Unpopular opinions about movies / shows that you might have

What are some opinions you have that you feel like nobody else agrees with when pertaining to movies or television shows?

- I like Tom Cruise, and think he's a good actor.

- I loved "Air Force One (1997)," which seems to be panned by everybody else.

- I think "The Cleveland Show" is the worst monstrosity to hit Fox since "American Dad" or "The Winner." Sorry for the Seth hate, and I love "Family Guy" (It's my favorite show on TV), but all of these shows were/are extremely bad (maybe not such an unpopular opinion).

- I loved the movie, "World Trade Center (2006)," which it seems like everybody else hated. However, I haven't seen it since 2006, when it first came out.

- I enjoyed "Windtalkers (2002)" for what it was - Nicholas Cage running around and blowing stuff up while shooting his nonreload Thompson with 100% accuracy.

- I never liked Southpark very much.

- I don't think Nicholas Cage is as bad as everybody says he is.

- I thought the "Valley of Wolves: Iraq" hate here in the US was stupid, considering many of Hollywood action movies have cardboard characters and stereotypes. It is just a movie, anyway.

- I enjoyed, and still enjoy Red Dawn (1984), but am betting that the remake will be one of the worst movies ever made.

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of the rudeness that was that cast.

I'm outta there. DESPISE the show.

I never understood what was so great about Seinfeld.

I liked M Night Shymalan's "The Village" even though it was panned by everyone else

I can't stand "Family Guy" for the most part. I think it is the unfunniest show I have ever seen

Ï think "Friends" was probably the unfunniest, most poorly written, painful-to-watch sitcom I have ever seen in my life. I am at a loss to understand its appeal -it seemed like monumental drivel when it was in its prime and, watching it in syndication, I have not changed my opinion

The same was true of 'That 70s Show'. Actually for the most part that show had nothing to do with the 1970s save for perhaps the fashion and the occasional reference. It was just your typical 1990s-2000s sitcom dressed up as being set in the '70s' presumably to draw in a broader audience

I never liked the "Brady Bunch" much. I thought it was overrated. Much preferred "Happy Days"

During the '80s', I thought the Cosby Show and Family Ties were two of the best TV sitcoms around. I still do

I love "Hogan's Heroes". I still think it is one of the funniest, well-written comedies around and Í almost always laugh hysterically while watching an episode

I never took to South Park very much either

Alot of people hate it, though. I'm not sure why.

a lot of Apocalypto, and was amazed by the jungle filming.

OK, I ....

.... actually do think "Crash" is a better movie than "Brokeback Mountain"

.... like Michael Moore, but I believe he is a propagandist (albeit, one I agree with) rather than a documentarian.

.... think the Coen Bros. are vastly overrated (although I enjoyed "Raising Arizona", "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and parts of "Fargo"

.... like watching movies with Mel Gibson and Gary Sinise, in spite of their politics

.... never could get into "Seinfeld"

..... think "Friends" is hilarious

..... don't like "CSI" or "Law & Order"

..... am bored stiff by 80-90% of what is on PBS

..... can not stand more than 5 minutes of 90% of reality TV (exception: I love "Ice Road Truckers")

..... I have no use for Anthony Bourdain

... it seemed bland and "heartwarming" compared to some of the edgy British political dramas.

I HATED The Piano (plot absurdities and greasy, sweaty Harvey Keitel is not my idea of someone to reject Sam Neill for) and Punch Drunk Love (immature self-centered oaf's fantasy of winning a sweet and lovely woman even though he's a stupid jerk who treats her with appalling inconsiderateness).

I never thought Friends was funny, and Seinfeld reminded me of what I DON'T like about New Yorkers.

I can't think of any reason to watch American Idol.

Reality TV bores the hell out of me. Even the thought of watching fishermen or ice road truckers at work is unappealing.

George Clooney is OK, but he doesn't make me swoon or anything.

I don't like any movie that consists mostly of explosions and car chases. Nor do I like "cute" romantic comedies.

it's a very cynically political comedy/ faux-documentary which is often opposed to the west wing to illustrate the diff. b/w british cynicism about politicians and american idealism. if you haven't, certainly do see it. it's fantastic

never seen the west wing, i'd imagine i'd dislike it though.

there was a pilot for an american vers. of the thick of it, but apparently it was terrible. i think that might have been under the bush admin. it might work better as a satire of obama - the malcolm tucker character is v. rahm emanuelesque, for example.

(I have a region-free DVD player, which I LOVE, since it allows me to get a lot of great TV that has never been released in the U.S.)

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There was a film by the same writers and with mostly the same cast/characters, with some minor name changes. I didn't like it quite as much as the television series though. It's called "In the Loop", and is still worth watching. I'm sure a DVD of that would be easily available in the U.S.

Def. watch TTOI though.

In fact, it's in my Netflix queue.

There are more, I'm sure, but that's the one on the top of my head ...

I didn't even like "Gremlins 1."

But you really have to be into bad science fiction movies to truly enjoy either of them.

Which I will admit that I enjoyed as the comedy that it was.

But I am a sucker for "B" grade scifi movies, the more schlock the better.

I didn't even like "Gremlins 1."

While some are good natured about it, it's funny as hell to see others get all bent out of shape over this, as if anyone not liking the movie HAS to be crazier than a box of frogs and not worthy of future movie based conversation. People who takes movies that seriously crack me up. :crazy:

but I never got the impression that it was all that well-regarded outside of the hardcore Tarantino fanboys.

And have never watched any of the Godfather movies or The Sopranos.

In fact some years ago I made a rule for myself to not watch stuff with people I would not want to know in real life. So I don't watch movies about mob figures, lawyers, and usually politicians. There are other categories I avoid but those are the top three.

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sucks" kind of laughs.

I'm standing by Ishtar.

it falls apart a bit once they hit Morocco, but overall, I enjoy it.

it's a very good ambient comedy, no sharp edges. It's consistently pleasant to have on in the background. I read somewhere that in um Cambodia or something they have backpacker cafes that play specific American sitcoms perpetually throughout the day. Just a bunch of screens around the place playing various episodes of one show from dawn til dusk. So you have the "Friends" cafe and the Seinfeld cafe and so on. I can imagine that working really well w/ Friends.

Also I like it more as it becomes more anachronistic, as the nineties recede into the past, and the cultural references start to seem more "past". It makes good nostalgia material.

It insists upon itself.

And I agree with you about The Cleveland Show. It sucks.

I loved that episode.

But I stand by that. I could not get into The Godfather.

It like the perfect movie.

ROBERT DUVALL!

I like Kevin Costner movies. Loved "Waterworld" and even found "The Postman" tolerable.

I think Bill Maher is a smarmy ass prick and I am embarassed that he gets lumped in as a "liberal".

I thought "Joe Versus the Volcano" was a brilliant and underrated movie.

Roland Emmerich movies are undeniably dumb but fun to watch, especially "Independence Day."

"South Park" hasn't been watchable since the movie came out in 1999, and Matt Parker and Trey Stone aren't nearly as funny as they want you to think they are.

"Family Guy" pre-cancellation was brilliant. "Family Guy" post-cancellation sucks. Seth McFarland let the whole show ressurection thing get to his head.

I did not care for "Goodfellas." While I think Scorcese did a good enough job on it, I just can't get past the notion that there are no redeemable or remotely likeable characters in the entire movie (regardless of whether it's based on a true story or not.)

Kevin Smith movies suck. "Clerks"--the first one--had some originality behind it, but the rest is just Kevin Smith being a hipster/fanboy and throwing in the most irritating character ever created, Jay, of the Jay and Silent Bob duo.

Although I had liked Tom Hanks in "Bosom Buddies" nothing he did after the TV show up to "Joe" engaged me. But after "Joe" I watched and enjoyed his movies more and more. To bad he's gone off the rail with this whole religious conspiracy series of movies - I hope he's making a humongous amount of money for making them.

Maybe a side agreement after Apollo 13? I dunno.

However, even with that blemish, I do think Tom Hanks has a legitimate claim to Actor of the Generation status. Probably him or DeNiro.

Frankly, I watched the first two Dan Brown movies grudgingly, but as action movies they were fair. Without Hanks, I would not have finished watching them at all, so he earned whatever they paid him.

On the other hand, while DeNiro undoubtedly does more "serious" subjects, most of his movie characters are people I would not want to know or even be in the same town as, so I watch few DeNiro movies. I just do not like the genre he tends to excel in.

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Tried to watch it 3x...fell asleep 3x.

1. Matrix was a film designed for the lowest common denominators of both our imagination and our intellect. Rather good fare for an eleven year old, but I thought we mature past the banality of a film dictating perspective rather than the other way around, all the while pretending to ourselves how clever and deep we and the film really are.

2. I really enjoyed Passion of the Christ-- and can't help but giggle to myself when people refer its alleged 'pornography of violence'.

have become embarrassing caricatures of themselves.

There, I said it.

over and over, in every movie.

I think the problem with those two, is that instead of naturally inhabiting a persona, they've formed an idea about what people expect from them, and dial it up to 11 until there isn't a single bit of scenery unchewed.

TV, movie, comic...I don't care. Crappity crap crap.

This is the honest truth. I don't see much difference between the Boston Red Sox Franchise and the New York Yankees. Except that the Yankees have had some more success recently.....

I learn something new here everyday.

:P Well, the major leagues are called The Show, right? :rofl:

and I don't find Jim Carrey even remotely funny.

I mean the big diamond had no connection to Kate or Leo. So why keep it and then throw it away 90 years later. Dumb.
The English Patient sucked.
Adam Sandler is not funny.

Well, if so, we can start a club 'cause I agree on all counts.

I won't watch American Idol. I pretty much hate all reality TV, even the so-called "good ones."

<aside> Geez, pay folks to write scripts and make real TV shows anymore! </aside>

I think Ben Affleck is probably a nice guy and all, but he can't act his way out of a paper bag. He's this generation's Larry Wilcox.

Bill Shatner, on the other hand, somewhere learned how to act, though he hides it well.

Most overrated comedic actor ever: Tim Conway. Just not as funny as he thinks. Harvey Korman was funny, not Conway.

I agree Nick Cage can act when he feels like it. I don't think Keanu Reeves can, but that's a popular opinion. Here's a less popular opinion: I think Sylvester Stallone can act, too.

I agree with everything else you said as well.

the second season! I even tried to get back into it at the beginning of this final season; sorry, no dice.

I used to love Sunday evening tv. Now I dread it.

....that usually has some good programming on Sunday evenings.

I like "Law & Order".

I thought "The Matrix" was little more than a pretentious "Tron" reboot.

The Muppets were 10,000 times funnier than the repetitive crap those "South Park" dorks turn out.

I miss the original MTV, where they, you know, actually had music.

awesome awesome awesome

i HATED friends, and find sitcoms in general to be unwatchable

shakespeare in love was TERRIBLE

loved apocalypto. passion was ok

i like american idol

i love law and order, but find most of the spinoffs to be unwatchable. i especially hate the one that has ice-t (ice-t???) and the guy from homicide: life on the streets (belzer?)

otoh, jack mccoy is a classic example of a statist liberal. i realize it's for plot development, but puhleeez

boston legal was terrible

doomsday is one of the best action movies EVER

blade runner is an all time great movie, but the version w/o voice over is better

the departed SUCKED. plus, the original is MUCH better

i also thought kill bill sucked

chariots of fire is in my top 5. everybody i know says it bores them to tears

"Lost"? Who cares?

I thought "Death to Smoochy" was hilarious!

I don't like "Glee", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives", "The West Wing",

annoying voices, garish colors, lame shit

sucks ass.

and yes, I am a musician. :)

Unwatchable.

Starting with the fact that they cast John Leguizamo. Trying to make it through that movie is like trying to fight off a horde of super zombies with an arsenal of sporks.

...acclaim it did, I'll never know. BTW, it was a total rip-off of a previous disjointed movie, which equally sucked.

But I do think the plot was rather deriviative of Braveheart. (i.e. Bad guys kill the hero's first wife, hero becomes enemy of the state, hero gathers popular and legendary support behind him, princess takes an interest in the hero, hero gets revenge against the bad guys before hero himself is killed, hero has visions of first wife just before he dies....only difference is that the action takes place in the Coliseum as opposed to the battlefield, but the story lines are otherwise pretty similar.)

Was that the "previous movie" you were referring to?

...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire_%28film%29

And I agree that Joaquin was a bright spot.

Hate Family Guy with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
I hate all Law and Orders except SVU.
I cannot stand movies with violence, and prefer corny Disney movies any day.
Lost seems to be the most unfavorable show out there.
Hate Grey's Anatomy.
I love the show "19 Kids and Counting" Even if I'm not too fond of their beliefs.
South Park shouldn't exist.
Avatar was lacking in depth.
I like Jennifer Love Hewitt, and the show Ghost Whisperer.

Disagree with you on the Law and Orders one

Never seen the show "19 Kids and Counting"

On all the others, I couldn't agree more and you've said it better than I could:thumbsup:

Although that having been said, I liked the earlier seasons of Ghost Whisperer better

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Say what you want about Scientology on the other hand. "Collateral" is one of my absolute favorite movies of the last few years and he absolutely OWNED Tropic Thunder.

"Cockburn from now on my fist is gonna be so far up your shithole that the next time you have a thought it's gonna have to tiptoe past my wedding ring." :rofl:

Loved the X-Files and Fringe...HATE Lost couldn't get into it.

I loved The Wire, The Sopranos,and Deadwood...all canceled. Love Weeds and Spartacus Blood and Sand.

I love Law & Order..all of them, all the CSI's except NY..even though David Caruso is a lousy actor.

Supernatural is one of my favorite shows.

I'm probably one of the few liberals that likes 24.

I admit to being a T.V. addict.

Movies..

Thought My Cousin Vinny was frickin hilarious. I've seen it way too many times.

I'm not a real fan of "chick flicks" (even though I'm a chick) some are ok. But I'd never pay to see any in the theater. I liked Love Actually, and Parenthood. I'm sure there are others...

I don't think John Cusack gets the respect he deserves. I like his sister Joan too...I think he's a good actor, also..Edward Norton. Loved him in American History X.

I like mob movies, sports movies, and thought Bad Boys was funny. Like Mel Gibson even though I hate his politics.

Hated Twilight...vampires are not supposed to sparkle. I need blood and guts with vamps.

Thought Armageddon was good, even though it was ripped. It had a lot of humor.

I know there's more...

is the best show on network T.V. Everything else is unwatchable.

All reality, especially "Hoarders" is voyeurism. We just like to feel superior.

No. I take that back, I love "Deadliest Catch"!

I hate every sitcom on the air, except "South Park", if that counts.

I miss "Friends" and "Seinfeld", but I'm an Ex- New Yorker!

Biker's Old Lady

or even like a movie. Everyone I told about that flick, sat with a blank stare.

And I'm like, 'Well, OK then, guess I won't be doing too much of this again."

Tim Burton's first one was good enough. Jack Nicholson was a better Joker than Heath Ledger.

I think 90% of Coen brothers movies are self-indulgent, lazy and dull, with the exception of Raising Arizona and, to some extent, Fargo.

I recognize that Philip Seymour Hoffman is a great actor, but he creeps me out and I would never see a movie just because he was in it. There's a lot of Coen bros regulars that I just can't engage with.

I hated "No Country for Old Men" even though I like Javier Bardem.

Johnny Depp has the range of a quadriplegic pygmy hamster. His schtick is funny but it's the same thing every time.

Weeds hasn't jumped the shark... yet.

The best television of all time was produced between 1999 and 2009. To hell with "I Love Lucy"- this is the golden age of TV.

I love "Lost" but it's not going to end well. The writers/producers have always been prone to lazy periods and it's obvious they just want the thing to be over.

Flawed as they were, I thought they had more depth than the originals. Loved Lucas's operatic flourishes.

and Halle Berry was pretty amazing in it.

- I have always liked Friends.

- I have no problem with Jar Jar Binks nor any of the Star Wars prequels, and I think that adults who rant and rave about how awful any of the Star Wars movies are have forgotten that they were created with CHILDREN in mind, not middle-aged yahoos who WERE children when the first Star Wars came out. (In other words, you loved it when you were little, but if you saw Star Wars for the first time as an adult bet you wouldn't be impressed.)

- I don't think special effects, 3D, or big explosions are any reason to highly anticipate a movie and immediately label it "cool".

- I despise any and all movies based on comic book characters.

- George Clooney is pleasant to look at but doesn't hold my attention. Ditto for Johnny Depp.

- While on the subject of Johnny Depp, I think Tim Burton is, essentially, self-derivative. And not impressive. All of Burton's movies are slight variations on Edward Scissorhands and all are about Burton's social isolation and feeling like a freak all of his life, and he makes all of his characters look like himself. Plus I don't automatically agree that dark and creepy children's movies are sheer genius.

....both to be thoroughly "meh" and overrated.

"The Dark Knight":

It was just another Batman movie to me, with the exception that it went at great lengths to take itself seriously and therefore I found it less engaging than others. Christian Bale sucked as Batman. His character was boring and he had that odd "low talking" Batman voice throughout the movie, which was just distracting.

I guess they were trying to go with a whole love triangle between Batman and Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes, but that just sort of wimped out.

My biggest problem with TDK was that they just threw in the Two-Face storyline in the middle of the movie and then resolved it like 5 minutes later. For the first half of the movie, Harvey Dent and Batman are close allies, then Dawes dies, then Dent turns into Two Face, and then bam--he's dead, and that's it. What the hell? Why waste a good villian like that in a movie where the Joker is the obvious main villian of focus throughout the movie?

Heath Ledger was decent as the Joker, but had he not died before the movie came out, I don't think you would have had nearly as much critical acclaim or the Oscar nom. In the lead up to the movie, all I heard was how dark and disturbing and haunting Ledger's portrayal of The Joker was. Then I saw it, and I thought, "Okay....he's a Batman villian...so what?" I honestly did not see it as that incredible a performance.

Plus, after the movie came out, I got so tired of the "Person I Don't Like as the Joker" picture out there that got repeated ad nauseum. Wow. You're so original. You have a picture of "Obama/McCain/Rachel Ray/Whoever" with a Heath Ledger Joker face on. You wow me with your intellectual depth. Really.

Oh, and Glenn Beck once attempted to compare Batman of TDK to George W. Bush. So subliminally there was enough reason for the movie to annoy me just because of that. Thank you, Glenn Beck.

"Brokeback Mountain":

Don't get me wrong--the movie gets rightful props as being groundbreaking. I think "Brokeback Mountain" was the first truly mainstream movie to feature not one but two leading gay characters, and that two of Hollywood's most up-and-coming (and straight) actors were not afraid to take the step and portray the lead characters. So I do give the film major credit to that extent.

But the story itself was...well...quite boring. I think if you take away the groundbreaking subject matter and only focus on the story itself, there wasn't much to it. A lot of nice visuals of the mountains and sweeping music and silent stares between the characters, but that only goes so far. Dare I say that if "Brokeback Mountain" had been about a heterosexual couple, most people would simply consider it another boilerplate run of the mill Nicholas Sparks sapfest adaptation.

And I really wanted to feel a deeper chemistry between Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's character as tragic lovers, but in the end it fell flat to me. I just didn't see much development or dynamics between the two that I thought I would see. They just seemed less like soul mates and more like weekend booty-call mates to me. I really, really wanted to have the ending just feel as though my heart had been torn out due to all the circumstances, but it never happened for me.

Oh, and I don't know if anyone else felt the same way, but throughout the entire movie I could not understand a word of what Heath Ledger was saying. I literally had to turn on the subtitles to understand his words. Perhaps that's part of what distracted me from the overall movie...

I don't think Sasha Baren Cohen is all that funny.

The latest Star Trek movie was not that bad, and fairly enjoyable.

I can't stand Seinfeld, and Family Guy was funny for about a season.

One of the best endings to a series, imo.

It did drag in some places, but it wasn't nearly as bad as the critics said.

I know there are huge plot holes, but I don't care, I love them.

I agree that Tom Cruise is an underrated actor.

Can't stand South Park. I quit watching Family Guy when they started doing dead baby jokes.

I'm a guy, and I liked Titanic.

I got bored with Lost.

I love Survivor. I watch a lot of competitive reality shows.