I can’t stand it when people viciously lambast things they have no personal experience with. They’ll denounce a movie they’ve never seen, crap on a band they’ve never heard, or complain about video games they’ve never played. This is appallingly ignorant and stupid; creating an informed opinion based on hearsay and research is one thing, but summarily judging something with no personal point of reference whatsoever is just wrong, and makes you look like a fucking idiot.

For example, let’s talk about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I have not seen the movie. I’ve read plenty of reviews, and heard eyewitness accounts from friends who have seen it, and they’ve all painted the film as absolutely horrible. Therefore, I have no desire to see it. At the same time, however, I would not go out and say “Transformers 2 sucks!”, because I don’t know that personally. It’s very likely that it does, due to what I’ve heard and read, but there’s no absolutely certainty without personal experience. Maybe I’ll rent the thing in a few months; no need to shell out nearly ten bucks to sit in a theater and likely be disappointed.

Granted, not everything in the world needs to be personally experienced; if you see someone stub their toe and yell in pain, you don’t need to do the same thing just to see how much it would hurt. The difference is that when it comes to entertainment, personal experience is absolutely required. Otherwise, you just sound like you’re talking out of your ass.