I love talking about the movies with people. I’m always interested in hearing other people’s perspectives on various films. What burns my britches the most though is when I bring up a certain film in conversation and it is immediately torn asunder in the most minimalist of statements. No defense. No nuggets of information to back it up. Just terse little comments like, “Didn’t like it” or “I didn’t understand that movie at all. I stopped watching after 10 minutes.” Its comment’s like this that gets my blood boiling. Immediately I’m challenging the opinion. What do you mean you didn’t like it? Didn’t you like the part where the guy does that thing with the thing to the other guy with the thing? I need to know. I need to know why I loved this film and you didn’t. As much as I don’t agree with your opinion, I’m even more interested in why you didn’t like it. Why didn’t this movie connect with you like it did with me? Change my mind! Make me agree with you. I really want to! Honestly I do! But these particular conversationalists again follow up with these unusable high school debating team tactics. “Uhhh…I don’t know. Just didn’t like it. Wasn’t my bag. It was stupid.” Not your bag? What kind of bag are we talking about here? Is it a plastic bag? Is it a big bag or a small bag? Where did you get this bag? Stupid? Stupid what? Stupid story? Stupid characters? Stupid dialogue? Give me something to work with here. Anything. A point of view. Even the minutest reference to the film in question. What did you think about that hat the main character was wearing? Did you think it was the kind of hat that brought out the internal struggle that the main character was dealing with at the point in the film? Did that hat speak to you? Don’t get me wrong. I am not a film snob. I’ll watch any movie. Anything. As long as it’s decently entertaining I couldn’t give a rat’s ass who directed, starred or wrote it. Just keep me mildly entertained and I’ll tell you why I like it.