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I want to explore this more fully at some point - but in short - I hate what social media is doing to people. Due to the nature of 'friending' and 'liking' and 're-tweeting' it's turning many many people into wannabe rock stars.

There's a lot I want to say about that on a lot of levels but the one thing I want to mention specifically is the effect it's had on movies.

People have forgotten how to enjoy movies.

Because unfortunately everyone now has a voice - a lot of folks are far more concerned with appearing to be smarter than the filmmakers than they are about sitting back and being entertained. It's far cooler not to like something ... ask any high school kid.
Negativity is cool - kindness and positivity is often seen as a weakness.

Social networking has made a lot of people regress back to their teens where they participated in their popularity contests by acting like smug superior little snots to impress their little sycophant sheep-friends by putting down what other people liked - usually to the point of ridiculing them. Their sheeple friends wouldn't want to appear uncool so they'd bleat their support for these miscreants, and the rest of us would have to patiently wait for this bunch of idiots to mature.

So now we have mama's basement bloggers and social networking heroes crapping all over anything they can to look smarter and superior to the people out there actually CREATING, while sitting on their Cheeto stained couches in their rusty trailers.

It's one of the myriad reasons I bailed on facebook .. I got so sick of morons trying to convince people that they know better then the guy with the 100 million $$$ budget.

I know there are some utter crap films out there, and I know we all have a right to an opinion - but the problem is where these goofs try to tell someone else their opinion is wrong about what they like.

(which is why I always use 'personally' and /or 'to me' when talking about something I don't like. If I don't like something and you do - fill your boots - i'm not judging ... different strokes and all that.

When I was a kid - I used to love any movie that had one thing I liked about it - effects, music, it made me laugh ....and for a while I almost forgot about that and started to fall into that trap..

Then I got a little older and started seeing things in a more relaxed fashion.
I don't see a movie for the purpose of having my life changed. Great if that happens - but basically I want to be entertained. It takes something spectacularly atrocious for me not to like a film - and that will be based on something very specific and personal to me .. I don't care if other people liked it... they aren't me... but for the most point - if I throw my money down on the counter - i'd rather not waste it. Or my time. I'll try to change my perspective, find something to like about it ... or if all else fails - try to figure out how and why they did stuff.

'Critics' scorn and would label me as 'easy to please' Well, I can think of worse ways to be than always enjoying myself. Consider the alternative.

Who's smarter now ?