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Code Monkey
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And I think you have a preposterously single (simple?) minded view of woke. Your statement before made woke the reason for disliking the film, now we find that you dislike it for other reasons, and like some other woke films, but you still refuse to retract the statement. Why?
I didn't. Which defeats your following arguments. You read something into my post which I didn't say.
Now, getting back to that issue you seem to have identified with how I think taste in films should work. You are wrong. I am very aware of the complexity of human taste, and I did not for a second think that you disliked the film because it was woke. I do think you make absolute statements like that in order to bolster your argument against what you perceive to be woke. My responses have been to get you to see that making such absolute statements do not help your argument, and rather do it harm by making it very easy to poke holes in that argument. I would hope that pointing that out would get you to stop doing that, so we can really talk about the issue. Doing so might also help point out those errors to others. Either or both of those hopes might be entirely futile in this case, but what the hell, I enjoy clapping with one hand as much as the next guy.
You projected absolutism onto my posts. I'm sure you did it to make it easier to poke holes in them. But I'm not going to defend things I didn't say, or defend positions I never held just to make life easier for you.
Well, it's a good thing this board saves our posts, and provides a handy quote function for times like these:
BTW, Oldboy is a Korean, not woke, film which Lee made an awful American remake of, making it woke, and thereby stupid.
There is your absolute statement that the film is stupid because it is woke. You said it, own up to it.