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« on: December 17, 2018, 03:12:23 PM »
My goodness you're right!!!! How did I not think of that before?? How about I avoid movies I know won't be for me?? What a stroke of genius! Interstingly I already do that. Strangely enough that is the very reason I have not seen the original Deadpool 2. What was different here??
It was marketed, promoted and rated as a family friendly cut of the movie. This would logically lead one to assume that was indeed, a family friendly cut of the movie. That's the whole point of its existence. So I think I'm quite justified in criticising the fact it turned out to be completely wrong.
Now I am quite aware that some what made this movie appeal to fans of the orignal movie may have been lost in the transition, but I didn't care. I thought that a version of the movie had finally been made that I could enjoy. I was excited to go and watch it. Sadly it was not for me.
Your comparison is an interesting one. And a flawed one. As I mentioned above, the way this movie was presented indicated that it would have been something I would have enjoyed. Let's carry forward with your musical analogy. What if DP3 was marketed and promoted as another 'traditional' DP movie, with all the quips, violence, sex etc, but when you excitedly went in to see it, it turns out it was a full on serious musical? I am quite confident you'd come in here and voice your thoughts about that. And you know what, that's fine.
My aversion to graphic violence does not in any way render my opinion invalid. I outlined my aversion about such things right at the start of the post so a reader could have all the information with which to take my thoughts. BnM asked for thoughts of those who'd seen the movie. I've seen the movie and I had thoughts so I am quite within my rights to discuss it. This is not "Oohboy's Ponitification Thread" where any and all opinions against yours are invalid and you have a god given right to bring the hammer down on them. You don't agree with my assessment. That's fine. Feel free to ignore it entirely, or to discuss what you enjoyed about it as opposed to what I didn't. You have the right to your opinion just as I have the right to mine. However, do NOT come in here and start stomping on someone because your opinion is different to theirs, and certainly do NOT say that their opinion is outright invalid because of that.
You think my aversion to graphic violence is weird, that's cool. You enjoy it, that's cool too. If you think about it, that arguably makes your opinion just as invalid as mine because it biases you towards the movie, just as my opinion biases me away from it. Neither of those two things are wrong. We are both private citizens with different tastes discussing a movie we don't agree on. The difference is I haven't in any way been implying that my thoughts are objective fact and anyone who disagrees with me is objectively wrong. I have never eviscerated your posts and criticised you personally because of something I may disagree with so have some respect
And even if my aversion to violence somehow did render my opinion worhtless, I am not a paid, professional movie reviewer so I have no obligation to be fair and unbiased. If I want to rant about something that burned me I am quite within my rights to do so on this public forum. It's not like I hid anything which alters my opinion.
Get off your high horse. Let's use this thread and others like it to enjoy discussing what we enjoy and what we don't as they were intended. This is a discussion forum, not your personal blog.
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