Post an unpopular (movie or TV related) opinion

Didn't find Willie Scott or Short Round annoying in Temple of Doom.

Enjoyed the Phantom Menace.

Didn't like Serenity.

Consider It's a Wonderful Life to be unbearable kitsch.

Liked Man of Steel.

Didn't like Logan.

Do not like Casey Affleck.

So you're going to assume my entire taste is bad because you disagree with some opinions I post in an unpopular opinions thread? ok.

Heh. I don't know exactly what counts as "unpopular," especially around these parts, but (first things first) I agree with politicidal on Willie and Short Round in Temple of Doom (which may well be my favorite of the Indy films after Raiders...and in some ways it's even more fun than Raiders, too). Just to get that out of the way.

Anyhoo, a few things:

Not a big fan of The Dark Knight (Ledger's remarkable performance notwithstanding). I think Batman Begins is in may ways superior. In fact, I think Nolan is a cold and clinical kind of director (à la Kubrick, whom he idolizes--hailed as a great artist before he ever became a competent craftsman), and I'm not especially a fan of his.

Speaking of Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey is just dreadful--an anti-movie for anti-moviegoers.

Airplane! is weird, unfunny, and obnoxious.

I haven't liked a single movie Tarantino has made.

Pleasantville is a hypocritical, mean-spirited mess.

The Avengers (2012) is a very weak movie; in many ways, The Avengers (1998) is more interesting.

The Haunting (1999) is not at all bad and in fact manages an effective, eerie mood for its first act. The film on which it is based is effective as well, albeit hindered by Julie Harris's histrionic monologues.

Congo is an excellent film; the same applies to A Walk in the Woods and Allied.

The English-language version of Dracula is superior to its Spanish-language counterpart.

Speaking of which, Mark of the Vampire is a parody of Dracula. (Couldn't resist...)

Freaks is an atrocious movie.

Probably several more...

By the by, deembastille...
You and I completely agree on these two. Re: the first, I find Jeannie superior to Bewitched in just about every imaginable way.

Showgirls (1995) is quite underrated as it's amongst My Favorite Movies (i.e. within my Top 196 movies) as it's the only movie with a 4.x/10 or lower average on IMDb i consider a favorite. i could list some 5.x/10 and low 6.x/10 range i find underrated but i won't for now.

also, Fight Club is probably THE most overrated movie on IMDb. it's below average at best.

but i have a feeling that movie is only highly praised amongst the young people as i can't imagine people who have a bit more age on them praising that movie as much as it's IMDb score leads on. so it just depends on who you talk to whether it's praised in the first place or not as i feel it's high appeal is largely limited to the 20 somethings and younger. still, going strictly by IMDb scores it's definitely overrated.

for the record... i actually thought Fight Club was a solid enough movie probably back around the mid 2000's or so. but on a re-watch many years later on Apr 10th 2013, while i kinda of expected it to drop off for me, i did not think it would drop off as much as it did. so basically nowadays it's below average/borderline failure for me (i.e. 3.5-4/10).

just to quickly look through IMDb's Top 50 movies, here is what i think is definitely overrated as i would give them a Thumbs Down as they are all average AT BEST (some are below average or failure/boring status)...

-12 Angry Men
-LOTR 3 (and the series for that matter)
-Inception (boring. could not finish it)
-Goodfellas (used to think this was great but now it's just average)
-Star Wars (boring)
-City of God (used to think it was solid but is now boring for me)
-Seven
-The Silence of the Lambs (used to think this was a strong movie)
-The Usual Suspects (used to think this was solid)
-Leon (used to be a big fan of this)
-Interstellar (boring)
-Pyscho (i liked this on initial viewing but it did not hold up on a re-watch)
-The Pianist
-Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indy 3 and 4 are the only ones i like of this series)
-Whiplash
-Memento

just to list the remaining movies in the IMDb Top 50 that i like but are nothing special, which makes them overrated just not to a higher degree is all...

-The Dark Knight
-Schindler's List
-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
-The Matrix (i like the 2nd movie more)
-Saving Private Ryan
-American History X
-Terminator 2
-Back to the Future

a good portion of those i used to be a pretty big fan of of which i now only mildly like.

p.s. i have not seen Seven Samurai but it's pretty safe for me to say it's overrated at it's 8.6/10 average on #19 in the Top 250.

politicidal



Agreed.

in fact, Man of Steel is my #1 super hero movie where as Logan, while not bad, is ultimately forgettable as it's not worth re-watching.

p.s. but then again i never been a fan of the X-Men movies as they all are forgettable (i have seen a decent percentage of them). but i will say the Wolverine character was the best of the X-Men world.

Ban



You actually serious about this? ; or is it simply one of those things that you think it's okay-ish but because of the $$$ and general praise of it in the genre that makes you turn against it more because of that? ; or have you just not seen many movies this year?

p.s. for the record... i think it's one of the better super hero movies as there are not many ill re-watch but that's one of the ones that i will re-watch.



We pretty much agree here in a basic sense. it's one of the small amount of super hero movies ill re-watch. so while i would not say it's 'very good', i do mildly like it and consider it one of the better super hero movies.

I honestly didn't like it at all, but I'm sure it's not THE worst. I've seen 30 some movies this year, and I liked the majority because I have a pretty good grasp of my own taste, and I know what to avoid. If I were to watch every movie this year (or even every movie that was semi-successful), I'm 99% confident it wouldn't make the bottom of my list.

Heath Ledger was no better than Jack as the Joker.
The Exorcist is so dull that I've never been able to stay awake to see the entire thing.
Nolan is talented, but extremely overrated.
Anthony Hopkins didn't deserve to win for Silence of the Lambs; it was a rather bad case of category fraud for one thing, and another is that he didn't do anything with the role that any competent actor couldn't have done.
Jack Ryan was an entertaining, enjoyable movie.
The original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy are all top-notch movies, and actually more about Elizabeth than Jack.
The Godfather is rather dull for the most part, certainly not the best of all-time.
GoodFellas is fantastic, but not Scorsese's best.
John Wayne was actually a pretty crap actor, but I do love Rio Bravo.

I go one step further. I give it a full 10.

Oddly enough i have not seen those films yet.