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Originally Posted by Kipi  Is something terrible because certain people claims so, or if we study the phenomeon several years after? Should we take into account the support is has got? Also, if something, in this case movie, has very large fan support, can it still be terrible, as there are lots of people who liked it? |
Kipi, the past is littered with truly horrendous stuff that was considered great entertainment while it was fresh. Let me provide a single example I think we can agree about
: The Passing of the Great Race, by lawyer and eugenicist Madison Grant. It was Grant's contention that the "Nordic race" was being overwhelmed by hordes of inferior "Mediterraneans," Asians, Blacks, etc. He advocated that all immigration be restricted to Nordics, and that a selective breeding program be instituted to increase the numbers of the race in both Europe and the US.
Grant's work was a leading bestseller for more than a decade. Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were his close friends. His theories were strongly endorsed by a lot of people in Western Europe and the US. He was considered highly readable and knowledgeable by the average person. But did the large number of people who read him and advocated his policies of racial eugenics mean that there was credibility to his ideas? How could they have been so terrible, if he was so very popular?