Jeyl.
The RPF is specifically a forum for people who LIKE and RESPECT all kinds of sci fi and fantasy films , so much so they actually use their own skill sets and talents to replicate many of the props used in them. Note the emphasis on the words “like and respect”.
In all your thousands of posts that unfortunately I’ve had to read in so many of the film threads ,I note ,with a growing irritation, that very few are either fair, constructive or, when openly challenged because they appear to be based solely on self opinion and nothing else, are ever answered directly.
Your last post illustrates this perfectly.
Its nothing more than a bait designed to encourage an angry response, whilst trying to hide behind some of the weakest excuses under the sun. You didn’t answer a single point I’ve raised but go with a sweeping generalisation about "other" films. Other films are not what the RPF is about. Your opinions ,such as they are ,might be welcomed ,more or less, at "other" less specific film forums.
There are actually billions of people out in the world who don’t give a stuff about any films ,past or present, but at least they don’t deliberately come to a forum thats popular with thousands of others who actually like something about the movies that they’ve seen. So much so that infact that they put in huge amounts of time, energy and resources into recreating something out of that fandom , that actually might gain some respect from other like minded individuals.
Strangely, although I have tried looking, I see hardly any evidence of anything you have done here that really indicates that. The bulk of everything you post is all directed at finding fault and tearing apart just about every film release there has been recently, even when you state, quite plainly, you’ve no intention of EVER GOING TO SEE IT.
And am I to believe you don’t understand how this could be found ever so slightly irritating with the people that do?
I also note that your Birthday thread says you are actually just thirty. I find it really difficult to equate that age and the passion with which you find fault with most of the recently updated film releases by such direct comparison with their decades older counterparts. Particularly with the likes of the Star Trek franchise. Its more usual to find that in someone who saw them when they were first released and therefore have matured with them, and thus probably have perhaps a stronger reason and motivation to defend them. I know there is such a thing as a DVD player and disks but still?
X- men DOFP does have its faults. Three specific ones that bothered me concerned the Sentinels construction, how the future Sentinels gained their powers and who from, and how steel can be poured into a plasticised mechanism and it not suffer any damage at all. Those points you could have raised and I’d have had to support your statements as valid criticisms. But those issues alone were not sufficiently strong enough to detract from the overall emotional impact the film had on me. It really hit hard, particularly the fates that some of the X men face, and the way the script actually manages to redeem just about every other film that’s gone before in the franchise is hugely clever and at the very end the result was , well I've got to say ,it was overwhelmingly positive. I hugely enjoyed the film and then I read what you've posted here. And I think, this is supposed to be somebody who likes sci fi/comic/superhero themed films?
Yet you won’t even do me or anybody else on this forum whose actually paid to see DOFP the curtsey of going to it before loudly voicing your inevitable opinions on it. Yes, you have the right and freedom here to say why you don't want to. But to continually critisize films the way that you do in this kind of forum makes me question why you continually believe we want to listen to anything you have to say.
Don’t bother replying to this because I don't see a point in repounding to anything more you have to say.Its like chasing the wind. It simply doesn’t carry any weight or have any relevance anymore.
Go join the billions of other people who never want or need to see a certain movie, but please note, at least they never will come to a forum that’s designed for others that like such films and actively tell them why they shouldn't and they don’t constantly.
Sorry moderators if this causes any undue ructions but if somebody insists on being so provocatively negative all the time, sooner or later another person is going to voice their objections back