Re: Why should I be interested just because its popular?
On the subject of Birdbox, I've not seen the film but I did write This review in 2014 just after I read the book.
My issues weren't specifically with portrayal of blind people, more that Mailerman really should've really thought more about consistency and maybe done a bit of research.
Interestingly enough, I wouldn't mind seeing the film, but only because I'm faintly curious as to differences from the book and what they do with the adaptation, oh, and on the one hand all these facebook challenges sound a bit bonkers, on the other, if people find they don't die without sight that might actually be sort of helpful .
As regards the comments on popularity, I personally found that if I am socialising, I don't have a good enough poker face to pretend to be interested in something I'm not interested in. I have no interest in sport and I doubt I could fake an interest well enough to fool anyone, much less actually converse in a two way manner, which is why it wouldn't really help me to look at something popular for social reasons.
As to popularity meaning success, to be honest my issue here isn't that something "is!" popular, its just why should I exactly care! that something is popular.
If I go into a shop and they sell several brands of something, I'll generally go with what saves money and/or is good quality. The price is obvious, the quality I determine either by trying the thing myself, or where that isn't possible, finding a person I trust, IE an intelligent person who has tried that thing to give me an opinion.
As I said, I'd much rather someone disagreed with me rationally than just say "Try this is good"
For example, as I've said before, I really dislike superheroes, the cardboard reusable villains, the angxy self obsessed heroes, the deus ex endings, the inconsistent world building, the style over substance etc etc.
However, I'd much rather hear an opinion like that of leibylucw above, which actually gives rational and understandable reasons why he likes the Marvel universe films, than lots of people going "yeah its crap!"
Hell, its arguments like his that would be more likely to convince me to actually go and try one of the marvel films and perhaps be pleasantly surprised, ---- though I will say the last time I did this with age of ultron I, well wasn't! .
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