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

Reply to comment by KevKevThePug in I hated the film 'Nope' by jonah_wilkie

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.