Firstly, thank you for the shout.

Secondly, for me, if I start a film, I always finish. Why? Because as a purveyor of fiction myself (albeit prose rather than screenplays these days), bad films, or films I don't enjoy, are instructive. The study of storytelling I don't think works is humbling and enlightening. Plus I enjoy writing a scathing review, and don't feel qualified to do so if I bail.

However, that's just me. For others, I entirely understand why someone would want to pull the plug.

Thirdly, do I have unpopular film opinions? There are plenty of guilty pleasure films I enjoy, I suppose. Also, my views on censorship (I'm against it) and cancel culture (I'm a separate art from artist extremist who watches/reads/listens to what I damn well please, no matter how much you want me to boycott someone for their views/crimes) are unpopular with loonier sections of the professionally offended crowd. But that also feeds into what you are saying here. Offended by something? There's an off switch. Or you can leave the cinema. You don't have to stay and suffer. More importantly, nor do you have the right to inflict your sanctimonious, condescending, authoritarian edicts on the rest of us.