Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by levcore

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a better movie than The Avengers

and this is coming from someone that thinks Marvel films are overrated and Sean Connery is my favorite actor!

[levcore]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

and this is coming from someone that thinks Marvel films are overrated and Sean Connery is my favorite actor!

I'll go one further then, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is better than Avengers: Infinity War

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by levcore

I'll go one further then, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is better than Avengers: Infinity War

that doesn't surprise me.....

[levcore]

Yes I could carry on but it would literally just be me naming unpopular movies that I think are better than popular ones.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Mothravka

Since someone posted a clip from The Matrix Reloaded (2003), I can't think of a lot of things that are as ridiculous, embarrassing and stupid as bullets in slow motion in those kinds of scenes.

You do understand what was happening in that scene, don't you?

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by levcore

Yes I could carry on but it would literally just be me naming unpopular movies that I think are better than popular ones.

But that's all this thread is.

Ernest Goes To Camp > Raiders of the Lost Ark

Yay, I did it!

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Blu-21

and both feature Sheens!

OK, point taken.

[Rodney-2187]

Don't leave out Emilio!

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[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by MJD64

I saw A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST opening day and really enjoyed it. The critics raked it over the coals and it disappointed at the box-office, but it was a fun and raunchy diversion...I felt TED 2 was similarly underrated. The terrific cast in WEST is a pleasure to watch and appear to be having a good time (I enjoyed Charlize Theron's good-humored remark some time after the release that MacFarlane only made the movie as an excuse to make out with her ).

To be fair, that's a pretty good reason to make a film.

[wonderer99]

It says something about my viewing preferences when this is the thread I post most often in!

A Clockwork Orange is not as clever as it thinks it is. Its the sort of film people say they like because they think they should when really its OK to just think its pretentious garbage that is actually saying very little.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

It says something about my viewing preferences when this is the thread I post most often in!

A Clockwork Orange is not as clever as it thinks it is. Its the sort of film people say they like because they think they should when really its OK to just think its pretentious garbage that is actually saying very little.

I'll have to disagree with you there. I think it's a perfect mirror up to our society, in fact. Then again, I think we read the Burgess novel in AP English before I saw the film. It was at least very close -- we're talking decades, here. But if someone wants to hold a mirror up to who and what we are, I think it's a perfect vessel.

Actually, it amazes me that Burgess saw all of this about a half-century ago.

[Hoke Moseley]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

A Clockwork Orange is not as clever as it thinks it is. Its the sort of film people say they like because they think they should when really its OK to just think its pretentious garbage that is actually saying very little.

This is not an opinion. It's you making half-assed assumptions about the taste of other people.

Try again.

[wonderer99]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

Fight Club is a mess, has nothing really to say and ultimately is not a very good film.

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I think it is a great film, and I also think it has lots to say, mainly about our society. And everything it said about our society then is still true today. And a lot of it is even worse now.

And on top of all of that, the main cast was just brilliant. Oh, and it has one of my all-time favorite closing scene. No, screw that. It IS my all-time favorite closing scene. It's poetic perfection.

Originally Posted by wonderer99

I found it boring up until it started getting weird and then I just found it baffling and boring.

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Well, I never found "Twin Peaks" to baffling, really. There are elements that were occasionally difficult to decipher. But the show as a whole is really fairly straightforward in its underlying story and themes. Then again, were you watching this with friends, or alone? Because when it aired I was watching it every week with the same group of friends, and every week we spent more time discussing the show than actually watching it.

I don't know. It certainly isn't for everyone.

Originally Posted by wonderer99

Airplane > Every comedy released in the last 20 years

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Do you mean that it's a better film, or that it's funnier? Or both?

Any way you cut we aren't going to agree here. I'm just curios.

Originally Posted by wonderer99

It says something about my viewing preferences when this is the thread I post most often in!

A Clockwork Orange is not as clever as it thinks it is. Its the sort of film people say they like because they think they should when really its OK to just think its pretentious garbage that is actually saying very little.

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I'll have to disagree with you there. I think it's a perfect mirror up to our society, in fact. Then again, I think we read the Burgess novel in AP English before I saw the film. It was at least very close -- we're talking decades, here. But if someone wants to hold a mirror up to who and what we are, I think it's a perfect vessel.

Actually, it amazes me that Burgess saw all of this about a half-century ago.

Shocking!

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

Shocking!

Shocking that he saw all of this so long ago?

I agree.

[wonderer99]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Shocking that he saw all of this so long ago?

I agree.

No, no, no shocking that you dis..........never mind

Anyway, Burgess saw what exactly half a century ago?

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

No, no, no shocking that you dis..........never mind

Anyway, Burgess saw what exactly half a century ago?

He saw how society would dominate the thinking of the public, to the point where society itself began to fall apart. It's sort of like looking at social media from the outside now.

[wonderer99]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

He saw how society would dominate the thinking of the public, to the point where society itself began to fall apart. It's sort of like looking at social media from the outside now.

Fair enough, never read the book so will take your word for it. The movie is still a turd dressed as a Mars bar though.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

A Clockwork Orange is not as clever as it thinks it is. Its the sort of film people say they like because they think they should when really its OK to just think its pretentious garbage that is actually saying very little.

Nope. A Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

Fair enough, never read the book so will take your word for it. The movie is still a turd dressed as a Mars bar though.

Heh We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

But I will say, however, that unlike many it is not my favorite Kubrick film.

[oilers73]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

It says something about my viewing preferences when this is the thread I post most often in!

A Clockwork Orange is not as clever as it thinks it is. Its the sort of film people say they like because they think they should when really its OK to just think its pretentious garbage that is actually saying very little.

That's how I feel about every Kubrick film I've seen. Not a fan.