The American Godzilla design is kinda…. lame
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I suspect this is a very unpopular opinion, but The Sound Of Music is painfully mid
Maria comes off as somewhat unhinged, as all the catchy beats and character traits people remember from the film boil down to copium and mantras in an attempt to never be even remotely sad by gaslighting herself into happiness. There’s a number of other issues, but that’s definitely my main problem with it by a good amount. The usual defenses of it being an anti-nazi film (thereby making it automatically good) are a bit silly considering much better films like Casablanca exist and accomplish that end while not devolving the entire film in order to do it.
At some point I want to see the German film The Trapp Family because it’s basically the exact same thing but made quite a bit earlier. Hopefully it’s able to avoid the pitfalls of its more popular spinoff.
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At long last, someone of like mind.
I’d also agree that the film is highly overrated. I’ve heard from my mother that the actual people it was based on were a bit put off by it because of the simplicity of the songs and the shallowness of the whole thing. If I recall correctly, the company that produced it more or less swindled the wife, who wasn’t the most business savvy, into selling the story to the studio.
The worst part is I don’t see the musical numbers it boasts as acceptable for how famous it is. I’m perfectly fine with admitting they’re nice songs, but other than “Do, a Deer,” none of them particularly stood out to me (and even then, “Do, a Deer” is only memorable because a kids’ radio channel blasted the living daylights out of it). The performers certainly had talent and they played their parts well, but the parts themselves were what held it back.
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Apparently my hot takes have been reaching audiences recently 
Every Christmas I am reminded that My Favorite Things exists because snowflakes and silver white winters are in the lyrics and that’s good enough for every national and local radio station to blast it right up until new year’s
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I have a few and don’t hate me for what I have to say:
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Attack Of The Clones is the best movie of Episodes I-III and the very best Star Wars movie and my reasoning for that is four words: The Battle Of Geonosis.
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I LOVE Ang Lee’s Hulk and I don’t like any of the other live-action Hulks besides Eric Bana’s.
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith is incredibly overrated and I’ve held that opinion since I first saw it when I was 10-years-old.
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The original Spider-Man from 2002 is still the best Spider-Man movie.
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The MCU is overrated and I hate comic book movies.
Okay that, was more than a few…but still.
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Honestly I wouldn’t say that these two are unpopular in any way. The 2002 Spider-Man is an iconic film beloved by many people, moreso than any other Spider-Man movie, definitely more than the two Tom Holland movies; and as for the MCU thing, it would have probably been an unpopular opinion like five years ago with all the Infinity War hype, but with the rapidly decreasing quality of MCU movies, this sentiment is becoming more and more prevalent. It really seems to me that barely anyone cares about MCU at this point
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three (you are a fake Holland Fan go to prison)
I agree the MCU has fizzled at this point, the best thing they did for their franchise in the modern time was slow down and take a breather
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As much as I loved it back in the day and am still a big fan of Genndy Tartakosky’s work in animation, I have to admit:
The 2003 Clone Wars micro-series is one of the most overrated and retroactively hyped-up SW content ever.
I mean, it’s not terrible or anything, it’s just, being regarded on such a high level that it simply doesn’t live up to.
The art style is nice and the action sequences are great.
Still, from a story and character perspective, it’s a jumbled mess of visually stunning, but too over-the-top, collection battle scenes.
It also has little to no character development or too many interactions, there was that one cave scene with Anakin foreseeing his dark future after the war, which was cool, but it was not enough.
Putting nostalgia aside, it was decent for its time, but I’m glad that eventually, we got Dave Filoni’s TCW later down the line.
(That show was also overrated but for different reasons and aspects.)
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Denis Vinelueve’s Dune films are good, but not as fun to watch as the David Lynch one
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I haven’t seen the older dune movie but anything’s better than talking, talking, and more talking. I tried watching dune again and after getting maybe an hour in I had to quit.
All I could get from that movie is everyone wants whatever this spice stuff is and some dude died.
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The thing is, to enjoy Dune you have to be a Dune fan. Otherwise you’ll not really be able to sit through it.
I have read 5/6 Dune books and I still like the David Lynch one best. It’s far less book accurate, but it’s a more fun film.
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Hard disagree. In fact, I would counter by arguing that Dave Filoni’s 2008 CGI The Clone Wars TV show is one of the most overrated and retroactively hyped-up pieces of Star Wars content ever. For more on the subject, you can listen to my extensive thoughts on the matter on the retired Mod Squad’s podcast:
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Well, I think that depends on who you are.
I had absolutely no interest in Dune when it first came out, even when the sequel did. I never read the books, and never really wanted to.
But my wife has a cursory interest in Dune (she’s currently reading the series), and I have this nasty habit of glimpsing at whatever movie she’s currently watching more and more frequently before eventually just watching the movie with her altogether.
I don’t have any special interest in Dune as a franchise, but I was pulled in by its worldbuilding and a bit by its themes. As an artist, character designer, and D&D player/Dungeon Master I was very interested in the interconnectivity of the characters, the factions, the intricate details of how the technology works, why it works that way, why things are done how they are done in that world.
So I wouldn’t say that to enjoy Dune you need to be interested in Dune specifically. I think mostly that enjoying Dune comes down to being interested in something that Dune has to offer, and that’s primarily a complex and very grey narrative, extremely intricate worldbuilding, and its aesthetics. If you’re not into any of those, it’s very understandable why someone would lose interest quickly.
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Thanks for bringing the video to my attention.
However, I already saw it when it came out, though a rewatch might be beneficial.
Anyway, I still stand by my earlier statement.
Yeah, the 2008 TCW is indeed one of the most overrated SW content, the 2003 Micro CW series is still much worse.
As I said before, G. Tartakosky’s show is a collection of cool & amazingly choreographed action scenes, but nothing else.
It had almost no character development (except for Anakin’s, but even his was bare bones), and its pacing was too fast to tell stories with any significance or meaning about the Clone War era of the galaxy.
It had some intense fight sequences and a lot of over-the-top action, (Some, like Mace Windu defeating an entire army of Super battle droids with Force-Kung fu was ridiculous.), but aside from these, it was a glorified & extended commercial for Ep. III.
I’m a sucker for visually stunning action cartoons, and Genndy is still in my top 3 favorite animators out there, but it just wasn’t it. (IMO).
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Well I finally saw The wild robot. Honestly I don’t see what’s so great about it; it just seemed like another uplifting inspiration kids movie about believing in yourself or something.
Especially after I rewatched another robot movie from the same release time only one of those movies actually stuck with me after watching it and it’s pretty obvious it wasn’t the Pixar movie.
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Just kidding. The Prequels (especially Revenge Of The Sith and largely because of Revenge Of The Sith) are amazing.
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I couldn’t have said better, well put!
Opinions of today:
- 2022’s The Batman directed by Matt Reeves is way better than Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.
- Practical effects (puppets, animatronics, and other physical props.) are great, but they’re not always better than CGI, and can’t be used for certain things.
- Jurassic World: Rebirth looks jarring and unconvincing from the first trailer. Although, I still hope that it will be decent. (Or, at least, will be better than what JW: Dominion was.)
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Movie series that do the whole “This is the final one!” And then three years later make another kinda annoy me
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Agreed. It’s worse when it’s due to the franchise changing hands and the new owner thinking they knew what the prior owner wanted from it (see Rings of Power, Halo 4-Infinite, everything post Endgame bar Shang-Chi and Ant-Man [and Spider-Man to a degree], and most Star Wars stuff in the past decade).
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