No, you haven't mentioned that....just how insulted are you about people expressing opions that differ from yours?
I have no problem with that. Did I even mention that?
I do have a problem with someone implying that I'm just being trendy ("I've been not only here at the Hype for a long time...but here on the Earth a good bit longer than 99% of the posters......and I see this as good old bandwagon movie. People started looking for things to complain about since it was announced. Now, am I saying it's a perfect movie with no room for improvement....nope. But if people want to nitpick and complain about a movie...no matter what the movie is you will find hundreds of things to complain about. " Sounds pretty broadly aimed to me. I don't see any exceptions included in there). Yeah, you can have that opinion about people who didn't like it if you want, but don't be surprised if someone doesn't take well to it. I can do without the "listen here, son" condescension too.
C.Lee is just stating it like it is. I read a lot of bad reviews, some good ones, and some which clearly came from people who were obviously repeating what they had heard from others or gleamed off negative reviews - the aforementioned bandwagon. Yet when I saw the film for myself, I had no major issues with it. It's not a classic by any means, but as an entertaining and fairly faithful summer superhero popcorn flick (whew!)? Fine.
That goes for you to.
Do you see me accusing people who liked it of jumping on a band wagon, or, going against it for the hell of it, or, not actually liking it? No. I don't accuse people of things like that, one way or the other, no matter the movie. I genuinely believe these people like it. When I discuss it with other users, I'm doing so in the interest of talk (this is a message board after all). Where are you coming from? Why did it work for you and not for me? The only reason I'll give anyone flack is for
how they argue, not because I don't believe them when they say they liked it, and I try to do it as respectfully as possible.
For example, when I bring up the baggage a viewer might or not bring to the movie, I'm not trying to prove that they fooled themselves. I recognize baggage in myself. I probably wouldn't have reacted as strongly as I did to Avatar were I not a James Cameron fanatic for most of my life who obsessed over the treatment and every tidbit of news for literal years. I brought personal history to it. But that doesn't mean I didn't genuinely like it. When I mention baggage in the context of Green Lantern, that's exactly how I mean it. I'm just trying to figure it out and I'm not accusing anyone of being disingenuous when I bring it up. There's a fine line, and I'm doing my damnedest not to cross it.
So yeah, when I see someone broadly accusing others of being bandwagon jumpers, it irks me. Yeah, it's probably true in certain cases (and you really didn't make an effort to point that out. What you said was pretty blanket statement) but I'm just gonna go ahead and give people that benefit of a doubt.