I can never understand how people can flip so completely on films (and music for that matter) that they once loved. The Phantom Menace was the first Star Wars film I ever saw at age 10 and I loved it. Even though I now realize it’s objectively a bad movie I still really enjoy watching it. I actively try to not let any one else’s opinion effect my own personal enjoyment/connection with things, they certainly impact by objective view but I try to enjoy everything I watch as much as I can regardless!
I think in this IMDB ratings/RT score age we’re all getting caught up in whether something is objectionably good or not that we completely forgot to enjoy ourselves.
You aren’t allowed to enjoy anything if people around you don’t like it. If RLM said Gone with the Wind was worse than the Garbage Pail Kids movie, generalfrevious would immediately amp up the crazy and write a novel in this thread about how that’s how he feels now.