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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8197178" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's the kind of attempted pedantry the keeps people coming back to the internet. As a bonus, it's wrong:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Hogwarts_Express[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"Originally steam fitted by the <a href="https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Non-magic_people" target="_blank">Muggles</a> who built it, the Hogwarts Express later ran exclusively on <a href="https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic" target="_blank">magic</a>."</p><p></p><p>I guess they don't give any prizes for attempted pedantry.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Woo this is pretty internet-think too!</p><p></p><p>"Snobs hate the movie by the extremely respected director with the big budget, expensive visual design and the popular and respected actors."</p><p></p><p>On what planet mate? No. I've seen Legend. Twice even. It's a terrible. It has no plot to speak of, the dialogue is trite, the pacing is awful and doesn't even feel "dreamlike" or something, just sophomoric. The reason people prefer The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth is that they're good movies that actually speak to people, not that they have muppets in! Legend was just an early preview of how awful some of Ridley Scott's ideas were (c.f. Prometheus), no matter how good a cinematographer he is.</p><p></p><p>The real test is the audience - and the audience, "the common man" - does not like Legend. That's why nobody talks about it fondly today. Because it's not good. It's by Ridley Scott, it's got Tom Cruise and Tim Curry in it. Music by Tangerine Dream. People have every reason to re-watch and re-appraise it. But when they do, they find "Oh, it's still a crap movie...". I watched it in like 1999, fully expecting it to be good and me to have just been an edgy teenager when I first saw - largely because it had Tangerine Dream music, so how could it be a bad movie? It was still a bad movie. I enjoyed the visual design. I enjoyed the music. But that's it.</p><p></p><p>Claim it's "snobs" keeping it down is just some logical fallacy naughty word, because no matter how un-snobby someone is, if they don't like your dreadful movie, they're "snobs". It's circular thinking.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Exactly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8197178, member: 18"] That's the kind of attempted pedantry the keeps people coming back to the internet. As a bonus, it's wrong: [URL unfurl="true"]https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Hogwarts_Express[/URL] "Originally steam fitted by the [URL='https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Non-magic_people']Muggles[/URL] who built it, the Hogwarts Express later ran exclusively on [URL='https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic']magic[/URL]." I guess they don't give any prizes for attempted pedantry. Woo this is pretty internet-think too! "Snobs hate the movie by the extremely respected director with the big budget, expensive visual design and the popular and respected actors." On what planet mate? No. I've seen Legend. Twice even. It's a terrible. It has no plot to speak of, the dialogue is trite, the pacing is awful and doesn't even feel "dreamlike" or something, just sophomoric. The reason people prefer The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth is that they're good movies that actually speak to people, not that they have muppets in! Legend was just an early preview of how awful some of Ridley Scott's ideas were (c.f. Prometheus), no matter how good a cinematographer he is. The real test is the audience - and the audience, "the common man" - does not like Legend. That's why nobody talks about it fondly today. Because it's not good. It's by Ridley Scott, it's got Tom Cruise and Tim Curry in it. Music by Tangerine Dream. People have every reason to re-watch and re-appraise it. But when they do, they find "Oh, it's still a crap movie...". I watched it in like 1999, fully expecting it to be good and me to have just been an edgy teenager when I first saw - largely because it had Tangerine Dream music, so how could it be a bad movie? It was still a bad movie. I enjoyed the visual design. I enjoyed the music. But that's it. Claim it's "snobs" keeping it down is just some logical fallacy naughty word, because no matter how un-snobby someone is, if they don't like your dreadful movie, they're "snobs". It's circular thinking. Exactly. [/QUOTE]
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