minor muppetz
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Seems there's a number of movies, franchises, shows, celebrities, and things that get a lot of hate online - it's common for people on all message boards to dislike them, it's common for them to be picked on by various caustic critics like The Nostalgia Critic, it's common for shows like South Park or Family Guy to poke fun of at them in a seemingly negative way. People and things like Adam Sandler, the Land Before Time sequels, Master of Disguise, current Family Guy, and likely some other things that I can't think of off-hand. I feel like people I know like a lot more live-action adaptations than most people online and such as well.
And yet when I talk to people I know, particularly those who are in the target audience or were when those things came out, the people I talk to in person actually like them. I like many of those things (okay, I've only seen the first few Land Before Time sequels, never really cared to see any past the fifth, but I like the second fine and feel the third and fourth one have things I enjoyed). But the internet and the entertainment industry seem to hate them (could it be that they're really popular to hate?). I can see professional critics (ones that don't just review things for an online comedy series) disliking them, those kinds of people seem to be too mature.
Adam Sandler getting a lot of hate seems a little surprising. Maybe not from this message board, but a lot of criticism is his works being so distasteful, and yet the hate seems to extend to people like The Nostalgia Critic and Film Brain, their fans (judging by message board comments) seem to think so as well, and he sometimes gets this kind of treatment by shows like South Park and Family Guy. These are all things that are arguably as distasteful (often more so) than the works of Adam Sandler.
Of course, a lot of these things have been financially successful (not sure about Master of Disguise), but financial success is often different from critical success (I can't believe that Paul Blart: Mall Cop got a sequel, and that's one that I almost never hear praise from people I know).
And yet when I talk to people I know, particularly those who are in the target audience or were when those things came out, the people I talk to in person actually like them. I like many of those things (okay, I've only seen the first few Land Before Time sequels, never really cared to see any past the fifth, but I like the second fine and feel the third and fourth one have things I enjoyed). But the internet and the entertainment industry seem to hate them (could it be that they're really popular to hate?). I can see professional critics (ones that don't just review things for an online comedy series) disliking them, those kinds of people seem to be too mature.
Adam Sandler getting a lot of hate seems a little surprising. Maybe not from this message board, but a lot of criticism is his works being so distasteful, and yet the hate seems to extend to people like The Nostalgia Critic and Film Brain, their fans (judging by message board comments) seem to think so as well, and he sometimes gets this kind of treatment by shows like South Park and Family Guy. These are all things that are arguably as distasteful (often more so) than the works of Adam Sandler.
Of course, a lot of these things have been financially successful (not sure about Master of Disguise), but financial success is often different from critical success (I can't believe that Paul Blart: Mall Cop got a sequel, and that's one that I almost never hear praise from people I know).