Juice
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Post by Juice on Aug 10, 2013 10:36:47 GMT -5
TV? Undoubtedly. Movies are a different thing entirely. Yep I agree with that, well with the exception of comedies which were better in the past. In fact that's my unpopular opinion, for the past few years the best TV drama has been better than it's cinema equivalents. British television is vastly overrated. I'm not sure what to say about that. All of it? Throughout it's entire history over many different genres and channels? Even the best of it's wildlife documentaries (Life on earth, Planet Earth, The Blue planet etc)? I agree that tv is better than cinema these days... But I also agree that British television is overrated. I enjoy Chef Ramsay. I enjoy the Mighty Boosh and other comedies. But Dr Who is crazy bad. I tried, I wanted to like it. Not good. Also I HATE the presentation and production of British tv and movies. To use video over film is disgusting. It totally ruins the quality of anything I watch. I believe it was Michael Caine who said he came to america to act because he hated the fact that Video was the main platform in the UK. Seriously, porn companies don't even use video anymore why in the f*** do British people still use it? True Blood season 1-3 was great, but I agree that it has turned to total dog shit now. District 9 sucked ass I still like family Guy
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Post by RedSmile on Aug 10, 2013 10:44:44 GMT -5
Television/Movies are two of the worst forms of entertainment.
Books, Music, Cars, The Outdoors, Motorcycles, Sports, Beer, Sex, etc. are all vastly superior
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Aug 10, 2013 10:45:19 GMT -5
"Pineapple Express" wasn't that good and I've yet to see a Seth Rogen movie I liked where he was one of the leads.
Tobey McGuire was a good Peter Parker. He just suffered from a bad script and studio interference.
The 2013 Great Gatsby film is a great film. Some of the best acting I've seen, great visuals, the last hour is one of the most intense works of films I've seen out of a non-Action, Suspense, or Horror movie. Yes it is almost a footnotes version of the novel, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Pacific Rim wasn't that great.
Charlie Day isn't funny.
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Post by The OP on Aug 10, 2013 15:05:12 GMT -5
saying you don't like Avatar (the James Cameron film) is not an unpopular opinion, especially since that tit threw a bitchfit about a show coming first and using the title several years before he did. yeah I'm not the biggest fan of James Cameron. Perhaps the tide has turned (which wouldn't surprise me - if anything I'd be more surprised if people never turned on this idiotic film) but when it came out people were telling me they had film Professors calling it one of the greatest movies ever made. I don't know if that's true, but if any film professor at a prestigious University actually made that statement they should resign in disgrace. It seemed like the script was written in about 10 minutes. The word "bitch" was used as a punchline, TWICE. The only memorable character was Sigourney Weaver, and that almost doesn't count because I can't actually remember the character's name, I just remember a Sigourney Weaver who looked like she was basically supposed to be Ripley. Excluding special effects that was probably the best thing about the film, which is just sad. In the days and weeks after it first came out it was absolutely embarrassing to see people who know a lot about film and usually have good taste try to defend this movie. I don't know that I've ever seen something so blatantly all style and no substance enjoy the kind of critical acclaim that Avatar got.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 10, 2013 15:10:25 GMT -5
saying you don't like Avatar (the James Cameron film) is not an unpopular opinion, especially since that tit threw a bitchfit about a show coming first and using the title several years before he did. yeah I'm not the biggest fan of James Cameron. Perhaps the tide has turned (which wouldn't surprise me - if anything I'd be more surprised if people never turned on this idiotic film) but when it came out people were telling me they had film Professors calling it one of the greatest movies ever made. I don't know if that's true, but if any film professor at a prestigious University actually made that statement they should resign in disgrace. It seemed like the script was written in about 10 minutes. The word "bitch" was used as a punchline, TWICE. The only memorable character was Sigourney Weaver, and that almost doesn't count because I can't actually remember the character's name, I just remember a Sigourney Weaver who looked like she was basically supposed to be Ripley. Excluding special effects that was probably the best thing about the film, which is just sad. In the days and weeks after it first came out it was absolutely embarrassing to see people who know a lot about film and usually have good taste try to defend this movie. I don't know that I've ever seen something so blatantly all style and no substance enjoy the kind of critical acclaim that Avatar got. I think it's because James Cameron's success with Titanic (not a great movie either, but still way better than Avatar) made him critic-proof. he's basically no different than Michael Bay in my eyes. only difference is, at least Michael Bay never tried to kill Ed Harris for some pretentious "I need the PERFECT shot" reason.
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Post by CrazySting on Aug 10, 2013 15:34:25 GMT -5
All these big-budget comic book movies are pretty much ruining the film industry because studios are pouring so much cash and attention into them everything they neglect everything else.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 16:23:02 GMT -5
Observe and Report is a comedic masterpiece
Edit: Jody Hill even though he only created 2 films and 1 TV Show so far is a influential director already and might be one of the best directors/producers/writers in Hollywood
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Post by CrazySting on Aug 10, 2013 16:32:35 GMT -5
Jonny Lee Miller is a better Sherlock than Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Aug 10, 2013 17:47:36 GMT -5
Brian Cox was a better Lector in "Manhunter" than Hopkins in "Red Dragon".
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Post by CrazySting on Aug 10, 2013 17:49:26 GMT -5
Hopkins was generally pretty awful in Red Dragon. It was honestly like he'd stopped taking the character seriously.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 17:56:47 GMT -5
I'd have to say I disagree with most of the opinions in this thread. A lot of them are really absurd. That is all.
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Post by J is Justice on Aug 10, 2013 18:03:15 GMT -5
Shrek sucked; I liked Forever After more (and II, but that's not an unpopular opinion).
Howl's Moving Castle is so boring. I can never get through it.
I love Ace Ventura 2.
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Post by celticjobber on Aug 10, 2013 19:14:39 GMT -5
"The Dark Knight Rises" was better than Dark Knight, and probably my favorite Batman film of all time.
Aside from the first and second Spider-Man movies (and Amazing Spider-Man, if just barely) and Daredevil, all of the Marvel superhero movies are extremely boring -- especially the Iron Man and Hulk flicks.
Even though I enjoy most of Kevin Smith's films, I'm not a fan of Judd Apatow. And I wish that all comedies weren't so raunchy these days. I would like a return to the days of classic John Hughes films like "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Aug 10, 2013 20:46:17 GMT -5
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are pretentious jerks who have never made anything good. While I don't agree with the 'never made anything good' part, I definitely agree with the underlined part.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 21:28:00 GMT -5
I'd have to say I disagree with most of the opinions in this thread. A lot of them are really absurd. That is all. Any of my opinions
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Aug 10, 2013 22:28:20 GMT -5
-Breaking Bad is terrible. -Mad Men is more boring than watching paint dry on growing grass. -Community is hack.
PBS has produced nothing but crap since Reading Rainbow and Square One
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Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Aug 11, 2013 0:22:17 GMT -5
- For as much flack as reboots/sequels/rereleases/comic book movies get, I don't remember the last time I went to the movies and saw something that didn't fit in those categories. Same goes for the movies I buy on DVD.
- There isn't anything on mainstream television that I feel like is worth my time. And I'm not one of those guys who clutches onto TV shows of the past and thinks everything was better so may years ago either. But none of the most popular shows on the major networks appeal to me at all. The only exception might be Agents of SHIELD, but that hasn't started yet.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 11, 2013 5:45:14 GMT -5
Game of Thrones looks like the Hercules TV show and American Gothic's aborted baby. But that's not a bad thing, that's a good thing! - Man of Steel was one of the worst movies I've seen in quite some time. Is it really an unpopular opinion? I've heard mostly negative feedback about it and have yet to see a single person truly praise it. I'd have to say I disagree with most of the opinions in this thread. A lot of them are really absurd. That is all. I love the part where you developed your arguments and debated people instead of throwing a random insult. Here are mine: - The Star Wars prequels really aren't bad. They have stupid stuff in it, sure, and aren't as good as the original trilogy, but they're nowhere near the trainwreck so many people describe them as; - similarly, the Matrix sequels, while completely unnecessary, are still good films in their own right in my opinion. They did not need to be stretched to two movies, though; - people who call the Saw franchise "torture porn" have NO idea how tame it is compared to what could truly be considered torture porn. Also, I am convinced that most people who make that claim haven't actually seen any of the movies and just hope to sound clever. They don't (and make no mistake, I'm not saying that about people who simply dislike the franchise - heck I find most of the films to be weak - but about people who keep throwing the term "torture porn" around without actually explaining what it is they hate so much about these movies); - Scrubs is probably the worst show I've ever seen, and I feel sorry for the legitimately talented cast. I remember someone on these forums once summed it up best by saying "it's like a black hole of comedy: they put talent in, but the jokes never, ever come out funny", it's especially jarring with Cox, whose jokes are funny out of context yet somehow lose their charm in the actual episodes. Add to this that it takes itself disgustingly seriously and you've got one of the most infuriating fiction shows I've seen; - it seems to have become a more popular opinion lately, but Steven Moffat is NOT God's gift to Doctor Who. Yes he can write very good stories, yes I love the more serious and mysterious tone he's given to the new show, but man his obsession with some concepts and his ability to ruin good ideas (Weeping Angels, River Song) frequently get on my nerves. While we're at it, Russel T. Davies gets a lot of undeserved crap. At least when he wrote stinkers like Love & Monsters you can ignore them and move on; Moffat ruins entire characters, story arcs and continuities when he's bad, and it gets bad when he tries to get away with it by saying "a time paradox did it"; - the Paranormal Activity franchise is everything wrong with horror these days: unlikeable protagonists, focus on a gimmick rather than atmosphere and worst of all, stupid, predictable jump scares being passed off as psychological horror. Here's a hint: if you laugh it off and forget it the moment you stop screaming, it's not psychological horror, or even simply horror; - Unbreakable was the most boring film I've seen. By the 50 minutes mark, I swear I thought at least twice that amount of time had passed and that we must've been nearing the end of the film; - I find nothing wrong with Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland; - While it is true there are a lot of terrible ones, I still like found footage movies very much (watch V/H/S/2 and the last two segments of its predecessor for examples of found footage films done right); - Halloween is vastly overrated in my book. I think it would actually have worked better as a short as the whole second act feels like filler. It's one thing to try to build tension, it's another to have your killer just stand there while his victims don't even know he exists and are having a happy Halloween; - I'm having a hard times genuinely finding Zardoz bad, even so-bad-it's-good. I mean yeah, it's confusing as all heck and the plot just... kind of happens with no real logical progression, but I feel it has some genuinely interesting themes and I am under the impression that the visuals are intentionally ridiculous to show how much cultural norms have changed and how alien they would seem to us, much like what Kubrick did with A Clockwork Orange (although admittedly more successfully); - I really don't like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. Yeah, it has a cool killer, and the dinner scene is actually pretty creepy, but that's all it has going for it. Most of the film is frankly annoying to me as it is mostly made of a blonde screaming, the oppressing atmosphere is quickly dropped in favour of chase scenes, and I blame this movie for inspiring the countless flicks with incredibly annoying jackasses for main characters, as the very small development our "heroes" get makes them come off as both dumb and annoying. And its title is a f'n lie as only one character gets offed with the chainsaw, its bodycount is hardly high enough to constitute a "massacre" and for that matter, we don't even see much of Texas, but I suppose "The Countryside Meat Tenderizer Homicide" doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Post by y4j1981 on Aug 11, 2013 6:05:39 GMT -5
I dont care what people think.....I like Kristen Stewart. Not only cause I think she is pretty but also cause I think she can act
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Post by SOR on Aug 11, 2013 6:32:27 GMT -5
I dont care what people think.....I like Kristen Stewart. Not only cause I think she is pretty but also cause I think she can act I actually like her because I try and argue the point that acting ability doesn't really matter most of the time and that it's all look and she really helps that argument. I guess my unpopular opinion would be that you don't really need to be a great actor to make it. If you can be a passable actor and good looking you'll probably make it someday. Another one from the business side. People who hold auditions for unpaid acting work are the worst people on earth.
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