Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 505

I increasingly watch movies in two parts which I used to be against but I’ve just accepted it as necessary now, especially if I start later at night

 

I have done that the last 3 years, also known as "since I had kids"

 

I don't disagree but TV and novels are written with the knowledge that they will be consumed in pieces over time. I would think filmmakers would typically intend for their audience to watch their film in a single sitting.

 

We all have seen dumb people who don't remember a character from Act I when they show up with a gun in Act III. If you are paying attention, it is easy to jump right in. If the movie was good, you probably spent part of the day thinking about it.

 

Not saying you're necessarily going to forget anything but if you're going to argue that certain scenes that seem monotonous (like watching a car drive) are pertinent to pacing, then wouldn't stopping a film halfway through disrupt the pacing?

 

Kinda playing devils advocate here. I watch movies in pieces all the time. I just don't think it's the ideal way to consume film and wasn't what the artist intended.

 

I am mad at myself for breaking up films but I would not be able to watch anything if I didn’t. It is a bad way to watch a movie.

 

Can't you usually feel when a good time to go to the bathroom is? It is the same principle.

 

It feels like you're missing my point. I could stop Stairway to Heaven before it changes up but it's not the same as listening to the song in full.

 

You said that a film is meant to be experienced in one sitting more than a TV show or book, and you are right, but a song is much more meant to be experienced in one sitting than a movie. This is coming from a guy who people still refer to as Tetra, which was the 17 minute song from The Mars Volta.

I can understand not pausing at the right time because hopefully not every film is that predictable. One of the fun parts about going to the movie theater is seeing people take bathroom breaks in the middle of important scenes or when it is obvious it is building to something. Ideally you would not miss a second of a movie, but some scenes are more important than others. I have never really felt any sort of loss of emotion or narrative cohesion from coming back to something. In a way I am more engaged because I had a day or whatever length of time it is to critique what I have seen and make future predictions.

 

That's fair. If it makes you more engaged, that's great. Personally, I've just found recently that I feel the opposite. I'm not forgetting anything but it's more like I've lost momentum by stepping out of the world that the film was creating and now trying to just suddenly get right back in. As I said, I do it all time. I've just been feeling like I get more out of stuff when I can watch it all at once, which seems to be the intended nature of the art form.

 

Brendan Fraser deserved an academy award for the mummy. I said what I said. Idk who won best actor in 1999 but it was undeserved!!! How can one person be so charismatic, clever, and charming?? I mean at the least that deserves an MTV movie award

 

Most people wouldn't mind taking the award from the guy who won.

 

Now the mummy is a great film that doesn't feel 2 hours long

The special effects do leave a little to be desired

Better than *the mummy returns tho lmao

I realize this post isn't unpopular but I'm bored and watching the mummy rn

 

I do think pacing is an important aspect of film. Watching in pieces is not ideal. But you do what you can with the time and space in your life that you have.

 

If Roseanne hasn't tarnished her rep, Roseanne would be one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. It was so good it honestly feels painful for me to watch it and know her legacy now. Roseanne the show doesn't get enough props. Probably because of how it ended (not counting the revival which I didn't watch). But man. It was so impactful to me growing up. She wasn't afraid to look bad to point out an issue.

Like the episode where DJ doesn't want to kiss the little black girl in his class for the school play and her dad points out he learned it from home and Roseanne argues but then later realizes her own bias. Or the criticism of the pilgrims in the thanksgiving play. Or the episode where Booker is abusing Jackie. Or when Roseanne realizes she's not as "cool" with her lesbian friends as she touted herself to be. There was legit self reflection, inner bias, micro aggressions, etc all addressed without feeling preachy or like a "very special episode." Last night I was watching the episode where Becky is upset Mark flunked out of trade school and despite Mark always being the punching bag for the parents, I loved how Dan pointed out she needed to decide if she was okay with it because he didn't deserve someone looking down on him.

Roseanne turning out the way she did has honestly felt devastating to me because the original run was so important to me

I guess the unpopular part is it doesn't get enough props. But I also see with why it doesn't. So IDK how I feel!

 

I have never watched the show, but from the clips and details I have seen it is surprisingly pro-working class and progressive.

Barr's politics are obviously abhorrent and beyond the pale, but I always wonder how much her brain injury affects her thinking. It is just really bizarre to go from being a Green Party nominee to MAGA.

 

Lol

 

I really hate the way British people use the word toilet to refer to the entire bathroom. It is so foul. Restroom or bathroom are preferable.

 

if the bathroom does not have a bath in it I will not refer to it as such

 

Where does "the shitter" rank?

 

Ages ago I was at a party and this dude (an American) who had just been in the UK for like two weeks tried to get away with earnestly calling it “the loo”. Never wanted to give someone a wedgie more in my life

 

commode
latrine
wash closet

so many better alternatives

 

My grandma always called it the commode and for years I thought that was a word she made up.

 

I've never heard that, is that like komodo dragon