Uncommon movie opinions you have

So, there are tons of movies that most people are in agreement with. What movie opinions do you have that go against the grain? Here are some of mine, despite my limited scope so far:

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• I didn't find The Number 23 confusing or contrived. The SYMBOLISM!!! was about as subtle as a ten-pound hammer with a five foot swing, but otherwise I found it to go down quite easily. I understood almost all of it (I think I only had to rewind it once and go "now wait, what was that again?), and I was mostly engaged in where things were going with Jim Carrey's character throughout.

• I had to turn The Sandlot about 20 minutes in. It just made me feel too sad about myself at that age, and all the opportunities for adventure, friendship, and just being a human fucking being that I squandered because I was an ultra-sheltered assburger. I just couldn't take it, because I kept going "aw man, no one ever told me when I was a kid that I could do that!" (I honestly never knew until I was about 15 that it was "normal" to meet up with your schoolmates in settings other than school, to name just one example.)

• I liked Joe Dirt. It wasn't amazing or anything, and I could see its flaws, but I thought it was reasonably funny and had a heart underneath its rough exterior.

• I think that Clerks is boring as shit. I watched it for 20 minutes or so, and it was nothing but two personality-deprived dicks rambling about Star Wars in a convenience store. It was like watching an episode of Seinfeld at half speed with the color turned off.

• While I agree with the consensus that the first The Santa Clause is the best, I think that it also starts rather slowly before it really catches fire. Also, I think that The Santa Clause 2, while overall not quite as good, is slightly better paced and has enough creative ideas for me to consider it a sequel that has a decent reason to exist. (However, I still agree with the consensus that the third film is crap.)

• I feel that Jingle All the Way is genuinely good.

• I have no interest in watching Dumb and Dumber. Ever. I'm just generally not a fan of comedy that is driven by stupidity.

Shock Treatment is a legitimately good film when you get over the fact it's a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show but has very little in common with it.

The best film based on a comic book is Ghost World.

Pre-Hays Code movies are underrated as a whole.

The Josie And The Pussycats movie is actually a really good satire of the music industry.

Any live-action film based on a Jay Ward cartoon is entertaining.

The best songs in Hollywood movie musical history were all written pre-1935, with most of the best of the best being written before the Great Musical Crash of 1930.

Clerks The Animated Series is funnier than Clerks the movie.

edited 30th Nov '14 4:24:33 PM by Aldo930

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

I actually didn't enjoy Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey all that much.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

That is not that uncommon. I like segments of it, but not the whole thing.

I think that Cutthroat Island is a fun pirate movie and certainly better than any of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels (naturally not better than the original Pot C which is my favourite Pirate movie.

It seems like everyone hates the Star Wars prequel trilogy except me. I like everything about it more than the original trilogy.

edited 30th Nov '14 7:49:16 PM by lexicon

Speed Racer is an under appreciated masterpiece.

edited 30th Nov '14 8:29:20 PM by LDragon2

Where does this fall?

I'm reading this because it's interesting. I think. Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over.

I thought Argo was grossly overrated- too much self congratulatory to "FUCK YEAH AMERICA", not enough credit given to the actual history.

Revenge Of The Sith is just as good as Return Of The Jedi (yeah, I said it).

Temple of Doom does not exist in my Indiana Jones library.

I like Mega Mind way way more than The Incredibles- it seemed much more creative with the tropes it managed to subvert, the characters were much funnier and I thought it dealt with the Hero / Villain dynamics much more ingeniously than The Incredibles (which, to be honest, really just played most of them straight).

edited 1st Dec '14 2:21:07 AM by Mattonymy

You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.

I can't express enough how much I HATE Temple of Doom....the annoying screaming, the racial questionable scenes...honestly, I never got why this one got a pass. I think it is worse than Crystal Scull.

I actually like Terminator 3 (but like everyone else, I prefer to pretend that Salvation doesn't exist).

Green Lantern is better than the majority of the Marvel Universe movies.

I never thought the Incredibles was about the Hero/Villain dynamic, though, so I can forgive it for playing it fairly straight.

edited 1st Dec '14 2:35:15 AM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!

It's not. The Incredibles is about mid-live crisis.

I think that Captain America: The first Avenger is better than Iron Man....and Iron Man 2 is not better or worse than Thor 1 and 2, and Iron Man 3 (meaning all those movies are equally problematic but still decent).

I think that "The Amazing Spider-Man" is the best Spider-Man movie.

I don't think that any of the first X-Men trilogy movies were any good, or that Wolverine is in any way a compelling character.

And I don't like any of the Superman movies.

edited 1st Dec '14 2:38:52 AM by swanpride

I know right? By no means is Crystal Skull a perfect film, but at least it not only did it not continually want me to rip out my ears every five minutes, it also managed to carry the continuity better than Doom to the point where it left the characters in a place I actually feel satisfied watching them.

The thing with The Incredibles for me, is that I never really got whether it wanted to be a serious Deconstruction of the Super Hero genre (ie with the whole Super Hero underground movement and the world suddenly turning on heroes) or an enjoyable Reconstruction (where suddenly everyone is thrilled to have them return). I like the family in The Incredibles when they were just being a dysfunctional family much more than when they donned their suits. Additionally, it never really explained why the super villains suddenly decided to retire as well, considering all the heroes were forced into submission by the government, and they're essentially missing out on what is a giant score. Mega Mind at least played it for laughs and knew it was a parody of the genre, so it was able to toy with the fact that people knew that super heroes exist, that everyone has a definable role in the system and actually had fun with the concept.

That's not too uncommon. ASM 1 was a much more dramatic take on the series and for many people it captured the actual spirit of the comics more.

edited 1st Dec '14 2:48:05 AM by Mattonymy

You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.

I am not a comic reader. I just think that it is the better movie.

The Incredibles is not really about Superheroes. It makes fun of the genre a little bit (and James Bond too), but I think the Superhero part is just there to make it more fun. In it's core it is about very adult themes.

Think with Indiana Jones is the fanbase has a nasty case of Nostalgia Filter. Like legit, most people who I've encountered were the ones who watch the trilogy during their childhood so they're willing to handwave the sillyness of Temple of Doom while bashing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for the same. I like all the Indiana Jones movies for what it's worth.

I'm not interested in Indiana Jones, Star Wars, or Star Trek. People have insulted me for this opinion.

How do you feel about The Lord Of The Rings?

I have to agree...it's not like I don't like the movies, I am just not particularly interested in them. (And unlike everyone else, I consider the first Indiana Jones the best one, not the third).

Not my cup of tea either...neither the books, nor the movies, despite usually having a leaning towards fantasy. I am also not into the Narnia series, but that not very unusual in my country. The book series is not that well-known over here.

You're just a horrible person then.

Yeah, I know...thankfully my family is very understanding....

I've read Lord Of The Rings. It was okay. Not the most interested in the films.

Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars prequel.

Looking for some stories?

Not actually an uncommon opinion, that one.

Up didn't need a villain.

Contact should have just been a depiction of a realistic first contact scenario, and not shoehorned a "religion or science" moral.

Avatar looked fake.

Similarly, The Invention Of Lying should've stuck to its premise instead of turning halfway through into one giant middle finger against religion in general.

(Which isn't to say it couldn't have dipped its toes into religious satire—hell, Life Of Brian is a fantastic movie and takes the piss out of the Judeo-Christian religions the entire time.)

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License to Kill is my favorite James Bond movie (now granted, i havent seen any of the connery films yet save for Diamonds are Forever, so my opinion may change once i get a chance to see the "classic" films in the series). Also, my favorite Rambo film is the fourth one.