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11-02-2012, 02:46 AM
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I didn't say it is the only movie worth watching, I said it is the most widely liked movie. I used precise wording because it is not the best movie, it has simply been liked by the largest amount of people. It is not a "piss-poor argument."
It is a piss-poor argument. It probably hasn't been liked by more people than any other film ever made in the world. It's more likely just been marketed really well, and then all those prone to manipulation through the media to at least some degree (i.e. most people) decided to see it (because it's been talked about so much, so it's clearly hot shit), and that's why it's made so much money.
That isn't to say that a lot of the people who went didn't like the film, but I wonder if they'd have seen it if so much hype hadn't been built around it.

Hence my comparison to music in the charts. Same principle applies. It isn't the most liked, but the golden hand of the "higher powers" has seen fit to caress it for a short while. It's all ephemeral and fickle.

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I have made my opinion known. I am no longer retaliating to you two.
Why are you so defensive? Nobody attacked you personally.
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