Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2356010" data-attributes="member: 5171">That's fair. If you're judging the post by its severity and not its message, I can see your point. That said, he did include the caveats "probably" and "from what I saw of the trailers", which I'd taken to mean "I am admitting that this is all I have to go on, and while it looked pretty bad, it's certainly possible that new information coudl change my mind." But that's just me putting words in his mouth, too, so what the heck do I know?As for being critical of movies versus being easy on movies... that's what makes the world go 'round, I guess. Among my writing buddies, I'm known as the hack who can happily enjoy a very silly movie if it owns its silliness, never noticing big plotholes that my buddies comment on later. Here, I'm evidently one of the more critical folks (as noted in the RotS thread, I want my rating of 8 or higher to mean something, so I don't give it out casually, and I'm also a stickler for dialogue). I didn't see "it looks like crap" as over-the-top hate. Making death threats against the actors? Bad. Declaring that anyone who likes the movie is an idiot? Bad. My personal pet peeve is the geek who cynically declares that once again, studio executives have killed his favorite hero out of sheer evilness because they hate superhero movies and just want to take people's money without even trying to give them two hours of happiness -- for whatever reason, the put-upon air of "Oh, woe betide us, the summer blockbusters made to lure us in are not the summer blockbusters we would have chosen to make" grates on my nerves, especially when they end up going to see the movie anyway instead of voting NO with their dollars and teaching studio execs to make better movies.So I can understand you having a pet peeve, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And dude, come on. Get the "!!!!3-in-binary-notation!!" in there. I'm gonna be bummed, otherwise.</blockquote>

Verification