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This whole bussiness of some people around here complaining about films other people like is really starting to anger me. At first I was like this, I admit. But I realized... how stupid I sound. It's fine to give YOUR opinion of something, but when you tell someone as a whole that the film THEY like is bad, and they have BAD taste for liking it. That's pushing it.
Just because someone has a different taste then you... does not mean their taste is 'bad'. Who's to say that yours isn't worse?
Taste is per person. I remember a quote from Miss Olivia, comparing our opinions to assholes. It was probably the most truthful thing I have ever heard
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You don't want to say anybody is a cunt for liking
The Descent,
Pulse/Kairo,
28 Days Later or
Shaun of the Dead, but it is asking too much to expect people to avoid giving a negative review to a film just because other people might like it.
If you might feel stupid in voicing your own negative opinion then that's too bad, but in a film discussion forum opinion is the cornerstone. It can be factual in reference to the technical shortcomings of a production, but even these are subjective if the viewer requirements are different.
I don't think anybody has said that folk have bad taste for liking a film, but as Alky has observed much of today's horror is trite and far too fluffy - movies have changed with the times over the decades, and the digital revolution has paved the way for glossy but empty rehashed concepts as PG-13 horrors and MTV ringtone ads begin to blend into one.
I think those with a good grasp of past and present horror are entitled to detract from whichever era they think is releasing the worst movies.