I’m with you there, but I wouldn’t miss it just for that reason. I really enjoyed Dr Horrible, and it was only after viewing it that I found out it was done by that Whedon guy. I don’t care for Buffy and have seen a few Firefly episodes and thought it was pretty good, but I otherwise don’t really think much of it.
I don’t really keep track of directors and actors and all that, so when it comes to movies and TV, I tend to judge them on their own merits rather than by who was involved with it.
This raises an interesting question. What do you do with movies that were made to be blockbusters but bombed in the theatres? Do you go watch a movie like Alamo or Godzilla or Troy because the mass audience that it was made for didn’t go see it?
I can’t say that my opinion isn’t changed by other people’s opinions, but it’s in a very different way.
I like what I like, and I don’t like what I don’t like, but the strength of my opinion can be effected by the strength of dissenting opinions.
Especially when people say something I was unimpressed by is FAR better than something I liked.
So instead of letting other people decide what you see, you let other people decide what you *don’t *see. Either way, you’re a tool.
Can I just say that our tastes in and our impressions of Movies change as we mature.
One of my all time top ten movies that I have bored Dopers shitless about on many occassions is Point Blank with Lee Marvin(Not one of my favourite actors).
It was beyond excellent,it was excellent A,star plus.
But I watched it again the other night and found it to be a lot more stylised and self conscious then I remembered so in merit it had sank to merely incredible.
I must confess a lone tear threatened momentarily at the passing of my youth!
Oh, go back and watch it again, especially where Walker empties his gun into the marriage bed, the fight scene in the jazz club, and Brewster’s confusion over why Walker only wants $93,000.
It’s not on my Top 10 of all kind, but it’s close.
Stranger
I’m sure you’re not alone, but I have to say that even though they may be blockbusters and hyped to the extreme, that doesn’t mean it’s done without merit. A lot of blockbusters ACTUALLY WERE ALL THAT and a bag of chips. For instance, Forrest Gump = brilliant. Shaving Ryan’s Privates = another genius flick. All hyped up, all worth the hype.
Now some movies are hyped so bad that it’s ruined when you actually go and see it.
You may be losing some credibility here.
If so, put me on the list next to him. I thought Forrest Gump was an excellent movie. And so was Titanic.
Saving Private Ryan, on the other hand, I think was overrated.
It seems silly to let other people dictate your tastes, in any direction.