• Steve
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    6 days ago

    If you don’t know how it ends, your opinion is necessarily incomplete. You can only speak to the portion you’ve seen. There’s no real way around it.

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      6 days ago

      Incomplete doesn’t mean invalid, though. I can say I didn’t enjoy the first half so much that I didn’t give the second half a chance. I will have enough information to explain why I didn’t enjoy the first half and my opinion of the movie is completely valid.

      I don’t have to continue to subject myself to something I don’t enjoy. I can explain what I don’t enjoy. People don’t need more than that to have a valid opinion of something. The only people I’d expect to have done more is somebody professionally critiquing movies.

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        6 days ago

        my opinion of [that half of] the movie is completely valid.

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          6 days ago

          Sure. But that’s enough.

          Demanding more than that isn’t conducive to anytime but trying to make people feel inadequate​ for wanting to enjoy their time.

          It’s completely fine if you feel like you need to see the end of a story to determine if it was good, but not everybody is like that.