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Poll Results: I hate it more when people:

 
  • 45% (26)
    Hate the films/TV Shows/books/music/comics I love
  • 54% (31)
    Love the films/TV Shows/books/music/comics I hate
57 Total Votes  
post #51 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:07pm
I'm kind of surprised at the outcome of the poll. When people love things I hate, I don't care because it doesn't affect me but when people hate things I love, then I have to be on the defensive.

Actually I guess it doesn't affect me either way. Huh.
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post #52 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:10pm
People hating that which I love I can deal with, you either have to reassess your own viewpoint or accept that you're in the niche. What I often find happening is that a film getting shredded prior to release will open me up to liking it. It's sort of why I liked The Spirit (don't judge me).

People going nuts over stuff I don't like I find to be odd, but what irritates me is when people with questionable tastes lay into 'easy' targets like Twilight or what not. I have no real interest in Twilight, but my experience with people who like it suggests it's like a Marvel comic book, but for girls. It's designed for a very specific, very vocal, fanbase. They just have girl parts.

I tend to get angrier at 'ironic' appreciation than anything else.
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post #53 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
but what irritates me is when people with questionable tastes lay into 'easy' targets like Twilight or what not.
I take it that's directed at me.

When my wife got defensive about her new Twilight interest ("Don't judge me!"), she tried to turn it around on me.

"But you like lots of trash entertainment..."

My response was "Yeah, but MY trash isn't BORING."
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post #54 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:32pm
It wasn't based toward you at all, hence why I used the superhero analogy.
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post #55 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:36pm
A few years ago I had a guy once attempt to negate my opinion on a relatively recent film because I liked "a lot of old black and white movies", in another instance, a guy I knew who had never seen The Warriors before I showed it to him, virulently dismissed it in front of other people based on his impression of it being "stupid" and "bad"; no other critique outside of that. I got pretty heated over the latter incident. So I guess it bothers me when people hate something that I love, but do so out of a place of complete ignorance.

If someone hates something I love, but they actually know something about whatever medium the subject of conversation happens to be in, even if I think they're full of shit, I can deal with that, but I cannot deal with people that are just plum stupid about it.
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post #56 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:39pm
I went with option #2.

Here's a simplification:

Would you rather expose other people to your awesome tastes that they just don't get, or be showered in the stuff other people like, but you find to be shit?
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post #57 of 62
5/27/10 at 4:59pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by gobblox View Post
I went with option #2.

Here's a simplification:

Would you rather expose other people to your awesome tastes that they just don't get, or be showered in the stuff other people like, but you find to be shit?
The point of my wording was to ape those psychiatric tests that only give you super-simplified choices. Clearly there are a million shades of gray here.
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post #58 of 62
5/27/10 at 6:47pm
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Originally Posted by bendrix View Post
I'll open the same ol' can of worms that gets opened every time this "Why do people like Twilight?" conversation starts up: there's no difference between your ex liking Twilight and Rain Dog saying he loves a Mass Effect novelization, or another chewer sheepishly champions one of the more putrid straight-to-DVD action or horror films. The difference is in the mind-set: the "normalized" Twilight fan doesn't feel the need to apologize for his/her tastes, while the recovering fanboy--myself included--feels the need to constantly confess and purge themselves of their less sophisticated amusements.
You don't get my point. It's the fact that I can't think of a logical reason for her to love Twilight that bothers me. And all that stuff about recovering fanboys confessing and purging themselves of their less sophisticated amusements must be all you. I love my less sophisticated amusements.
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post #59 of 62
5/29/10 at 2:31pm
I just hate this current crop of people who go fucking BALLISTIC over recent generic/sloppily editing/shot action movies but get bored whenever I try to show them John Woo.
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post #60 of 62
6/2/10 at 8:35pm
I will be honest and say that when a lot of people love what I hate, especially when it's something that I really feel is either morally or intellectually bankrupt, I can very easily switch into righteous-rant mode and talk the ear off of anyone within screaming distance about all the societal ills that make a property like whatever it is so popular. As far as people hating what I love, beyond some off-color remarks about Radiohead on the internet, and footage of screaming religious extremists on television that just make me laugh, I haven't really come across any considerable amount of hate for the things I love.
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post #61 of 62
6/2/10 at 10:06pm
IDK.. something about how my father likes to say Sunshine was a "stupid" movie, but X3, and Spiderman 3 were great, fun films.
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post #62 of 62
6/3/10 at 7:04am
Oooh, tough. I'll say haters upset me more, because people always will love shit. And I don't even really hate all haters, just the ones that take glee in "taking down" things I love, and trying to convince the fans aggressively that it sucks. And the people who wear their ignorance of the movie/show/book/video game as a badge of honor.
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