Looks like you hit a nerve here, Rands. I think this is easily the most volatile and irrational selection of comments I've seen on a 'serious' blog in a long time.

In fact, the level of vitriol being perpetuated by your opponents here speaks volumes against their very own point. It reaches levels of fallacy that's usually reserved for fanboyism.

I don't understand here - nor have ever understood - what point there is in making an utterly definitive statement (whether hollow or not) against someone or something based on one experience. This behavior is doubly inexplicable when the person making the statement was previously a devotee. Why would anyone stop reading Rands simply because they disagree with him this one time? Isn't that childish? I dislike Eyes Wide Shut intensely but I'm not about to discount Kubrick's entire career; that'd make a fool out of me.

The more notoriety you gain the larger the following - for better and for worse. So why is it that this conga line was just hit by a train?