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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 11, 2020 11:40:11 GMT
What is your opinion on the argument "If you don`t like it, don`t watch it". Do you consider this to be a good or a bad argument ?
Or is it both but its depend on the contexts when it used whether or not its a good or bad argument?
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Post by drystyx on Sept 11, 2020 13:47:03 GMT
Worst argument imaginable. It doesn't even begin to make sense. Never made sense, and can't make sense. You have to watch it to know if you don't like it, and everyone knows that.
Looks like you got tired of people saying that "hate" phrase to you. Sometimes, it's surprising to see who those "haters" are.
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Post by theravenking on Sept 11, 2020 14:43:10 GMT
Worst argument imaginable. It doesn't even begin to make sense. Never made sense, and can't make sense. You have to watch it to know if you don't like it, and everyone knows that.
Indeed you often won't know whether you'll like it before you have watched it, plus it's impossible to "unsee" something.
I believe the argument could apply though if you have a general dislike for a certain genre. Let's say you hate horror movies and find them gross and disgusting, in this case you have no right to complain, if you still decide to watch something like The Exorcist or Nightmare on Elm Street. No one forced you and you should've known better.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 11, 2020 15:28:25 GMT
Worst argument imaginable. It doesn't even begin to make sense. Never made sense, and can't make sense. You have to watch it to know if you don't like it, and everyone knows that.
Indeed you often won't know whether you'll like it before you have watched it, plus it's impossible to "unsee" something.
I believe the argument could apply though if you have a general dislike for a certain genre. Let's say you hate horror movies and find them gross and disgusting, in this case you have no right to complain, if you still decide to watch something like The Exorcist or Nightmare on Elm Street. No one forced you and you should've known better.
That the the only situation I see people even people even using the argument. It is in response to people complaining about certain types of movies being made or too many of a certain type of movie being made. And yes, it is certainly possible to dislike/hate an an entire genre or subgenre. It is after you have seen a bunch of these movies that you can begin forming an opinion about whether it is a good idea to just stop watching all movies from the genre. For me it is spoof movies. There are a few exceptions, but I know enough to know that watching most spoof movies will be a waste of my time.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Sept 11, 2020 15:35:04 GMT
Worst argument imaginable. It doesn't even begin to make sense. Never made sense, and can't make sense. You have to watch it to know if you don't like it, and everyone knows that. Looks like you got tired of people saying that "hate" phrase to you. Sometimes, it's surprising to see who those "haters" are. To me the statement implies the watching is ongoing.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Sept 11, 2020 15:35:20 GMT
Why would someone watch something they don’t like?
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 11, 2020 15:40:39 GMT
Why would someone watch something they don’t like? film class getting dragged to the theater by friends professional film critic that has to watch crappy films for a living trying to bang some art school girl, so you're willing to sit through some really boring, pretentious art film
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Post by someguy on Sept 11, 2020 16:22:59 GMT
If it’s being used in a debate about censorship, then I agree. Filmmakers should have every right to make whatever type of film they want, and you have every right to not watch it.
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Post by Vits on Sept 11, 2020 18:41:39 GMT
As long as I share my negative opinion as criticism and not hatred for hatred's sake, why do you care what I do with my time? Even if the conversation is "You haven't liked any entry in a franchise/genre/director's filmography, so why did you bother with the new one?", it's a form of dismissal. It's like saying "Of course you were never going to like it, so I see no value in what you're saying about it." Many people want to take the risk and watch something they'll probably don't like, because it might be an exception. If we only watch what looks like the safe option, we won't be challenged and we won't develop our analytical skills.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Sept 11, 2020 23:06:13 GMT
A new Netflix movie, a French language movie called Cuties, is currently the target of an online petition. With over 600,000 signatures, the "Cancel Netflix" petition has their goal of seeing the film's removal from the service. They have already accomplished what they wanted. Expecting a streaming service reliant on subscriptions to remove something because of objectionable content (provocatively dressed preteen girls) is too much.
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Post by Vits on Sept 12, 2020 7:57:46 GMT
A new Netflix movie, a French language movie called Cuties, is currently the target of an online petition. With over 600,000 signatures, the "Cancel Netflix" petition has their goal of seeing the film's removal from the service. They have already accomplished what they wanted. Expecting a streaming service reliant on subscriptions to remove something because of objectionable content (provocatively dressed preteen girls) is too much. Oh, don't get me started on that. I've fought with a looooooooot of people on Twitter for the past couple of weeks. I've been insisting that, while the movie might do more harm than good despite having good intentions (the director was aiming for a morality tale about how wrong it is to sexualize little girls), we have to watch the movie before condemning it. Not the poster, not the trailer, not even 2-minute clips posted on Twitter. The whole movie. That being said, I don't think that really applies to this conversation, which is about someone objecting to a negative opinion after watching the movie.
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Post by James on Sept 12, 2020 14:41:24 GMT
Sometimes they're forced to watch something if they're a famous critic. Especially on YouTube, fans would pay those on Patreon for them to review shitty movies.
But for casual moviegoers, it really just depends. Unless they are curious and like to watch bad movies, then I don't see the point of that argument.
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