Unpopular opinions about movies.

[Krokodil Overdose]

100% with you, and I feel the same about Alien. That one is more obviously a horror movie, but the same thing happened with the sequels: they turned them into action movies.
T1 and Alien are both fantastic horror movies, but somehow T2 and Aliens are the ones most people consider the best (which, though great, they aren't), and every subsequent sequel dug the grave deeper and deeper in trying to follow them.

Aliens isbetter than Alien. The Ash stuff in Alien technically makes sense, but also introduces a massive plot hole: if events up to this point had been going according to keikaku, why did they need this horribly convoluted Rube Goldberg plan to recover a specimen as opposed to just sending an actual team under some pretext? Right, because the Alien doesn't have higher cognitive functions, it could never have gotten on board without stupid evil humans helping it for stupid reasons.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

Aliens isbetter than Alien. The Ash stuff in Alien technically makes sense, but also introduces a massive plot hole: if events up to this point had been going according to keikaku, why did they need this horribly convoluted Rube Goldberg plan to recover a specimen as opposed to just sending an actual team under some pretext? Right, because the Alien doesn't have higher cognitive functions, it could never have gotten on board without stupid evil humans helping it for stupid reasons.

The impression I got is that it was an impromptu thing. Like we have this space ship full of useful idiots drifting awfully close to that death planet full of sex parasites, why not infect one of the crew and have the industry plant report on what the specimen does?

The crew understood what Ash was immediately after he started malfunctioning, and they knew how to make his weird cum body start working again, so to me that implies that certain crew members being androids is a common thing. I don't think it's fair to say that Prometheus and Covenant confirmed this, but there's that. The fact that the only one who was in on it wasn't even human at all kind of encapsulates the themes of the movie.

Manhunter is the Crime & Punishment of the 1980s. Michael Mann is a fucking genius.

I can't find any other movie like Manhunter, it's so good, and it's 80s good, which is a special kind of good. I love Silence but it masturbates about how great Hannibal is, and it tries to be gritty at the same time it's tonal whiplash. Manhunter is way more down to earth, and the villain is leagues ahead of Buffalo Bill.

I think the only thing I don't like about it is that it has the lame shootout ending that so many movies have. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and playing the entirety of in-a-gadda-da-vida doesn't help either.

 

[WULULULULU]

The impression I got is that it was an impromptu thing. Like we have this space ship full of useful idiots drifting awfully close to that death planet full of sex parasites, why not infect one of the crew and have the industry plant report on what the specimen does?

The crew understood what Ash was immediately after he started malfunctioning, and they knew how to make his weird cum body start working again, so to me that implies that certain crew members being androids is a common thing. I don't think it's fair to say that Prometheus and Covenant confirmed this, but there's that. The fact that the only one who was in on it wasn't even human at all kind of encapsulates the themes of the movie.

Its best to ignore anything beyond Aliens.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Kinda tangential to Aliens, I guess, but while thinking about Starship Troopers in its entirety, meaning 1, 2, Marauder, Invasion, and Traitor of Mars, it occurs to me that the fundamental weakness of the setting is that the Bugs are always the violent monsters that preclude the idea of diplomacy. Now, Marauder is the Steelman example of Verhoeven's vision even though he didn't direct it because the Federation actually do act like Fascists in it with its brutal suppression of political dissent, blatantly false propaganda, having an actual incompetent Sky Marshall there for PR purposes, and willingness to sacrifice loyal officers like Col. Rico for political reasons. Now, what do the Bugs do in this movie? The captured Brain Bug tries to perform a big brain maneuver by psychically attacking MI leadership while the Bug God brainwashes the Sky Marshall to manipulate him into believing peace is possible which led to the Bugs storming the base at the beginning of the movie. In Traitor of Mars, the Bugs invade Mars and while the Sky Marshall is a vain bitch that got overthrown for creating the false flag, it still doesn't change the fact that the Bugs are on Mars.

The result is that the Fascist society is necessary. It often has questionable leadership at the very top, but because the Bugs are a constant existential threat to humanity, they don't have any choice but to stick with this government. Those protestors in 3 wanted the war to end sure, but there's no way their hypothetical reforms or overthrow of the MI would have ended the war with the Bugs. Humanity would still be at war with the Bugs regardless of who's in charge.

 

[Huh what?]

Horror fans are stupid, annoying, complacent shitlibs who think they're better than everyone else and I'm sick of it.

 

[Sniperwoof]

One thing I never got about the Alien films is that the literal actual twist of the first film is that the Weyland corporation knew about the Xenomorphs and intended to capture them for use as biological weapons hence why they were tons of heavily armed marines on a geological survey.

Then the sequels treat Xenomorphs as some totally unknown organism no one has ever seen or heard of before.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Horror fans are stupid, annoying, complacent shitlibs who think they're better than everyone else and I'm sick of it.

I ain't a liberal you dumb cunt.

 

[Sniperwoof]

The first Saw is actually a very tense and solidly written thriller about a serial killer.

It got retarded at lightspeed from there though.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Most A24 films are honestly kinda shit. The Lighthouse is pretension carried by Willem DaFoe.

 

[ChampFantana]

I Spit On Your Grave (2010 remake) is a grotesque, brutal, horrific film. I'm OK with that because as a horror film, it's SUPPOSED to be. Ebert was a stupid faggot who missed the point of the film entirely. For a respected critic, he really was just completely AWFUL at his job.

 

[el bandito loco]

I like the Bay Transformers movies. they feel like a 13 year old boy with an unlimited budget sat down and wrote a movie. I actually liked each movie more than the last for just getting more unhinged, bloated and fucking weird. I understand why transformers fans hated them but I think they're like trainwrecks I can't look away from. they're filled with weird ass scenes that are weirdly too vulgar for a children's property, but too juvenile to be taken seriously. they're also hyper violent I watched the third one for the first time in a decade recently and thought god damn if these weren't robots there's some straight MK fatalities in this movie. the last one was fucking insane, king arthur just existed historically in that universe, Anthony Hopkins is there for some reason, Shia Labouf is revealed to have just unceremoniously died off screen, marky mark is on a quest for Excalibur or some shit, optimus prime is sort of evil for a while, and the planet earth is actually an ancient evil transformer and it looks like someone just vomited a billion dollars on the screen for the final act. It doesn't sound like a real movie if you describe it.

The two made not by bay were probably the best actual movies in the franchise but I didn't like either because I missed the extreme weird tonal whiplash and frat boy bullshit from Bay's movies. I think they're all shitty movies but I just find their existence so hilarious and fascinating. how the fuck did anyone read those scripts and go okay let's spend a shit ton of money and make these movies. I was actually disappointed when those Ninja Turtles movies he produced came out and were basically benign kids movies and outside of the turtles designs weren't insane and unhinged like the transformers movies, they just sucked, they didn't suck the way something like transformers 4 & 5 suck. It's just a taste thing but they're enjoyable garbage to me.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Dunno if this is an unpopular opnion as I don't really keep up with American movies in Current Year, but from what I've seen of brief clips, Current Year American movies seem to somehow look less realistic than older American movies. Stuff like the apparent overuse of 3DCG, the definite overuse of aqua and orange gloomy lighting, all those potentially seizure-inducing bright flashing lights, and that "ridiculous scale" action contribute to that "unrealistic" feel. Especially with space scenes. Like I said, older American movies (like from the late 20th century) can somehow feel more realistic, especially with them using CMYK-based film instead of current all-digital filming.

tl;dr: American movies from Current Year can feel less realistic than older ones.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

John Woo's last real movie was Blackjack, the Dolph Lundgren 1998 tv pilot made in Canada. Windtalkers Director's Cut had a little Woo flair, but Blackjack was the last time you could tell you were watching a Woo movie.

I just watched Silent Night and it was the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. The film itself isn't bad, and the whole silent movie aspect was kind of cool, but the action was so generic and CG filled that if Woo's name wasn't on it you wouldn't have been able to tell he directed it. His signature style is completely gone. It's easily his worst movie up there with Mission Impossible 2, which also showed none of his flair except for that gay-ass CG pigeon shit.

tl;dr - Woo should have died in the '90s when he would have been remembered as the greatest action director who ever existed. Fuck this gay Earth and CG gunfights.

Just look at this 1996 TV-PG tv movie and watch it blow away John Wick and his greenscreen shootouts:

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

Dunno if this is an unpopular opnion as I don't really keep up with American movies in Current Year, but from what I've seen of brief clips, Current Year American movies seem to somehow look less realistic than older American movies. Stuff like the apparent overuse of 3DCG, the definite overuse of aqua and orange gloomy lighting, all those potentially seizure-inducing bright flashing lights, and that "ridiculous scale" action contribute to that "unrealistic" feel. Especially with space scenes. Like I said, older American movies (like from the late 20th century) can somehow feel more realistic, especially with them using CMYK-based film instead of current all-digital filming.

tl;dr: American movies from Current Year can feel less realistic than older ones.

A lot of movies have to use unnatural coloring to cover up the use of green (or blue) screen and digital compositing. No one will know that all of your characters aren't in the same room if you overlay the same tint of shit teal over them!

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Bladerunner fandom is legitimately a toxic fandom. The fans absolutely insist that both movies are 100% kino and that everyone else simply didn't recognize the genius of these films even though both films flopped at the box office, which should not have happened with 2049 because it has a built-in fanbase that swear that all the different edits of the movie are radically different from each other. So why did 2049 fail? Put simply, it's the pacing that people just don't like.* Both movies have this meandering quality to plot progression and no amount of futuristic style covers up its population of dreary robot zombies. That the first movie has 5 different edits that are allegedly different qualitatively should itself be a red flag that the movie is not working as intended.

The fandom's inability to recognize the flaws of the first movie made sure 2049 would hit the same pitfalls. Villeneuve, who I don't like generally because of 2049 and Dune part 1, did do the job that the fans wanted out of a Bladerunner sequel and it's why the movie bombed. Because the Bladerunner fandom was never that big in reality and didn't grow to sufficient size in the 30 years between movies. Why? Because the fandom's answer is to call anyone who didn't like these movies stupid.

*And I can watch Oshii Mamoru movies. His movies are slow, artsy fartsy think-pieces too, but they have a hypnotic quality to them.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

John Wick is a dogshit movie franchise and just as much to blame for how terrible modern action movies are as capeshit. The first one was okay at best and simply because it was a different executions of the post Matrix action movie. Subsequent ones are boring trite.
And the reason the movies are shit it's because the action is shit and without the action the movies have nothing going on. Everyone praises the shooting cause Keanu has ran a 3 gun match but while the shooting is """realistic""" it's way to fucking clean and a disservice to the action, hundreds of bad guys filter in without taking cover or checking sectors just to get two tapped in the chest. You could replace every bad guy with a paper target and cut every shooting segment to one action and you would lose nothing.
And as bad as the shooting is the hand to hand is inexcusable. Wick's fighting scenes are no better than the fighting scenes in all modern dogshit action movies where you have a 5 foot nothing chick fighting dozens of men and not even getting tired. Every punch is clean, every grapple is neatly countered. Nobody gets hurt, nobody recoils like they are hurt it's just people dancing.
Speaking of Nobody, the movie Nobody is soo much better than John Wick the shooting is still too clean and doesn't lend it's self to great action pieces but every fighting scene felt like real fighting, punches connect and not every move is perfectly choreographed and flows into a clean counter.

 

[Maverick Vile]

Ebert was a stupid faggot who missed the point of the film entirely. For a respected critic, he really was just completely AWFUL at his job.

I refuse to respect Ebert based on his John Carpenter's The Thing take alone. Fucking hack was a fat fish in a pool of minnows. He became outmoded the moment being a movie-reviewer could no longer be gate-kept by print publishers and tv execs.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Most movies nowadays really have a Marxist worldview. The literal us vs them mentality that extends far past the protagonist and some group. There are no neutral parties in these types of conflicts.

 

[demicolon]

It's less Marxist and more appealing to the most common denominator to maximize profits.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Watched 2012's Zero Dark Thirty because someone on KF mentioned it in passing.

I went in totally blind.

Was really disappointed that it was 2 hours and 40 mins of a Jessica Chastain girlboss power fantasy.

The opening scene with al Qaeda prisoners being tortured at CIA Black sites set an interesting tone.

But that quickly dissipates after the other bearded CIA torturer/interrogator burns out and becomes irrel for the rest of the film.

The next 2+ hours are Jessica Chastain yelling motherfucker to her bosses and belittling them by writing running counts with a Sharpie on their office window.

I was so bored that I feel asleep before they even dispatched Seal Team Six.

Looking up the veracity (granted on Wikipedia), the Chastain character is completely fictional and possibly a composite. The opening of the film claims "It is based on true accounts" or some similar shit.

But AFAICT, there's no indication that anything that occurs in the movie actually happened besides OBL being shot.

Wikipedia also claims that the script/concept was already written before Bin Laden was assassinated, which could explain some of this shit.