My in box is swelling with anonymous comments. About 90% of anonymous comments impatiently explain to me the writer's opinion of my mental stability, my relationship with my mother and which end of my body I can insert my reviews. The other 10% just insult me without getting into specifics.

There are things you have to expect when you put your opinions out for the world to see: random drive-by comments, trolls, thieves and hackers. Every time a segment of one of my posts is lifted and dumped on some lame forum I have to spend the next two weeks filtering out invective from my e-mail. Right now I have folks from three different forums coming by and kicking me in the soft bits. There's a Twilight group that has it out for me, some northern European forum about something - I'm not sure, I can't read it but I do know they use a lot of umlauts and vowels. Then there's my private troll Greg who has dumped a quote of mine on another forum filled with particularly slow witted folk. So as you can guess, I have plenty of seething visitors who don't know what I'm about and don't much care to learn. Two of these groups see the word "Christian" and get into a lather and start sending me comments.*

For all of you new to the site, let me explain what's going on here.

What seems to be frustrating people is my posts involving trailers and films I haven't seen yet. There are plenty of people who get rather upset that I would dare pre-judge a film based on the trailer and other marketing. When I post a movie trailer I give my thoughts on my reaction to it. Sometimes I discuss the marketing aspect, sometimes I simply react. A trailer is a commercial. To get a reaction is the point of the ad in the first place. Are there some films I do not need to see to dismiss? Sure. I don't need to see all of the Saw movies to understand what they are all about. I get it. Most films I will give a fair shake when the time comes. If I run down a movie prior to seeing it and I am proven to be wrong, I publish a correction. My reaction to Fireproof is an example. To judge a film, and publish my opinion of it based on the trailer is not wrong. It is no different than if/when I state that I am looking forward to a film's release based on the marketing. There are plenty of films I've looked forward to seeing only to be disappointed by the end product.

I hope this clears things up for you foul mouthed goofballs out there.

As for my grammar and spelling. I cop to bad grammar. I have grammatical tourette's, I go along and WHAM I throw in a comma or a dash, slash or whatever - I can't control myself.

Please note the above bit on trailers is not directed to K or Darrell. You both had good points on Bart Got a Room. If I'm wrong on it, I will certainly admit it.




* - to be fair, I don't know exactly which of these forums is getting me these comments. It is possible, though unlikely, my recent uptick in nasty comments is just a random occurrence - but they all seem to really like teenage vampires and graphic novels.

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