Speaking from experience, spitefully refusing to experience something because of other's actions can be deleterious to your own enjoyment.

As much as I enjoy watching football on Sundays, I used to want to yell at the screen for the players the hurry the fuck up so that they wouldn't cause Futurama not to be aired.

The video store by my house has a copy of Ginger Snaps 2 (or 3, who knows) which always cruelly reminds me that I keep meaning to get around to seeing Ginger Snaps. But then it gets filed away into the "things I mean to get around to seeing" file in my brain and I forget about it ten seconds after I walk out the door.

Fringe. I just got my hands on it. I missed the pilot (i couldn't get the avi file to read) so started at episode two. At first my response was "It's just an X-files knockoff" but as season one progressed I started getting into it. When I finally got the pilot to work I thought it was a pretty solid pilot.

They can be two things… and often are.

I wouldn't go so far as to talk about "open-minded forward-thinking secularization". The intelligentsia and secular types in Turkey have a long history of authoritarianism and opposition to free speech. Punishing people in Turkey for things like insulting the president existed long before Erdogan came to power. …

I was in fact.

First, I'll take issue with "People can only be disappointed by something if it's bad". Here's the dictionary definition of "disappointed"…

I'm amazed it hasn't been posted yet so here goes…

The lead up is also important… the sense of impending doom is palpable..

"I've got a problem here."
"Eject."
"I can hold it."
"Pull up"
"No, I'm alri…aaargh!"

I found that worked when it came to seducing your companions to the darkside. But to actually become darkside yourself you had to be a dick. Kill innocent people for no reason other than your own psychotic inclinations, be a rude asshole to anyone you talked to… that kind of thing. It's been a long time since I've…

It's actually a she. But she struck me as equally dogmatic in her world view as well? How does one maintain the "true neutral" stance she clearly favors? Do a little good and a little evil? A lot of good and a lot of evil. Or just don't do anything?

George Lazenby isn't. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is actually a pretty good Bond movie.

Challenge accepted. Read all the posts under (I guess most of them are actually above) this one where people talk about how "expectations being dashed" fuel a great deal of the hate. The expectations existed because it was a hugely popular franchise. That the disappointment fueled their dislike of the movies and…

I liked the idea of playing a Sith Lord far more than the actual practice of playing a Sith Lord. Since being a Sith Lord essentially meant being an dick at every opportunity. I wanted to play the slick kind of Sith. The guy that everyone thinks is great, but is secretly only interested in their own selfish ends.

Okay, that's fair. But it's been almost 2 decades since Phantom Menace. At some point we do have to be able to look at them without all the emotional baggage of "They sure were disappointing to me." and see them as movies which stand by themselves.

I disagree. It recently ran on Cinemax (like a year or so ago) and I watched it again for the first time since I was in elementary school. I still enjoyed it a great deal. Though not in the same way I did when I was a kid. It's still a pretty fun, silly, crazily campy treat.

Having never seen Hawk the Slayer, I have to assume it's awesome. Since it makes Krull, which is awesome, look like Beastmaster, which is also awesome.

Your point is well thought out and articulated… but I'd sooner spend a weekend in that Clockwork Orange chair with my eyes forced to watch an endless rerun of the prequel trilogy then to sit through Armageddon once. (the Rock and Pain and Gain were the main two reason I didn't just say the "entire" Michael Bay…