Unpopular film & TV opinions

[DaveCinzano]

My mistake.

The films would be more lively if they replaced Leach with Kirby but I'm still not sure the box office would be set alight by the gritty tale of him rising through the ranks to become the principal cycling commentator for Eurosport

And so the cycle of violence continues

 

[Part 2]

Happy Valley....it's watchable but by no means as amazing as some people would make you think.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I keep seeing that everyone raves about The Bear on disney plus.
I thought it was an absolute hack job pile of shite.

I can't understand why not one person seems to share my opposing view. It's like the lord of the rings all over again. Utterly baffling.

 

[poppy60]

Both The Sopranos and The Wire are vastly overrated.

I liked the sopranos,but the ending sucked.Never watched The Wire.

 

[poppy60]

Both The Sopranos and The Wire are vastly overrated.

I liked The sopranos,but the ending was crap,Never seen The Wire so cannot comment.

 

[poppy60]

Tarantino's mate Robert Rodriguez is much better[From Dusk til Dawn and The Faculty] more entertaining.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I keep seeing that everyone raves about The Bear on disney plus.
I thought it was an absolute hack job pile of shite.

I can't understand why not one person seems to share my opposing view. It's like the lord of the rings all over again. Utterly baffling.

I sorta liked bits of it, but couldn't finish it - too much shouting.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I quite liked the ending of Game of Thrones - well, up until the long ROTK style wrap up last 30 minutes.

 

[Orang Utan]

Happy Valley....it's watchable but by no means as amazing as some people would make you think.

That may be true, but if anyone else is like me at all, it’s one of the only tv dramas they watch so there’s nowt else to compare it to apart from distant memories of Corrie and Emmerdale

 

[Elpenor]

People who complain about poor quality when watching TV should remember that tvs these days have tiny speakers

 

[ska invita]

Godfather 3 is a good film also

agree - as is Aliens 3
(talking of which just heard about a much improved 'assembly' cut of Alien 3 Alien‭ ‬3:‭ ‬Comparing the Assembly Cut to the Theatrical Cut )

pixar films should be banned (along with all other fast talking american cgi kids films)

(funniest Woody Allen film is Love & Death btw
and his favourite of his own films is Broadway Danny Rose IIRC)

 

[Orang Utan]

Agreed, ska invita dunno why Alien3 gets such a hard time. cos of people’s awareness of its troubled production maybe?

 

[Sue]

All those films that have umpteen director cuts? You're really not big or clever or special, just kind of annoying.

 

[DaveCinzano]

just heard about a much improved 'assembly' cut of Alien 3

What remote outpost of the far rim worlds do you live on that this twenty year old news has only just reached you? Have you been in cryonic stasis?

 

[RedRedRose]

Alien 3 is a very good film, but, it follows the impossible high of Alien 2; no weapons; religious symbolism; convoluted plot twist as why they initially release the alien, after its first capture; the white prisoners all have Cockney accents, the black prisoners have American accents. It was always going to be a hard sell.

 

[Orang Utan]

Aliens ain’t all that. It pales into insignificance compared to Alien

 

[Steel Icarus]

Friends is great

 

[Knotted]

Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings is better than the Peter Jackson films.

Edit: Oops sorry littlebabyjesus

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

agree - as is Aliens 3
(talking of which just heard about a much improved 'assembly' cut of Alien 3 Alien‭ ‬3:‭ ‬Comparing the Assembly Cut to the Theatrical Cut )

What an incredible coincidence. I couldn't sleep so I literally 'just' watched an hour long doc comparing those two cuts of Alien 3.
Not sure why. I don't give a shit about the Alien films and I don't think I have watched 3 since an incredibly disappointed viewing at the cinema.

Now suddenly on the morning I get up at 4.30 and watch an alien three comparison, everyone is talking about it. Weird. Are we in the matrix?

 

[Yossarian]

What an incredible coincidence. I couldn't sleep so I literally 'just' watched an hour long doc comparing those two cuts of Alien 3.
Not sure why. I don't give a shit about the Alien films and I don't think I have watched 3 since an incredibly disappointed viewing at the cinema.

Now suddenly on the morning I get up at 4.30 and watch an alien three comparison, everyone is talking about it. Weird. Are we in the matrix?

Weird coincidence- but I think Aliens, and by extension the other films in the franchise, might have a higher profile than usual right now because James Cameron recently released his second film in 25 years.

 

[Knotted]

Most of the "great" films that it's popular to dunk on are in fact great actually.

Even Cititzen Kane's not bad.

 

[platinumsage]

All Hitchcock films apart from the Birds are boring as hell.

The Searchers isn't in the top 50 Westerns of all time, let alone the top 10. Apocalpyse Now is not in the top 10 Vietnam movies.

More great films have been made since 2010 than in all the time before that.

 

[Pickman's model]

I liked The sopranos,but the ending was crap,Never seen The Wire so cannot comment.

You don't need to have seen a show or film to have an opinion on it

 

[xenon]

agree - as is Aliens 3
(talking of which just heard about a much improved 'assembly' cut of Alien 3 Alien‭ ‬3:‭ ‬Comparing the Assembly Cut to the Theatrical Cut )

pixar films should be banned (along with all other fast talking american cgi kids films)

(funniest Woody Allen film is Love & Death btw
and his favourite of his own films is Broadway Danny Rose IIRC)

Have you heard the play based on William Gibsons script for Alien3? I do actually like the film but this would’ve been good to see as well.

 

[mojo pixy]

sort of agree, but only if you also agree that they are still the best Marvel movies

No, the best (ie only good) MCU films are the Guardians of the Galaxy ones.

 

[ska invita]

Have you heard the play based on William Gibsons script for Alien3?

no not heard of that ...... a scifi horror thing in the theatre sounds interesting - potentially brilliant, potentially very naff!

 

[Knotted]

The second half of Full Metal Jacket is as good as the first half.

 

[Knotted]

It's a rare occurrence that a score improves a film. Most of the time watching most films I'm thinking "ferchrissake just leave out this half-arsed attempt at film music and let me listen to the incidental noise". I wish there was a mute option for it.

 

[Knotted]

I feel particularly bitter about Mad Max Fury Road. It promises something extraordinary musically and visually but then just drops it and smothers the film in the usual action film codswallop. Considering how well it's made otherwise, the soundtrack is truly dreary and it sucks the life from it.

 

[ska invita]

i was thinking about the Batman film with the Prince soundtrack the other day - i kind of wish more films tried to have a really bold unusual overbearing soundtrack like that. if you dont like the music it ruins it but worth the risk i think