But it's just personal opinion, Brian. You are getting pissed off because a lot of people disagree with you, it seems a bit petty. You don't like it, other people do. It doesn't mean you're wrong, it doesn't mean they're wrong.

And if I'm honest, I resent the idea that because lots of people disagree with you, something is wrong with that.....

(sorry if that sounds angry, that is not my intention, just joining in the conversation)

Oh please. Everybody feels that way about everything (generally).

I'm no worse a person for voicing the opinion.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"House" is a proper noun in this instance.

But you're right. I totally crossed some imaginary line that you've laid down. I'll stop having strong opinions about movies now.

EDIT: And for the record, I totally wrote this with a big grin on my face. LOOOOVE YOU!

Again, I love my boy.  But Spider Man 2 is like some kind of hidden trigger film that unlocks his secret government training and turns him into an unreasonable hate engine.

Listen, I just want this to be over. So how about I just agree to a nice big round of tax cuts for everyone!*

But seriously, that shit is just unreasonably bananas. Way more bananas than usual. That's all I'm saying.

*And by everyone, I mean just the rich.

In retrospect, I regret not having been part of either Spiderman commentary - I didn't boycott them or anything, I just wasn't available either time.    As a person who dislikes superhero comics in general, I never particularly cared for Spiderman (although the theme song from the '60's cartoon still rocks) and yet I really enjoyed the first Spiderman, and pretty much the second one as well.   (Sure, the wheels came off the Spiderwagon on the third lap, but they had two good turns before then.)

I don't get the dislike for the Spiderman flicks that my fellow DIF'ers all seem to share (in WILDLY varying degrees).   Those movies were the first to say, hey lookie, costume hero movies don't have to be camp, they can actually be pretty okay, and even have characters in them that you can relate to.   

Obviously you have to accept the goofball idea that being bitten by a radioactive spider makes you into some kinda spider-man instead of a guy with a mildly radioactive bump on his wrist, but okay, one piece of magic, go on.   That ain't nothing compared to what X-Men asks you to buy. 

And there wouldn't have been any X-Men movies anyway - at least not as sophisticated as the ones we got - if Spiderman hadn't already raised the bar for men-in-tights flicks and shown they could have plots and characters just like "real" movies do.

So yeah, putting the inhibitor chip there was a dumb design, but otherwise I thought S2 was pretty good stuff myself.

Fair enough on the which-came-first argument, I stand corrected and withdraw that comment.

I assume that came from the way I equate X-men and Spiderman pretty much.  They're all movies that I had no reason to like going in, based on things that I cared not about.   But they entertained me, and surprised me at how good they were.   Go figure.