# What were you THINKING?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> Why the fuck would any poster think they have something useful to contribute about a film they have never seen?

It is a longstanding tradition discussed some here:

> [@Must you read/watch something to have an opinion about it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/must-you-read-watch-something-to-have-an-opinion-about-it/1021296):
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> It was over/under on whether this was Cafe Society or IMHO. Let’s hope I guessed right. I recently read an article, linked in another thread, that was milking some outrage about YA Twitter trying to shut down a debut novelist from publishing a “problematic” book that the outrage brigade never even read. I thought, yeah, that’s some bullshit. But then another thread reminded me that I have a longstanding axe to grind against 50 Shades of Grey. I’ve read extensive point by point takedowns of th…

It is of course very fair and necessary to decide if something is likely to be something you’d appreciate/enjoy or not before you see it. I haven’t read the _You Can See Everything_ thread yet precisely because my wife and I plan on seeing it this weekend and I have heard enough to know that it’s better to go in not knowing too much ahead of time. And we heard enough to know we want to see it. But posters shitting on movies sight unseen, usually _sure_ that their opinion is _more valid_ than those who have actually seen it, is not uncommon here.

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