Comments on: How Acronyms Ruin Movies (HARM)

By: warning: harmful to movies « Lazy Teahouse

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By: Sparkslark

Sparkslark — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:42:01 +0000

Saying a great movie is overrated doesn’t change the fact that it’s a great movie. Not your type of film? Sure, opinions are subjectional and reflect back on the individual themselves & their tastes and not the film itself since many people will see the film in a different way. But to say “‘this’ film is overrated” as if it were an objectionable fact that cannot be disputed is downright idiot. TDK (don’t act like you don’t know what it means), like many other great films, is a well made film that has gathered a lot of positive opinions from millions of people. Of course, like with all wildly popular films, a loud majority who doesn’t understand why people like it so much are going to speak up on the internet at various sites. But the internet is not a large community, and those with the privilage of writing their own article or have their own blog in order to express their opinion, no matter how well educated someone is in writing or arguing, are still just expressing their own opinion, which doesn’t not stand above anyone elses and vice versa. Because people who share negative opinions about these great films now have a means of expressing their voice, it becomes a “how loud and often can your voice be heard?” situation, and because we have the internet in this day and age, we get more of these “loud” voices about great films like TDK than we would have over great films like TGF (The Godfather) if the internet had existed back in that day, in which these same “loud” voices over that movie just needed an outlet like this to have their opinion heard. So no matter how many times you may read on the internet that “‘this’ movie really sucks” or “‘this’ movie is overrated”, it is not an accurate representation of the overall opinion of these films, so no matter how many times you read “TDK is an overrated movie” on a few websites, it doesn’t change the fact that in reality the movie has been embraced by an overwhelming majority of movie goers and critics alike. And the fact that so many people have embraced a movie like TDK begs the question “what kind of power does this movie have to generate such an overwhelmingly positive response?” If a film can generate this same level of positivity (notice that there are different levels of response for which different types of films are measured) with millions of people then doesn’t it follow that the film itself has a high quality to the way it is structured that is allowing for this level of positivity to occur again and again in the majority of people who have seen the film?

And I agree with someone above who said that this should be an article about how *this* writer doesn’t like acronyms/abbreviations, and not an objective statement on how acronyms/abbreviations ruin a films merit. First off, people can call the film what ever they want but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still the same film. And second, this writer definately has a problem with distinguishing fact from his own opinion.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:20:57 +0000

disagree a bit.

If im on the IMDB Lord of the Rings forum and im discussing a particular topic I don’t want to have spell everything out. Its much easier to say FOTR, TTT, ROTK, if someone responds asking what the hell these things stand then chances are they aren’t smart enough to discuss the topic at hand or answer the question ive asked. Learn the topic before you participate.

By: jerm

jerm — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:13:13 +0000

I think a lot of you are kind of taking this too literal.
Yeah it didn’t RUIN the performance or quality of the film, he is just mocking the inundation of marketing trends that try and be clever and hip in their efforts to send a message and make it cool to say the names of movies.
I can see where in an article or on blogs or in discussion forums the want to use things like TDK or LOTR, it makes sense.
Like when I say I live in the NW of the US.

But I don’t say I live in PDX (for Portland) as some do.. that bugs me. Nor will I use the weird trendy neighborhood names.
SoHo did it and that’s really all there should be.
It isn’t destroying society, it doesn’t hurt anyone.
It’s just dumb.

By: erised

erised — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:56:40 +0000

I know that I actually do like when people use the initialisms/acronyms, especially in forums. If I am in a “The Dark Knight” forum, I am not going to get upset if someone refers to it as TDK, nor if I was in another related forum. I agree that if it is somewhere that it wouldn’t be understood to represent “The Dark Knight”, then simply “the Dark Knight (TDK)” and then referencing TDK there after is fine. I think this might even be a basic 101 when it comes to forum writing. This is even common in normal essay writing. And I don’t see a problem with it being used to advertise a movie, and I agree with the other poster above with regards to how on earth did this ever ruin the movie in question? I don’t know anyone that goes “wow, Terminator 2 was so crap because they referred to it as T2!”. This should have been an article simply saying how much you hate it personally, not that it actually ruins anything’s merit.

And I think there might have been other factors in Independance Day that contributed to people thinking ill of it – not so much that it was sometimes referred to as ID4. Sorry, but this article is silly to me.

Oh and, you kind of lost me with the “overrated” comment you found the need to make about TDK