re: Is It Okay to Dislike ‘Avengers: Infinity War’?

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Return of the King is the final act of a three-part story. Not exactly the same thing

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Yes and IW was the culmination of a much more ambitious project.

Not liking IW because it doesn’t stand on its own is like not liking Breaking Bad or the Sopranos because I only watched the the second to last episode

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it just might be a legitimate criticism.

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No, it's not. It is the culmination of a universe set up over a decade. No fricking shite it relies on information from the previous decade of world-building. Citing that as some flaw is lazy at best.

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It is the culmination of a universe set up over a decade.

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So what? I'm still trying to understand why this is supposed to mean something. The James Bond universe has been around for much longer, as has the X-Men universe. You don't see people jerking it to the longevity of those two franchises.

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So what? I'm still trying to understand why this is supposed to mean something.

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You've gotten enough attention out of me. No more feeding the troll.

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This is exactly like that. The MCU is a series of films all related to each other telling different aspects of an overarching story.

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I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. It's okay. I deal with LCDs like yourself all the time when discussing these films. I will not trouble you anymore.

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Though, I suppose it is braver than starting a thread about how much you hate The Last Jedi.

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On this board that is most certainly true. I am on record saying I like the majority of the movies, but say they are flawed films and you immediately get attacked for it. Because I had the gall to say I liked Man of Steel and the director's cut of Batman v. Superman, I have been labeled a Marvel hater and a DC apologist.

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Because I had the gall to say I liked Man of Steel and the director's cut of Batman v. Superman, I have been labeled a Marvel hater and a DC apologist.

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I wasn't a fan of either - mostly because they reinvented Superman in a way to where the description they give him later in Justice League doesn't make sense.

There's nothing wrong with liking them though. Affleck's Batman in the second movie is really good, though I felt he was too... "murdery". My primary complaints about those movies is that they're not really true to the characters, which isn't much of a problem until you try and treat them like the classic versions of them in future movies.

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Because I had the gall to say I liked Man of Steel and the director's cut of Batman v. Superman, I have been labeled a Marvel hater and a DC apologist.

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I'll give you Man of Steel. It was definitely an entertaining re-imagining of Superman. But every version of BvS is fricking unrestrained shite. I'm talking splatter the bottom side the toilet seat diarrheatic colon evacuation. frick that movie.

Ugh. As most have pointed out, what a terrible, whiny piece of writing. OF COURSE you can not like something. Not like away. But acting like you've committed some grave sin and you will be ostracized... oh poor baby.

Instead of asking the obvious question of IF you're allowed to dislike something, just write the article critical of the movie. Point out the flaws. Say what you didn't like. Have some f'ing backbone, you cowardly git. I couldn't even finish reading it through all of the smarm.

(To contrast, check out this criticism of NANETTE, the wildly praised Netflix comedy special, calling it "comfortable woke" by attacking it not from the right, as is expected, but from the left... calling it tame, erasing of the Jewish comedy legacy, and designed to shame gays into being more appropriate: LINK

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One of the best comic movies of all time and a landmark villain that will be remembered for decades

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He's basically the comic book version of Dr. Paul Ehrlich. I liked Thanos and thought he was the best part of the film, but come on! The above is insane hyperbole.