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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2355875" data-attributes="member: 2205">Quite probably.  I have a morbid fascination with posts that I shouldn't read -- that's why I can't really keep anyone on my ignore list no matter how much they annoy me.  I have this obsessive compulsion to see what they're saying anyway.Anyway, cutting someone's post down to a summary, with perhaps a mocking take on the tone, is old news for message board discussions -- it's been going on at rpg.net for years without anyone batting an eye.  I probably got my rpg.net tone and my enworld tone crossed for this post, I admit.But what I said I still stand by -- he takes movies much more seriously than I.  I'm a bit of a film buff -- I see a lot of movies, and I love watching movies, but I'm not a critic, and I enjoy most of them, at least to some extent.  So maybe that's also where my attitude is coming from -- I have little patience for the "easy on hate on."If he had said something along the lines of, "based on the trailers, I have little interest in it, and will most likely give it a pass," that would be one thing, but saying, "based on the trailers, I will actively avoid any contact whatsoever with this movie forever, no matter what reviews, friends, office cooler talk, etc. materializes after its release," gets little more than a rolleyes.  Trailers are not sufficient information to make that kind of declaration, unless you're just being prejudiced about it, quite frankly.  Trailers are typically crafted by the marketing group, not the actual moviemakers, and quite often they are hash-jobs.  I've seen plenty of trailers that didn't interest me in the least that went on to be movies that I thought were quite good.</blockquote>

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