Unpopular opinions about movies.

[Nick Obre]

This one is gonna hurt, but I'll put it out there anyway. RoboCop (2014) is not a bad move. It really only suffers from two flaws - the RoboCop branding, which adds nothing to the experience and only causes hurt feelings, and Murphy not dieing (being allowed to rest in peace) on the rooftop at the end. If it had that ending and been called PoliceBot it would be considered a modern classic.

When playing the Robocop game recently, the OneyPlays guys discuss the problem with the 2014 movie: In the original, Robocop is a guy who gets turned into a robot, and gradually regains his humanity. In the remake, he's turned into a robot, but he's fully human from the start, and gradually loses the humanity. So the original character arc works, and the remake doesn't.

 

[Pedophobe]

I saw it more as the company programmed him to believe he was human and his character journey was to learn to overcome that and embrace the truth.

 

[glass_houses]

phantom menace is fun if you are high

Phantom Menace is fun full stop. Haven't watched it in a lot of years but I really enjoyed it when it came out.

The second one was excruciating though. Not even Ewan could redeem it.

 

[Nick Obre]

Phantom Menace is fun full stop. Haven't watched it in a lot of years but I really enjoyed it when it came out.

The second one was excruciating though. Not even Ewan could redeem it.

I was a kid when it came out. They'd recently done the whole Special Editions thing, they were showing the movies on TV, doing news pieces and behind the scenes, and reports; there were tons of toys everywhere, my best buddy at the time was a super fan of it and was trying hard to get me into it and it was starting to work. A store I went to often had clandestinely obtained the soundtrack before it came out, I got it and listened to it and I was SO PUMPED.

Then I watched it on release.

And it permanently killed any interest I could ever have in Stars War. Never recovered.

I can't understand people who defend the prequels, much less Phantom Menace itself.
Great soundtrack tho.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I’m kind of surprised how there’s no one in my age group that knows about the movie Gattaca. They like to make memes online about Joker and They Live, but I wonder what they would think if they saw Gattaca and realize that sci-fi film did more than just be over the top.

 

[ChampFantana]

The Phantom Menace is endlessly entertaining for the HILARIOUS racial caricatures. Watto is a Jew, Jar Jar is Steppin Fetchit, the Nemoidians are Chinese, etc.

 

[King Metalia]

Meryl Streep is an overrated actress

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I like to believe that Freddy Got Fingered is one of those “so bad that it’s good” movies that I think it could serve as a litmus test to see how uptight you can be if you’re not afraid to laugh at yourself.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The Phantom Menace is endlessly entertaining for the HILARIOUS racial caricatures. Watto is a Jew, Jar Jar is Steppin Fetchit, the Nemoidians are Chinese, etc.

And those characters had the best lines too.

 

[Registration]

Watched my first terminator film some days ago. It was the Dark Fate and it was alright, even fun sometimes.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I like to believe that Freddy Got Fingered is one of those “so bad that it’s good” movies that I think it could serve as a litmus test to see how uptight you can be if you’re not afraid to laugh at yourself.

it really is art man, I mean just fucking look at how many intentional editing errors are in this scene alone.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Watched my first terminator film some days ago. It was the Dark Fate and it was alright, even fun sometimes.

You really need to watch 1 then 2 in that order. Dark Fate was pretty shit compared to the original.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I gotta laugh at the nimrods who call the Saw movies the “thinking man’s” horror film.

First of all, lol. Lmao even. They’re just torture porn. Nothing wrong if you like that. Hell, I love a good splatter horror flick on occasion too. But don’t be disingenuous and try to church it up as something it really isn’t.

Second, the whole “killer with a moral sermon” thing was done MUCH better in Se7en.

 

[Rubick]

Bogart was right. Brando was a mumbling clown.

 

[Pedophobe]

I like to believe that Freddy Got Fingered is one of those “so bad that it’s good” movies that I think it could serve as a litmus test to see how uptight you can be if you’re not afraid to laugh at yourself.

If you don't laugh as FGF you have no soul. If you do laugh at FGF you have no brain.

 

[Rubick]

Besides Blood Simple and Millers Crossing.

Coen brothers make flat out unwatchable movies. They are either boring and or nonsensical and for the most part also terribly written.

 

[Hazel Motes]

Bogart was right. Brando was a mumbling clown.

I find his performance in On The Waterfront noticeably distracting compared to the rest of the cast, as though he is a teenager acting out who everyone is trying to ignore.

His Mark Antony is horrendous. Takes one of Shakespeare's finest written moments and misses the whole point. Charlton Heston, an actor most deemed inferior to Brando, played the complexity of the character perfectly. Supposedly Brando did not know what he was saying which fits.

As for the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, the two roles he is now most remembered for, he is fine in the former and unimpressive in the latter. My unpopular opinion is that Apocalypse Now is visually a masterpiece but beyond Robert Duvall (a genuine great actor), totally half-baked in its ideas and story. The director's cut is the worst I have seen.

And on the mumbling thing, is it more naturalistic to not hear what actors are saying? This is one of the worst trends in cinema. You end up dancing with the volume button.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Brando is so "good" in The Godfather that he's not even in the sequel and most people consider it the superior film.

The fat fuck was a hack. A rapist piece of shit without any talent whatsoever.

Meryl Streep is an overrated actress

She is awful, I agree, but what about her films though? They are all unwatchable garbage. She must have the worst agent in the world or she's just an idiot with horrendous taste in films.

The Deer Hunter is great, I guess.

 

[Rubick]

I find his performance in On The Waterfront noticeably distracting compared to the rest of the cast, as though he is a teenager acting out who everyone is trying to ignore.

You know that's actually spot on. I also always found him to be a very unnatural actor in his ability to act. Don't know exactly why. Part of it probably because he has/had a tendency to exaggerate, like a lot of stage actors did back then.

Good method actors in my opinion would be the likes of Alan Arkin and Tony Musante.

She is awful, I agree, but what about her films though? They are all unwatchable garbage. She must have the worst agent in the world or she's just an idiot with horrendous taste in films.

The Deer Hunter is great, I guess.

I wouldn't call all of them garbage. But yeah, usually any movie with her in it. It's a good sign that movie will be nothing but bunch of hot air. And she's usually the worst actor in it.

How the hell she got nominated so many times is perplexing.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I was a kid when it came out. They'd recently done the whole Special Editions thing, they were showing the movies on TV, doing news pieces and behind the scenes, and reports; there were tons of toys everywhere, my best buddy at the time was a super fan of it and was trying hard to get me into it and it was starting to work. A store I went to often had clandestinely obtained the soundtrack before it came out, I got it and listened to it and I was SO PUMPED.

Then I watched it on release.

And it permanently killed any interest I could ever have in Stars War. Never recovered.

I was the kind of person who watched the Trilogy every week, read the terrible tie-in novels, etc. That stopped cold after TPM. I don't think I touched a Star Wars thing for years. The Prequel Trilogy cured my autism.

An unpopular take on Alien I posted in A&N:

The chestburster is so ingrained in pop culture, when I saw it I actually thought it was pretty tame. The stuff with Ash, I had no idea that was coming. It's more prolonged and I think a lot more effective. I think seeing a human(oid) character become inhuman and violent can be scarier than an inhuman monster being violent.