What do you expect? Humans all have different opinions on stuff. It's one of the great things about us. When you ask him for his opinion on something, especially when it is controversial, you shouldn't criticize him for having an opinion that is different than your own.

Advent Rising... I just re-installed it a few days ago. A fan made a great patch called Advent Revising that fixed a lot of things the developers didn't have time to fix for release.