Who said there wasn’t? I said I haven’t seen a valid criticism of it here, not that there aren’t any. Hell, I didn’t even say there haven’t been any here; I was legitimately asking mhendo if he’s seen any.
Ah, my apologies, I thought you were making a broader statement.
I think this is it exactly. It’s not that the criticism is shallow; it’s that it’s reflexive. We on the SDMB pride ourselves on being iconoclastic; and I think it becomes second nature to start a thread like “Everybody loves x, but I hate it.” Overrated Oscar winners is just a subset of this.
Have only read the OP so far, but this is a thread I’ve refrained from starting one billion times. This is why you’ll rarely find me participating in a thread that is essentially negative–threads with “overrated” and “worst” in the titles–because they are rarely more than a litany of small-minded ignorance. Obviously there have been exceptions, when I’ve been unable to restrain myself from wading into such a thread, but in general I find such let’s-celebrate-our-ignorance threads depressing.
Yay! Someone else who agrees!
Lissener just made my day. Thanks, fellow doper! I appreciate it.
Well hold on pardner; I agree with the spirit of your OP. However, I do not agree that every opinion shared in CS should be prefaced with the highly patronizing and insulting “The following is my opinion.”
If it’s an artwork–film, book, whatever–and you’re posting a statement on its value, meaning, etc.–as opposed to historical or biographical facts–then anyone, from semi-retard on up, should be able to take it as a given that it’s a statement of opinion. “This movie SUCKS!” is a statement of opinion; explicitly pointing that out is patronizing.
Well, obviously.
And you know when you go on YouTube to watch a film by that actress you like – that you missed that summer, and the first comment you see… :rolleyes:
I’ve noticed that this is a pattern that extends beyond media/literature topics. Everyone who likes a popular videogame that I don’t like is just saying they like it to look good, they don’t really enjoy it, because how could anyone disagree with me and still be human? All these people whining about the new rules don’t really care, they’re just cantankerous busybodies who like to be mad about stuff, because I don’t think it’s a big deal, and how could anyone possibly disagree with me, the Arbiter of Taste?
Somebody set up this straw man and everyone else has really been beating it with a bat. The OP did not claim that the CS people are troglodytes for disagreeing with him; in fact, he didn’t seem to even imply that he always disagrees with the usual suspects. What pisses him off is that they’re pretentious motherfuckers.
The OP is just pointing out a very common phenomenon here: people who believe that everything they don’t like is objectively bad and that, if any of that stuff is popular or famous, it’s due to some kind of conspiracy, rather than, you know, other people happening to like that stuff.
I don’t remember whether he did this on the board, but Argent Towers did this all the time in our private conversations and it drove me nuts. The Mega Man games are only popular because everyone is supposed to say they like them; in fact, there’s nothing enjoyable about running around shooting robots. Super Smash Bros’ popularity is a sham; in fact, nobody actually likes all that frenzied button-mashing. Lars and the Real Girl is a sanctimonious piece of crap that nobody enjoyed; they just claimed to like it because it would make them look cultured, etc. It’s a really common worldview on this board; “if I don’t like it, nobody actually likes it, and it’s up to me to liberate them.”
Hostile Dialect,
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist
You’re wrong about this. American Dad was created, and “fans” were paid off, just to punk me. I know it.