Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 143

@Morrissey after your comment on Rapaport in Deep Blue Sea I think I need your opinion on the quality of Deep Blue Sea, and I think it might belong in this thread.

 

If Mass Effect ever goes into TV/FILM I feel myself developing an ironic take where Star Wars is best off as video games and Mass Effect is best off as TV/Film.

 

It is the best shark movie other than Jaws. Admittedly this is a low bar, but the film understands the absurdity of the premise and plays it up. So many of the deaths are memorable; the scientist strapped to the gurney that is launched like a projectile, Samuel L. Jackson getting ripped apart, Rapaport being surprised and rammed into the computers, the shark pausing before swooping in and devouring who we thought was the main character.

I was fascinated by megalodons a few years ago, so I was really disappointed by The Meg. People used to make jokes and memes about absurd moments in films, but now these studios and producers are trying to inorganically make them, because you know that someone thought Jason Statham versus a shark would generate a lot of clicks.

 

The hard-R gore plus SLJ and the main character brutally dying are enough to set DBS apart from other late 90s creature feature films. LL and the bird are just the cherry on top

 

Definitely some quality deaths.

An opinion of mine that belongs in this thread is that I have Open Water second behind Jaws. The idea of some yuppies being left by their cruise only to realize the reality of the brutality and hopelessness of the world they’re left in could have been done so much better but the fact that it was done was enough to carry the movie for me.

 

Also maybe it could be a Megalodon but a quality deep sea horror movie is so ripe for the picking. We have some great space horror movies, it should be easier to do a good deep sea horror imo

 

You're all wrong.

 

Hahaha wtf

 

Was Underwater worth seeing?

 

It’s okay. It gets better towards the end and it’s pretty short.

 

Underwater is one of the hardest 5/10 movies I’ve ever seen

 

The reveal that it was a stealth Cthulhu movie bumped it up a bit for me, otherwise I basically agree with that

 

wait really lol

 

Haha yeah. It takes that turn in the last 20 minutes or so. The rest is ok, I had fun with it cause it kinda felt like Cloverfield, but it’s definitely pretty vanilla until the final act.

 

Schitt's Creek is good but not "sweep the Emmys" good. It's a cutesy show with some serious laugh-out-loud moments that lets a lot of jokes and moments linger in the air too long for my sense of humour. It obviously gets a lot of its popularity from its open showing of the David and Patrick relationship, which is great, and yet I find it shows them together in a pandering way instead of a "its normal to be gay and affectionate" way. It feels try-hard to me as a viewer instead of feeling natural. I need a scene of them kissing to have a point and move the episode forward, not just be a scene of them kissing

Never mind that this small middle-of-nowhere town has a strange abundance of attractive people with literally nothing to do all day long

 

You need a scene of them kissing to have a point? Beyond that they love each other?

 

What strange abundance of attractive people are there with nothing to do all day long other than the Roses? Seems like everyone has a job to me haha.

And there are plenty of scenes of straight people kissing without making a point other than them loving each other, I'm not sure I fully understand that criticism

 

You had a point with the first sentence. The rest can go.

 

Schitt’s Creek has an abundance of attractive people? Almost everyone looks like a normie to me. Chris Elliott looks aggressively gross most of the time.

 

Eugene Levy oozes sexiness

 

I gotta say, I know that Underwater wasn't very well-received, but that twist toward the end has me really wanting to watch it haha, that sounds rad. How much worse is it than Cloverfield? That's my all time favorite monster movie. It still holds up imo.

 

Honestly he's never looked better haha he has aged very well

 

all of your posts

 

If you haven’t seen The Host you should check it out. Great monster movie, and without awful characters and camera work that makes you want to puke like Cloverfield. This post does not belong in this thread.

 

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