I'm happy to discuss why Kubrick is such a great filmmaker, if people are interested.

Good one. I didn't even notice that.

Most theories of aesthetic value do not construe it in the manner of taste. Or if they do—as Hume and Kant's theories do—they nonetheless believe that it is prescribable, on the basis of "expertise," albeit understood in radically different ways. Hence Kant's point about the difference between deeming something…

I did not mean to include everything.

As I don't.

Uh, we're debating/arguing the point. Of course it's argumentative. If we agreed, there wouldn't be something to argue.

Well, that just doesn't follow. The Dead Zone was terribly written rubbish and Cronenberg made it into an amazing film. A good director can often see the great ideas in an otherwise poorly executed text.

Because no one has suggested that he is the "greatest man to ever pick up a movie camera" or anything close to it.

It's one of my favorite movies. And it is considered one of the greatest films by some of our finest film critics.

Straw man.

Look, some of the problem here may simply have to do with how sparingly people use words like "excellent."

Except that no one will pay to read your opinions on the matter. That's one difference between you and a real critic.

Snark masquerading as an argument is still nothing more than snark.

Yes, he is a great ideas- man and a very mediocre writer. He should hire a ghost-writer.

You can say what you like about 2001, but the overwhelming weight of critical opinion is against you. And yes, I know, that doesn't mean anything to you.

The whole conversation consists of opinions. I didn't think I needed to hold up a sign, announcing it.

He is a pulp writer, plain and simple.

Actually, the Kubrick film is a masterpiece of cinema, while King's novel is mediocre, poorly written rubbish.

Do these mods work with STEAM versions of these games? Is there anything special you have to do, if you have the STEAM version?

It seems to me that the only "appropriate"—if such a word even makes sense in this context—-response is a deep sadness: that such dark, terrible people exist and that others fall prey to them. Anything else strikes me as indecent and presumptuous, although, of course, entirely human.