Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 136

Dude that's the best part

 

Mummy is a top tier adventure movie. Love it.

 

I like both of the original two Fraser/Weisz Mummy movies, although the first is obviously much better. I thought the Cruise one was entertaining, and was cool how they worked in other creatures.

I don’t talk about the Dragon Emperor

 

Never saw dragon emperor. Loved the Pygmy mummies in the second one. Also it’s been forever since I’ve seen it but I thought the first Scorpion King movie was pretty good.

 

I find adult obsession with college sports to be unseemly. A lot of it comes from the athletes not being paid, risking serious injury to entertain drunks and enrich the school, but the allegiance people have to a college they went to twenty years ago seems like a desperate cling to youth.

 

that is not an unpopular opinion. pretty much everyone besides those who work at the ncaa are pro-pay the players.

 

I assume most fans of most college teams are not actual alumni

 

Even if they were paid, it still feels wrong. The brain isn't even fully developed until your mid-twenties but middle aged men are cheering them on as they crash into each other.

A lot of my coworkers get into the most boring FSU versus UF discussions. UCF was never any good when i was a student and I never even went to a game. Professional sports are problematic with how much of the revenue goes to the owners, but at least the athletes at the pro level can sign endorsement deals and make a living.

 

Yeah, I'm 1000% percent pay the players. And I'm usually big into college sports but am completely turned off of it this year. It's beyond unnecessary. We shouldn't have sports at all but it's an entirely different story for college sports because they aren't being paid, are traveling, and cannot isolate the same. It's just incredibly stupid.

That said, if I put years of my life and thousands of dollars into something, I don't think it's ridiculous to have a personal investment in something like sports. Though my sports fandom is pretty much reserved for here. Fan culture, college or pros, is just largely obnoxious and off-putting.

 

Fans see college players as more passionate and determined to win because they’re striving to make it to the professional league in order to get paid to do what they love. March Madness is a perfect way to see how people get caught up in the excitement.

I went to UConn and was there the year the men’s and women’s basketball teams both won the championship so it was a huge deal with everyone on campus. Nowadays I don’t even pay attention to college sports. But I am in agreement players should be monetarily compensated for their labor since they are revenue generators.

 

That is the problem, though. The vast majority of those players are not going to go pro and very few will last long. A gruesome injury will end all of those plans. They often are enrolled in frivolous majors so they rarely have a fallback option.

As a high school teacher, I see it start earlier. It is almost as predatory as military recruiters on campus. When Nick Saban came to our school to meet with a player people acted like he was Elvis.

 

That's an excellent comparison.

 

I’d agree that it’s an unpopular opinion because if it was popular then it wouldn’t get millions of people tuning in every weekend and buying billions in merch.

 

Sports fandom isn’t rational at any point so who gives a shit really

 

At least with direct pay people could make the (bad) argument that scholarships are a form of pay, but what’s even more ridiculous is how they don’t even let players profit off of their own likeness

 

Well to be fair we’re seeing it really matter when irrational sports fandom is a major driver in sports happening during a pandemic

 

Living in the Midwest, it’s easy to see college sports fandom as a cult, especially in places like Nebraska, where people will schedule weddings around football season so it doesn’t interfere - and the team has sucked for years.

 

Narnia > Harry Potter

 

tbf how is this any different than college kids going back home to watch middle school and high school kids? or billionaire owners with millionaire freshly out of college kids.

it's a problem with exploitation in sports in general. not necessarily reserved to college specifically.

 

middle school should just be banned. high school probably but that's something we aren't even close to ready to discuss

 

I mentioned high school sports and the still problematic nature of pro sports having most of their revenue going toward the ownership.

However, college sports is the biggest offender because it is much more time consuming than high school and the players aren't being paid the way professionals are.

 

it goes with the territory

you'll probably never make it at a higher level unless you're unreal talent unless you start at a middle school age

but I also had a concussion playing football when I was 9 which seems like something that should be obviously avoided by any parent with a pulse.

different times, too, though. not that it excuses it

 

having played college sports, admittedly at an extremely small level, I would not say that most college is necessarily more time consuming than most high school. when you're at a power 5 school, sure. that's essentially a pre-professional track route. when you're playing at a low level, like division iii, it's arguably less than high schoolers go through between the combo of both their schools + clubs/AAU, depending on their sport

youth sports are terrible regardless of the level. sports in general are a plague on health of children. i love sports and genuinely think it did me a lot of good growing up. at the same time, my wife and I are trying to have kids for the first time and it's something we're actively discussing. i don't want my kids to go through the same torture and injuries I went through from a very young age, while also think the team-building from sports is 'good for you' and can obviously lead to a lot of opportunities you can't reach otherwise