Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 119

didn’t you say Gorillaz’s best song was like 19-2000 lol. You should really just accept that you’re a boring old man at this and move on at this point. It’s okay, nothing lasts forever

 

Phaynes is probably the only one whose unabashed love for Oasis I respect bc he clearly is a fanboy who cares about them much more beyond their two popular 90s albums or whatever. Everyone else is just riding that nostalgia

 

Song rips. Rock the House is their best tho

 

both great songs, but you’re still a boring old head ass grandpa

 

If not riding hard for Gorillaz (a band 100% removed from any sort of youth culture that I’ve heard brought up maybe twice in my teaching career by kids whose favorite album is American Idiot) deep cuts makes you a grandpa, I welcome death’s quick embrace.

 

I feel like the criteria to be this hardcore of a Gorillaz fan is to either:

Be just getting into music
Or
Not listen to that much music
or
Be Steve


Edit:
Since we’re in the entertainment forum, I bet the Marvel and SW threads are full of Gorillaz fans. They like lore!

 

It’s not the lack of riding hard, it’s the embarrassing curmudgeony way of caping for shit based on your nostalgia. It comes off like a dude who thinks Radiohead peaked with Creep or whatever

 

Hahhaha what am I even caping for? I’m the embarrassing one for not having a strong opinion about the band Gorillaz???

It’s not like I have the s/t album tattooed on me. They are a band I think about rarely, if ever. That’s how this discussion started, me being shocked that someone could care this much about Gorillaz.


I 100% have an attachment to the first album due to nostalgia. I grew up and listened to their other shit and most of it bored me

 

Except you clearly do have a strong opinion about them? Lol. You’re the one who keeps bringing them up and acting like it’s absurd that anyone would care about a band that is still really obviously successful in 2020. Nothing I’ve said comes off as being a hardcore fan or anything, it’s far more just second hand embarrassment for you that you keep asserting this thing being like “am I right guys???” when it’s like...no not at all lol

 

I do think it is absurd to say that Gorillaz are better than Radiohead yes, and I am genuinely shocked that... at this point 3 people on this site are riding hard enough for them to keep this going


Other than that, the first album is cool. Plastic Beach was a miss for me but it’s been a decade. The Vince Staples song is cool. Maybe this new one is good!

 

Did Steve say they’re better than Radiohead? Because yeah that’s obviously dumb as shit.

 

I think I brought this up in the music thread, but it's more relevant here: The best thing about the Gorillaz is the art by cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (co-creator of Tank Girl).

Read more comics, y'all.

 

In a “Gorillaz > Radiohead” post that he then clarified as him liking Gorillaz more, which spurred me to be flabbergasted that someone could like the band that much, that spurred VFOR to get mad, that spurred me to egg him on even though I don’t care about this band enough to think about them for a week

 

Is there a still like a narrative going around the characters? I remember thinking that was so cool like over a decade ago but have completely forgot about it lol

 

Honestly, I couldn’t tell ya. I’m not an active Gorillaz fan myself, lol. I just know that, when I am in the mood for ‘em, I’m most likely to go the YouTube route ‘cause I like the art direction.

But, it’s the look that I’m personally into, not necessarily like the mythos or whatever.

 

Deadpool and Adventureland are good movies. They hit the mark for what they're trying to be well.

Reynolds is funny in so-so movies (The In-Laws, Detective Pikachu) and in movies I enjoyed enough when they came out but imagine aged terribly (Just Friends, Waiting).

 

Thinking about Jamie Hewlett has me thinking about how Tank Girl was partially inspired by the Love and Rockets character Hopey, which is making me think about how Jaime Hernandez’s Maggie & Hopey stories in Love and Rockets are just the best.



Comics are my favorite creative medium. When they’re good, they’re just so good.

 

This is one of the dumbest fucking things you said

 

Panic Room is better than it has any right to be

 

Fincher’s love letter to Hitchcock and he nails it.

 

The Appleseed Cast was called "America's response to Radiohead" when they released their double album back in 2000-2001. They're better than Radiohead, tho

 

Fight Club, Girl Interrupted, American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream, Panic Room, Dallas Buyer's Club, Blade Runner 2049 (yes it's in chronological order because I looked at IMDB)

Like he's a weirdo/creep whose actual performances are pretty hit or miss but to say he's only been in bad movies is a pretty wild take imo

 

be here now sold more early on than the first two records, but yes thanks

 

i do genuinely believe at least 75% of the reason the gorillaz got big in the first place was the animations/characters/lore and not the actual songs. maybe that changed with the second album but i feel like they’d be bigger than they are now if that’s the case

what’s this shit they’re doing this year? song club or whatever??

 

American Psycho and Panic Room are okay. I have never seen Girl, Interrupted but the rest are rough. Dallas Buyer's Club is one of the worst movies of the last decade.