When Chiao criticized movies, their makers launched their own counter-offensive, saying she was "too subjective and emotional, too harsh and uncaring about others 'fates, too out of touch and foreign in her tastes, and too theoretical and removed from most people's reality."
焦雄屏直言批評別人的電影，別人也批評她，說她「太主觀，不乏情緒用事；太強烈，不顧他人死活；太洋派，不管台灣民情；太理論，不切群眾實際。」