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I tend to be called a hipster and heard people tell me I just dislike things for being popular or whatever. But I've also emphasized several times there ARE things I love a lot of others love, and there ARE things I hate a lot of others hate. I love Lord of the Rings 1-3 for instance, and I hate Dragonball Evolution and Son of the Mask for instance. Could make a huge-ass list for it even if I cared to, but will not do so.
What I wish to do with this journal is to explain myself and my belief when it comes to opinions. I believe in literally being yourself as much as you can. Don't let it affect you how others think - just love and enjoy what you do, hate and despise what you do. But when I chat with people and also when I look at a lot of reviewers, I just feel like they are not thinking for themselves as much as they should.
Look at the Spill.Com crew for instance. 3 of 4 guys, occassionally letting a girl be with them (gee, how nice of them...), having all their own "opinions"... yet, whatever their opinions are, it's ALWAYS mainstream. Always. If a movie is generally viewed as a masterpiece with high scores by everyone, they all love it. At most, one of them will be like "not the best I've seen, but it's great". If a movie is generally viewed as a horrible piece of shit, they all hate it. At most, one of them will be like "It works watching at least once, at least if you have nothing better to do, but really isn't that good". And if a movie is very splitted on what people think about it - about as many loves as hates it, they will only then be that way themselves too.
What is even worse in Spill.Com's case is that they "jokingly" get angry when one of them "dares" to disagree on a movie with the others, attacking and crucifying each other among other things. Is it funny? No, not even remotely. Just makes it seem like they are incredibly insecure about their opinions and can not deal with different opinions, therefor tries to joke it all away. And you can say all you want I am "overanalyzing" - but things like these really will affect how people think. It's so easy for people to follow the flow even if they are usually not aware of it, and will alter themselves to some extent to fit with what their friends think. Sometimes they don't, but it's relative and variates.
And look at Doug and Rob Walker when they have that "Sibling Rivalry" thing... or, HAD, since they don't seem to do it anymore. Notice how whenever Rob disagrees with Doug, he interrupts Doug what he says by shaking his head constantly saying "No..."? It's obviously not something innocent just meant to be funny, because all it does is making it more difficult for the viewer to make out what Doug says about the movie. But Rob tries to cover it up in a way that makes it look like "oh, we are just silly brothers arguing". But of course, this affects Doug - it affects anyone, no matter what else they claim.
Humans tend to alter their opinions to their surrounding, much unlike how like I've said I work. I've learned to just think completely for myself. I have my only real life friend Alex I've known since baby years, sure. But our opinions tend to alter all the time. Heck, he loves Avatar. But he still understands my point of view and standpoint. He has even said he is simply easily entertained and can enjoy a lot of movies. And there's nothing wrong with that - I think it's admirable. And he has never ever reacted negative or bad to any movie opinions or opinions period of mine. I never even remotely argue with him - we just simply share our opinions and embraces them, no matter how different they are from one to the other. We are relaxed and comfortable with it, and I always try to be more like him when it comes to understanding others' opinions.
And one more thing about Doug Walker I have talked about before - his two top 11 lists of movies he hates everyone loves, and movies he likes everyone hates. Notice how he calls it "likes" and not loves? That's because he says himself that list is of dumb guilty pleasures of his. Yeah... there's not a single movie out there he personally considers a genuinly fantastic and great movie everyone/most people hates. Not a single one. And as for the movies he hates everyone loves? All 11 are movies people are splitted about. Every single one. I mean, come on... since when does "everyone" love Cars? Are you kidding me??
Again, I do know everyone should have their own opinions no matter what, absolutely. But when they represent and express what they like and dislike in certain ways, it goes to show to me they let their surroundings and/or society affect how they think. I've been letting the same thing happen to me in my days, and I'm sure it CAN possibly happen once or twice still. But I am always trying to work against that and just love and hate and like and dislike and be indifferent to what I want.
It's not wrong to for instance love the original Star Wars trilogy and hate the Star Wars prequels. Everyone have their own personal preferences, and I will not judge it for being what's generally accepted. But when you try to state the prequels are objectively dumber and more poorly written and such than the original trilogy? That's where I start to have a problem with it. People of course can much easier be bugged by nitpicks and pet peeves in things they hate than things they love - that's how humans work. But it's rather strange to see this display with things the prequels are criticized for obviously also applied to in the original trilogy. Mediocre-to-bad acting, annoying characters, plotholes, cheesy dialogue... it was all in the original trilogy as well, but prequel-haters claims it was SOMEHOW "better" in there because... uhm, because. 
And also, prequel haters likes to say how shitty the CGI is. I mean, sure... I guess things like Jar Jar Binks and that lizard thing Obi-Wan rides in Episode 3 for instance looks pretty fake. But what about all the great effects? The pod racers, for instance? And look at Watto - I honestly think he is one of the better CGI creations I have seen. But the hatred blinds people - and it being generally accepted and them belonging to a majority makes them think what they say is more correct.
Holy shit, this turned out to be a long journal. XP But I hope you're seeing what I'm saying? I really felt like talking about this in detail. I just simply want people to be themselves and think for themselves, not letting what other thinks affect their opinions. Sure, some other person might point out something that makes you think: "Hey, that's a valid point to me and changes how I see the movie!" - that happened to me after seeing a review of Kick-Ass, making me realize the movie really does feel meanspirited to me.
Either way, yeah. Bottomline - don't care about if you're being mainstream or if you're not being mainstream. Just think for yourself. Don't try to follow the flow, and don't try to go against the flow. Simply avoid burdening your mind with that, and be happy others have their own opinions and embrace and respect those opinions if they are rational and constructive and the person respects and embraces your own point of view as well - and I think you'll be the most happy that way when it comes to opinions. 
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Now when I finally managed to get this old account back after losing my password, I've grown to prefer my new account ~KurvosVicky (https://www.deviantart.com/kurvosvicky) and have decided to only keep this account left as a museum of sorts for my older stuff. But if you wish to follow me further, then please do so through the said KurvosVicky account. I've only removed my Iron Man 3 review and Dr Metal comic pages from this account - so please feel free to add them to your favorites again through my new account.
Overall, I hope this will lead to good things in the future. :) This might be the last I post to this account. I had a good run with it, but it feels good to have a re
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I would agree with you about the guys at Spill.com as for Doug Walker...well, I'm not so sure. Sibling Rivalry seems to be sort of half scripted, half improv with a whole lot of editing to make it the way it is. Rob definitely puts his opinion forward a lot more than Doug and he usually makes pretty strong but not necessarily right cases for his opinions. Doug does seem to go along with Rob a lot in Sibling Rivalry but looking at the Legend of Aang and Legend of Korra vlogs in which they both appear in; the two seem to have quite similar views already and Doug will go against Rob's opinion at times. Really they're on a show and they can't really afford to be fighting about their opinions much so it's not a really a good example. As with the two top 11's you mentioned, well again he's making something to entertain people. The two ideas for those list were around long before he did them and people probably requested he do them so he had to try to think of films that matched the categories for both cases. Doug's a film critic, he's not going to love any film that most people seem to hate because it's probably not that good. And you'd be hard pressed to find any film that he would hate that everybody likes. If everybody liked it, he wouldn't be making that list for it. There's obviously going to be some people that agree with him and Cars was a pretty good looking film with likeable enough characters. A lot of people enjoyed it or at least respected it for what it was.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with what you were saying and I'm not trying to be a DW fanboy although I know that's probably how I came across. They were probably just better examples than that. The star wars stuff is pretty true although I personally I dislike it all. I can think of loads of fandoms that are split down the middle between the old stuff and the new stuff and which is better. People find it easier to go along with somebody else's opinion but people also find it easier to voice their own opinion when there's support for that opinion. I think that's where the sort of line is for this subject. If something's disliked, people are going to dislike it. Some people will just go along with that because they don't want to be different and some people will go along with that because they are being themselves. And sometimes you can have your opinion changed if you're just on the fence about something, that's not really go with the mainstream opinion, it's just that sometimes the mainstream opinion makes some pretty good points and I think hipsters are the people who realise these points and actually agree with or at least understand the points made by the mainstream but don't want to show their support to the mass opinion.