Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 191

I hate how comedies are viewed as lesser by critics especially during award shows

 

Same as animated movies.

 

i don’t feel like they are anymore. maybe true sitcoms that stick to the form. but fleabag and atlanta are two of the most critically respected shows of the last decade regardless of genre.

 

I am mostly bored by Miyazaki films.

 

I haven’t seen any in a while and I watched Howl’s Moving Castle with a friend earlier and was mostly just like “this is fine I guess”. loved Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke as a kid though

 

Totoro was cool but I thought Spirited Away was kinda underwhelming

 

Totoro is maybe the best animated film ever made

 

I feel about his films the way I feel about early Pixar: they are much better than the garbage films that kids are usually given, but there is not that much else there.

 

I think he has multiple masterpieces, one of my favourite directors. Magical stuff. His best work is the Nausicca manga though.

 

Looooooot of bad Bukowski takes floating around twitter today. In general, I find most book twitter takes to be pretty awful. It is wild how bad people are at reading, and how eager they are to show their asses online about it

 

what are the takes

 

Don't allude to them, share it with us.

 

This was the thread that gained traction

edit:
To be clear, I don’t even care about the person writing in the book. That analysis (surface level as it is) is their analysis as they went through the reading. The publicizing it with commentary and the responses that follow are what’s stupid

 

Feel like I have a pretty good guess as to who the “mystery woman” writing the notes is

 

You guessed it: Frank Stallone

 

Re: Ghibli, I prefer Takahata over Miyazaki, based on the films I’ve seen (4 and 6 films respectively). Big fan of Totoro, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke but I would take Takahata’s Only Yesterday and (controversially) My Neighbors the Yamadas over all of them. And I have yet to see a the Tale of Princess Kaguya, which is by most accounts an overwhelming masterpiece.

I think it comes down to a difference of visual style for me. While Miyazaki’s films are undeniably beautiful and detailed, I find their more traditional look less appealing than the borderline Impressionist style of the two Takahata works I mentioned (Grave of the Fireflies and Pom Poko seemed to have more of a traditional Miyazaki/Ghibli style from what I remember).

 

The Tale of Princess Kaguya is, indeed, wonderful.

(I’m also really into the Miyazaki films I’ve seen, though, so no “unpopular opinions” from me at this time, sorry.)

 

This is only tangentially related, but I don't know why they keep casting these big name Hollywood stars in animated movies for kids cuz like...Kids are gonna wanna see a Pixar or whatever movie regardless of who is doing the voice. Like...My kid likes the angry birds movie but he wanted to see it cuz he likes angry birds, not cuz he was like "I love Jason Sudakis!". Doesn't make sense to me.

 

Dave Grohl's nice guy schtick seems phony to me.

 

I agree it's unfair to voice actors

 

Lindsay Ellis actually did a whole video on this. It started with Robin Williams and Aladdin. Before that you had a lot of people who would specialize in voice work.

 

Plus voice acting is a different skill set than regular acting. A lot of screen actors can just be kinda...not great animated. Look at Peter Dinklage in his game roles. He sucked despite being a good actor.

 

I forgot about that video! They really kinda screwed Williams over to, no? Like they had a verbal or contractual agreement based on using him to promote the movie.

 

is this courtney love

 

Do I look like I have Kurt Cobains blood on my hands?

Ayy yooooooooo...

But nah, I just don't like Grohl for some reason. Completely irrational, I know. I mean, the Foo Fighters suck, but that's another thing.