91799, You still seem to like to talk about anything but the actual movie Posted by SoulHonky, Wed Apr-23-08 07:14 PM
--"I argued a lot of things, a lot of ways, homie.
Don't be trying to over-summarize."
I'm not. People said they liked the film and you immediately went into your "Oh it's overrated. Critics say it's one of the best ever. It's affected film ever since and that pisses me off". Your actual analysis of the film has consisted of saying sucks and using greater than symbols.
--"So, I'm to blame for the idiotic overanalzyers infiltrating this conversation?"
Yes. If you had simply said why you didn't like the film itself, I doubt that any of this would have come up. And if it did come up, you could call out that specific person rather than pretending everyone (or 90% of people) think that way.
--"So I make a point, overanalyzers come "out of the woodwork," proving my point, but yet somehow their coming "out of the woodwork" does not prove my point."
That's like me saying there's a fire, screaming out "Fire!", and then pointing out people running around as evidence of there being a fire.
--"I got no problem with someone studying 'Pulp Fiction'."
LOL. You most certainly do have problems with it. If people study it and get something you don't agree out of it, then you say they overanalyze it. You say it's bullshit and dismiss it. What you call "overanalyze" or a wrong direction is just someone studying Pulp Fiction and stating something you don't agree with. As usual, you state your opinion as if it is the objective fact.
--"No, I actually kept the conversation logical. I was just being a dick about it. Longo was just saying to ignore the fact that I was being a dick, and focus on the what I'm saying, because it makes sense."
Actually, you were the one that made it illogical but employing the strawman.
The question was "Am I the only one who liked Pulp Fiction"
Here's your first post ---- No, you're not the only one.
People invent reasons to like 'Pulp Fiction' mostly because pop culture has told them that they are supposed to like it. When they watch it and don't like it, their brain conjures a reason to, so that they don't feel left out.
I've heard no less that 20 different explanations for why people like that movie, and 90% of them are complete bullshit.
Its no good, at all.
If people overanalyzed most movies as much as they did PF, than people would like most films just the same. They don't do that with most movies because most films aren't an all access pass to feeling cool and hip like PF is/was.
Thankfully, I'm cool and hip without liking it.
And my real beef with 'Pulp Fiction' is not the film itself, but how bad it was for film: It ushered in an era of superficiality that we haven't really shaken yet....really fucked things up. ----
So there you have it. Your initial statement had little to do with the actual film outside of "Its no good, at all" and your real beef isn't even the film itself. To you, that is the logical progression of a conversation, not to state why you didn't like the film Pulp Fiction but to attack and dismiss people who liked it and state an external reason for not liking the film.
The problem isn't you being a dick. It's that your argument is completely off point and, like Frank, dismisses people's opinions simply because some critics went overboard.
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