“We were always welcome to criticize them and anything else we want to. This is America after all.”
When the giant gang of us were little, we were reminded to say ‘I don’t care for it’, if absolutely forced, that is, asked, if we like something that others might enjoy.
We were taught that “it’s a free country, I can say whatever I want” is a mob response to any objection to being polite. The right to free speech keeps us out of most legal trouble, but to be used as an excuse to speak one’s mind rudely, taking away others’ enjoyment, will cause others to distance us socially.
This lesson was reinforced as we found it to be true
Now with social media, anonymity somewhat prevents this check on polite behavior, and to add to the insult, people mob up, gang up.
If a century old film is popular, one would be most careful to not point out the things about it, that they don’t care for, or they’ll be sure to be throwing a wet blanket on the fun.
20 years ago, my grandmother called me from the fab nyc apartment she’d lived in for decades to tell me they were playing the Marx Brothers (a marathon) on
Channel 5.
When we were young adults we watched the Marx bros
We were looking through the boxed set to find A Day at the Races just this past Christmas break
If we hear a loud noise someone will say, ‘you’ve got cockroaches… and the largest one’s got asthma’ and that the Gen Zers
We were looking for a flashlight, I said ‘I gotta have-a-de flush. The kids helped me look, saying ‘da flush, da flisk’
The Marxie’s as they’re known around here are part of the family. But they’re Americana.
So here, this is the one...
I started writing a reply and its turned into quite an unnecessarily long book before I realized that you probably wouldnt actually read it and would think its rude anyway.
Explaining that women tend to use relational aggression and many revel in it isnt really the flex you seem to think it is nor where this conversation should be going.
I could ramble about this for a while but Im sure it would likely be viewed as a personal attack rather than what was really intended.
Bullish is correct in that statement even if his tastes in movies were the kind to enrage either one of us.
The point being that though I agree with you and not Bullish regarding the Marx Brothers, I absolutely can not stand the thin man movies. They really arent comedy, they try to be some kind of romance mystery as much as anything else.
I hope that your “enjoyment” isnt destroyed because I think those movies are at best a waste of time.
Gone with the Wind was trash but for various reasons I liked King Kong.
I really dont care if someone gets upset that I dont like Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was better.
Epic truly is a word for The Ten Commandments, West Side Story is a ridiculous social justice ripoff of Romeo and Juliet.
Now that Ive decreed these things first you must agree because since I said it first Im right and your opinion doesnt count. If you dont agree then Im going to have all the other little girls make fun of your shoes.