The Living Daylights is my favorite 007 movie too and I'm glad to see that that's not an unpopular opinion here!
For my unpopular 007 opinions:
Regardless of the merits of his performance, I find all of Sean Connery's 007 movies to be incredibly dull. I would gladly take any of Roger Moore's films over even the best of Connery's.
Daniel Craig is a dour, joyless thug that has absolutely no business playing James Bond. All of his movies are unwatchable except for Casino Royale. I would be anxiously counting the days until his departure if I weren't convinced that the next one will be just as bad. (I wish they would bring back Pierce Brosnan. He's even sexier now that he's older.)
I spent most of the 2000s touting the merits of Ben Affleck's Daredevil to anyone who would listen.... which was nobody. But you get my point.
I'll go one further. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are the best movies in the entire franchise, even surpassing the original trilogy.
Up until Birds of Prey came out, this was true.
Also, Suicide Squad is the best DCEU movie.
I think there's something to that. I think the other problem is that, due to the evolution in filmmaking techniques & styles over the years, it was impossible for Spielberg to make an Indiana Jones movie in 2008 look like the movies from the 1980s.
I don't know how unpopular this is, but Spielberg hasn't made a good movie since Saving Private Ryan in 1998. Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie since Big Fish in 2003. And Ridley Scott only ever makes good movies by accident.
I never heard any significant complaints about the end of Donna's story in the first place. The ending was fine with me, if perhaps a bit overwrought. But, with the exceptions of Martha & Nardole, nearly every companion departure on the new series has been like that.
My unpopular Doctor Who opinions:
David Tennant is incredibly overrated.
Clara is a great companion. I loved the way that she constantly kept the 12th Doctor in check.
When I first saw The Chronicles of Riddick, I didn't get it. It wasn't until I saw David Lynch's Dune a few months later that I finally understood the visual language of The Chronicles of Riddick. There's something about the visual language of the interiors of the Necromonger ship that don't make sense without using Dune as the missing link.
Agreed. Unfortunately, I've never seen another movie that loses so much of the magic of the experience by not seeing it on the big screen.
I think that may be a bit harsh. I don't think that it deserved to be cancelled. But, contrary to what the Browncoats say, it's not the only series to be unjustly screwed over by its network. Even if we're confining it to early 2000s FOX shows with Jewel Staite, I'd argue that Wonderfalls got screwed over way worse. (At least Firefly got to air 11 of its 14 episodes. Wonderfalls got shitcanned after only 4.)
Please remain where you are. The men in white coats will be with you shortly.
(Seriously, I don't think you could make a worse movie if you tried.)
Speaking of bad movies, I don't hear people say this very often, but I think that "Manos" The Hands of Fate is a great set-up for a horror movie and I think that there are all sorts of possibilities for a sequel or remake if made by competent filmmakers.
Eisenberg's Lex Luthor never bothered me but I'm not a big fan. But I adore Jared Leto's Joker. IMO, he's the best live action Joker we've ever had, even better than Ledger.
It still hasn't gotten an official Region 1 DVD release, so I can neither confirm nor deny that statement.
Red Dwarf Series I is better than any other season except for maybe Series IV.
Luke Skywalker's depiction in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the best thing about an otherwise mediocre movie. He's not a coward who ran away. He's a man who can't get over the one horrible mistake he made and now he's just trying to not make anything worse. It may not be overtly heroic but it's the best thing that he can think of.
Joker is a depressing, ugly exercise in miserableism. I resent having to see it just to stay current in the conversation. I wish I could slide into an alternate universe where it was never made.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a great 30-minute short film buried in mountains of indecipherable stoner crap. (I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this but I think it merits saying given how many top 10 sci-fi movie lists I've seen that put this in the #1 or #2 spot.)
Blade Runner is dull, pretentious, unwatchable drivel. And, somehow, Blade Runner 2049 found a way to be even worse.
Rob Zombie's 2007 Halloween remake is better than the John Carpenter original.
While not as good as the original, the remake of The Prisoner is interesting in its own right. I even find myself quoting Ian McKellen's Number 2 occasionally. "In. Out. More. Village."
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was perfectly fine and I don't understand why everyone seemed to hate it so.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival is too slick and lacks the homemade charm of the original. Also, the revival was completely unnecessary in a world where Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic exist.
TMNT (2007) is very underrated and it's absolutely criminal that it never got a sequel.
I love the Keanu Reeves Constantine movie, although I'm aware that I never read the comic book, so I don't mind the changes, which would probably annoy me to death if I had.
As misguided as it often is, I prefer Zack Snyder's juvenile grimdark DCEU over subsequent attempts to Marvel-ize it. I love the MCU too, but we already have that so we don't need another one.
For my unpopular 007 opinions:
Regardless of the merits of his performance, I find all of Sean Connery's 007 movies to be incredibly dull. I would gladly take any of Roger Moore's films over even the best of Connery's.
Daniel Craig is a dour, joyless thug that has absolutely no business playing James Bond. All of his movies are unwatchable except for Casino Royale. I would be anxiously counting the days until his departure if I weren't convinced that the next one will be just as bad. (I wish they would bring back Pierce Brosnan. He's even sexier now that he's older.)
I spent most of the 2000s touting the merits of Ben Affleck's Daredevil to anyone who would listen.... which was nobody. But you get my point.
I'll go one further. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are the best movies in the entire franchise, even surpassing the original trilogy.
Up until Birds of Prey came out, this was true.
Also, Suicide Squad is the best DCEU movie.
I think there's something to that. I think the other problem is that, due to the evolution in filmmaking techniques & styles over the years, it was impossible for Spielberg to make an Indiana Jones movie in 2008 look like the movies from the 1980s.
I don't know how unpopular this is, but Spielberg hasn't made a good movie since Saving Private Ryan in 1998. Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie since Big Fish in 2003. And Ridley Scott only ever makes good movies by accident.
I never heard any significant complaints about the end of Donna's story in the first place. The ending was fine with me, if perhaps a bit overwrought. But, with the exceptions of Martha & Nardole, nearly every companion departure on the new series has been like that.
My unpopular Doctor Who opinions:
David Tennant is incredibly overrated.
Clara is a great companion. I loved the way that she constantly kept the 12th Doctor in check.
When I first saw The Chronicles of Riddick, I didn't get it. It wasn't until I saw David Lynch's Dune a few months later that I finally understood the visual language of The Chronicles of Riddick. There's something about the visual language of the interiors of the Necromonger ship that don't make sense without using Dune as the missing link.
Agreed. Unfortunately, I've never seen another movie that loses so much of the magic of the experience by not seeing it on the big screen.
I think that may be a bit harsh. I don't think that it deserved to be cancelled. But, contrary to what the Browncoats say, it's not the only series to be unjustly screwed over by its network. Even if we're confining it to early 2000s FOX shows with Jewel Staite, I'd argue that Wonderfalls got screwed over way worse. (At least Firefly got to air 11 of its 14 episodes. Wonderfalls got shitcanned after only 4.)
Please remain where you are. The men in white coats will be with you shortly.
(Seriously, I don't think you could make a worse movie if you tried.)Speaking of bad movies, I don't hear people say this very often, but I think that "Manos" The Hands of Fate is a great set-up for a horror movie and I think that there are all sorts of possibilities for a sequel or remake if made by competent filmmakers.
Eisenberg's Lex Luthor never bothered me but I'm not a big fan. But I adore Jared Leto's Joker. IMO, he's the best live action Joker we've ever had, even better than Ledger.
It still hasn't gotten an official Region 1 DVD release, so I can neither confirm nor deny that statement.
Red Dwarf Series I is better than any other season except for maybe Series IV.
Luke Skywalker's depiction in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the best thing about an otherwise mediocre movie. He's not a coward who ran away. He's a man who can't get over the one horrible mistake he made and now he's just trying to not make anything worse. It may not be overtly heroic but it's the best thing that he can think of.
Joker is a depressing, ugly exercise in miserableism. I resent having to see it just to stay current in the conversation. I wish I could slide into an alternate universe where it was never made.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a great 30-minute short film buried in mountains of indecipherable stoner crap. (I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this but I think it merits saying given how many top 10 sci-fi movie lists I've seen that put this in the #1 or #2 spot.)
Blade Runner is dull, pretentious, unwatchable drivel. And, somehow, Blade Runner 2049 found a way to be even worse.
Rob Zombie's 2007 Halloween remake is better than the John Carpenter original.
While not as good as the original, the remake of The Prisoner is interesting in its own right. I even find myself quoting Ian McKellen's Number 2 occasionally. "In. Out. More. Village."
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was perfectly fine and I don't understand why everyone seemed to hate it so.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival is too slick and lacks the homemade charm of the original. Also, the revival was completely unnecessary in a world where Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic exist.
TMNT (2007) is very underrated and it's absolutely criminal that it never got a sequel.
I love the Keanu Reeves Constantine movie, although I'm aware that I never read the comic book, so I don't mind the changes, which would probably annoy me to death if I had.
As misguided as it often is, I prefer Zack Snyder's juvenile grimdark DCEU over subsequent attempts to Marvel-ize it. I love the MCU too, but we already have that so we don't need another one.
