Unpopular General Opinions • Page 125

I should've read @oldjersey's post about mint ice cream, I feel the same

 

Mint chocolate chip ice cream rules. Another unpopular opinion is that I prefer my ice cream to be very basic. Give me plain vanilla over something with all sorts of chunks and fudge sauce any day.

 

When it comes to ice cream I won't complain ever

 

I honestly don’t care much for ice cream

 

Somehow I'm still friends with my best friend from high school, who I once had come over and decided to make root beer floats for us and when I brought him his, his reaction was "Eww I don't like root beer floats"

 

Me either Ant. Gelato tho.... yes please.

 

He’s great at crafting visuals, not so great with plots.

 

I like foods in mint condition

 

even then i think his understanding of cinematic language is mush. his films have no spatial logic to them, or coherent editing continuity - they're just loud images stitched together to bowl you over and prevent you from remembering that they don't make a lick of sense.

 

Overrated, yes. He has particular flaws in directing clear action and handling non-male characters. Outright bad, I’d hesitate before saying that. His evident talent tied to his attachment to stories of male geniuses surrounded by people who just wont let them be unregulated male geniuses has led to 15 year old boys (or men of any age stuck in that mindset) who like “cool” movies to over invest in his protagonist’s outlooks. He has yet to successfully critique or deconstruct that ID, even when he attempts to (Batman, Interstellar). Dunkirk was an improvement over much of his recent work.

 

I can't name any characteristics of any director and honestly have no clue what makes a director good and what makes a director bad

Like I get what a director does but I wouldn't understand anything about "Oh this is completely in the style of (Director X)" and I just blank out when I hear it because I've accepted it's outside my realm of dissection

 

Laura knows so much about movies and directing and I'm the archetypical dumb husband from the infomercials who's like "I THOUGHT THAT ONE PART WAS GOOD"

 

i just don't think there is anything meaningful i can take away from his films; i try not to be pretentious about "popcorn films" but they're very not my style, and his posture so aggressively as more than that that they actively anger me for feeling conned. so - yes, that's a very personal take to attribute to a director being "bad," but if the director's main cinematic strength is allegedly a trick he fails to pull on me, i'm not sure how else to respond - even Refn, for example, manages some style over substance (not that I think he's quite a "good" director, either) - Nolan can't even get me that much.

 

haha, and that's fine. folks are allowed to enjoy films for whatever reason they like :) but - some good write ups on what i regard as Nolan's key weaknesses:

Time Pieces: On the Fragmented Films of Christopher Nolan | The-Solute

The Big Murk: A Conversation About Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" on Notebook

 

Nolan is a good director. It's just fun to mess with his fanboys. I haven't seen his last few, tho, and TDKR was messy

 

I'll read into it! It's something I know I won't be the most knowledgeable about ever and won't be able to keep up with others on but it's a field I definitely want to know more about. It never hurts!

 

Nolan is not good or bad enough for how people talk about him.

 

Nolan is good but some of his fans are pretentious. If it wasn't for them I don't think many people would complain about Nolan.

 

I think Yeezy Boosts are ugly.

 

most yeezy things I've seen are at least a little ugly

 

They look like a deflated tire

 

I don't think I want to own anything associated with the word Yeezy

 

certain color ways for Yeezu 350 are dope and that's all I say.

 

Yeezy as a brand and a concept is like somewhere between streetwear and high fashion, both of which are as much about artistic expression as they are about clothing, and art doesn't always have to be "pretty" or whatever. Welcome to modernity.

 

I've liked some of Kanye's other shoes. But when I see a hundred white high schoolers at the mall all in Boosts, I think they look bad.