I think you're just one of the easier ones to predict, after all, you do sound like Darth Vader.
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Boromir88 is someone who thinks, for the most part, that you can intelligently discuss dislikes & bashing only takes place when you are hostile on a consistent basis towards the film.
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I must say you're better at explaining how I think what bashing is and isn't than I would be able to. Like I promised, what I don't call bashing is expressing dislikes about the movies. In the thread
Most hated parts of LOTR (posts 29-31), me and Essex get into a discussion of the beating Gandalf gives to Denethor. We say what we think, Essex shows textual support on what Jackson might have gotten the Denethor is a punching bag inspiration, I say he overused it. Discussions over, we expressed our opinions and moved on, that's what I would classify intellegent debate. We have our own set of opinions, vocalize them, and move on. I dislike a certain part of the movie, another doesn't or vice versa, and we move on.
I consider bashing to be the links I gave to the posts above. People who just say they hate the movies and they're no good. That may very well be someone's opinion, but they don't go on to explain why they don't like the movies. They simply degrade it to try to get attention and cause strife to those who enjoy it. Their sole purpose is to degrade the movie to get attention, not explain and support why they don't like it.
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bashing, under my thinking is, those who degrade the movie with the sole purpose to grab attention and try to cause hurt to the people who like the movie. There's nothing intellegently enlightening about their posts at all, just a bunch of crap saying how they hate the movies.
Again, "intellegent debate (to me)" is discussing different opinions, and both sides support their stance, certainly isn't movie bashing for the one that doesn't like a certain part of the movie. Just don't like that part and I explain why.