Doesn't feel like an unpopular opinion tbh.
Unpopular film & TV opinions
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savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
The Aardvark cartoon sandwiched between two episodes of the Pink Panther was funnier and better than the Pink Panther itself.
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Tbf, films have been recycled, sequeled and remade since the beginning. It's nothing new.
As for the PP franchise, it's had so many makeovers don't think one more is going to hurt...
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Was thinking about all the great inventions of the 21st century.
There haven't been any. At all. By this point in the 20th century we had already come up with penicillin, radio, aeroplanes, vacuum tubes, colour photographs and instant coffee. And the 21st? err, some imaginary money that somehow uses more energy than Nigeria; and a mobile phone that's too big to fit in your pocket and has a touchscreen on the front so you can accidentally hang up with your ear.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
mRNA vaccines. They've been massively accelerated by Covid, and it's astounding where they're going with them. Currently in trials for melanoma - yes, a vaccine for cancer.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
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Back in the 90s, the Coen Brothers made the fabulous The Hudsucker Proxy. It wasn't received as well as previous films but am a big fan. One of the factors is the quirky scenes, like the invention of the hula hoop "you know - for kids", Sam Raimi was responsible for directing a few scenes.
It's a great film in the way it sends up capitalism in a screwball comedy sort of way.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I watched that about a month ago. Really enjoyed it
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Whereas I completely dig having an antipathy towards anything that sounds like might glorify greed and capitalism, Air is far more complex and multilayered than that. The onus is as much on Michael Jordan’s mother trying to protect her then rather young son from exploitative corporations and securing a fairer share of proceedings, as it is as Nike securing him against far stronger opposition.
What is really worth praising about the writers/ director is managing to make a satisfying and gripping film out of a premise most people don’t give a shit about and find positively unappealing. I don’t like basketball and like you couldn’t give a toss about a story seemly revolving around a business deal for a new trainer. Yet it turned out to be very decent.
Similar story with the film Tetris. I had fuck all interest about what sounded like a nerd fest about how a video game came to be. But after numerous endorsements in this forum we decided to give it a go, and ended up lapping up what turned out to be a highly gripping historical political thriller. I’m glad I gave it a try.
Shit loads of other examples. I neither know nor care about the game of chess, yet fucking loved The Queen’s Gambit, as did anyone I know who similarly found the premise as appealing as a wasabi enema, but decided to give it a try after it started to get rave reviews.
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Didn't see my first basketball game until relatively recently, and was never a huge fan (apart from the Harlem Globetrotters on Scooby Doo) of the genre but may give it a spin.
He Got Game is on Disney, might watch that too, as loved the PE album/soundtrack.
He Got Game is on Disney, might watch that too, as loved the PE album/soundtrack.
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I like a number of sports, but the overwhelming majority of sports films I’ve seen were mediocre at best if not shite.
I feel I have on the tip of my tongue plenty of other examples of films with a completely unappealing premise that turned out to be great. I’ll add them here if I manage to recall any.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Depends on what you consider "developed". Research done on? Yes. Actual working vaccine trial in humans? No. The 1990s is littered with mRNA failures, which is why it didn't get a lot of attention in the early noughties.
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There are far too fucking many parallel universe/ time travel/ alternate reality plot device storylines in sci-fi series nowadays.
I don’t mind it at all on principle- done well, it can be a great subplot to a story. But it’s being relentlessly abused by the likes of the Star Trek or Marvel cinematic universe franchises, to the point where they seem to have ceased trying to come up with original stories that don’t pander to the legacy characters.
My memory is not great by any means, but I’m nowhere near at octogenarian level either, and even though I’ve watched most or all of the recent ST shows, I’m increasingly losing track of all the oh-so-clever plot twists or fan service crossover nods that infest just about every new Star Trek show. Enough already ffs.
I don’t mind it at all on principle- done well, it can be a great subplot to a story. But it’s being relentlessly abused by the likes of the Star Trek or Marvel cinematic universe franchises, to the point where they seem to have ceased trying to come up with original stories that don’t pander to the legacy characters.
My memory is not great by any means, but I’m nowhere near at octogenarian level either, and even though I’ve watched most or all of the recent ST shows, I’m increasingly losing track of all the oh-so-clever plot twists or fan service crossover nods that infest just about every new Star Trek show. Enough already ffs.
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Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
The fantasy/supernatural elements in Indiana Jones films ruins them, and could have easily been swerved without too much change to the storylines.
Whilst they are nice enough household-named Hollywood blockbuster, the above error is the reason they are not quite regarded alongside the other classic Ford/Spielberg/Lucas/Williams-athons or legendary movie franchises.
Whilst they are nice enough household-named Hollywood blockbuster, the above error is the reason they are not quite regarded alongside the other classic Ford/Spielberg/Lucas/Williams-athons or legendary movie franchises.
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Mmm… I would certainly agree that the supernatural elements in Temple of Doom (magic stones, the warlock guy who can take your heart out of your chest without killing you, etc) were superfluous and completely expendable to the story.
But you really cannot have Raiders of the Lost Ark as we know it without a magic ark, or The Last Crusade without a working Holy Grail. And that’s fine with me.
I would also question your claim they are not as highly regarded as other films by Spielberg/ Lucas because of it. And plant stealing visiting aliens with glowing fingers or ancient monks with laser swords in galaxies far away are not particularly less of a stretch of suspension of disbelief that what you get in the Indi franchise imo.
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Star Trek has been doing time travel and parallel universes since the beginning, tbf.
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Jones is all about the fantastical. It's always been a major part of the series.
dogboy_hackney
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A lot of Marvel villains are better moral compasses than the heroes: Namor, Killmonger, GorrAnd when I see in the news the abominable deeds and harm we humans cause to ourselves and the planet as a whole, sometimes I’m almost tempted to think that rather than a villain, Thanos is the hero we didn’t know we needed
dogboy_hackney
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I agree, but put it as "a lot of folks have shit taste. Leave 'em alone unless they try to tell me different!"
I have a soft spot for Mystery Men. It isn't a "great" movie, but I still love it. While watching it one time, a friend remarked it was "shit and unfunny". I'd been subjected to days of her shitty 70s rock purchases, but bit my tongue. She had shit taste, so of course she didn't like the movie
dogboy_hackney
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It's a good show, and doesn't pull punches on them screwing John Dykstra over, or breaking Phil Tippett. What it doesn't cover is how big a shit Ed Catmull is. "Visionaries" like him and Lucas are happy to fuck over the little guy.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Bryan Cranston's portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All The Way is far superior to anything he did in Breaking Bad or whatever and should have gotten him an Oscar if it had actually had a theatrical release.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
There is nothing funny about Mickey Flanagan, especially his Out Out bit
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The most boring bits of the Star Wars films are the lightsaber duels
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I love the work of Monty Python as much as the next right thinking person. But I watched for the first time the other day a YouTube compilation of one of their best known sketches, namely Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition. It is at best a very mildly amusing half-smile gag at its very first appearance, and the only amusing part of it is the Inquisitors’ sudden entrance. The rest of the sketch is frankly pisspoor, and all the subsequent appearances of the gag even worse, as they lack the initial surprise factor that had the only comedic value of the entire concept.
A massively overrated comedy theme, which reverance and cult status is, after finally having watched the original sketches, totally inexplicable to me.
A massively overrated comedy theme, which reverance and cult status is, after finally having watched the original sketches, totally inexplicable to me.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
The Damned United is decent, and currently showing on the BBC iplayer
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Most fight scenes are now a huge pain in the arse on films, its not look how skilled these people are. Its a lot of camera cuts and me wondering wtf is happening let alone who is winning.
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