Rayliex t1_j9tjjlk wrote on February 24, 2023 at 1:36 PM

Just noticed you seem to make a lot of posts about rugby and sports and such, much more than movies. Not to make assumptions, but maybe movies that make you think aren't really for you.

KevKevThePug t1_j9ug7em wrote on February 24, 2023 at 5:18 PM

Definitely an assumption and an asshole one at that. I love football more than anything and I also love movies that make you think. I can also say that about quite a few friends who obsess over sports.

OtherwiseCricket8982 t1_j9v0vnd wrote on February 24, 2023 at 7:29 PM

If we had to take generalizations of football fans and fans of "cinema that asks a lot of the viewer", I think the crossover is at a minimum. I have no real way of confirming this, besides maybe pointing to ask if there's a single movie about football that is also demanding of the audience in this way? There's something almost academic in nature about those ambiguous and thematic types of films. Typically hardcore academia and sports viewership don't have a huge crossover. It's a generalization, and there's tons of outliers, but I would put money on that being the case most of the time. Especially since most people, even non sports viewers, don't really love ambiguous thematic films, which could explain why Nope has a significantly lower audience score than user score. Basically: the average football fan isn't also a film snob.

I agree that calling OP out based on his post history is ludicrous though.

Rayliex t1_j9voewa wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:01 PM

Yikes, ok I probably should've backtracked before posting my first comment. I was going through OP's post history before to try see if he had made any other film-based posts, I was curious. So when I found that he seemed to have a WAY bigger interest in rugby, I guess I jumped to conclusions.

Though part of what I said was meant to be a joke and really just there to rile people up.

Sports and Movies each have a pretty different audiences when you get down to proper fans in the industries, and when it seems like you only watch films on occasion, it makes me assume that films aren't really your thing. And that would make Nope definitely not your type of movie.

But again, I apologize.