Unpopular Geek Media Opinions

[kermit4karate]

I prefer the Sony Marvel films like the X-Men to the Marvel Studios movies like the Avengers.

 

[kermit4karate]

The first Alien was a great movie, but Aliens, the sequel, is one of the top 10 best movies of all time.

 

[kermit4karate]

The Harry Potter book series is a collection of lazy tropes that is elevated by what people read into it, not what's actually there.

That is in fact an unpopular opinion.

 

[BookTenTiger]

That is in fact an unpopular opinion.

It's not one that I'll bring up in casual conversation but it's one I still stand by!

 

[trappedslider]

It is possible to separate the creator from the creation and not everything has some deeper meaning

 

[Pale Violet Light]

The first Alien was a great movie, but Aliens, the sequel, is one of the top 10 best movies of all time.

Unpopular opinions, mate! I think you could argue for either of them, but they’re both great.

 

[pukunui]

Unpopular opinions, mate! I think you could argue for either of them, but they’re both great.

My extremely unpopular opinion (around here at least) is that Alien is a boring snooze fest along the same lines as other late 70s sci-fi snooze fests (e.g. Close Encounters, 2001, the first Star Trek movie).

 

[payn]

I prefer the Sony Marvel films like the X-Men to the Marvel Studios movies like the Avengers.

There were a few stinkers but yeah generally the Sony x-men movies were great. I thought Deadpool and Wolverine sucked.

 

[MGibster]

I read Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire (the first book of his Thrawn trilogy), and came away unimpressed. While I understand a lot of what Zahn was trying to do, a lot of what he had in there didn't feel like Star Wars to me, even if many of those elements would later be built upon and expanded...which I suppose might be a part of the reason why I've fallen out of love with the franchise.

Zahn's work was among the best of the Extended Universe. It's just that the EU was mostly crummy. The best Star Wars books produced between Return of the Jedi and Episode I were all published by West End Games.

I prefer the Sony Marvel films like the X-Men to the Marvel Studios movies like the Avengers.

Even the third X-Men movie? Blech!

The first Alien was a great movie, but Aliens, the sequel, is one of the top 10 best movies of all time.

I don't know if that's so controversial. Generally speaking, most geeks will agree that both are great movies even though they're very different from one another. I prefer the first movie but I can't get upset when someone prefers the second. If I meet anyone who says three is the best I'll stage an intervention for them.

My extremely unpopular opinion (around here at least) is that Alien is a boring snooze fest along the same lines as other late 70s sci-fi snooze fests (e.g. Close Encounters, 2001, the first Star Trek movie).

How dare you! I just watched it a few years ago and found it was still an excellent movie. Unlike Romulus, at least the actors didn't look like teenagers from 90210....or whatever young people star in these days.

There were a few stinkers but yeah generally the Sony x-men movies were great. I thought Deadpool and Wolverine sucked.

As with a lot of multiverse plots, it was tough to care about any of it. It was no Spiderverse movie....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I do like it when they bring an old movie out for a limited theatrical run again and wish they’d do that more often instead of doing a remake.

An online friend of mine was asked to provide music for a theater’s Halloween airing of the great silent horror movie, Nosferatu.*

Initially, he was puzzled- his 2 piece band is solidly in the electronica category, and mostly improvisational at that- and didn’t think they could do a good version of the original music. But what the theater owner wanted wasn’t the music that was played in theaters all those decades ago, but rather, something new. Something in their style. So they took the gig.

Almost immediately, he had second thoughts, because he didn’t think improvised music would work well. And he was struggling to compose something that would.

So I sent him this video of Jimmy Smith’s jazz deconstruction of Prokofiev’s Peter and The Wolf:

I told him to simply compose a core musical theme for the major characters, and play them when they’re onscreen, with sime of their improvisations thrown in for good measure. And that was the spark!

He and his bandmate took that inspiration and ran with it. They wrote identifiably distinctive themes for each major character. But instead of simply playing them straight up, they changed them over time. As the peril onscreen grew, the music became darker. Major keys became minor keys. Sour notes were substituted for sweet. Tempos became irregular.

The downward spiral of the film was echoed in the entropy of the music.

It was so well-received, they’ve been asked about doing future play-alongs in the future!




* since I live in a different state, I was unable to attend, and sadly, the performance wasn’t recorded.