I get all that shit, but I didn’t like the character. How is it a mistake to bring up my disdain for people? It’s relevant. I don’t like ordinary, boring people so obviously I’m not going to like an ordinary, boring character. Whatever its goal was, the film’s story didn’t move me. That was my fucking problem with it. I get your point about the everyman character, I even acknowledged that earlier, but it doesn’t work for me. I said that many times. I don’t need or want a scholarly assessment of the film to convince me how wrong I am about it. I don’t care if every single other person on this shithole planet likes that lead character, it doesn’t change that I didn’t.
For fuck’s sake.
First of all, calm the fuck down. We’re just talking about a movie.
Second, it’s one thing to say you personally would’ve enjoyed it more one way or another due to your own insurmountable biases (I personally don’t care much either way for “likability” when it comes to characters in general), but you said that the film would’ve been essentially the same had it been about the Dillon character, which is what I was arguing against. It would have been very different, as the main intention of the film could not have been accomplished in the same way, which is my whole point. I don’t care if you would have liked it more a different way, that’s your problem.