Alelou wrote:To be really blunt? What, blunter than usual? You're jumping down the throat of anything anybody says positively about it and you haven't even seen it. I respect your desire to vote with your feet, but why you feel the need to respond with such bitterness and certainty when you haven't even seen it just boggles my mind.
That's because I know the information already, so watching it is irrelevant at this point. What boggles my mind is the idea that somehow watching something you already know everything about would change anything. As for what pisses me off about that question in particular, I've found that it tends to be a double-edged sword because more often than not if someone said yes, the response would be to question why the person saw it if they knew they were going to hate it, that they only watched it to get ammunition to rant about, or something generally along those lines. After all, it's perfectly cool to see all the same information I have and decide that it sounds good, but if you think it sounds awful, well, you just better watch it to make sure. Of course that wasn't the case when it came to *the_abomination* - I saw the spoilers, knew it was going to suck, and watching it changed nothing, other than I got to see the suckiness with my own eyes.
It's one thing to argue your opinion of any details you know from what you've heard about it and quite another to declare it trash.
I am arguing my opinion on plenty of details, you can see them in my posts both here and on other boards, and generally speaking my opinion is that this movie is trash.
If you really want to do that -- fine -- I enjoy arguing, obviously -- but I really don't see why you should be offended (or surprised!) by the question.
Because it's a weak argument usually used in an attempt to invalidate someone's opinion you don't agree with.