Opinionated

[thessalian]

How do I say this without being impolite?

I don't. Okay. I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm sure I'll be seen as confrontational. I mean this in as nice a way as possible.

Remember when I said that spoilers for Serenity would be met with ritual torture of the messiest kind I can envisage? Well, the same goes for in-depth personal opinions about the film. I haven't seen it yet. I don't have an opinion. I don't want my eventual opinion to be coloured by your in-depth opinion. Tell me you loved it. Tell me you hated it. Tell me you thought it was okay but not fantastic. That's fine. Just don't tell me why you came to that conclusion. Let me work it out for myself.

Okay, so that wasn't very nice. Sorry. I can't think of a better way of putting it. Please just wait one more week and then I can discuss it with people. I can't discuss it from a position of complete ignorance, and I don't want to go into the cinema thinking of, for example, Annie's review. I don't really know Annie, but she's not some faceless reviewer either, so it's harder to completely ignore her views than it is to ignore those seen in the paper. It could be seen as a compliment; I refuse to dismiss that out of hand, however much I want to so that I can go into the film with completely uncoloured judgement.

Anyway.

Signed up for NaNoWriMo at long last. Already contributing on the forums. Work is slow today, and James is not in. I should do more Affils work. I'll save that for the afternoon. This morning, I just need to veg. There are no words for how hard it was to get out of bed this morning. I desperately wanted to curl up and sleep for another hour. The next two months are going to be very, very hard. However, I am trying to improve my physical health -- well, my diet anyway. I've taken to buying fruit juice and a light healthy breakfast before I get to work (this morning was orange, mango and guarana smoothie thing and some mango chunks), and I have been forcing myself to finish the fruit juice before I start on coffee. See, I tend to get sick when I overwork myself, so I'm hoping to reduce my chances of the illness hitting by increasing my vitamin intake. It's a workable theory, as weaselbitch is wont to say. My next step is healthifying my lunches. Bah. Healthy eating can be boring as all hell, you know.

And I have zombie-induced headache. Whee.

Comments

Amen

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

Heh. I find I'm not reading much of my friends list this week, what with every entry seemingly being a review (behind a cut tag, thankfully) or a commentary of Serenity. The difference being that I don't want to know whether or not someone thought it sucked or was great or what have you. I'll make up my own mind when I see it, and I'm damn excited about seeing it. There seems to be this consensus from t'other side of the pond that it's okay to make non-spoilerific comments regarding the movie, now that it's been out for more than a couple of days, which means that I skim-skim-skim until after this Friday.

Re: Amen

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I find it a lot easier to disregard a simple "It was great" or "I hated it" because it's just an opinion. I don't know what they're reacting to with the simple statement, so I don't wind up judging any specific element of the film when I finally see it, thus preserving my neutrality. Whereas when someone is very specific about what they didn't like, I wind up looking harder at that point to find out why they were so keen or unkeen on it, and not only is my judgement coloured but I wind up looking too hard at that point and missing something else.

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

If spoilers and reviews were behind cut tags, all I can say is "Tough". If not, they should be behind cut tags anyway...

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

The spoiler I read was behind a cut. The full review was made in comments. The one I could have avoided; the other was going to get me either when checking comments or when checking e-mail. It's not a huge thing, but worth saying.

[(Anonymous)]

Apologies - I didn't mean to annoy you. As you can tell, I have quite strong feelings about the film and they ran away with me.

I'll be very interested to read your opinion of the film once you've seen it.

Annie

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Not annoyed, really. Briefly grumpy, but that's a different thing. I suppose it's good to know, just for myself, what actually gets in the way of film enjoyment so I can tell my friends to please not do it anymore. Saves my film enjoyment and spares them my brief but potent wrath. :)