: It's weird AF what people will get into an argument over and what rhetorical hills they choose to die on. Weirder is that not only will they do what I just described but that they will intrude into already-running conversations between complete strangers, and then they will present themselves as the Expert on the Matter. Even funnier is what the two already in discussion are intimately acquainted with the topic but that the asshole only knows about because of what they read/heard online. #FFS
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I was discussing "Alien3" with a German SFX veteran about problems the production faced, and he was unhappy that they killed off Hicks and Newt, thought it was lazy writing. I chimed in about the reasons they did it, all of which were sadly not unusual film development and production problems, and that's when Mr. Entertainment showed up, scolded me for being pedantic and told me he knew everything about the "tortured production". (That phrase appears in loads of articles about...
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...the film. Clue No. 1) He then said I knew nothing and was just talking shit to sound smart. (Projection-Deflection. Clue No. 2) I told him he can find out some of what I'm talking about in Google searches and that other stuff I got by talking about the somewhat cursed film with Michael Biehn, Paul McGann, Ralph Brown, and Walter Hill, though not at the same time.
Films are more than the script, and he said that was nonsense. (Clue No. 3) He said it was all "Fincher's...
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...lazy writing" and his taking the cheap way out. (He obviously knew shit about the film's development hell, apparently never really paid attention to what he was reading or what others were saying about it. (Clue No. 4) Then came the "if 20th Century Fox wanted to make a good movie, they would've made it". (He is not familiar with movie studios, executives, or the process of getting a film from idea to reading reviews in Variety. (Clue No. 5)
Makes my teeth hurt.