Only three posts in before derision of Crystal Skull began. Predictable as always.
Three points.
1.) Actually it was two posts. The post right above mine was in favor of individual disc releases. One can surmise, therefore, that the prior poster was also not a fan of KOTCS
2.) What the hell do you care, anyway, if I say I don't want to buy it? I've never seen the film. I've heard enough about it, though, to know that I don't want to see the film. Ever. Ergo, I simply don't recognize its existence. I can maintain this fiction by virtue of continuing to never see the film. If I don't want to SEE the film, I damn sure don't want to PAY for it. Got a problem with that?
3.) If you DO have a problem with that, then might I suggest that...well...your problem doesn't stop there. If my stating that I don't want to purchase a film and choose to ignore its existence somehow shatters the transcendent happiness you felt only moments prior to reading my missive...then buddy, you got bigger problems.
Yup, the people complaining about the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Some folks get their panties in a bunch over the silliest things...
I mean, c'mon... 'deny the existence' of a film? That's just baby talk. You don't like it? Fine... but deny its existence? WTF :confused
Ok. I've explained this before. I'll explain it again, even though I suspect it doesn't matter, and you fall pretty much into the same camp as Shadow.
When I watch additional entries in a film series, be they sequels, prequels, side-stories, interquels, or whathaveyou, I experience the franchise largely as a whole. It's more difficult for me to separate the experience of one film from another. For me, sometimes not answering "And THEN what happened?" is better because I don't have to learn that what happened next was stuff that I don't enjoy for whatever reason.
For me, a bad later entry in a film franchise diminishes my enjoyment of the prior entry or entries. I've had this happen to me often enough to recognize that this is part of how I experience films in general. If I'm a big fan of the original material, then I don't WANT my enjoyment diminished.
I therefore choose to ignore the existence of the film. I haven't seen it. Given my druthers, I never will. You, apparently, experience film very differently from me. Maybe you're better able to isolate the experience of one film in a franchise from another. Good for you. Alas, I lack that capacity. I recognize this about myself, and therefore preserve my enjoyment of the films by ignoring those entries in the franchise that I don't like.
Regardless, my posts were more about expressing my concerns regarding the potential technical flaws in the blu-ray transfers. I made a single passing comment about choosing to ignore the existence of one of the films in the franchise. I fail to see what the big bloody deal is.
Not as good as Bluray, but not bad at all.
