The Unpopular Film, TV, Music, Art, Books, Comics, Games, & Technology Opinion Thread (for all you contrarians!) — Page 29

Spartacus01 said:

I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I have just finished watching the fifth season of Supernatural, and I personally feel like it should have been the end of the series. I’m not even interested in watching the subsequent seasons, because the season 5 finale is too perfect for me, so I just want to stick with it and pretend nothing else happened after that.

This has always been my opinion and I’m glad someone else came up with exactly the same conclusion. I think a TV movie about getting Sam out of hell would have been just fine too.

Superweapon VII said:

coasting on '80s nostalgia

This is my problem with pretty much all pop culture these days. It’s all about the 1980s.

Superweapon VII said:

Also, I loved Kate Bush before this show was a blip on the radar.

Me too.

Stranger Things did improve my opinion of ITC Benguiat (the title font). It’s got just the right amount of “edge” and swoops to it so that it doesn’t feel gimmicky.

fmalover said:

Superweapon VII said:

coasting on '80s nostalgia

This is my problem with pretty much all pop culture these days. It’s all about the 1980s.

Most of it is but Star Wars prequel nostalgia, lord of the rings and Matrix, or Jurassic Park aren’t 1980s.

Superweapon VII said:

I don’t think I’m gonna watch the final season of Stranger Things. In hindsight, everything after the first season has been adventures in diminishing returns, coasting on '80s nostalgia and that first season to keep afloat. But the emperor really has no clothes. I have no investment in this show anymore.

I barely remember what happened each season after the first. It’s like the same story over and over: weird shit happens around town, some 80s references drop, then everyone fights a CGI monster (with Eleven doing most of the actual fighting). Rinse and repeat.

As many people have already said, Stranger Things should have been an anthology series. But it’s just too commercially irresistible to return to the original hit cast.

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water > The Spongebob Squarepants Movie

It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.

CourtlyHades296 said:

It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.

Disney erased Willow tv series from their service. Its never going to be officially on Blu-Ray either, they’ve only encouraged piracy.

JadedSkywalker said:

CourtlyHades296 said:

It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.

Disney erased Willow tv series from their service. Its never going to be officially on Blu-Ray either, they’ve only encouraged piracy.

It’s weird that sometimes piracy becomes the most effective means of preservation.

The Mcguffin in Dial of Destiny is the worst in the Indiana Jones series. And i thought aliens sucked as a Mcguffin in Skull.

The idea might not be terrible but in execution what a let down.

I didn’t like Mando it didn’t feel like Star Wars to me. Good show and enjoyable but it feels like Star Wars adjacent, but so very far away. Its more like one of those old EU things that wasn’t a part of the main story, like one of those books on the Bounty Hunters. or the criminal underworld in one of the anthology books. You know like a show that happens and exists in that world but doesn’t have Skywalker’s Jedi or Sith. At least until Luke showed up,lol.

The show i want will never be made the Luke Skywalker series set in between Return of the Jedi and Last Jedi. Now that Rey is going to rebuild the order Luke’s story purpose is redundant and unnecessary, so too expensive to deepfake Hamill for a series and no reason to.

JadedSkywalker said:

I didn’t like Mando it didn’t feel like Star Wars to me. Good show and enjoyable but it feels like Star Wars adjacent, but so very far away. Its more like one of those old EU things that wasn’t a part of the main story, like one of those books on the Bounty Hunters. or the criminal underworld in one of the anthology books. You know like a show that happens and exists in that world but doesn’t have Skywalker’s Jedi or Sith. At least until Luke showed up,lol.

The show i want will never be made the Luke Skywalker series set in between Return of the Jedi and Last Jedi. Now that Rey is going to rebuild the order Luke’s story purpose is redundant and unnecessary, so too expensive to deepfake Hamill for a series and no reason to.

Honestly I don’t like how they started to tie The Mandalorian to mainline SW characters. It severly shrinks the Galaxy.

Cinema is not disposable entertainment. It is a serious artform with the ability to move people to tears, make people laugh, ask meaningful questions about ourselves and make us question reality.