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In Reply to: Re: While I do enjoy listening to... posted by jamesgarvin on January 5, 2006 at 12:02:03:
...the fact of the matter is that much in these sorts of exchanges is ultimately onanistic. No argument is more effective than just a matter-of-fact expression of opinion, and I happen to think that Ebert has more to offer than most popular critics, even as I often disagree with him.I think it's utterly rare if not unknown for a mind to be changed though an argument in one of these up or down threads. Really these posts are all conclusions in search of arguments and evidence, even when someone loudly proclaims their "argument" as if in some pure sense it was an objective route to a necessary endpoint.
It's best to focus on our own primary discussion of films and to generate as much back and forth as possible. It's infinitely more interesting to hear nuanced statements about what someone thinks *about* something than just how good or bad they think it is. If you tell me you hate something what are you really saying? Not much.
And, rating the critics is a weird sort of double-back game. In the end it adds precious little to our conversations about movies and music.
I must admit that I find a few of the most frequent posters (who I will not name) to be pretty limp both in their "conclusions" and their arguments. I find it funny when people who seem to me findamentally weak-minded speak with a kind of overbearing self-certainty.
And now I've made myself sound like an incredibly supercilious snob! Oh, well...
Elliot Berlin
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