I thought this was what you were doing
TORE.
I criticise the films (a lot). Being critical should incorporate intelligence and fairness.
I bash the films at times too, but that's when I'm being silly and not too serious. For example, I might say
'"A diversion" – wonderful...' and mutter something inaudible. That's probably bashing. But if anyone then wanted to be a bit more serious, I can back up my complaints in a fair and reasoned manner. What I was doing was passive bashing. This sort of bashing demonstrates laziness, but it is not hostile.
But
Tigerlily's bashers – for anyone not familiar with these people, they only complain at all times and about everything, and seem to take pleasure out of it – are different. They are hostile and, though their criticism can be reasoned, they are still bashing the films.
Criticism with hostility, then, is proper bashing; but not all bashing is the same. There is passive and lazy bashing too: it is not properly critical and not hostile. There's my answer.