Hugh, there are always those movies which meet or stray from our personal tastes. I'm sure we all have movies in which we can't understand why other people like them. Movies that are considered "Classics" that we find boring and lame. There are also movies that everyone else seems to hate that we think are pretty good. It's a matter of taste, really. But you got a lecture from Tenenbaum and PJ because of your statement:
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If Coppola's objective was to make the viewer feel dismal in the sense that they identified with... weariness or mediocrity, or that sick, empty feeling, then she easily accomplished that feat.
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When you said this, it probably registered that you didn't appreciate the movie because you didn't understand it. It isn't an attack or a stab at your intelligence, just that they didn't see in it what you saw in it. Personal preference, really.