Thread:GarrettMHoganTheVHSLover/@comment-961279-20180630005633/@comment-961279-20180805172624

I'm going to give you another warning: I think you are in danger of no longer being a fan of Midnight Express and instead are on your way to becoming a fanatic. This is in the same sense as a religious fanatic, where they twist logic and reason to support whatever detail they've latched onto and are trying to force on other people.

Being a fan of a movie is good. If you like it and want to share your enthusiasm for the movie, that's okay. Right now, I'm a really big fan of Ready Player One and I am planning on writing a buyer's guide to the different home video releases so everyone can see what's available. But if I were to start claiming that it was the best movie of all time and become stubborn about other movies released later this year and into the future rip it off because they have a few things in common, no matter how small or insignificant, then I would have turned into a fanatic and I would actually start hurting my attempts at sharing my enthusiasm for the movie by how I behaved.

The simple truth is there are about 100-200 movies released every year, and if you look long enough, you can come up with dozens of ways to connect one movie to another. It doesn't mean that either movie is a rip-off of the other. It means you looked so hard that you forced them to be connected.