Unpopular Film Opinions

I was going to say, that movie has been a traditional favorite in my family for like 25 years. This has the markings of an HDB-esque “I don’t like it, this it must be ironic for all the people that do” take.

Now, when I force my children to watch Cricket on the Hearth and swear to them it’s my favorite Rankin-Bass THAT is some Christmas Dickens irony.

Not stop motion, unfortunately. It was one of the filler specials on the DVD collection.

I don't agree, except I do wonder why people seem to be unhappy that the screen time isn't >90% Wonder Woman. Isn't that a good thing, I thought the villains were supposed to be the best thing about DC?

Inside Out is a great movie and I love how it depicts the complexities of emotion and all that. But when Bing Bong dies I feel nothing.

He falls in the un-memory pit or whatever. Unless you mean he can't die because he never really existed, which exactly!

Godzilla kinda sucks as a recurring monster. He has no personality whatsoever. He just shows up a destroys everything, which in and of itself is alright. But if you've seen Godzilla once you've seen him a thousand times.

King Kong (in the more recent versions at least) has a discernable personality.

Even the Bayformers, for as much shit as they (in most cases deservedly) get, you can't deny that they aren't given distinct personalities.

I might have trolled my movie-loving guy friends while camping by telling them I think the original Ghostbusters is "fine."

I really do think it's fine. It's always made me laugh, and I enjoy the movie when I happen to watch it. But I was more into the cartoon as a kid.

Their reactions were absolutely worth the small hit to the respect they hold for me as a person.

Ms. Goblin grew up in an arty family and saw very few "genre" films before adulthood. She had seen Doom and Crusade but not Raiders before I showed it to her. Surprisingly, I think she still prefers Crusade of the three because it's more about Indy's puzzle solving, which seems valid. She very much geeks out over problem-solving; when I showed her Die Hard, about the only part she cared for was the "Bill Clay" scenes featuring the battle of wits between McClane and Gruber.

I liked both original Ghostbusters films (#2 less so), I liked the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, I liked the Ghostbusters Sega Genesis game, and I liked the all-female half-sequel half-reboot as well. (I've been a fan of Leslie Jones since that one, for that matter.)

Shit's getting real in here...

Fight Club is a great film and was formative in my understanding and appreciation of film as an art form and I hate that I've had to spend the last 15 years pretending otherwise because a bunch of assholes don't understand satire. This and The Matrix both came out when I was impressionable 18 year old just starting to dip my toe into cultural studies, and it upsets me that these two films have been misunderstood and co-opted by incels to the point where being a fan of either film has become a "red flag."

The real 1999 red flag film is Boondock Saints. If you meet a Boondock Saints fan, that person is dangerous and you need to leave immediately.

I view 1999 as the culmination of a whole decade of middlebrow [EDIT: dumb, loaded word I shouldn't have used; let's make it "stylized"] flicks that way too many people assume are trenchant and intellectual (yes, I'm including Matrix and Fight Club under that description). I think it was the influence of Miramax and the major studios' boutique labels chasing that "indie" aura.

I'd challenge them to watch the documentary about the sightings of the probably-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas that inexplicably used the song in the soundtrack before they got in my pants.