go birds wrote:try being a conservative on a left leaning board, then tell me about how assigning politics to everything is fine.
it's tiresome when politics are injected into threads where it's not needed.
Right. For those of us who CHOOSE just to take something for what it's worth, and maybe just enjoy it, our choice kind of gets taken away when we are told what we should think of it from a political point of view....
Jocephus wrote:absorb a movie how you want. if some people want to turn off the brain, fine. if some want to analyze, fine. why does there have to be a choice?
That's fair and I mostly agree. However, I guess I'm just tired of the page long diatribes of those who choose to analyze everything.
why? you don't have to read it, agree with it, do anythign with it. not directed at you but always kind of amazed with people who complain about things they don't have to acknowledge or pay attention to. it's like following someone on twitter you dislike just so you can tell them that you dislike what they are saying.
Jocephus wrote:absorb a movie how you want. if some people want to turn off the brain, fine. if some want to analyze, fine. why does there have to be a choice?
That's fair and I mostly agree. However, I guess I'm just tired of the page long diatribes of those who choose to analyze everything.
why? you don't have to read it, agree with it, do anythign with it. not directed at you but always kind of amazed with people who complain about things they don't have to acknowledge or pay attention to. it's like following someone on twitter you dislike just so you can tell them that you dislike what they are saying.
All true.
However, this can become a challenge for me when a thread or several threads get dominated into political discussion. I would like to read discussion about a movie in the Social Forum without a political diatribe.
I guess a moderator should put this thread into the Politics Forum.
I just went over this thread. It's 3 pages of what to me seems like non-political discussion, then one post from 33 that mentioned politics and then the response is maybe we don't have to get political with everything, then the thread becomes about whether or not it's ok for a movie discussion to get political.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be "keep your opinions to yourself"
There are many, many long posts on this forum that i just skip if I can see it's not something I'm into.
go birds wrote:to be fair, i think the bewildering, yet impressive, coyote ugly reference is what really caused the derailment
The Coyote Ugly reference was impressive. The point of that movie was pretty clear from the get-go. Let's make a chick flick that perhaps shows enough T&A that guys won't mind having to watch it.
The Demi Moore discussion was good though. I had never really thought about most of those movies that way.