Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by dvining

Another problem I have with it is that there's just so much of it. It's one thing to look at 10,000 movies with an average runtime of 100 minutes and saying, "I'm going to dig into that."

It's another thing entirely to look at 10,000 TV shows with an average runtime of 600 minutes per season and think similarly.

Just like a good movie, when you find those good series, time flies and you can't get enough.

I think there's a lot of room for improvement all around. I've just had more success in finding great series than great movies lately. The recent ones I listed are good throughout in my opinion.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

Just like a good movie, when you find those good series, time flies and you can't get enough.

I think there's a lot of room for improvement all around. I've just had more success in finding great series than great movies lately. The recent ones I listed are good throughout in my opinion.

I don't watch much new stuff. I'm usually pretty focused on old stuff I've never seen before. I'm doing John Ford's filmography, and I haven't even gotten out of the silent period yet. I find more interesting with older movies than newer movies, I guess.

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by dvining

I don't watch much new stuff. I'm usually pretty focused on old stuff I've never seen before. I'm doing John Ford's filmography, and I haven't even gotten out of the silent period yet. I find more interesting with older movies than newer movies, I guess.

Well how about The West Wing then?

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

Well how about The West Wing then?

24 episode seasons? Kill me now. I'm willing to do that for Star Trek and pretty much nothing else.

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by dvining

24 episode seasons? Kill me now. I'm willing to do that for Star Trek and pretty much nothing else.

[bladerunner6]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

LOL that'll last about 3 days into January, I'm sure. Coronavirus aside, 2021 was actually pretty good for me. I got out of food service (hopefully forever), I'm in great shape for 41 and I finished my first ever college degree. Onward and upward!

Great work

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

[Show spoiler]

Oh, there's a lot of pompous moralizing? Yeah, sounds like fun.

[DanTheMan]

TV Shows I just watched recently:

Dawson’s Creek (rewatch on DVD) - mostly love it
The Flight Attendant (HBO Max) - liked the first several episodes
Loki (Disney+) - great moments throughout, but Ep. 3 and the finale disappointed

Can’t say any of those titles were better than top movies of recent years.

Already started digging into a little known program known as…….

THE SOPRANOS (long overdue)

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by dvining

Oh, there's a lot of pompous moralizing? Yeah, sounds like fun.

A lot less than you'll find in a typical forum thread.

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

I've found more new TV series to be high quality than new movies lately. Everything is peaks and valleys. Right now TV is peaking in quality and movies are in a valley.

It's always the opposite for me. I think TV has too many limitations as a medium from the start. It is not as free as film.

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

I find something to enjoy in most things, but I've given out far more one and two star ratings in 2020 and 2021 than I usually do.

2020 is shaping up good for me! I have managed to find a lot of good films so far. And I'm always excited and hungry for more! Too early to tell anything proper about 2021, maybe it will show next year and/or the year after that, when more and more stuff gets available in wider ways. Still a lot of content from festivals to wait for.

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by Mothravka

It's always the opposite for me.

It does often seem that way.

[Blu Lemmy]

Originally Posted by edmonddantes

I dont understand why ewan macgregor is famous? I really don't, hes not a good actor, he doesnt have any charisma, hes vanilla enough to be liked by many I guess

Also I dont find alicia vikander attractive or a good actress or really anything at all. Same goes for noomi rapace, that I know has a big fanbase on the internet

and now so some keyboard warrior gets a sudden death, Im going to finish with:

Penelope Cruz is an ugly B****

there you go, have fun, kids

The fact that you go on attractiveness first says it all.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by dvining

At about the same time I watched Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace and I tried (and failed) to watch the Netflix show Daredevil.

War and Peace is 3 hours shorter than the first season of Daredevil. Was the story of the first season of Daredevil that much more narratively robust than War and Peace? I certainly didn't think so.

I had a conversation with a friend at work a couple of years ago where he suggested Black Sails, but he prefaced it with, "You have to get through the first season before it gets good."

"I have to watch 10 hours of bad television in order to get to the good stuff?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

I haven't exactly sworn off television, but I'd much rather risk a 90 minute stinker than trying to drudge through 10 hours of something that may or may not end up panning out. Hell, my mother gave me the first season of Fargo randomly like three years ago, and I still haven't put in the first disc.

TV is a vacuum for the worst storytelling sensibilities.

[CreasyBear]

The last 20+ episode a season show I went through in its entirety was Smallville and I largely enjoyed most of it's ten year run, but I will freely admit that half of the episodes are worthless. There's some fun to be had, for sure. Some cool shit. But they don't advance the story much in any meaningful way. It could have easily been five ten-episode seasons and worked better. I really enjoyed the first seasons of Flash and Supergirl and I think I made it through the first three seasons of Arrow before fatigue set in and I didn't have the heart to see it through like Smallville.

There's a handful of shows I've watched in the last several years that I've enjoyed. Stranger Things, GLOW, Queen's Gambit, Dev's, For All Makind, and Ted Lasso are all terrific shows that grabbed me right from the start and kept that momentum going. They are diamonds in the rough though. The vast majority of television content is absolute garbage. Film's can be garbage too, but I find there's more creative freedom within the confines of a two-hour narrative. It pushes writer and directors to be more creative because they can't drag a story out to fifteen hours.

The X-Files is the best show ever to be broadcast. Television peaked with Mulder and Scully. I will consider anything else to be heresy.

[DR Herbert West]

Top 3 TV shows:

1. Twin Peaks
2. Millennium
3. The X-Files

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Top 3 TV shows:

1. Twin Peaks
2. Millennium
3. The X-Files

1. The X-Files
2. Batman: The Animated Series
3. Frasier

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Top 3 TV shows:

1. Twin Peaks
2. Millennium
3. The X-Files

[Rodney-2187]

This thread is four years old and a lot has changed since then, but there still some great shows here:

Blu-ray.com Community Top 50 TV Series RESULTS!
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ghlight=top+tv

[dvining]

Twin Peaks Season 2:

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by dvining

Twin Peaks Season 2:

I never finished it. First season? Brilliant. And I tried the The Return and found it lethargic and unnecessary.

Fire Walk with Me is the best Twin Peaks and I'll fight anyone to the death over a pit of lava if you disagree.