Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[ophone]

Originally Posted by Cardboard_killer

British actors make the best bad guys because you can't take them too seriously. Germans are too scary.

Someone telling them proper German grammar would've been enough.

"Schieß dem Fenster" is the wrong declination. More correct would be "Schieß das Fenster", but that would mean "Shoot the window" with the window being the projectile.
A scene worth a laugh or a facepalm, choose your preference.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by mwynn

I thought the point was that they were speaking gibberish to throw off the cops?

It does seem like they are intent on people misreading who they are completely, which they seem to have pulled off quite well.

And, in any case, this is a movie that has literally dozens of goofs, continuity mistakes, factual errors and plot holes up the wazoo. I don't think any of that makes it any less fun

[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by spider-neil

Unpopular opinion. I thought Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber was every bit as compelling as Heath Ledger's Joker

People may rate Ledger's Joker, but Hans Gruber is one of the greatest badguys ever put on film.

[SoulTaker3000]

This is one of my favorite threads but I rarely post. After lurking so much I’ve discovered I don’t have many unpopular opinions to share. The only one that comes to mind is that I found Die Hard boring and a chore to get through. I will admit that I saw it for the first time in 2019. I’m 34 now.

[BluBonnet]

I don't think that's unpopular, that's just sad.

[spaceball-one]

Ghostbusters (1984) shouldn't be considered the beginning of a franchise. It's far greater as the final chapter in the Murray/Ramis/Reitman trilogy, like the Cornetto one.

[slip220]

Originally Posted by SoulTaker3000

This is one of my favorite threads but I rarely post. After lurking so much I’ve discovered I don’t have many unpopular opinions to share. The only one that comes to mind is that I found Die Hard boring and a chore to get through. I will admit that I saw it for the first time in 2019. I’m 34 now.

I agree with you. One of the most overrated movies of all time.

[Guy87]

Originally Posted by spaceball-one

Ghostbusters (1984) shouldn't be considered the beginning of a franchise. It's far greater as the final chapter in the Murray/Ramis/Reitman trilogy, like the Cornetto one.

Unpopular opinion 1:

Ghostbusters had more than enough scope to be a decent enough franchise taking place in a number of cities/countries using a number of different cultures myth/legends/spooks as a backdrop to more silliness, but outside of the animated series that dealt with this extremely well for the first few seasons Sony dropped the ball by relying on Murray as the only anchor of the entire franchise.

Unpopular opinion 2:

Stantz/Spengler/Zeddemore > Venkman

[Kylo_Ren]

Shawn Levy's Real Steel is a good film and one of his best!

It's so underrated.

[moreorless]

The original Ghostbusters I would argue does not naturally leave a ton of ground for sequels. Some films you have an original which naturally leaves plenty of room but Ghostbusters almost feels like its own sequel, one half about starting up and then a second about facing an "end of the world" threat.

I do think as well the writing for it ends up very finely tuned, not just in the quality of its jokes but managing to merge wit with a threat which is really credible and somewhat scary.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Guy87

Unpopular opinion 2:

Stantz/Spengler/Zeddemore > Venkman

Stantz/Spengler/Zeddemore/Tully > Venkman

[LetterDon]

The MCU has jumped the shark, and D&W definitely didn't help. Compare and contrast to Phase One, which was relatively grounded and focused. Now we have infinite variants in infinite universes, breaking timelines, anchor beings, everything about the (goofy) TVA. It's too much gobbledygook to have any real stakes. I wish they would go back to the drawing board.

[BluBonnet]

That's definitely NOT an unpopular opinion around these parts.

Here's an opinion that is unpopular: the MCU right now is better than it ever was, and it keeps getting better with each new movie. We've been introduced to more exciting characters than in the first 4 phases combined, we've been to more exciting places than ever before, gotten to go back in time billions of years and followed the growth of the human race for over 5,000 years; explored some amazing realms and realities we never even knew existed, or had barely glimpsed, and compared to that, everything that came before seems more minuscule by comparison.

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by LetterDon

The MCU has jumped the shark, and D&W definitely didn't help. Compare and contrast to Phase One, which was relatively grounded and focused. Now we have infinite variants in infinite universes, breaking timelines, anchor beings, everything about the (goofy) TVA. It's too much gobbledygook to have any real stakes. I wish they would go back to the drawing board.

100% Secret War is going to reboot and reset the universe.
There have been movies I have enjoyed in the Multiverse Saga but in the main, it hasn't worked and I think Marvel knows this. Just made the saga go out with a bang with the Avengers movies.

After that, Marvel should scale back their output (which they already are) and concentrate on making great standalone movies that don't require you to do homework to enjoy them.

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

That's definitely NOT an unpopular opinion around these parts.

Here's an opinion that is unpopular: the MCU right now is better than it ever was, and it keeps getting better with each new movie. We've been introduced to more exciting characters than in the first 4 phases combined, we've been to more exciting places than ever before, gotten to go back in time billions of years and followed the growth of the human race for over 5,000 years; explored some amazing realms and realities we never even knew existed, or had barely glimpsed, and compared to that, everything that came before seems more minuscule by comparison.

People say Marvel is a dumpster fire right now but there have been movies in Phase 4 and 5 that are among my favourites for MCU movies.

[LetterDon]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

That's definitely NOT an unpopular opinion around these parts.

Here's an opinion that is unpopular: the MCU right now is better than it ever was, and it keeps getting better with each new movie. We've been introduced to more exciting characters than in the first 4 phases combined, we've been to more exciting places than ever before, gotten to go back in time billions of years and followed the growth of the human race for over 5,000 years; explored some amazing realms and realities we never even knew existed, or had barely glimpsed, and compared to that, everything that came before seems more minuscule by comparison.

This has no bearing on the actual quality of the movies, though. I guess if you're a hardcore Marvel fan it can be exciting to see the expansion of the universe, but I would rather see something small scale that's actually good and emotionally resonating. Besides, a number of the characters that were introduced we will probably never see again. A movie like Eternals should have changed the very foundation of the entire Marvel universe, but it's almost like it never happened.

This is what I mean when I say it has jumped the shark. The universe has become so big that nothing is impactful anymore. It is now a full-blown comic book universe, where death means nothing and literally all aspects of life are somehow tied to superheroes or deities, down to all the big historic events in the history of the human race.

[Guy87]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Stantz/Spengler/Zeddemore/Tully > Venkman

Stantz/Spengler/Zeddemore/Tully/Melnitz > Venkman

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by LetterDon

This has no bearing on the actual quality of the movies.

As far as I'm concerned, the quality is just fine.

[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by Kylo_Ren

Shawn Levy's Real Steel is a good film and one of his best!

It's so underrated.

Great film.

I recommended it to a friend who had never heard of it when it was on TV a few years back. He thought it was a movie about truck drivers, so it was a bit of a surprise to him when robots started fighting each other...

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by ophone

The first Die Hard rubs me the wrong way. They could've at least hired somebody who knows to speak correct German. For other movies Hollywood is totally capable of doing this, why not here?

Everyone knows that all REAL Germans are British.