The same goes the other way around: don’t let your enjoyment of something stop you from examining it critically, or, worse, (try to) stop others from doing so - which happens quite often, unfortunately.
Being critical of a film is actually just having a critical opinion about it.
Sharing that opinion with others is something else: a way of deriving personal enjoyment or satisfaction from one’s critical position through sharing it with others.
As with everything else that requires multiple people, somebody deriving their enjoyment of something through others is absolutelly fine if said others are also doing so or at least if don’t really care either way, but not fine if one is negativelly affecting the enjoyment of others to get some enjoyment oneself.
So if you’re critical of something whilst somebody else is not and indulge your need to “share it with them right then and there” in a way that impedes their own enjoyment, then you’re being selfish and if you have even the slightest shred of consideration for others you should at the very least shut up until after they are done with their own enjoyment.
(That said, an after-film discussion between two people with opposite opinions about good it was can be thoroughly enjoyable for both. Ultimatelly it depends on the people involved)
The number of times I have expressed criticism at movies and people were lashing out at me for pointing out those shortcomings. I never said I did not like the movie, just that it was not a masterpiece. For some people a movie is either good or bad, and if you point out some criticism, then you did not like it and you are wrong for it.
Had a friend say this exact thing recently, completely baffled me. I didn’t like the movie we watched and was pointing things out, he was agreeing with most of it until he said something like: “yeah but overall I enjoyed the movie so I shouldn’t complain about it.”
The same goes the other way around: don’t let your enjoyment of something stop you from examining it critically, or, worse, (try to) stop others from doing so - which happens quite often, unfortunately.
Being critical of a film is actually just having a critical opinion about it.
Sharing that opinion with others is something else: a way of deriving personal enjoyment or satisfaction from one’s critical position through sharing it with others.
As with everything else that requires multiple people, somebody deriving their enjoyment of something through others is absolutelly fine if said others are also doing so or at least if don’t really care either way, but not fine if one is negativelly affecting the enjoyment of others to get some enjoyment oneself.
So if you’re critical of something whilst somebody else is not and indulge your need to “share it with them right then and there” in a way that impedes their own enjoyment, then you’re being selfish and if you have even the slightest shred of consideration for others you should at the very least shut up until after they are done with their own enjoyment.
(That said, an after-film discussion between two people with opposite opinions about good it was can be thoroughly enjoyable for both. Ultimatelly it depends on the people involved)
The number of times I have expressed criticism at movies and people were lashing out at me for pointing out those shortcomings. I never said I did not like the movie, just that it was not a masterpiece. For some people a movie is either good or bad, and if you point out some criticism, then you did not like it and you are wrong for it.
Had a friend say this exact thing recently, completely baffled me. I didn’t like the movie we watched and was pointing things out, he was agreeing with most of it until he said something like: “yeah but overall I enjoyed the movie so I shouldn’t complain about it.”