Stop me before I pay Lucas $8!
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Well, when you take into account that the average joe has pretty much been conditioned to believe that anything made with a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars is something of lasting quality and worth, no matter how lousy the acting (Attack of the Clones features the worst acting I’ve ever seen in a major motion picture) or how poorly executed a story it may be (“Ummm…let’s have the kids frolic through some fields here, and then juxtapose that with some political debating…the kids’ll love that!” “They sure will, Mr. Lucas!!!!”), then I wouldn’t want the critics to pander to that demographic. …To say critics are idiots for attempting to discuss the merits of a film instead of just pandering to Average Lowest-Common-Denominator Joe and just saying “Well, it’s great. It’s big and it’s loud and it runs around really fast,” is just wrong.
–Aleck
Looks like you’re presuming to speak for everyone again Aleck – particularly the right to discuss the de/merits of something. Your use of the term ‘just wrong’ shows you in all of your morning glory. It is both normative and prescriptive, and you offer the standard by which we should follow. Everyone else has been conditioned, but you have somehow broke the conditioning – and now, you’ll break the news to everyone who will care to listen. Or not care – listen up anyway. The only person you’re kidding with this its ‘just my opinion’ nonsense seems to be yourself. Witness your remarks about music : “If it meant anything, you oughta be praising to the high heavens the blazing musical talent that is Robbie Williams or N*SYNC or Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue because, well, they’re just so damned popular”. Well, it actually does mean something whether you like it or not – namely, that many people like these ‘artists’ because of perceived merit. Given your notion of meaning, you invalidate your own position again (and again and again)- by implying that you like *real* music whilst most others do *not* Whilst I certainly agree with you, you can’t presume to disagree with anyone, ever.
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As opposed to *you*, who, in the previous posts you are referring to, made unqualified one-sentence statements about your opinion with no examples or reasons given (made with no intent of engendering discussion or debate), made unqualified assumptions about whether or not Salter Street had “sold out,” stated that you were revealing an “unspoken truth” and, essentially stated that your opinion was the only one that mattered.
Selective reasoning/memory. (and again and again). Lazy actually (hint, mint).
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The rest of your post is rendered irrelevant since it’s based on a flawed and unsupported claim.
If you say so Aleck, because as you know, it is your saying which makes it so.
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Tell me, is this going to lead to another teasing promise of your leaving, or what? Seems to be the pattern of your postings.
–Aleck
Wishful thinking – perhaps if you put a tooth under your pillow your wish might come true.
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Or, alternately, when is someone going to ban your sh!t-disturbing self from the board?
–Aleck
Soon I expect – but note that I’ve never called for your or anyone else’s banning from this or any other board, despite regarding your own behaviour equally (if not more) disturbing. Not to mention, freaking hilarious. The way you diminish and interpret away your own role/responsibility in any perceived dis/agreement is questionable, to say the least. Most importantly, the fact that you even think it appropriate to call for a ban whilst expecting your sorry self to post without impunity speaks volumes. This not only indicates solipsism but narcisism.
To your credit, at least you haven’t jump up and down like a monkey who has had his pants taken away from him. The anger management course I suggested must be *freaking* working.
[ 31-05-2002: Message edited by: bonnee ]