Can a film be blamed for it's fans?

I was thinking, don't ask me why about how many actual good films I could say are produced each year. I was thinking, maybe 3, but I don't know, you see because I don't actually watch many films and it seems highly fallacious to assume that the only films I see are the contenders for goodness.

Anyway, this spurred me on to thinking about films that are actually really good but you end up hating because of the fan base. Star Trek lends itself to immidiate observation for this phenomena, but I'm thinking if you really wanted to put a film on a pedastal for liking it, then making you vomit it's 'Napoleon Dynamite'.

See ostensibly, this film is really good, it is character based, moody, it sucks you into its world and ultimately it delivers. It is full of classic dialogue like 'Snatch' by Guy Ritchie.

It and Evil Dead 2 alone are the only films in history of watching films that I've wanted to watch again immediately after finishing watching it the first time.

And then blinking as I stepped out into the sun, was confronted by wall to wall 'Vote for Pedro' t-shirts. Which was no where near as annoying as seeing cool and trendy people normally reserved for standing up the back and laughing at someone else's jokes actually getting laughs for re-enacting classic lines from Napoleon Dynamite.

COme to think of it, this pretty much happened with Evil Dead 2, except the fans were much nerdier, and I was buffered by a decade or so from its release to my first viewing. At least those nerds appreciate the classical classicness of Evil Dead 2.

But then you have problem 2 which is when a movie gets revered, which is understandable with Evil Dead 2, it's a five star film. But when a bunch of unimaginative nerds revere a 3 star film made large like 'The Dark Knight' or worse, 'X-Men 3' is it the films fault that I start hating it?

See Evil Dead 2 is like Venice, even though it's overflowing with fat annoying classless tourists, the majesty and mystery of the place is too fundamental to the very architecture, try as they might to touristy overrate Venice you can't get past what an amazing architectural achievement it is.

But the Dark Knight is like Amsterdam, a cool city, but when it gets crowded with fat classless tourists it just becomes a tourist dive. And X-men 3 is like Prague.

Infact can a tourist destination be blamed for tourists is pretty much the exact same question?

And perhaps this is the answer: Yes, if it tries to attract them.

Which I would say is definitely the case with the Cherry-picking approach of Nolan, adapting the best ideas had by other people and inserting a few of your own flourishes, as well as an obligatory scene catering to the all important asian market. (China banned TDK anyway). Or worse the endless 'Comic book cameo' fest that the X-men movies are, botching characters left right and center with flat poorly worked scripts in order to satisfy the rabid nerd fan base that demands more, More, MORE, MOORE* to be made into films to validate their sad fringe interests.

So yes, it can be blamed for its fans, if that is the dollar they will chase at any cost. Just if Raimi puts together an Evil Dead 4 that is more or less a rehash of all our favorite scenes and lines from 2 + 3.

*this is actually really clever.