State your unpopular film related opinion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 32

[Joe Von Zombie]

What’s the consensus on Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2? I know some folks that love it because it’s different from the first, but I mean…yikes, it’s kinda bad.

I love Texas chainsaw 2. It's reflected the excess of 80s slashers perfectly. Rob Zombie even made a career out of conceptually remaking it three times.

I like the remake a lot despite it looking like a late 90s industrial video and it being inspired by the original film's reputation rather the actual movie. Should be retitled the zeitgeist chainsaw massacre.

 

[Captain Tired]

I also love TCM2. Undoubtedly my favourite of the sequels, and to my shame, for a little while I had it as my overall favourite.

 

[-Arya-]

I love Texas chainsaw 2. It's reflected the excess of 80s slashers perfectly. Rob Zombie even made a career out of conceptually remaking it three times.

I like the remake a lot despite it looking like a late 90s industrial video and it being inspired by the original film's reputation rather the actual movie. Should be retitled the zeitgeist chainsaw massacre.

Yeah I rewatched this Halloween and my opinion did change on it. The original is still untouchable though.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Madame Web was just okay. It is over-hated.

 

[DarkKnight]

I'm more of a fan of Suicide Squad 2016 than I am of The Suicide Squad 2021.

Sure, Suicide Squad is not without faults, and I can definitely understand why some or maybe even the majority don't like it. But I just prefer it over the latter. I feel it likely has to do with the forced deaths and forced retconned feeling of it all. I know many of those were done in the opening with supposed humor. But it just did sit well with me.

Gunn has done a lot I like; this was just one I wasn't that big on.

 

[Captain Tired]

I liked both but rate them about the same. I didn't think either was markedly better than the other.

 

[DarkKnight]

I've sat on this one for a while and my true feelings didn't really come to pass until I realized I have no excitement for the sequel.

I'm just not a fan of Todd Phillips/Joaquin Phoenix's Joker movie.

Don't get me wrong, I did watch it (streamed it), I confirm and appreciate that Joaquin did amazing, the movie itself is a great film. But as a Joker film I just don't care. It's to the point that I couldn't care less about Joker: Folie A Deux. I probably won't even see it until it's on some streaming service that I have like Netflix or Amazon.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I just re-watched the Beverly Hills Cops films, and I still don't see what is so bad about the third one. Okay, maybe the formula wasn't as fresh as it was for the first film and Taggard and Bogomil aren't in it (although Bogomil was barely in the second to begin with), but I really don't see where it is this shameful abomination. It is still a fun action movie.

 

[Drizzle]

I've sat on this one for a while and my true feelings didn't really come to pass until I realized I have no excitement for the sequel.

I'm just not a fan of Todd Phillips/Joaquin Phoenix's Joker movie.

Don't get me wrong, I did watch it (streamed it), I confirm and appreciate that Joaquin did amazing, the movie itself is a great film. But as a Joker film I just don't care. It's to the point that I couldn't care less about Joker: Folie A Deux. I probably won't even see it until it's on some streaming service that I have like Netflix or Amazon.

I've seen quite a few people share that same view about Joker on these boards. Personally I think that if you take away Joaquin's performance, the score and the cinematography there's not much else there. That said I'm still intrigued by the sequel.

 

[Herofan]

I really don't get love for Collateral or Heat.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

I think after the first 3 or 4 zombie movies it's unrealistic to have the protagonists not know that you have to shoot them in the head to kill them, they always go for the body and then get bit.

 

[Herofan]

Don't get love for Mean Girls, I thought it was real

 

[Deck Rickard]

My picks for the most overrated CBMs of all time:

A History of Violence

Batman Returns

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Aquaman

Superman Returns

 

[Herofan]

I think most people admit Batman Returns is very love it or hate it and think there are really few big fans of Superman Returns.

I don't get love for The Prince of Egypt, it had some good parts but most of the praise for it seems to be coming in with low expectations, being amazed that it had any dark/mature themes at all.

 

[Mysteryman]

My picks for the most overrated CBMs of all time:

A History of Violence

Batman Returns

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Aquaman

Superman Returns

We Agree on No Way Home.

 

[Drizzle]

My picks for the most overrated CBMs of all time:

A History of Violence

Batman Returns

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Aquaman

Superman Returns

Is Superman Returns really overrated? It seems like the forgotten stepchild of the Superman movies, which is kind of appropriate for what it is.

I love Batman Returns and I do think it's a good movie, I just don't think it works as a good Batman movie.

I'll agree with Aquaman as far as "how in the hell did this make a billion?" It's a very average movie.

I think No Way Home is good but it kind of doomed itself for repeat viewings at home with how many built in applause breaks there are, most apparent in the scene where Andrew and Tobey enter the movie.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Is Superman Returns really overrated? It seems like the forgotten stepchild of the Superman movies, which is kind of appropriate for what it is.

I love Batman Returns and I do think it's a good movie, I just don't think it works as a good Batman movie.

I'll agree with Aquaman as far as "how in the hell did this make a billion?" It's a very average movie.

I think No Way Home is good but it kind of doomed itself for repeat viewings at home with how many built in applause breaks there are, most apparent in the scene where Andrew and Tobey enter the movie.

I feel like Superman Returns is overrated in the sense that people see things in it that aren’t there, mainly around Routh’s performance. I think Routh seems like a nice guy and he’s evolved into a decent actor, but in that movie he had little to know experience and it showed. He looked like he didn’t know what he was doing and I think the reason he had so few lines was because they were trying to hide that. And I guess that approach could have worked if they weren’t hammering it home the whole time that he was supposed to be the same Superman as Reeve. If you’re attempting to do that, then the actor you cast has to have a commanding and charismatic presence, and not just be a guy who kinda sorta looks like him in certain shots. Not that he had to act exactly like him, but he had to have a big personality and he was just… there.

 

[Drizzle]

I feel like Superman Returns is overrated in the sense that people see things in it that aren’t there, mainly around Routh’s performance. I think Routh seems like a nice guy and he’s evolved into a decent actor, but in that movie he had little to know experience and it showed. He looked like he didn’t know what he was doing and I think the reason he had so few lines was because they were trying to hide that. And I guess that approach could have worked if they weren’t hammering it home the whole time that he was supposed to be the same Superman as Reeve. If you’re attempting to do that, then the actor you cast has to have a commanding and charismatic presence, and not just be a guy who kinda sorta looks like him in certain shots. Not that he had to act exactly like him, but he had to have a big personality and he was just… there.

Yeah, I totally agree. Routh is just kinda there, and the main reason why that's not more noticeable is because it's the same movie where Kate Bosworth is playing Lois Lane, who being 22 at the time of filming was just a blatant miscast all around. I actually think that if Amy Adams had played Lois in Superman Returns instead, it could have improved the movie quite a bit.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

after having watched Venom 2 and more recently Adolescence, I realize that Stephen Graham would have made the perfect Wolverine in Hugh Jackman's place 20 years ago. no shade to Hugh Jackman as an actor, though.

 

[psylockolussus]

I don't get the hype for Dune. I was bored watching the 2 recent movies. Visuals are exquisite and I can tell they are expensive movies, but the colors are very drab. The movies are just not fun.

 

[Daltonio]

Midsommar isn't anything special, just an average horror movie. I love Hereditary and Beau is Afraid, but that's the Ari Aster film that just didn't really connect with me very much. Starts out strong but then is just too drawn out.

 

[DyeLorean]

Movies shouldn't be measured by box office revenue alone, but by tickets sold too. That's a better way of understanding the success, by counting spectators.