No one says this thread is owned to them.
Literally? No, nobody has said that. But you and Goldhawk have certainly acted that way. Your attitude seems to have become "I'm gonna bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch forever about this film, and anyone who doesn't like it can just **** off."
You might have noticed that, apart from you, Goldhawk, and a couple others who are doing just that (bitching and bitching), most people HAVE ****ed off. Have you stopped to consider
why that is?
I would venture it's the two reasons that I cited:
1. Nobody -- except people who just want to keep bitching ad infinitum -- has much else to say about this film. It came. It went. Folks moved on. Except you guys, that is.
2. People got tired of your attitude of "Don't like it? **** off, then." So, they ****ed off because they didn't like it.
The fact that you guys don't seem to really
care is, I suspect, what rubs folks the wrong way the most.
Neil, this place is a community. It's our local hangout, of sorts. People come here to discuss all kinds of things in all kinds of ways. We have to share the space with each other. When everyone leaves the bar except for the drunk in the corner who never stops complaining, then that guy has basically driven everyone away. When his attitude is "Screw 'em! Let 'em find another bar if they don't like it!" it doesn't exactly engender a lot of goodwill towards him. That's how you guys are behaving currently.
One of the reasons I think this thing has gone on so long, is be cause there IS no other safe haven for detractors to trash this thing till the day it's forgotten.
No, the reason this thread has gone on as long as it has is simply because you guys aren't content to
let it go. Look around. Have you noticed that, for the most part, the thread has devolved into you and Goldhawk basically just saying back and forth "How does this film suck? Let me count the ways." When other people have tried to interject some other angle of discussion, in come you two to crap all over everything they have to say. THAT is how you're acting as if you "own" the thread. THAT is why people stopped talking in here.
They got tired of
you guys and your ****ty attitudes.
You also don't seem to recognize that
you are doing the very thing you accuse the "supporters" of doing. Your behavior basically drowns out any and all conversation that isn't exactly what
you want to talk about the way
you want to talk about it.
For chrissakes, upthread there was a discussion about some benefit for a sick kid that had a little bit to do with this film, and you guys crapped all over it. Do you not see how that's
exactly what you accuse the supporters of doing? How that comes across as shouting down all contrary opinions and drowning out different points of view from your own?
D_osborn posts a photo about a prop, and goldhawk shows up to **** on it. Jettajefro posts some other behind-the-scenes thing about the film, and you guys are there to say "Nobody cares!"
That, in essence, is you guys saying "SHUT UP!!! THIS IS OUR THREAD!!! NEGATIVE COMMENTS ONLY!!!" and it is
incredibly off-putting.
Your behavior is driving people away from this thread. I held my tongue about it before, but this has just become completely ridiculous. You know I'm not a supporter of this film and never have been. We've had a pretty friendly relationship on this board, so I say this to you in that spirit:
It's time to walk away from this thread.
If you so need a safe haven to continue bitching about this film, free from any other discussion other than likeminded bitching, start your own thread. Make it abundantly clear in the title. Something like "KEEP OUT: Bitching about GB16 ONLY." While you can't actually stop people from coming into the thread with other things to discuss, at least everyone will be on notice. But THIS thread? This is the general GB16 thread. It's NOT the "Bitching About GB16" thread.