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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3632688" data-attributes="member: 19675">I saw a portion of its content and deemed it to be pretty bad.  I decided to not see the movie based on that content.  I decided to share my decision and its basis.I've even illustrated why the way it was written was inferior to many other potential plot formulations.Same question for you as for Tarthalion & John Crichton.This thread has gone on for as long as it has because:1) People are criticizing my decision making process re: this film because it is based on a sample rather than the whole. I feel compelled to defend my decision making process which is actually pretty normal for human beings...which is why I keep asking people to describe their decision making processes about what entertainment options they choose.  2) People are criticizing me for being hypercritical.  That may be so, but since I believe that genre films can be just as well written as mainstream films, I remain unapologetic for my critical stance.  Some people don't like that.  Oh well.Remember how horror films had real plots beyond seminaked teenagers + scary guy with sharp implement = movie?Do you remember how bad sci-fi and fantasy movies used to be before a few really, really good ones got made?  Then you'd get the knockoffs of variable but usually inferior quality?Those knockoffs got made because Hollywood knew audiences would pay to see anything with flying saucers, dinosaurs, etc.  That's why garbagefests like The Creeping Terror got released despite being shelved for several years after its completion, despite much of the soundtrack being lost, despite replacing the soundtrack with a new narrative track written without benefit of the original script (which had been lost), despite filmography which included using film cells backwards & running the film in reverse sequence (so we couldn't tell the alien spacecraft was a US Atlas launch), and many other problems.It recouped its investment.So yeah, I'm going to be very critical of genre films.  I'm not giving them a pass just because they're in a genre I love.Instead, I'm going to eye them critically because I love the genre, and I don't want it to devolve into an endless stream of utterly disposable celluloid.There is no reason why genre films can't have their equivalents to Citizen Kane except the continued success Hollywood has had delivering bad genre films to record profits.</blockquote>

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