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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 820459" data-attributes="member: 189">Well that's embarassing.  I was off the boards for a while, came back and found MY snarky comment was based on the fact I got caught in one of the EN board loops where some of your nicer posts didn't show up.My apologies.And sorry about the *shrug* bit.  Never seen it except for one incredibly arrogant, dismissive, pseudointellectual poster over in House Rules who DOES use it as passive-aggressive annoyance.  If it's your shorthand for IMHO, then I'll plead the whole "impossible to read tone in a post".As to the above, let me clarify (and it's not the antagonism -- I've had my share of miserable reviews, thanks you, they cease to matter as soon as you see how widely they vary on a single project.)  What "not getting" unobtanium was shorthand for was not whether the reviewer found it funny, but whether the recognized it as a joke -- one of many in the  movie -- and so understood that it was all to be taken with a wink and a nod.  I was simply responding to the number of reviewers who plead intellectual superiority at the same time they plainly missed the whole tone of the movie.  There are a ton of little asides and references in the flick, it's just that that single joke seemed to be the swing point of whether a reviewer understood we were doing a 1960's sci fi flick and not a serious "hard science" fiction flick.Then again, we're discussing a movie you've not seen and probably will never see, so we can probably let this one go, eh?Hold on, I can't read the other posts, give me a sec to poke around ...</blockquote>

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