Transformers! (Merged)

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by blueerica

Hey, to be fairly noted, LSPE does know other people "in the business" who liked Transformers[/i]

Oh, absolutely. But I've seen that particular person tear new assholes for movies that she didn't like. I didn't say "industry people don't like Transformers," (because, obviously, somebody gave the screenplay a greenlight) I said that industry people (and industry-savvy people, for that matter) are often more critical of movies, whether they like them or not. When you spend a lot of time studying something, or working closely with something, you're bound to find more flaws in it than those who do not.

I say again: taste is completely subjective. Where does my dislike of something invalidate your like of it? My enjoyment of, say... eating tomatoes... is not lessened by GD's intense dislike of them. It does not make tomaotes any more or less good. It does not mean that GD and I think each other are stupid for not agreeing. Every bite will still be sweet and tangy and yummy to me, and slimy and disgusting to Greg. The tomato itself remains the same.

So I don't like the movie you enjoyed. So what? This does not me I do not like you, or you do not like me. (If identical taste was what friendship required, EH and I could never be friends! She likes Marie Antoinette, and I like The Queen. She likes Infamous, I like Capote. But this doesn't mean we don't like each other.)