Boondock Saints

[J.A.K.]

Rush,

The difference between you and I on this matter (it seems) is that I don't think my liking BS qualifies it as a "good" movie. My statement that "BOONDOCK SAINTS IS A GOOD MOVIE" is closer to reality than "BS is garbage" based on it's entertainment value and on the fact that the majority of people who saw it, loved it. Whereas, your not liking it qualifies it as absolutely bad because you are a more "pensive" fellow and you watch foreign films.
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Believe me, I know a little bit about movies, and I think I can say with some certainty that this film is pretty awful.

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There are plenty of movies that contain overacting, poor writing, etc. that are enjoyable because other elements carry them- or we simply tolerate it because we take the movie at face value.
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Why would anyone say that there seems to be a contest to out-brood, outcontemplate, out-meditate, or out-ponder anyone here?

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I gave you the definition. If you have to extrapolate to make your point fine. If you still don't think in deep thought fits the "denotative" meaning, then I have no recourse.

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Nobody's saying we insist on The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Salo, or The Decameron here. Seems as if folks are just saying The Boondock Saints was goofy and stupid.

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Wow, more obscure foreign films...we get it, you see lots of movies, are well rounded, etc.

As to the bold part I am quoting OP:

"Good lord, what dreck.

Awful, awful...awful."

And others:

"horrible movie"

"It's not that the movie was overrated, it was that it's TERRIBLE. It's horrible on every imaginable level"

"This movie is terrible, just [censored] terrible."

"one of the five worst movies I've ever seen."

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In other words, no one would ever describe himself as "pensive." Would they?

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Uh...I can't answer that. But I have certainly described someone as being pensive, meaning they were deep in thought or PONDERING something. Would it help if originally I had said "There is a lot of 'I sit around pondering, and thinking deeper about movies than most' bull**** going on here"?

Meh, this will go nowhere. Some like it some don't.