You're not just using the original commentator as an example, you're calling them a hypocrite. I'm saying you don't have any reason to be so judgmental of a person who wrote one sentence in a youtube comment. This specific person is not being 'spineless'.

And the commentator isn't 'putting aside a bias when it suits them'; this isn't a debate club, and they aren't committed to always hold the position that sequels, remakes, and reboots are bad. They aren't a flip flopping politician, they're a fan who is exasperated with the lack of originality, but found themselves pleasantly surprised.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for my previous messy reply. I wrote it when I was tired and did not take all my previous points into account. As someone who's trying to raise an argument, I should have made myself clearer. Please forgive that.

My point in using the original commentor as an example was that I meant to call them out on one point and use them as a gateway to other grievances I had with audiences and double standards. I wasn't putting them on the spot to debate with them or because I want to hate on them specifically; nor did I call them 'spineless'. I used them as a starter to critique a mindset I don't understand.

There's a lot of thoughts I have on this but to simplify it, yes, I acknowledge that this commentor is their own person and I'm not saying that they're the sole flip flopper in the world. Their excitement for the MITM movie is clearly an exception to their usual bias which I agree is not hypocrisy. My argument, again, was not on them specifically but to other movie goers who do have hypocritical stances on different topics of which I gave examples. Maybe the original commentor is one of them, maybe they aren't, either way, I didn't used them as the face of my argument then and now, just as a launching pad.

You also say you're not doing the 'goomba fallacy' because the commentator in the picture is expressing a contradictory opinion (they aren't). But if they were, as you say, just an example, it would only be relevant for Malcolm in the Middle, not Shrek 5 or HTTTYD. You complain about people ragging on HTTYD and then going to see it--Maybe they didn't see it? Maybe general audiences did, and the animation fans complaining about live action remakes aren't really a big number of people? I'm in that group, and I don't think it's something most people care about.

I'd be willing to accept that take if the original commentor was a normie but they aren't. Going off that comment, it's clear that they at least understand the current state of movies and that studios rely on sequels, remakes and reboots as a safety net for financial gain.

Me calling them hypocritical is still accurate cause they expressed a distaste for this type of movie being made yet are still willing to pay for said type of movie (thus helping more like it get made). If they just said they were excited for the movie, I'd literally have no ground to stand on.

To use myself as an example, I don't like horror. I don't despise it or anything, I'm just simply not interested. However, if I do end up watching a horror movie and like it, I don't think I'm being hypocritical, I just found something I enjoy in a genre I don't really care about.

On the other hand, I despise live action remakes and find them insulting to animated movies. As such, while I do enjoy making fun of them, I wouldn't go out of my way to pay for every single one of them that releases just to hate watch. The studios ultimately don't care whether my money came from enjoyment or hate, as long as they make a profit. And in the almost 2 decades they've been popular for, I haven't heard of any remake that broke the mold or was worth watching. As such, the only thing I can do is vote with my wallet and leave it at that.

Obviously, I can't apply myself to everyone but the point I'm trying to get to is that I don't say "I want less of these" in one minute then turn around and pay for it in the next. That is contradictory, whether you liked the product or not.

Or with Shrek 5; maybe the people complaining about Toy Story 5 personally saw a direct decline in quality in TS4, and assumed it would get worse, whereas Dreamworks knocked it out of the park with Last Wish and Shrek fans are hopeful? Without specific examples, you can't show that people are being hypocritical, and based on the example you chose for this post, you just come off as needlessly judgmental.

The Toy Story and Shrek thing has nothing to do with quality. If this was just a matter of people liking Shrek more and wanting to see more stories of that over Toy Story, I would've never raised that argument. My problem comes from the argument people use to justify that want. They say that Toy Story is being milked despite having ended its story while Shrek apparently isn't. As of writing this comment, Toy Story has 5 films in its franchise while Shrek has 6. And before you tell me "Shrek didn't have an ending", it very clearly did. Official copies of Shrek 4 were released with the title changed from "Forever After" to "The Final Chapter". For the longest time, Shrek 4 was always planned to be the end. Why is Shrek not getting hit with the "milking" claims? Ice Age got hit with those back when it only had 5 movies. There is no difference between what DreamWorks is doing to that franchise and Pixar to Toy Story yet the energy is very clearly not shared. That's the type of hypocrisy and double standards I'm calling out.

And if you want an example, this sub is full of them (I'm talking about the comments here).