Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 68

Beowulf and Juno came out at the end of the year. Not summer. Your thinking of Ocean’s 13 and Hot Fuzz.

 

I knew Juno was at the end of the year, which is what I meant by horizon, but I must have mixed up Beowulf. I didn't see the other two films until years later, and one of those films is okay and the other is great.

 

I never know if your trolling or not, considering you named A Very Murray Christmas the best film of 2015.

 

wonder woman is better than a decent chunk of them but not as good as their best

 

Don't know if this would be an unpopular opinion on here or not, but Observe and Report is an incredibly underrated, prescient film. It's such a perfect portrait of the aimless suburban authoritarian completely enmeshed in their own world

 

I have never trolled. A Very Murray Christmas just happened to be the best movie of 2015.

 

See, that is one where people went so far into praising it that it went too far. It is definitely a lot better and funnier than people expect, but when people started comparing it to Taxi Driver it went too far.

 

It obviously hits a lot of the same beats as Taxi Driver, but to me it's not even an apt comparison by virtue of the main characters. Travis Bickle is able to transform into basically a horror movie villain and it's the outside world that misunderstands him, whereas one of the most important aspects of Seth Rogen's character is how much he wants to be a macho vigilante leading man and how obvious it is to everyone around him that he clearly isn't.

 

It deserved a bigger audience but it was lumped into the Apatow category because of Seth Rogen's presence. Jody Hill is much darker, though, especially in Observe and Report. Apatow would not have a scene of the protagonist beating up teenagers or doing heroin in the bathroom.

I just found out Jody Hill had a film last year on Netflix that was supposed to be really bad. Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals were both very good.

 

The "Where is My Mind?" sequence still remains incredible.

 

I remember specifically seeing Beowulf in the cold of winter high af, and not understanding it whatsoever. Then I found out it was based on a poem lol.

Afterwards me, and my friends played the first Mass Effect. Good times.

 

Few movies have upset me the way in which Beowulf did. I had just read it in my senior English class, and I was so stoked that a Beowulf movie was being released. Then I went out to see the movie, realized that a crap ton of the film was changed from the poem, and angrily stormed out of the theater after it was finished.

 

This was pretty much my exact reason. Beowulf was one of the few books I enjoyed in AP Literature.

 

Why would you watch 2007 Beowulf when the 1999 classic already exists

 

I really don't want to have thirty different conversations at the same time, so I will avoid the thread, but Booksmart was not very good. It is all over the place, going from a raunchy teen comedy to something more heartfelt when the plot requires it.

 

The pool/argument scene was good if you remove it from the rest of the film

 

South Park is the worst.

 

South Park’s peak was 2003-2005

 

I’m shocked every single time I see that South Park is still on the air.

 

I never think about it but will hear a quote or see a gif or something and it just makes me cringe. Every aspect of it.

 

I doubt the “peak” era of it — basically the whole Bush administration— would hold up comedically if I went back and watched it, but I at least appreciate how willing they were able to genuinely push the boundaries of that time in a way nobody else was

 

Shows I can’t believe are still on: “South Park,” “Tosh.0,” “Robot Chicken.”

 

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Tosh.0 is still on?? How on earth is that real

 

Yeah I’m genuinely shocked by that lol. It feels like something that just shouldn’t coexist with the Trump era. Guess the low production cost means it can just float on indefinitely?