State your unpopular film related opinion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 30

[Joe Von Zombie]

Gerald's Game> It.

 

[squeekness]

Haven't seen either one yet.

 

[DyeLorean]

Well It is more of a crowd pleaser. Gerald's Game is closer to the low-key side of Stephen King's adaptations. I liked both.

 

[Herofan]

Annie Hall is one of the best movies, as much as I love Star Wars (also one of the best, though pretty hard to compare), I hate it when Star Wars and sci-fi fans attack Annie Hall and say it obviously didn't deserve to win the Best Picture Oscar.

 

[gwynplaine]

I get that Avatar is not the most original story, ferngully pocahontas etc and has zero replay value, at least for me, but I don't understand all the hate it seems to generate. The 1st one was a fun, theater only experience and I'm looking forward to what Cameron will bring next to the table, if only in terms of technological and visual innovation.

 

[Flint Marko]

I don't know if people hate Avatar as much as they, like myself, just don't understand....

A) how it made more money than any other film ever (yes 3D I understand but still)
B) how it received a massive addition to Disneyworld almost a decade after the film premiered
C) how it is going to get like eighteen hugely expensive sequels over a decade after the film premiered

...when it left no real significant mark on the pop culture landscape.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever talked to anyone who "hated" Avatar. Mostly it's just people baffled by its overwhelming success.

 

[Doctor Jones]

It's strange, yet it's the highest grossing film of all time. You don't get to that easily. If something fizzles out, it fizzles out. The man is just a visionary. When something like that comes out it takes people off guard.

People can deride that movie all they want, but it's the highest grossing film of all time. It's simple: People liked it where it got there. If they didn't, it's the type of film that would have flopped harder than John Carter. It's not hard to understand. Damn what a loud minority on the internet thinks.

 

[LaughterLives]

hahahaha! Naw man. John Carter was garbage. Even the way the movie was executed was trash.
I mean I think Star Wars is crap but at least it has an intriguing concept. John Carter was ultimately Romeo and Juliet in Space.

 

[squeekness]

Aw, i liked John Carter. It was campy and not to be taken seriously, lol. I've seen a lot worse.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I liked John Carter too. Certainly flawed, but damn if it didn't try in everything it wanted to be. I still think we missed out on Kerry Conran's version of it.

Speaking of Conran, I recently rewatched Sky Captain. I truly love this film. Talk about a film that still hasn't gotten its due. That's a movie that could have gotten ten movies and I would have seen each one. There's a really sad article about what happened to Conran. Guy just sounds like he did it to himself, but God, that article will depress you.

 

[the last son]

Will Smith sucked as Ali. Could've and should've been great, but instead wasn't.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I don't know if people hate Avatar as much as they, like myself, just don't understand....

A) how it made more money than any other film ever (yes 3D I understand but still)
B) how it received a massive addition to Disneyworld almost a decade after the film premiered
C) how it is going to get like eighteen hugely expensive sequels over a decade after the film premiered

...when it left no real significant mark on the pop culture landscape.

1997's Titanic was the highest grossing movie ever, a new movie with such fantastical elements from the same director was naturally a formula for success that great.

 

[sycamore]

I just saw the 2017 Wonder Woman, and it was awful. Threadbare plot. Threadbare characters. Brutal screenplay full of holes, failed jokes, awkward dialogue, and cliches. Awful direction. The only saving grace was Gadot, who was perfect in the lead role.

If you want to see a good WW movie, watch the 2009 animated version. That one is superb, and blows the 2017 one out of the water.

 

[flickchick85]

I don't get the appeal of John Wayne. Everything I've seen him in he's been borderline terrible. Sometimes not so borderline.

 

[LaughterLives]

I felt that way about him and Clint Eastwood for a long long time too.

 

[Schlosser85]

Wayne couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag and was a crappy person to boot.

 

[squeekness]

Wayne never impressed me either, I just figured I was too young to appreciate him or something. Clint I've only liked in his later movies like Gran Torino.

 

[C. Lee]

I don't get the appeal of John Wayne. Everything I've seen him in he's been borderline terrible. Sometimes not so borderline.

It might be a generational thing.....to people my age he was the go to guy for action and authority. Have you tried some of his more comedic movies like HATARI, NORTH TO ALASKA, or MCLINTOCK?

 

[Schlosser85]

Wayne never impressed me either, I just figured I was too young to appreciate him or something. Clint I've only liked in his later movies like Gran Torino.

I like In The Line Of Fire.

 

[squeekness]

I like In The Line Of Fire.

Yup, that was good, too. I also liked Blood Work and Million Dollar Baby.

 

[Greens]

Wayne never impressed me either, I just figured I was too young to appreciate him or something. Clint I've only liked in his later movies like Gran Torino.

He was also a massive piece of ****.

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

I personally think that Wayne was good in Red River, the Searchers, and the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..and pretty much okay in everything else.

He had the worst cameo of all time in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

I definitely think he was more of a movie star than an actor.

 

[flickchick85]

It might be a generational thing.....to people my age he was the go to guy for action and authority. Have you tried some of his more comedic movies like HATARI, NORTH TO ALASKA, or MCLINTOCK?

McLintock is the only one of that bunch I've seen. I could see how he works better in comedy, as I find just about every other line he delivers to be somewhat, well...goofy.

I understand the generational aspect, though. My late grandfather, whom I personally idolized, idolized John Wayne. Even had a John Wayne standee in his living room, haha. So I spent years trying to "get it." Finally decided it just wasn't gonna happen, lol. There are plenty of old Hollywood actors I love and/or whose appeal is clear to me, though. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Jimmy Stewart, Steve McQueen, Spencer Tracy, both Hepburns, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart (while I may not get his physical appeal and how he was seen as a heartthrob, his qualities as an actor and movie star were clear as day), Gary Cooper, Lee Van Cleef, Robert Mitchum...their varying appeals I get easily. But with Wayne, whenever I watch one of his movies, I constantly wonder why he wasn't thrown off his first film set within 5 minutes of opening his mouth. But oh well, I think it's just destined to be one of those great personal mysteries to me, lol.

 

[Brother Jack]

My mom once worked for an older guy who had a John Wayne standee in his living room. Scared me as a kid, haha. For a lot of post-war men Wayne was seen as an embodiment of what manliness was, for good and mostly for ill.