Unpopular opinions about movies. -

[CloacaRimjob]

Not sure if this an unpopular opinion but one of my favourite films of all time, Highlander should have ended differently.
Conrad should have been reunited with his wife at the end, he's seen lighting a candle for her birthday hundreds of years later but soon as he finds out Kurgan raped her shes persona non-grata? Utter bullshit and then he settles for some whiny ginger obnoxious american bitch, the wife was a prime piece of Scottish ass compared to this coal burning amerimutt nailbag. Fucking really pissed me off.
Great film though, funny how sean connery films were good until he became a hun.

 

[Android raptor]

All the Jurassic Park/World movies are at least enjoyable. Even III if you don't take it seriously.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

A lot of fans of the graphic novel don’t really care for it, and it got middling reviews on release, but I like From Hell

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The Lighthouse was okay. Miles better than the dramas masquerading as horror movies nowadays, but it was still too slow for my liking and it bordered on being a straight up arthouse film at times (not a big fan of those kinds of movies). Loved the imagery though.

 

[L50LasPak]

I suppose its befitting of my doomer attitude, but recently in the past few days I've become firmly entrenched as one of those people who thinks Day of the Dead is unquestionably superior to Dawn of the Dead. I'm of course discussing the originals.

I could never understand this point of view for the longest time. I saw Day of the Dead first when I was a kid actually, and I remember it shocked me with how depressing and hopeless it was. I was still at the age where killing zombies and surviving in the post apocalypse was its own reward, and though the original Dawn of the Dead has a grim ending there's still plenty of fun stuff in between. I rewatched Day of the Dead a few months ago just because I felt like it and still it didn't really click with me that it was better than Dawn. The idea just seemed like heresy. Day of the Dead is such a smaller movie, much more limited in terms of scope, with fewer characters and less that actually happens. How the hell could it ever be better than the great Dawn of the Dead?

I think it finally sank in when I was listening to the soundtrack while browsing threads. Now more than ever, Day of the Dead has the most relatable ending of any of the original Romero movies. The entire movie is so dark and depressing and nihilistic that when the main characters decide that they're sick of everything and they're just going to bug out, you actually agree with their point of view. Fuck the bunker, fuck the government, fuck the research. Rhodes and his corrupt men get what's coming to them, and the most sympathetic character in the movie (arguably) Bub gets his moment.

Its hard not to draw paralells to today, where every urban area is besieged by riots, the media and social sciences have lost their minds and become obssessed with faulty research, our oldschool authority figures are all dead leaving a bunch of unhinged powermad newbies in charge. And we're all bunkered up in the dark in our own private lairs, somehow hoping all of the madness outside will just blow over. The movie might as well be a documentary about Current Year. Seeing everything fall apart at the end is cathartic, not just because our heroes escape, but also because we see this place associated with so much misery and hopelessness finally destroyed. Its beautiful, honestly.

Also the soundtrack is spectacular. A lot of people are really partial to Goblin's stuff for Dawn of the Dead, but John Harrison's score blows it out of the water. The 2CD set has been uploaded to Youtube in full. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUCzXtzqJ9Y&list=PLhXW8z_Sv_Bd14glcCrnug1oiQ9mhX3h7&index=1 Go listen to it, you have no excuse not to.

 

[Muttnik]

Okay, so everyone loves Prince of Egypt. That's not a controversial or unpopular thought.

I'll take it a step above that and say that I think Prince of Egypt is the greatest animated film ever made fucking FIGHT ME. More than anything Disney has ever contributed to the medium. It was so good that it made me religious again after my atheistic college years.

 

[Custardpie]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is very flawed, but I still think it's a fun film. And I think that movie has given us the best live action Peter Parker/Spider-Man to date.

 

[eDove]

Aquaman was hellishly boring.

 

[66andtwothirds]

Joker is awful, like bottom 20 films i've ever seen.

Once upon a time in america is a hideous, unpleasant film.

even the original star wars films are boring and did not age well.

Never say never again is actually a great Bond film

Spiderman 3 is not that bad

Michael Bay's transformers films are not that bad

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Dick Van Dyke's attempt at a British accent in Marry Poppins was actually pretty good. I'm surprise there are people who thought it was bad. I have heard actual British people talk like that.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

Sylvia in The Truman Show is as much a creepy messed-up bitch as anyone else in the film. She spends years glued to her TV like all the other sad sacks, neglecting the world outside to lust after this guy she once met for an hour or two, because she thinks she's the only one who can 'save' him. She's a weirdo stalker. If Truman didn't commit suicide within a year of leaving the dome, she'd stab him herself.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The MCU was never good to begin, not even the first Avengers movie.

The first Iron Man was an okay movie for a slow afternoon, but that's it. Even back in 2012, I hated the MCU.

 

[X Pac Heat]

People bitched about the CGI in the Expendables films way too much.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Troll 2 bored me to death. Even the memes.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Troll 2 bored me to death. Even the memes.

99% of these "so bad it's good" films are actually so bad it's bad.

 

[horrorfan89]

I like water world

 

[kittyfucker]

I didn't really like Pulp Fiction. Not hated it, I just thought it was kind of "meh".

Also I didn't really understand American Psycho but Christian Bale is a hottie.

 

[Henry Bemis]

The Disaster Artist is a swell movie. Or, to put it pessimistically, it is the swellest movie that could be made about a man who will use his bottomless pit of money to abuse the courts to harangue anyone who asks even the most innocuous questions about his life, and that also bears his seal of approval.

More or less, we'll have to wait until Tommy Wiseau shuffles off this mortal coil/gets beamed back up to get the true story of what happened during The Room's production. And even then, I'm convinced he'll try to put some codicil in his will that says "No negative depictions of Tommy Wiseau allowed, ever." God help his eventual executor.

 

[NeoGAF Lurker]

I find it hard to be able to watch any movie from the 21st century. The millennium kicked off with awful trilogies, grimdark and cynical reboots, and stoner comedies that pretended to be smarter than they actually were. Then it only got worse! Even a movie like Joker, which I liked, I have no desire to ever watch it a second time.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

I Could not sit through any of Neil Breens movies, like there's so bad its good, and then there's so bad its unwatchable. Breen is the latter