Discounting an opinion because it disagrees is poor argument (Gaming)

by Kahzgul, Saturday, June 04, 2016, 21:03 (3098 days ago) @ cheapLEY

In a movie about cars and guns and explosions and violence, with an incredible setting and fully realized world, the characters the movie follows actually bored me.

That's fair enough, and I'll never tell you that you're wrong to have that opinion. In fact, I don't even necessarily completely disagree.

However, I do think that is part of why I liked the film. I can't pretend to understand film-making or story-telling technique, but I LIKE that the most important character in the film (arguably) wasn't the main character. Maybe it just fits with my cynical world view--the real heroes are often nameless, faceless, and forgotten, while the people we sometimes (often?) uphold as heroes are just people doing things instinctively and because of their circumstance. I doubt that's any part of the intended message of the film, but I see it in there all the same.

Art is what you get out of it. And that rarely matches what the artist thought it would be.