--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > That makes what we say a *valid* matter of opinion, > > one based on our own personal experience. Compare > > and contrast to someone who chooses to actively > > trash a film they've never seen, just because some- > > one *told* them it was bad. And who will almost > > certainly never see the film in question out of > > fear of finding out differently. > > Again, Barry is afraid to use my name.
This is going to be fun. I just love it when what's-her-name gets so angry at me that she has to resort to lying or making things up. > I never said, of course, that "Apocalypto" was > "bad." You'll notice what's-her-name's use of quotes above. She places them around the word "bad" as if I had attributed that word to her as a direct quote. I did not. I said that she had "trashed" the film because someone *else* told her it was bad. I stand by the word "trashed" (even though she never said it) because when the person told her what to believe, she did so unquestioningly, and immediately started a thread here on Fairfield Life entitled, "Mel Gibson, Christian bigot." That choice of title was her own; it was not mentioned in the article she quoted from, if I am not mistaken. In that same post (that *she* started), in addition to quoting from the article, she added the final piece of her *own* commentary at the end: * To highlight what the writer tactfully leaves * implicit, Gibson has slandered the Maya and * mangled history for the purpose of exalting the * purported superiority of Christianity. All of this without ever having seen the film. I think I can safely stand by my choice of the word "trashed" to describe what she did, although I should point out again that me putting it in quotes does NOT imply that she ever used the word "trashed." > Unlike Barry, who pronounced judgment on > Lynch's film, calling it "stupid," without having > seen it, I don't critique the quality of films I > haven't seen. Now we get to the FUN part. I challenge what's- her-name to come up with a quote here on Fairfield Life in which I referred to David Lynch's "Inland Empire" as "stupid." I just looked, and as far as I can tell, I never commented on the film itself at all. What I did was comment on a supposed excerpt from the film that was placed on the Net and suggest that if it was representative of the final film itself, I was underwhelmed and wasn't going to bother with it. I said many other even stronger things about the clip, but I don't think the word "stupid" was in them. That would have been an unnecessary slur on the concept of stupidity. What's-her-name is probably confused as to what I said and what I said it about because she never bothered to look at that film clip EITHER before commenting on it. :-) So as far as I can tell I did NOT refer to a film I'd never seen of David Lynch's as "stupid." Unless what's-her-name can prove that I did, using that very word that *she* chose to put in quotes, I think an apology is in order. :-) :-) :-)
