Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 33

How can South Park be at all compared to the alt-right?

 

The Harry Potter cookbook told me to do it

 

Last Week Tonight has done some really good journalism, but John Oliver is not funny. The Drumpf thing was embarrassing, and he completely ruined the Lord Buckethead joke, which was funny on Twitter but driven into the ground by bringing him to the set and making a spectacle of it.

 

Those examples seem to be more about the decisions of the writers and whatnot, not specifically John Oliver.

Or is it his delivery about those subjects?

 

I'm posting this in here rather than in the official thread to avoid backlash, and I also don't see the point of being a party pooper, but man, I found Dunkirk to be incredibly underwhelming. I don't understand the hype at all. It's a visual and technical marvel, and I certainly appreciate those aspects of it, but when it comes to character and story I felt it to be terribly vapid. Obviously opinions vary, so I can totally understand why someone might like this movie, but what I can't seem to comprehend are statements like "best war movie of all time" when movies like The Thin Red Line exist.

 

Because all my friends watch it, and I'll often have watched the season opener, if not every ep in that series, with them.

And also because people say its so good - like its so popular, I must be wrong. But I just never get as into it as I should.

 

Maybe. I just find that it's like extreme delayed gratification - it just takes so long to get to the point you're wanting to see or find something out. The fact a season finale will happen, I'll watch, and then its like, at where I'd feel is maybe mid-season, is weird.

An example that sticks with me is that we didn't see Bran for an entire season. The season before ended (I think) with his plot, and yet we had to wait almost two years to find out more. TWO YEARS.

Ps. maybe I'd appreciate it more if I watched it start to finish once it has finished. The gaps between, what feel like, partial seasons, is just so long.

 

It is because the people who get excited for Christopher Nolan movies mostly watch superhero movies, Star Wars, and pretty much exclusively big-budget mainstream movies. When that is what your cinematic diet consists of, Nolan seems like a break from it and a genius. He is Michael Bay with an audience of people who think they are above Michael Bay films.

 

I have plenty of other examples. Every time he has been serious for more than thirty seconds, he will do something like "Jeff Sessions sounds like Brick from Anchorman!" which is only very rarely funny.

He is the creator and one of the executive producers for the show. The writers work for him.

 

Maudie was the most appealing movie playing locally this weekend, over the latest planet of the apes and Dunkirk. It was alright, good acting, interesting story, nothing too special.

 

I get what you're saying, but what about film critics? They have to watch everything and this movie is getting hailed as a masterpiece by many which, to me, is ridiculous. It's fascinating.

Edit: I'm curious if this would be getting the same reviews if someone else had directed it.

 

Depends on the critic. A lot of them are subject to the same sort of hype cycle as a lot of other people. In two years their opinions will be wildly different. Also, like the people I described, these critics have spent the last few months having to sit through Wonder Woman, Fast and the Furious 11, the talking raccoon movie, and bad romantic comedies, so something like Dunkirk is a breath of fresh air to them.

I have not seen it yet. Given Nolan's history and the Slant review, I had no intention of doing so, but Reverse Shot said it is possibly his best film. Now, that is faint praise considering how heavily they have mocked his previous films, but it would be interesting to see if he is going to use his immense power and clout for good. It is very rare that a filmmaker reaches those heights and delivers. Look what they did to Guy Ritchie.

 

Being totally honest, I thought Guy Pearce was Guy Ritchie this entire time.

 

Guy Fieri is the star of Memento and the director of Man From U.N.C.L.E. obviously

 

Come on, I know who Guy Fieri is lol. Who can forget about Smash Mouth?

 

He also wears the mask from V For Vendetta

 

I have never met anyone in my life named Guy but it seems to be pretty common among famous people.

 

Hmm, okay, I didn't realize how influential his own sense of humor was in the show. I just thought he was a face and voice for it in general. I think he's hilarious, so to each their own.

One of my best friends is named Guy and he gets annoyed when people are telling stories and say "this guy did this" or "this guy said that" referring to some other dude. He's constantly spinning his head around thinking people are talking to or about him, haha.

 

That sounds like the Who's on First Abbott and Costello bit.

I would be annoyed at my parents more than everyone else.

 

Monuments Men is one of the best WWII movies, while we're on the subject.

 

That is a Monumentally bad take

 

Is that the one about the stolen art? I fucking hated that movie haha

 

Could be worse. I could think Enemy At The Gates was a good WWII movie.

Or worse, think it was historically accurate.

 

I like that movie, too.