Dave Gorman
Supporting Actor
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- Jul 22, 1999
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Wow! All in all this is probably the sanest and most rational discussion of Titanic I have ever seen!
I for one find it very easy to hate films that are immensely popular, even before I've seen them. I realize I cannot with any validity hate or criticize a film I haven't seen. I guess I tend to be pre-critical of very popular films simply because there have been so many very popular films that I thought were utter and complete crap. This is the case regularly enough that I tend to draw a correllation and assume I will hate a film if it is incredibly popular. However, I am able to distinguish anticipatory hatred of a movie from actual hatred of a movie and not publically trash a movie I've not seen.
On the other hand, though, I think there are just as many people who will automatically love a movie -- seen or unseen -- if the movie is very popular. In the case of Titanic I think there are as many (or more) people who mindlessly loved the movie, just because it was the thing to do, as there people who hated the movie for no other reason than the popularity and hype.
Re Titanic specifically, I think I went into it with a fairly open mind and mixed expectations, but it was still one of the longest years of my life...
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I for one find it very easy to hate films that are immensely popular, even before I've seen them. I realize I cannot with any validity hate or criticize a film I haven't seen. I guess I tend to be pre-critical of very popular films simply because there have been so many very popular films that I thought were utter and complete crap. This is the case regularly enough that I tend to draw a correllation and assume I will hate a film if it is incredibly popular. However, I am able to distinguish anticipatory hatred of a movie from actual hatred of a movie and not publically trash a movie I've not seen.
On the other hand, though, I think there are just as many people who will automatically love a movie -- seen or unseen -- if the movie is very popular. In the case of Titanic I think there are as many (or more) people who mindlessly loved the movie, just because it was the thing to do, as there people who hated the movie for no other reason than the popularity and hype.
Re Titanic specifically, I think I went into it with a fairly open mind and mixed expectations, but it was still one of the longest years of my life...
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Where are we going? Why are we in this handbasket?
My miniscule DVD collection