3. TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from ...

TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film," calling the dialog "lamentable." An autograph seeker told him he'd seen the movie over 100 times; he gave him an autograph on the condition he never see the movie again.

Ok. I think I understand how to share an opinion so others know it is an opinion and not, wrongly, assumed to having been portrayed as fact.

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Star Wars is shit.

Your problem was that he was condescending, not that he was "sharing an opinion as a fact". Not everything has to be contextualized as "I think" instead of "that is" for people to understand context. Didn't you go through the lessons of finding fact from opinion?

"Star wars is garbage and its fans are morons" is the same thing as saying "I THINK Star Wars is garbage and its fans are morons".

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