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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1264434" data-attributes="member: 7394">I find it interesting that the main complaint everyone has about virtually every movie or show out there (unless it happens to be one they actually liked) is bad acting. I mean, could you find a more subjective thing to slam something for? Its easy to say that an actor didn't display emotion, or act in accordance with a given situation, but who the f%^$ are you to tell someone how they should react to something? Some people are naturally deadpan in real life. Does that make their real life behavior unbelievable? Granted, some performances are easily judged as just plain bad. I can think of an entire genre of movies that is known for abysmal acting, yet still make lots of money, if you know what I mean (**cough** Jenna Jameson **cough**).Come on people, if you want to slam a piece of entertainment, you really shouldn't base your entire argument on someone's acting unless they're acting like your typical door greeter at Wal-Mart with their aching feet, fake cheer, and the ticking timebomb in their psyche about to go off, driving them slowly over the edge of insanity. Pick something that is actually measurable. Maybe the dialog wasn't up to par. Oh, but that's clearly not the case here since there have been numerous quotes from this show that people loved. Maybe tear it apart because there are so many all-too-real military situations that crop up through the course of the movie causing it to fall back on clichés (personally I think death is cliché. People should stop dying in battle because that's gotten too cliché).The funny thing about this is that every review and comment I've read on messageboards either absolutely loved it or absolutely hated it. Anything that can elicit that sort of reaction is noteworthy considering the blasé reaction that most scifi shows get these days with their over the top special effects and high budgets. Lets face it, scifi fans have gotten spoiled ever since the advent of digital effects.But to each their own. While I disagree with a lot of the mud that's being slung, I don't disrespect people's right to dislike it.</blockquote>

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