As has been said. It's not about "constantly trashing a movie." It's the way in which you guys have done the trashing. There are four key elements to this that I think you don't get, and they're the reasons (I suspect) why people are giving you grief about it.
1. You guys have been relentless about this. There were periods where this thread was LITERALLY kept in the top two or three threads by a discussion between you and goldhawk alone. The general vibe is also that whenever someone else posts something positive -- or even just non-negative, you'll be there to crap on the movie as if to counteract the non-negative post and make sure you get that criticism in.
2. You've also been incredibly repetitive. The film sucks, you say? You aren't a fan? No me digas! Personally, I am mystified that the English language has, apparently, so many varied ways to say "It sucked. I didn't like it." And when people try to change the subject to something other than "The film sucked," folks like goldhawk are THERE to shut that crap down! Ooooh no! You're not pullin' a fast one on US, buddy-boy, with your "hey did you see this prop" picture, and your feeble attempts to try to discuss the original films! Nothin' doin', pal! This film SUCKS, and that's the point! Rar!
3. When people have pointed out how much you're dominating the conversation, and how you're basically crowding out discussion that isn't yet another variant of "Hey this film sucks," your response has basically boiled down to "Don't like it? Then **** off." It is, especially, this last point that I think rubs people wrong the most. It's not just that you're negative. It's not just that you cannot help but dive into any and all discussions that aren't about the negativity to insert a bit of negative commentary. It's that when people basically say "Hey, I'm trying to have a discussion here," your basic response is that you don't care what anyone else says or thinks; you're gonna crap on this film no matter what, and anyone who doesn't like it can GTFO. When you tell folks "So just add me to ignore," that's basically telling folks "I don't care. **** off, if you don't like it." Even if people add you to their ignore lists, there are times when a good chunk of real estate on this page is your ignored posts. If they have goldhawk on too, you can end up with, like, a solid half page of "This message is ignored."
4. When you aren't basically telling people that you don't give a damn if they don't like what you have to say, you're playing the victim and talking about how poorly you've been treated here and elsewhere. Dude. Nobody cares anymore. You've eaten up whatever sympathy and goodwill you might have had before, because you are basically treating people like crap yourself. Your refusal to take a step back and take a good hard look at what you're doing, your defensiveness, and your apparent inability to take into consideration the experience of others here just makes you look like a self-absorbed *******. Don't be that guy.
Most importantly, you don't have to be that guy.
Look, I really hate the Star Wars prequels. Pretty much everyone here knows it, too. But I'm also capable of having a discussion ABOUT the prequels that doesn't just boil into 50 shades of "The film sucked. I didn't like it." I can engage with the other person on the substance of the discussion, and do so in a way that isn't just unbridled bashing. I can articulate in pretty good detail what my complaints are about the films, and where I think they went wrong. I can also discuss the points in the films that weren't wholly objectionable and give credit where it's due, in spite of the (in my opinion) generally flawed nature of the films. Most importantly, I can do all of this in a way that doesn't come across as me trying to shut down contrary discussion.
Let me put it another way. Maybe move past the "bashing" and move towards "discussion the flaws of the film." And then do so when such a discusion is actually warranted and part of the conversation. Which means that if folks are examining a behind-the-scenes photo of a prop or the actors on set, maybe don't:
- comment on how stupid/awful the actors are and/or what bad people they are for being involved.
- point out how crappy and lame the props look, without at least engaging in a substantive discussion of how they're so clearly inferior to other props in general or the props from the original films.
- use the discussion as just another opportunity to say "it sucks. I didn't like it" and little else.
You can be negative in a way that still respects the rest of the people who are trying to have discussions here. You can be critical without just being an unbridled sourpuss. You can discuss what you don't like about the film in a substantive way. And if you're at the point where you just don't have more to say on that subject then maybe you just don't have anything else to say.
