Arcane Azmadi said:
traceur_ said:
Arcane Azmadi said:
My original post edited for space
The stupidity and arrogance in your post is simply staggering, nay, mind-blowing. Listen fuckwit, there's this thing called "opinion", perhaps you've heard of it? But you don't understand? OK I'll explain:
There is nothing in this universe, in these eleven dimensions that is intrinsically good or bad, better or worse. When you see a shark high-five a monkey, it is awesome. When you are not there, it is not awesome. The awesome is contained within your mind and never leaps into the outside world, when you leave, the awesome leaves with you. There is no such thing as quality because by definition, it is universal, and as I've already said, there is no worth or value of something outside our minds. You are right in saying I have a small pool of reference for movies, I don't watch them very often because movies are nothing more than stupid little escapisms, they don't serve a purpose, they only exist to entertain.
This may come as a shock to you but you are not me, shocking I know, your opinions are not mine nor are mine yours, I had more fun watching Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen than any other movie I've seen because it's only goal is to entertain, explosions, giant robots and Megan Fox all look magnificent and are thus entertaining TO ME. As I've already stated, you are not me, my opinions differ from yours and so you are completely and utterly wrong in saying that there are movies more fun than TF2, because what you say is an attempt to project your perception outside of your mind, which is impossible.
In conclusion: boo-yah.
Arrogant? Maybe. Stupid? Hardly. You thought you were in a position to explain things to me; well allow me to educate you a little since you were wrong on so many levels (I was planning on making a post about this very topic, but this is as good a place as any to get started):
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. However, far too many people (such as yourself) delude themselves into thinking all opinions are equally valid. It may surprise you to know that opinions can, in fact, be WRONG. While opinions can be subjective, "quality" is not-
there IS such thing as quality by definition. A finger painting my young cousin did on butchers paper is NOT better art than the roof of the Sistine Chapel, ET for the Atari 2600 is NOT a better game than ICO and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is NOT a good film. By any reasonable standard of judgement (which you sadly lack), it sucks in every regard. Now, I'm not saying you CAN'T enjoy the film- I'm just saying that if you CAN genuinely enjoy it then that is honestly tragically sad, because your experiences are so limited that you can actually enjoy a piece-of-shit film like that. You could be SO MUCH HAPPIER if you were watching a GOOD film.
Someone asked my for examples of films that are more fun that Transformers 2. While I can name MANY that I think more enjoyable than Transformers 2, I have to take into account that many of those are only my opinion (Aragami, my all-time favourite chambara film, would probably bore a lot of people shitless because of its slow opening and psychological build-up), so I'll only list some of the ones that are INDISPUTABLY enjoyable:
Aliens
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Airplane!
Die Hard
DISTRICT! FUCKING! 9! (Sorry Bob)
The Dark Knight
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (unless you're some kind of braindead "cartoons are for kids" snob)
AKIRA (likewise)
The Crow
The Blues Brothers
If you can watch ANY of those films all the way through and then look me in the eye and tell me that Revenge of the Fallen is better then (a) you are WRONG and (b) you were probably born retarded. Which is honestly, genuinely sad.
Wow... just wow, no one can be this stupid, seriously mate. That was, without a doubt, the dumbest thing I've ever read.
I'm gonna break apart the stupid because it's too much to handle in one go....
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. However, far too many people (such as yourself) delude themselves into thinking all opinions are equally valid. It may surprise you to know that opinions can, in fact, be WRONG
Only if those opinions can disproven with fact. If I said "It's my opinion that the moon is a giant clown", then yeh, that is wrong.
While opinions can be subjective, "quality" is not- there IS such thing as quality by definition. A finger painting my young cousin did on butchers paper is NOT better art than the roof of the Sistine Chapel, ET for the Atari 2600 is NOT a better game than ICO and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is NOT a good film.
Take a moment to absorb your own stupidity here
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OK get up off the floor and stop trying to kill yourself, you can do that when I'm done.
Since you have no idea what opinion means, I'll let some online dictionaries explain:
o·pin·ion (-pnyn)
n.
1. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof: "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion" (Elizabeth Drew).
2. A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert: a medical opinion.
3. A judgment or estimation of the merit of a person or thing: has a low opinion of braggarts.
4. The prevailing view: public opinion.
5. Law A formal statement by a court or other adjudicative body of the legal reasons and principles for the conclusions of the court.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin opni, opnin-, from opnr, to think.]
Synonyms: opinion, view, sentiment, feeling, belief, conviction, persuasion
These nouns signify something a person believes or accepts as being sound or true. Opinion is applicable to a judgment based on grounds insufficient to rule out the possibility of dispute: "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible" (Woodrow Wilson).
View stresses individuality of outlook: "My view is . . . that freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have or the views they express" (Hugo L. Black).
Sentiment and especially feeling stress the role of emotion as a determinant: "If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences . . . reason is of no use to us" (George Washington). "There needs protection . . . against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling" (John Stuart Mill).
A belief is a conclusion to which one subscribes strongly: "Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it" (Karl Popper).
Conviction is belief that excludes doubt: "the editor's own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest" (Walter Lippmann).
Persuasion applies to a confidently held opinion: "He had a strong persuasion that Likeman was wrong" (H.G. Wells).
Main Entry: opin·ion
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈpin-yən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin opinion-, opinio, from opinari
Date: 14th century
1 a : a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter b : approval, esteem
2 a : belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge b : a generally held view
3 a : a formal expression of judgment or advice by an expert b : the formal expression (as by a judge, court, or referee) of the legal reasons and principles upon which a legal decision is based
? opin·ioned \-yənd\ adjective
synonyms opinion, view, belief, conviction, persuasion, sentiment mean a judgment one holds as true. opinion implies a conclusion thought out yet open to dispute . view suggests a subjective opinion . belief implies often deliberate acceptance and intellectual assent <a firm belief in her party's platform>. conviction applies to a firmly and seriously held belief . persuasion suggests a belief grounded on assurance (as by evidence) of its truth . sentiment suggests a settled opinion reflective of one's feelings <her feminist sentiments are well-known>.
n.
1. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof: "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion" (Elizabeth Drew).
2. A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert: a medical opinion.
3. A judgment or estimation of the merit of a person or thing: has a low opinion of braggarts.
4. The prevailing view: public opinion.
5. Law. A formal statement by a court or other adjudicative body of the legal reasons and principles for the conclusions of the court.
opinion definition
opin·ion (ə pin′yən, ō-)
noun
1. a belief not based on absolute certainty or positive knowledge but on what seems true, valid, or probable to one's own mind; judgment
2. an evaluation, impression, or estimation of the quality or worth of a person or thing
3. the formal judgment of an expert on a matter in which advice is sought
4. Law the formal statement by a judge, court referee, etc. of the law bearing on a case
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?noun
1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
3. the formal expression of a professional judgment: to ask for a second medical opinion.
4. Law. the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case.
5. a judgment or estimate of a person or thing with respect to character, merit, etc.: to forfeit someone's good opinion.
6. a favorable estimate; esteem: I haven't much of an opinion of him.
Get it now?
Quality doesn't exist, it can't be tested in a lab. There is no global standard measure of quality, if there was, all things would receive the same grade from independent sources. A particular song, movie, book, will get different reviews depending on who you ask, so no one has scientifically measured it's quality, it can only be measured by people with different OPINIONS, so OPINION is the origin of the concept of quality, so by your stupid logic, quality can be wrong, so there is no universal standard of quality.
Can you PROVE that your cousin's finger-painting is worse than Michelangelo's painting? No, you can't. If you can't prove it scientifically, it can't be measured or even thought of as in existence.
By any reasonable standard of judgement (which you sadly lack), it sucks in every regard. Now, I'm not saying you CAN'T enjoy the film- I'm just saying that if you CAN genuinely enjoy it then that is honestly tragically sad, because your experiences are so limited that you can actually enjoy a piece-of-shit film like that. You could be SO MUCH HAPPIER if you were watching a GOOD film.
Sorry, have we met? Have we ever spent the day together? I don't recall discussing with you my tastes in movies. You suggested Aliens and the blues brothers? Well if we had discussed this then you would know I think those movies suck, so they are not indisputably enjoyable at all. Seriously mate, if you say that then you obviously think that every single person on this planet thinks they were good, well here's a newsflash, YOU'RE WRONG, NOT EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY WERE GOOD, so right there, you're wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong, they were incredibly boring, but I guess since my opinion isn't the same as yours I must be retarded. Why is my standard of judgment worse than yours, pray tell? Is it because your time in existence has put you in situations that mold who you are, that somehow you have become better than me? Strange, because I've always thought that an arrogant person is a despicable one, that's my opinion. It is my opinion that you are an arrogant dickhead, but I can't prove that nor can I measure it in a lab, but nor can you disprove it. There is no universal constant that affects it so it can only be opinion.
Seriously I'm done, you're wrong buddy.
Please, don't respond to this, I can't take your stupidity anymore.
