This has been bothering me for quite some time and a lot of it comes from this subreddit. Movies ratings are opinionated, not factual. Just because you hate the movie and could have done so much better doesn't mean everyone else hates or should hate the movie.

I am relatively new to this subreddit and was immediately turned off from it when Valerian came out. I thought this movie was phenomenal, it just screamed original in my eyes and absolutely loved it. It was adventurous and had me smiling throughout. My 5 year old enjoyed it as well and I just knew this movie would be a hit... until I came here and to my horror saw the ratings fall and people just utterly shiting on the movie. Even saw posts specifically telling people not to go see it.

These actions are completely wrong in my eyes and I will give a personal example that I think fits this quite well.

I attended school for my undergraduate on the thought that I could work in the industry making movies and video games as a 3d environmental designer. I made some really cool level designs and video games, even took sound design classes learned the software and created my own soundtrack and sound files for the games. I took up programming so I could tweak and rework the scripts. I learned about half way through that no matter how much work you put into it there will always be someone to take a giant shit on it. I had professors who absolutely loved the detail and work I put into my projects and then I had some who thought it was "to hard", or "it does have what these other games have", and just a bunch of other things that I got sub-par grades on, even though i did the work and some, or most people loved it there was always a few who didn't and it effected the grade.

My point is yes maybe there are bad movies and bad video games. But no that is not a factual statement, telling people not to see a movie or "I cringed so hard at Valerian that I walked out of the theater and demanded my money back." These types of posts should stop. Opinions on movies are good but putting them to death because you hated it and think your opinion is factual evidence the movie sucks and to hell with anyone else; is the problem.

The movie and the game could never be okay... It had to be flat out amazing or it just fucking sucks there was never a middle ground.

Submitted September 22, 2017 at 11:45AM by JediNinjas http://ift.tt/2wGP6Z5