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Originally Posted by fortunato
movie taste, like anything that has to do with another person's opinion, doesn't have any wrong or right answers. it's a special thing that one can call their own. like so many other aspects of a person, it makes us different. for a person to call another person's taste in movies "wrong" or "stupid" or anything else is nonsensical. tell your friends to get over it and start acting like friends.
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I tend to agree. I like what I like, and I make no apologies for it. I happen to like a lot of crap, I'm okay with that. I also like films that most definitely aren't crap. Other people really can be asses about it though. I don't mind someone not agreeing with my tastes (I'm used to that for sure) but it never has to get personal. I have a friend, who I don't talk to very often....;) that thinks anything with Vin Diesel in it is like the best thing ever, but then dares to say the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is "the stupidest movie" she has ever seen. Also keep in mind, she watched like ten minutes of it before turning it off.
But I am used to this kind of thing, I have often been criticized for my love of film as well. And for the kinds of films I enjoy. I don't really care anymore, but it used to irk me a bit as well. Same has happened with the books I read. I just ignore it and move on to another subject. These days, I only really discuss movies and books with my husband, or on forums like this one. And all my annoying friends that dismiss a lot of the movies I love while raving about films that just don't interest me that much....well, I left them all behind in Georgia....I still know no one here really. It kind of works out better for me that way....:D