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Friends In Your Head | Forums → Off Topic → NERD RAGE: 108 page response to Red Letter Media TPM review.
Megaupload? He can't set up a free blog and post it there?
I'm sure Obama's got a glock taped under his desk in the Oval Office, you know, just in case.
You know your argument is in trouble when you open your response with a line of dialogue as bad as "He was deceived by a lie." By a lie? Really?
When talking about the character stuff, it appears that he's making arguments in favor of the review rather than against. When he's talking about Qui-gon the guy takes 5 paragraphs to say that he's a father figure and compassionate and patient. His arguments in favor of this opinion are about 20 seconds worth of screen time where qui-gon says a few things to various characters. The point of the exercise is to briefly give people an idea of the character's personality. You kinda know what Han Solo's gonna do in a given situation given his attitude and personality. I have no idea what Qui-Gon will ever do, aside from talk a lot. His most defined character trait is that he likes to hear himself talk.
I'm probably going to read this whole thing. It's interesting to know what the mindset of someone who likes TPM is. I wonder if this guy actually believes all of this stuff, or if he just likes the movie and thus needed to legitimize that by attacking a popular negative review of it.
I'm about 50 pages in, and from what I've read thus far, the majority of this kid's arguments are retconns he's made up to explain away a lot of the idiocy in the movie. He takes things that the movie implicitly states like "Planet Core" and argues that they COULDN'T have been talking about the actual center of the planet - cause that would be stupid - or that OBVIOUSLY "Force her to sign it" really means "give her tea and cake and politely ask her to publicly sign it with a smile on her face"... or that the signing the treaty wouldn't matter because it would be defeated in the senate or some stupid shit.
Basically, the guy isn't reading between the lines of the review, so he's tackling specific things that Plinkett says instead of inferring that, for instance, there was no real reason to have R2D2 in the film at all, that making the movie about taxes and politics with no clear conflict or antagonist was a bad idea from the start, etc.
So it's essentially circular reasoning, begging the question, and related fallacies. The movie isn't stupid, and anything that appears stupid is therefore not stupid, because if it were stupid the movie would be stupid, and the movie isn't stupid. Using the conclusion he's trying to argue as a premise in the argument itself.
Oh jesus. This is why I never learned to read.
- Branco
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