  You're right -- success does affect my opinion. I mean...there was a time when I thought Titanic was the greatest American film ever made. Changed my life. Then it made all that money, and boy did *that* change my tune! And how about Gladiator? My god, what a masterpiece! Then the success, and the awards...I see a clip from it now and I'm filled with unbridled rage. What a crazy monkey am I! Of course, I saw both of these, so my point is undermined....but give me some credit -- the success or failure of any work has no effect on my personal taste. What I am reacting to is marketing -- and I will be the first to admit that my choices are affected by marketing, usually to the negative, since if I see it everywhere, all the time, and I gotta love it love it love it, as has been and continues to be shoved in my face re: Greek Wedding, I'm going to be really turned off, even if it is f*ing Citizen Kane.
That may be irrational, and it may be unfair, but it's my choice, and I'm happy to blame it on the studio, and too bad for the filmmaker who let it happen, because if an artist puts his or her foot down, it doesn't have to be that way.
I don't like being treated like a six-year-old, which is what the studio has done and continues to do, and it's a shame that what may be a fine little movie bears the brunt of my reaction, but sometimes that's just the breaks in this devil's deal we call art and commerce. Dance too close to media saturation, and you get burned. A lesson for artists everywhere. 
