Unpopular Geek Media Opinions

[Ruin Explorer]

I was going to clubs in the 1980s. This scene -- where no one but Arnie, interestingly, appears to have worked up a sweat in a hot night club -- looks like someone just grabbed random clothes at the Glendale Galleria, rather than going with how people dressed in actual night clubs.

I'm not saying T1 is a bad movie -- far from it -- but it really shows its age, much more than T2 does, IMO.

I feel like a lot of genre works struggle with clubs for various reasons, not least that you couldn't see much if you filmed in an authentically lit club in most cases.

But yeah they also struggle with pop culture, whether it's due to lags from filming to actual release, budget limitations, artistic choices (informed or uninformed), or some combination thereof. I can't, offhand, think of a single genre movie with has a convincing club scene in it. Ironically the blood rave from Blade 1 is more plausible than some, because at least it wasn't in some ridiculously fancy and implausibly gothic club, but rather a very industrial space (like a lot of late '90s clubs and raves - sometimes the line was a little blurred - at least in my experience). They even thought about where it was getting the blood from (it's attached to a meatpacking place) and the outfits everyone has on are pretty plausible - they do style them so that all the vampires (and familiars/ghouls) are wearing black/white, and the idiot who has been brought along as food is the only one wearing a bright colour - a blood red jacket. Plus the music was actually cool.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The rave scene in Blade is so great. An all-time great vampire movie bit that felt fresh and shocking the first time I saw it. It's sort of a riff on the Theatre des Vampires scene in Interview with the Vampire (which that movie also executed well), but still made it its own thing. So good.

I really should have started a thread about vampire movies in October. I love them so much.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's called Everybody Wants Some.

That movie is so hard to find on streaming, which is weird, given how beloved Dazed and Confused is.

 

[payn]

That movie is so hard to find on streaming, which is weird, given how beloved Dazed and Confused is.

Its simply a better movie too.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You only think that you just want the same dozen D&D adventures updated and reprinted forever. The state of the art in adventure design advances rapidly, even in this century alone. The adventures that you are the most enthusiastic about, once you've played them, are almost always new adventures, rather than stuff originally knocked out in a week back in 1978.

 

[MGibster]

your emotional attachment to something has no bearing on if it's objectively good or bad.

What's objectively good?

 

[MGibster]

I would swear that I saw the sentry gun scene when I saw "Aliens" in the theatre, but it's not supposed to have been in the theatrical release.

It wasn't but you're not the only one who remembers seeing it. I swear I saw UHF while living in Colorado, but it came out in 1989, the same year as Batman, and I was living in Texas. Even though I know I couldn't have seen it in Colorado, my memory tells me I did. Memory is fickle sometimes.

You only think that you just want the same dozen D&D adventures updated and reprinted forever. The state of the art in adventure design advances rapidly, even in this century alone. The adventures that you are the most enthusiastic about, once you've played them, are almost always new adventures, rather than stuff originally knocked out in a week back in 1978.

I'm in agreement here. Most of them are like classic movies, I enjoy them for what they are but don't feel the need to remake them. I actually think the original I-6 Ravenloft is the best version of the adventure despite how many times it's been reprinted and reinterpreted.

 

[Reynard]

You only think that you just want the same dozen D&D adventures updated and reprinted forever. The state of the art in adventure design advances rapidly, even in this century alone. The adventures that you are the most enthusiastic about, once you've played them, are almost always new adventures, rather than stuff originally knocked out in a week back in 1978.

And the best adventures (like most truly innovative stuff) are being done by smaller companies, teams and individuals that have the freedom to fail.

 

[billd91]

And the best adventures (like most truly innovative stuff) are being done by smaller companies, teams and individuals that have the freedom to fail.

I'm not sure a smaller company, team, or individual has the freedom to fail, per se. Too much failing and they're not going to be small companies any more, they really will be individuals. Rather, they have the freedom to not have performance metrics designed to meet the profitability requirements of a large corporation. A more modest result can still count as a success to a small company or someone doing this as a hobby and putting it up for sale for a little beer money (rather than satisfying shareholders).

 

[Mercurius]

To the thread title...

• Firefly is overrated. Fun and pretty good, but hardly the classic its fans hold it out to be.
• Batman v. Superman is actually a pretty good movie. Sure the end is pretty bad, but the first two-thirds or so is nicely dramatic in a poor man's Nolan way.
• Tom Holland is the worst of the three Spider-man actors. Sure, he best aligns with the comic books but he's oh-so annoying (Toby for the win).
• The Witcher is meh.
• Dark Phoenix is underrated. It isn't great, and not nearly as good as First Class and Days of Future Past, but it is far better than The Last Stand, and probably better than Apocalypse (though that doesn't say much).
• Rings of Power is, indeed, an abomination that should be thrown into Mount Doom.
• Video games are a symptom of cultural decline.
• The MCU should just reboot around the FF and X-Men. Stop trying to squeeze out more juice from a dried up orange.
• An aside: Whenever I hear the term "whimsy" I think of Portlandia's Sparkle Pony.