Serious question. It just seems like there's been this preponderance of threads lately that focus on films that users consider to be overrated, whether it's threads specifically designed for this purpose or threads with broad enough topics that overrated films take precedence (such as the "unpopular opinion" thread). The threads then go in the same cycle. Person A calls a movie overrated. Person B reacts unfavourably to Person A. There's a back-and-forth that doesn't change anything, then Person C calls a different movie overrated and Person A wonders how someone could ever think that that movie is overrated, and the cycle continues anew until the thread stops getting attention and another one springs up in its place.
It's just...why are we like this? I do have this theory that calling a film "overrated" (as opposed to just saying that you don't like it) acts as a way of reinforcing one's own opinions, as if to say that other people are wrong for liking it more than you do. That's probably why the arguments get more heated than if it was just a matter of saying you just don't like the film without explicitly factoring in what everyone else thinks about it.
What do you think?
It's just...why are we like this? I do have this theory that calling a film "overrated" (as opposed to just saying that you don't like it) acts as a way of reinforcing one's own opinions, as if to say that other people are wrong for liking it more than you do. That's probably why the arguments get more heated than if it was just a matter of saying you just don't like the film without explicitly factoring in what everyone else thinks about it.
What do you think?
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