Your Unpopular Movie Opinions

Submitted by Moe on

Since this is today's theme, I've always had a very unpopular view of a certain movie, and would love to hear other's opinions based off of movies and/or actors.  Mine: I think Wedding Crashers is a terrible movie, and not funny.

OccaM

February 13th, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^

A Scanner Darkly is one of the greatest movies ever made. 

Not a movie but a TV show, House of Cards season 2 sucked. 

Marvel superhero movies don't have the balls to actually do anything emotionally devestating to the audience and thus becomes way too formulaic

Superbad wasn't that good. 

Never felt compelled to ever watch any of the Godfathers, Shawshank Redemption, or Big Lebowski ... really gotta get around to it. 

Fell asleep during Reservoir Dogs sadly... 

ericcarbs

February 13th, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^

Nicolas cage isn't the worst actor ever. He is very extreme with his acting but has some quality movies and even some bad ones I like (next, gone in 60 seconds). Also he won an academy award for best actor so must not be that bad.

Moe

February 13th, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^

Jonah Hill is the best under 40 actor in Hollywood, and I will watch any movie he is in.  Same with Jennifer Lawrence.  Those aren't terribly unpopular though.

Heptarch

February 13th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^

I actually like Rudy.  Admittedly, I substitute Michigan for Notre Dame in my mind and imagine that Sean Astin is trying to play for the Maize and Blue... but still. 

jmblue

February 13th, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^

Last year I rewatched the original triology for the first time in 20-some years.  I thought the first two mostly held up (Empire Strikes Back, especially) but Return of the Jedi was a lot worse than I remembered.  The Ewok scenes, which I loved when I was a kid, struck me as particularly cringe-worthy.  In retrospect they seem like a blatant marketing grab by Lucas to draw kids - and it worked on me at the time.

 

Sam1863

February 13th, 2015 at 5:59 PM ^

I think this is a classic generational difference. I was 16 when the first Star Wars film came out, and I saw it with a buddy of mine. Those first two minutes, with the crawl of type over the screen, and then the cruiser chasing the rebel ship ... well, we both had the same reaction:

"Holy shit!"

Sure, now it seems dated and quaint. But in 1977 ... yeah, it really was badass.

Agree on the Ewoks, though. Even then I could recognize it as a cheap merchandizing ploy.