Hypothetical.
As for complaints about RLM's long reviews, yea sure, read some of those as well, and they're just as stupid. Based probably on the fallacy that movies are only there for cheerful (or scornful) consumption when you've got friends over, or bored, and there's some sort of maximum limit on how much time and effort can be spent on an actual critical analysis / snarky derision, or production of any other sort of secondary material.
Bonus irony points when it comes from people who daily post multiple comments on movie forums :D
Also, of course, some of those comments were literally aimed against RLM BASHING the movies for hours, not so much merely commenting on them :P
Like, "it's bad making fun of someone's work, and if you spend so much time on that, that's so sad!" XDD
Um, why not go to the other extreme and ask why someone would spend so much time on making, you know, a MOVIE?! 3 years on... a 2 hour long movie? Especially one that's just there for entertainment and doesn't do anything in terms of useful social commentary or influence on society's opinions and attitudes towards important topics?
Question for you now, would you be able to watch the Phantom Menace, or TESB for that matter, while doing your laundry? Would you consider that the optimal mode for watching movies in a thoughtful way? How does saying that you can't read someone's pdf article as a distraction / accompaniment, as opposed to watching a video, say anything whasoever about the actual work itself, or how "sad" its author is?
Obviously it doesn't, it's the equivalent of "I don't give two cents about Star Wars, and won't watch it when it airs on TV". Just as valid, problem solved.
Having that said, I have no problem switching between work and forum posting / article reading, whether the work is on computer, or something else ;)
Can you read a book while doing laundry?