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Matter of Opinion

I saw an article today talking about how it's been 20 years since the Fifth Element came out.  When it came out, apparently, the reviews were not so great.  I remember seeing it when my parents bought it on VHS.  I loved it.

To this day I still love it.  It's easily one of my favorite movies.  But some people just don't get it and that's they're own opinion.  There are plenty of movies that I don't like or don't get.  Pretty much any movie that is up for the best movie awards at the Oscars are movies I won't watch cause I have zero interest in them.

But I started listening to the How Did This Get Made podcast where they talk about a different movie each week that they may like or may not like and make fun of it as they go.  It's a fun podcast to listen to even if it isn't a movie that you've seen before.

One of their early podcasts (I just started listening to it and started from the beginning) was for Sucker Punch.  They didn't really like it, but as they talked about it I got more interested in watching it.  Now listening to what they said about you would wonder what was wrong with me, but it piqued my interest.

I just got done watching it, and sure enough, I liked it.  It didn't blow my mind or anything, but it kept my interest.  There are some bad things about it, but those are more thematic.  The movie basically goes into video game sequences and has good looking ladies being badasses.  Pretty much all I need.

Would I argue with them that they were wrong?  No.  They had their opinions and I can't really disagree with them.  There are some movies or things that I will defend strongly, but if someone has an opinion that doesn't change my enjoyment of said thing. 

Some people need to remember that when someone has a different opinion than them.  Their opinion doesn't change anything about yours, unless you can agree with some of their opinion.  That still doesn't mean you can no longer like or dislike something.

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