Worst Movie(s) you were made to sit and watch by people...

[BloodyMage]

Originally Posted by RobinStarwing

Although...is a lot of this just stemming from the fact you are yourself a frustrated writer who gets rejection letters because no publisher wants to publish your stuff? I could tell you why.

The reason why...

Those who can, do. Those who can't criticize.

That a rather assholish attitude towards the criticism, man. I mean, for one, you need a rather good, indepth understanding of literature, it's history, the cultural implications, the social background and how to write to even begin to be a critic. There are probably plenty of critics who could be writers, and there are probably a lot of writers who couldn't be writers, because analytical writing and creative writing are really two different animals. They might share a lot of the same traits and characteristics but the differ in large ways too. It seems unfair to level Smarty as some sort of bitter and angry failed writer just because he's criticising some classics.

Also, I can kind of understand what he's getting at. Well's The Time Traveller was largely a social exploration of the class system, reflecting that the upper classes would become weak and feeble from their reliance on the lower classes who would become strong and brutish. While it might seem like a social attack, it does reaffirm that the lower classes are brutish animals, while the upper class are spoiled and intelligent, so it even Well's writing had it's own unfortunate implications, much like Meyer's writing does to relationships and a woman's place within one.

On topic though, I can't really think of anything I've been forced to watch. I do watch a lot of crap, but most of it I put myself through. No one drags me into them.

[RobinStarwing]

Originally Posted by BloodyMage

That a rather assholish attitude towards the criticism, man. I mean, for one, you need a rather good, indepth understanding of literature, it's history, the cultural implications, the social background and how to write to even begin to be a critic.

It seems unfair to level Smarty as some sort of bitter and angry failed writer just because he's criticising some classics.

I was joking around with that. It wasn't meant to be serious.