9th February 2008, 5:24 PM
Actually I hated the ending of Contact too. It was too wishy washy, and really there was no reason to believe her. I was left saying "so what, she dreamed it all?".
Again, different tastes. I'm not saying my taste is "good". Objectively speaking, the most I can say is my tastes ARE. I can, at most, say this. You liked Contact. I didn't. I explained why I didn't like it, you explained why you do like it.
You explained your reasons for why this or that should or should not be included. The fact is, those only hold if you hold those as your primary concerns in a story. That's not the case for me. It's why I love Tolkein. That guy takes the time to explain every single frickin' thing in his world. Yeah I have some problems with it, but we're not identical.
I see explaining why something is happening as an end in itself, that's all.
At any rate, this whole thread you've been nothing but antagonistic here. I've only said I don't think I'd like it (still haven't seen it, might change my mind), and that I absolutely hated Contact, like the way I hated Armageddon (liked Deep Impact though). You really should take someone saying they hate the things you love as an insult so much, unless they go to the next step and say "also I think you are stupid for liking the things you like".
Seriously, it's just fiction, so who cares?
Again, different tastes. I'm not saying my taste is "good". Objectively speaking, the most I can say is my tastes ARE. I can, at most, say this. You liked Contact. I didn't. I explained why I didn't like it, you explained why you do like it.
You explained your reasons for why this or that should or should not be included. The fact is, those only hold if you hold those as your primary concerns in a story. That's not the case for me. It's why I love Tolkein. That guy takes the time to explain every single frickin' thing in his world. Yeah I have some problems with it, but we're not identical.
I see explaining why something is happening as an end in itself, that's all.
At any rate, this whole thread you've been nothing but antagonistic here. I've only said I don't think I'd like it (still haven't seen it, might change my mind), and that I absolutely hated Contact, like the way I hated Armageddon (liked Deep Impact though). You really should take someone saying they hate the things you love as an insult so much, unless they go to the next step and say "also I think you are stupid for liking the things you like".
Seriously, it's just fiction, so who cares?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)