State your unpopular film related opinion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 29

[Flint Marko]

I haven't seen this movie in years, but I remember loving The Village.

 

[Web-Head]

X-men First class is probably the most overrated superhero movie in existence.

I think First Class is about half of a great movie. The score is excellent. Erik's revenge mission in the first act was fantastic. Anything with Erik and Charles interacting was great too.

But then there's like... the cringiest supporting cast of teenage superheroes of any X-Men film with some of the worst dialogue and a complete waste of Emma Frost. All the bits with the actual First Class were pretty much terrible. And January Jones may have looked the part (and have a name like a Stan Lee character) but she was an awful Emma Frost. They could have replaced her with a store dummy and it would have had more character.

And not to mention the movie looks so cheap, like it was made for TV. The action scenes and visual effects look very poor at times. Vaughn is generally good with action, but x-men first class had a rushed production and it shows.

It kind of mind boggles me when people say this is the best x-men movie, and to me I feel like people over praise this movie more because of the director than the actual movie itself (Mathew Vaughn is a fan favorite director). The worst are the people who say first class is the only good one.

I get people love Vaughn right now, but first class really isn't that exceptional of a movie. In fact it's probably his weakest movie (I like his other films more).

I remember loving First Class after I first watched it, but then I watched it again not too long ago and realized it is/was a bit overrated. Still, a pretty solid movie though.

 

[Sawyer]

Don't know how unpopular it is to say, but I really don't understand the fuss over the Friday the 13 movies. I watched a few of the movies on AMC a week or two ago and it was just like... who cares? I felt no hook. Halloween had quite a few s***ty entries, but at least I can feel a hook there. There's Loomis, there's the blackest eyes yada yada, there's Laurie spending twenty years hiding before deciding to take the f***er out for herself. With Friday the 13th, I just feel nothing.

 

[Greens]

Don't know how unpopular it is to say, but I really don't understand the fuss over the Friday the 13 movies. I watched a few of the movies on AMC a week or two ago and it was just like... who cares? I felt no hook. Halloween had quite a few s***ty entries, but at least I can feel a hook there. There's Loomis, there's the blackest eyes yada yada, there's Laurie spending twenty years hiding before deciding to take the f***er out for herself. With Friday the 13th, I just feel nothing.

To me, the Friday the 13th franchise is fun because of how simple it is. Also, after part 3 the films dive into a realm of ridiculousness that I adore. The continuity is ****ed, Jason is inexplicably revived every time. It's just schlocky fun.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Yeah basically. Just over the top schlocky fun you watch for the kills and to get a laugh out of the hamminess

 

[Spider-Aziz]

X-Men Apocalypse is a good movie, and I like it more than Deadpool.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Don't know how unpopular it is to say, but I really don't understand the fuss over the Friday the 13 movies. I watched a few of the movies on AMC a week or two ago and it was just like... who cares? I felt no hook. Halloween had quite a few s***ty entries, but at least I can feel a hook there. There's Loomis, there's the blackest eyes yada yada, there's Laurie spending twenty years hiding before deciding to take the f***er out for herself. With Friday the 13th, I just feel nothing.

Yeah, I've never really gotten its appeal either. I mean, I guess I can understand it from an "I just want to see people die in gory ways" kind of standpoint, but I feel like there are much better films and franchise out there where you can get your gore fix. I feel like the main reason Jason has maintained his popularity over the years is because he makes for such an easy Halloween costume.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

F13 is fun, especially with a group of people watching, fans or not.

 

[DyeLorean]

I saw the original Friday the 13th for the first time early this year (or it was last year? Can't remember) and I really, really liked the atmosphere of that film. Sure, it is the same movie we've seen countless times since then, but it has a particular feel to it that is quite unique. Also, and I might be confusing it with another one, I think it had a pretty good sense of geography, of where everything and everyone was .

 

[Sawyer]

While I both acknowledge that he is essentially the father of zombie filmmaking and profess my love for his older works, I feel like someone with George Romero's recent filmography should be a bit less quick to his point finger and say "_____ is killing the zombie genre". Just because you birthed it doesn't mean you also didn't drunkenly stumble into it's room in the middle of the night and blow it's head off with a shotgun.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, I've never really gotten its appeal either. I mean, I guess I can understand it from an "I just want to see people die in gory ways" kind of standpoint, but I feel like there are much better films and franchise out there where you can get your gore fix. I feel like the main reason Jason has maintained his popularity over the years is because he makes for such an easy Halloween costume.

Which ones? The list isn't that long honestly.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Which ones? The list isn't that long honestly.

I mean, I guess it depends on what you're into but off the top of my head...

Nightmare on Elm Street series
Hellraiser series
The Human Centipede series
Inside
Martyrs
Texas Chainsaw Massacre series
Halloween series (not as gory but they're good slasher films)
The Devil's Rejects
Saw series
Hostel series

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I mean, I guess it depends on what you're into but off the top of my head...

Nightmare on Elm Street series
Hellraiser series
The Human Centipede series
Inside
Martyrs
Texas Chainsaw Massacre series
Halloween series (not as gory but they're good slasher films)
The Devil's Rejects
Saw series
Hostel series

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[Lead Cenobite]

Don't know how unpopular it is to say, but I really don't understand the fuss over the Friday the 13 movies. I watched a few of the movies on AMC a week or two ago and it was just like... who cares? I felt no hook. Halloween had quite a few s***ty entries, but at least I can feel a hook there. There's Loomis, there's the blackest eyes yada yada, there's Laurie spending twenty years hiding before deciding to take the f***er out for herself. With Friday the 13th, I just feel nothing.

The thing I like about Halloween over Friday the 13th is it feels like there's more of a story there. It isn't just about the killer murdering scores of random people with shallow backstories, it's about the Strodes, the Myers, Dr. Loomis. The Friday the 13th movies attempted a story arc with 4, 5, and 6, but to me it felt kind of forced, like they wanted the series to have its own version of the Laurie/Michael rivalry or the Nancy/Freddy rivalry. And on top of that, they couldn't keep the same actor as Tommy for more than one movie, other than Corey Feldman's brief appearance at the start of Part 5.

Then there's the curse that's talked about in Jason Goes to Hell. With Halloween 6, they built upon things that had been hinted at at least since the second movie, whereas JGTH all the sudden comes out with "only a Voorhees can kill a Voorhees" and Jason being this demon hellspawn possessing people.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I mean, I guess it depends on what you're into but off the top of my head...

Nightmare on Elm Street series
Hellraiser series
The Human Centipede series
Inside
Martyrs
Texas Chainsaw Massacre series
Halloween series (not as gory but they're good slasher films)
The Devil's Rejects
Saw series
Hostel series

Nightmare, Texas and Halloween are good to an extent, but generally have as much good as bad within, especially Halloween. Friday the 13th is easily the most consistent of the old slashers quality-wise. Saw and Hostel series are not all. I mean, the first Saw is a good film, but followed by pure trash, Hostel was always trash. Human Centipede and Devil's Reject don't even belong in this kind of list, not really those types of movies. Not seen the others.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I mean, in a sense, a lot of these movies are trash but I guess I find films like Hostel and Human Centipede to at least be well-made trash. I mean, they're at least professional looking films, whereas some of the F13 entries look like some idiot with a Super8 camera got drunk and started following his friends around.

 

[gwynplaine]

I mean, in a sense, a lot of these movies are trash but I guess I find films like Hostel and Human Centipede to at least be well-made trash. I mean, they're at least professional looking films, whereas some of the F13 entries look like some idiot with a Super8 camera got drunk and started following his friends around.

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I don't dig gore so I'm not a big fan of them, but I thought that the Hostel films were for the most part better written than the Centipede ones (haven't seen the one in jail).
I remember the scene in Hostel 2, where the two business men jog and talk about their "experience" to come, that was some pretty good writing and acting there.

 

[ehh]

Unpopular opinion: I enjoyed every single Paranormal Activity film, even the final one.

I also had a good time watching Blair Witch (2016).

 

[gwynplaine]

I don't know if that's unpopular but I really enjoyed Neighbors 2 and I think that with the right material Effron is a great comedic actor.

 

[MadVillainy]

Neighbors 2 was good. They just wimped out with the message they were trying to send

 

[James]

I thought Neighbors 2 fell short of the original, but I was surprised at the strong message. It was neat to see in what was otherwise a pretty run-of-the-mill comedy.

I don't know if that's unpopular but I really enjoyed Neighbors 2 and I think that with the right material Effron is a great comedic actor.

I agree about Efron, he's very funny. I hope he takes on more comedic roles in future, there seems to be a lot as yet untapped potential in the guy.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Spectre is a fun movie, I like it, and rank it third among the Craig Bond movies.
Casino Royale and Skyfall are amazing.

I like the David Lazenby movie and him in the role of James Bond, I think he could have been better than his reputation.

 

[Slade W]

I enjoyed Spectre a lot too. I gave it an 8/10.

 

[ehh]

Spectre is a fun movie, I like it, and rank it third among the Craig Bond movies.
Casino Royale and Skyfall are amazing.

I think Spectre is a fun movie as well. Definitely a bit of a mess and I think there were some missed opportunities with Blofeld. Although the eye gouge scene is too unsettling for me.

I like the David Lazenby movie and him in the role of James Bond, I think he could have been better than his reputation.

I think you mean George Lazenby? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a good Bond film, but I often hear from fans that it is either excellent or terrible. It's a little hard to watch I think.

 

[MadVillainy]

I thought Neighbors 2 fell short of the original, but I was surprised at the strong message. It was neat to see in what was otherwise a pretty run-of-the-mill comedy.



I agree about Efron, he's very funny. I hope he takes on more comedic roles in future, there seems to be a lot as yet untapped potential in the guy.

But they really undercut the message by:
1) Not even attempting to make the girls and funny as the boys were in the first one. Most of the girls didn't even get as many jokes.
2) At the end [BLACKOUT]going easy on the girls when they didn't with the boys in the first one. Efron's character even has a record and can't get a proper job at the start of the movie. But when it came to the girls it was "Aw man we can't be mean to them". [/BLACKOUT]It undercut so much of what they did with "If I was a boy" stuff and pro feminist message that the movie was trying to send

Also The girls just werent that likeable. Cmon that whole scene with "Let's rat out drug dealers so we can take over their market and sell weed" made me wanna see them get their comeuppance.