me, as if I ever needed reminding, which I don’t, just how much I love my husband, and what a wonderful, kind, decent, thoughtful, open-minded and loving man he is, and how lucky I am. Thank you for being the latest to give me that reminder.
Well, fair enough. Since I don’t watch romantic comedies, I can’t think of any widely critically acclaimed examples, but I’d still be damn reluctant to watch them. I’ll agree that a unequivocal ruling-out of a genre is silly, however.
Why would Alice Norton write as a man? You’d think that for every fan like your friend she would lose she’d gain three from fanboy lust alone.
Not really intended as an attack on Lissener, but I have to find his reason for hating Schindler’s List to be stupid. He doesn’t like it because the movie isn’t a 3 hour hatefest of Germans, and instead has people who do good things–i.e. it’s not the movie he would make.
But just from the title, you know it’s a movie about an individual. You might as well complain that a movie about Jimmy Carter is hateful because it focuses on all the things he did to win a Peace Prize rather than focusing on why life sucks in Haiti. Or hating Zorro because it does anything other than present itself as a documentary on the hardship of Mexicans in Southern California previous to joining the US.
According to her Wikipedia article, which I use as a cite mainly because I haven’t met my hypocrisy & laziness quotients today, she was active in her writing starting in '34. The world was different then; I can easily imagine her getting sent to the women’s lit ghetto at such a time.
There was a thread a while back where someone said that having an actor with a diacritical mark in their name ruined any movie they were in. I think that’s a stupid reason to dislike a movie.
Lots of people here won’t go to movies by or starring certain people because they disapprove of some aspect of their personal lives, e.g., Woody Allen for his alleged behavior toward Soon-yi and/or Mia Farrow; Tom Cruise or John Travolta, because of their religion. I have no idea about, and less interest in, what happened in the Allen/Farrow household 20 years ago, and knowing that someone sincerely buys the the tenets of Scientology (or any other religion, for that matter) certainly does nothing to raise their reputation in my eyes.
But a person’s personal life, whether I approve or not, has no bearing on his or her professional talents. I don’t change my opinion about their ability because of their private behavior or beliefs. If they’re in a movie I’m interested in seeing, I’ll go and see it.
Following up on commasense’s post, I have a friend, diehard Republican, who has a number of liberal actors on his Shit List, and has a strong aversion to watching any movie in which they star. Me, short of being a member of the American Nazi Party I leave that stuff at the door of the theatre (thus if I dislike what Mel Gibson has done lately it isn’t because of his politics).
Weirdly, I cannot stand Michael Caine. Your mileage may vary.
I resolved a long time ago not to see any Roman Polanski films until he’s dead, and I’m sticking to it. More than anything it’s because I’m afraid they’ll be brilliant, and it’ll be easier for me to accept that if he’s a historical figure than if he’s a guy living it up in France potentially anally violating little girls.
I didn’t like Godfather because it insisted on itself.
More seriously, I don’t care for films that glorify criminals and regardless of the tragic way Michael was pulled into the family business, he sure indulged himself once he got there.
As an afterthought, I won’t pay to see any Jane Fonda films. Since she makes so few of them nowadays, that’s not really a major statement.
If I’m remembering that correctly, they were taking that as a sign that the movie would be sub-par, not a reason to dislike the movie itself.
Actually, quite similar to the whole genre-thing - there is, in my mind, a rather large difference between something being a cause of scorn and just a red flag. As another example, movies produced by the Sci Fi channel are covered in red flags to me - generally speaking, I wouldn’t hesitate to say, “I dislike Sci Fi channel movies”, even though i haven’t seen them all (or many, thank god) and can’t rule out the existence of a hidden gem or two.
OK this is not a movie but a TV show. I hate Walker, Texas Ranger, not because it’s a bad show (which it may be, I’ve only seen two episodes). I hate it because they canceled Raven, and put WTR in the timeslot. I liked Raven.