The point was obviously not whether or not you can USE something, but whether or not it makes sense to write a review about a product that is intended for someone else, as if it should be intended FOR YOU.
A product that is intended for only a specific group (Tampon: Women, Emoji-movie: children), that gets a review from someone that is not the target audience (Tampon: man, Emoji-movie: adult), while only considering only things that are relevant for his own group but not the target group (Tampon: "Hey, men can't use this!", Emoji-movie: "Hey, adults don't like this!")
gervisium wrote:
If you go "hur dur those two things are different", then you missed the point that analogies aren't about presenting two identical events but rather presenting two different events with relevant similarities. And the similarities are patently obvious here. Sure, there are differences, but if you want to counter the argument your job is to explain why the differences completely change the similarities in logic, rather than just point out that two things are different.
Let's try something else, this is how a kid movie should be reviewed if you want to take the adults perspective into account (very roughly).
A) Would my kids like it?
B) Would I like it too?
C) Does it have a positive message/can they learn something from it?
D) Would the movie harm them?
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Saving Private Ryan would be yes to
B, possibly
C, but also
D. So while it is a good movie, you shouldn't let them watch it.
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Bee movie and Emoji Movie would be
A and
C but
not B, so you can let them watch it but you'd probably want to avoid watching it yourself.
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The minions movie would probably just be
A but
not B, so they can watch it but you shouldn't. And apart from that.. it's pretty forgettable since its
not C.
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Frozen would be
A, B and C, so you can watch it with them.
Anyway. I don't think that the A & C but not B category deserves as much hate as it's getting. And it certainly doesn't deserve negative reviews. After all, it's still A & C, so there is some value there even if its not for you.
If you review a kid's movie just taking B into account and not anything else, you're a stupid moron and shouldn't write reviews. Not saying that you are one of these people, but they seem to make up a great part of the critics online.
