In reply to Offwidth:
> I'm sure you did, but you didnt say that or otherwise make it clear why they are overall worse than some very strong compettion.
- Do you really need it explained?
>You could also have been humerous about it but instead you chose to label a few films, broadly regarded as middling if flawed by most, with no reasoning whatsoever.
- It was in the spirit of the op.
>So why post? Lazy breeds lazy,
- because I can. It's a UKC thread about movies, i.e. not important or serious.
> so is it really the producers' and director's fault
- A lot of the time yes it is. They constantly underestimate the viewing public, are generally patronising and fail to come up with decent original films.
>or is more about the lame audience
- No. See above.
> as illustrated by the many unthinking comments on this thread, that we face so much stuff in film that is plain terrible or could have obviously been a lot better.
I'm really quite impressed at your consistently high quality posts and level of spelling considering your current cranio-rectal situation. Maybe a career in screen writing awaits? Although I'd avoid comedies if I were you...