Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 62

I have been trying to pick a best Coen Brothers film all day and I just can't do it. I had kinda forgotten how subtly hysterical and amazing Burn After Reading is, and these clips and this talk has been bringing it all back.

I know it is so cliche to even say, but I LOVE The Big Lebowski. Hudsucker Proxy I think may have been my first. Full disclosure: I have not seen Buster Scruggs yet, and I never finished The Ladykillers or Intolerable Cruelty.

 

With his performances in Burn After Reading, the Ocean’s movies, True Romance, and aspects of Inglourious Basterds, Snatch, Fight Club, and even if unintentional, Meet Joe Black, Brad Pitt is a stellar comedic actor. Just phenomenal.

 

He really is. I also think he is underrated as a dramatic actor as well.

 

I have a bunch of actors I could slot in as my favorite at the moment depending on the day, but Brad Pitt has probably been my overall favorite for like 25+ years now. He has like 20 incredible performances.

 

Yeah, I just did a cursory look through his filmography and came up with 21 performances ranging from great to transcendent and I haven't even seen every movie he's done. What a bad ass.

 

He’s best in comedies.

 

Yeah, I’m a huge huge Brad Pitt fan, will pretty much be interested in anything he does and usually at least enjoy his presence/performance if the film itself isn’t that good.

 

My unpopular entertainment opinion for the day is that I've always liked Meet Joe Black. This is probably down to my love of Brad Pitt and the fact that I have had an enormous crush on Claire Forlani for my entire adult life. Plus, Anthony Hopkins.

 

This is correct.

Regarding Sofia Coppola specifically, she is the white daughter of extreme privilege, so her best work has come when she has examined girls who seemingly have it all but feel an emptiness inside. Barry Jenkins grew up as a black child in Miami, so his best film so far largely revolves around that experience, even if he is not gay like the character is. True representation comes from allowing a wider net of people to tell their stories.

 

Is the idea of Brad Pitt being a good comedic actor even an unpopular one?

 

I don’t think so, but the tangent led there

 

I think I've only seen Brad Pitt in like 3 things

 

So what are the two besides Friends?

 

Actually more than I thought! Fight club, Mr and mrs Smith, inglorious basterds, and seven!

 

Saving Private Ryan is a technical masterpiece but one hell of a jingoistic story

 

People having strong negative opinions of actors never made sense to me. Specific ones that come to mind are the big A-list leading men like Pitt, Clooney, DiCaprio, Depp. But any time someone says they’re not interested in seeing a movie because a specific actor they don’t like is in it, I have to wonder what they even get out of movies in the first place if they get that wrapped up in something like that

 

my strong negative opinion on Depp has nothing to do with his acting

 

I want to respond but I’m so totally baffled by that sentiment that I keep coming up empty.

Agreed on Depp being awful for tons of reasons without ever needing to bring up his acting though, that’s easy to articulate.

 

Depp, or someone like Mel Gibson, is an entirely different thing, but aside from that - if there is an actor who annoys you and gets on your nerves, why would you wanna spend two hours watching them...?

For me, Martin Short comes to mind: watching him in anything has always been like nails on a chalkboard for me, so I haven't watched a ton of his movies. I usually only see him when he shows up in something that I am otherwise enjoying, but the chances of me watching a Martin Short starring vehicle by choice are pretty slim.

 

Sometimes I want to cry at Leo's lost beauty. I know it's shallow and IDGAF he was like a legit angel in his prime like it's akin to mourning the destruction of an original van Gogh masterpiece.

 

Your comment just summed up the human condition in 37* words.

 

and he still keeps dating gorgeous women who were born the year Romeo + Juliet came out, male privilege is wild

 

He’s a prime example of someone who hasn’t really done anything specifically terrible but just sets off every warning bell I have constantly.

 

as much as I hate that it’s become a verb I wonder if he’ll ever get ~me too’ed~

 

Thanx I like to think I speak for the people!