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bugrimmar on 07 October 2013
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pokoko said:
bugrimmar said:
pokoko said:
You just criticized the movie. Does that mean you're trash? If not, why not?


A Movie Critic gets paid to publish stuff that is recognized by review sites, newspapers, magazines, etc. A Movie Watcher Who Expresses His Opinion doesn't get paid and doesn't get recognized by any of the aforementioned media outlets.

In other news, if you want to be sarcastic, try to be more intelligent when doing so.

Nope, sorry, you do not have to be paid to be a movie critic.  Absolutely and completely wrong.  You can start up a blog tomorrow and be a movie critic.  Did you mean professional movie critic?  Yeah, you might not want to question anyone's intelligence if you don't understand the differences there ...

Regardless, what you're saying is, "people who disagree with me are trash."  You're saying, "anyone who watched it will agree with me"--despite the fact that several people (who probably aren't professional movie critics) have already disagreed with you.  Not only are you using massive generalizations, you're using mass generalizations that have been completely proven wrong.

Your opinion is no better than the opinion of anyone else, professional or not.  


Am I starting a blog? No. I'm merely posting on a video game website about my opinion about a certain movie I watched. If you disagree, go ahead. Do you see me making counter posts about people who disagree? No. Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion.

The professional's opinion, however, has to be strictly monitored because having access to media outlets means that he/she can influence massive numbers of people and make them possibly waste time and money on useless trash that they think is good. Professional movie critics that are paid have the responsibility of keeping their content honest and in tune with the public so that they can be trusted.

There, if you want me to include "professional" in the "movie critic" phrase, you got it. Sheesh. It's as if you want to get into a technical battle for no reason.

 

EDIT: Oh and btw, I'm not even criticizing the movie. I'm criticizing the "professional" movie critics that gave it far too high a score. In fact, I admitted in the opening line that it's a good movie. It just doesn't deserve that high of a score.