The Unpopular Opinions

[Azisien]

I actually have a post-it note ready to write down who defends the live-action Last Airbender movie so I can stick it on my desk beside the monitor and always know who to hate with a passion.

Movies/Comics:

Surprisingly agree with most of the OP.
-Prefer Bana Hulk to Norton Hulk, by and large. Norton Hulk had better villain, though.
-I'd say the Watchmen movie is at least equal to the comic in its respective medium. It's an incredible, modernized adaptation for the screen. To date, it's also my favourite comic book movie, trumping Dark Knight.
-Tom Jane Punisher was better.
-Every Pirates of the Caribbean movie after the first was garbage.
-V for Vendetta the movie is solidly better than the comic, though I like the comic for some of its differences in atmosphere.

Games:

-Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a pretty shitty game. Shitty polish, awful textures where it matters (FACES), overly abundant loads, terrible story, ugly spells, completely one dimensional questing. It's best quality is the leveling system, which got worse from Morrowind, and just HOW bugged it is. It's telling that to make the game fairly playable, you need 20GB of mods.
-Halo 2 is my favourite of the series.
-However, the Halo series is shit forever, for introducing regenerating health to the shooter genres. It is the worst feature to get added to games in recent memory. Worse than DRM. I'd rather have DRM and no regenerating health in any games.

Misc:

-d20 Modern is still my favourite pen and paper RPG of all time, trouncing D&D no problem. It's balance issues are more numerous but easily fixed. Pathfinder might be a contender, though not technically D&D anymore.

[Premmy]

The Black Eyed Peas would be much better off if Fergie wasn't involved.

Better off? no.
Better as a group?
Yes. It's been proven

Cyclops is cooler than Wolverine.

Much love

Ed, Edd, and Eddy was a great cartoon that actually tried a lot of inventive concepts while keeping to the same formula

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Hell yes

[Nique]

I have a few:

TV/ FILM:

-Seconding the sentiment about Ang Lee's 'Hulk'. Just as good as the 2009 film, minus maybe some technical improvements.

-Denise Crosby was a good actress and Tasha Yar was a character with loads of potential that wasn't explored properly until long after she was given the boot.

-Speaking of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry had a great creative vision but was not skilled in producing consistently good television. Star Trek's success lay more so on the shoulders of leaders like Rick Berman, Brennon Braga, Micheal Piller, Jeri Taylor, and Ira Behr as well as their teams. I know everyone hates Braga and Berman for 'Enterprise' (including my own rants over the years) but they forget how well TNG, DS9, and VOY did under Berman's leadership and a lot of Braga's writing.

-Superman Returns was a good film whose only mistake was tying itself to the original Christopher Reeves films which, nostalgia notwithstanding, have not aged gracefully. I guess that's a twofer.


VIDEO GAMES:

-Final Fantasy as a whole is totally overrated but still really great down to nearly every game in the series. So it's an extra unpopular opinion becuase it punches both camps sqaure in the nuts.

-Uncharted kind of sucks.

-There is a fundamental problem with the FPS genre in it's ability to deliver a truly satisfying experience rather than a placating one. Portal and a rare few other titles could be the exceptions that prove this rule.


LITERATURE:

-Swords are not penises. Unless they are.

[greed]

Uncharted does kind of suck yeah. Oblivion is terrible yes.

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

* Even with its numerous faults and bugs, KOTOR 2 is a better written, more nuanced game that deserves more recognition than KOTOR. Now that it's been patched through mods, there should be no question that KOTOR 2 is the superior game.


* Franziska von Karma would totally make a better relational partner for Phoenix Wright than Maya, Iris, Edgeworth, or any of the number of possible love interests floating around.

Agree on both points, with the caveat to the second point that they still shouldn't be together because Adrian is a better partner to Franziska than Phoenix is.


Also Sevenshot your opinions aren't unpopular that's the problem, they're just terrible and all too common. You are the lowest common denominator. I mean Daredevil being better than the Dark Knight. Fuck it's barely better than Fantastic 4 and X-men 3. Affleck is literally not a person. He is a parasite that attached itself to Matt Damon then jumped to Jennifer Lopez. He is a very large tapeworm. Ang Lee Hulk was terrible, Punisher was terrible, One Piece is pretty okay and the best of the major shonen. Do you live an alternate dimension where terrible things are good and good things are terrible?

My unpopular opinions?


-Bioware is not really that good at writing, and seems competent because most of the industry is flat out terrible. Their romances are at best boring and they run the gamut into terrible and creepy.

-Cover shooters are terrible.

-Realism in games is a cancer. This connects with the above point. I want more Serious Sam style shooters where you carry like 14 guns ad face armies of enemies on sprawling battlefields with secret chambers and cool shit.

- Connected note, I am sick of killing Russians, Nazis, Vietnamese and Arabs in shooter games. I used to love this genre back when it involved giant aliens, monsters, demons and robots. It saddens me how rare games with interesting enemies and environments are now.

-Assassin's Creed 1+2 and Grand Theft Auto 4 are both pretty lame. AC2 was pretty cool when I got it but I got sick of it pretty quickly, practically no longevity which is terrible for a sandbox game.

-The Sisko was the best Star Trek captain and DS9 the best Trek. (Voyager was shit though, god damn was it shit, I honestly prefer Enterprise).

- The best FF was 12, followed by 10 then 9.

-There were no cartoons that are actually good without nostalgia before the 90s.

-Community is the best American sitcom running and the only ones that are better historically are Arrested Development and The Simpsons in it's prime.

-On The Simpsons it's gotten back into form recently, I've caught a few season 20 and 21 episodes and they've made me laugh my arse off.

[Amake]

Raiden is an excellent player character in MGS2. Cartwheels! Also beyond gameplay his job is to show how Snake is more badass than anyone including you, the player, and that works pretty well. Did you wish the whole time you could go back to being Snake and feel like a big man? Then Raiden did his job.

And Star Wars sucks. Including and especially the original trilogy. R2D2 is basically the same character as Jar-Jar Binks except with a glaze of nostalgia over him.

[Osterbaum]

All of your opinions are objectively horrible.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Avatar is fucking terrible. It's a movie with a ridiculously shallow story, way too looooooooong and I don't care what anyone says about the quality, it's still only CG to me. Just yet another shitty CG piece of shit. Oh, and are there any interesting characters? I think not. The music... like... how many composers are there in Hollywood? One? Two? And why do they always have to turn the volume of their soundtrack so low it loses all the impact it COULD make, no matter how fucking generic it is.

CG movies. Just... what? The whole aesthetic is pure shit? I can stand cartoons, but whenever I see CG I run as fast as I can, because it's still just a stupid gimmick.

Firefly: Like... it's cool and all, but I don't see what all that buzz is about. It's a pretty fun show, but why pretend it's a classic.

Coen Movies suck. Fargo is all that is wrong with humanity, No Country for old Men is Fargo with less snow and something that's probably supposed to be a message at the end, The Big Lebowski, while at times enjoyable, is so terribly overrated, I don't see potential as a cult classic in that at all.

I like the Director's Cut of Donnie Darko.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is unplayable. Menu time far exceeds actual gameplay, the camo system is better left out completely, patching up Snake is annoying as... ants in your underpants. What happened to the simplicity? What happened to never having to open a menu at all? I loved MGS1 and MGS2 just for that. Why destroy something beautiful? It was often complimented for being immersive. Yes. Menus do that, menu's are the best thing! I remember last time when I was outside and got hungry. So I entered the menu to select my lunchbox from my backback and then the sandwich. Then I cursed this firmware update to my consciousness, because I preferred just holding L2 or R2 to equip whatever I needed.

I love MGS2 and prefer it over MGS3 any day. Unless the HD remake of Snake Eater greatly reduces menu time I'll probably never change my opinion on that one. People who have a problem with Raiden can kiss my ass, I didn't like him either, but he doesn't affect Gameplay at all. Oh wait, you get to use a sword. That's pretty badass. Raiden is awesome.

Iron Maiden are boring and terrible. Why do so many bands feel the need to copy them? Why? Metal could be such a great genre if it weren't for Iron Maiden. Why don't more bands copy awesome bands like Deep Purple and add double bass drums? That's Metal, right?

EDIT: Iq, R2 Does not talk. I repeat, he does not talk!

[Amake]

Well, you shouldn't make the mistake of listening to Jar-Jar as if he said anything of consequence.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

I never really liked Wolverine at all for some reason.

Wolverine is completely overated. We all know Nightcrawler and Gambit are the coolest dudes around.

Originally Posted by Kerensky287

AC/DC is kind of bad.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 was a pretty cool game.

I will end you!

The Star Wars prequels were ruined 100% by George Lucas's crappy writing and not, in fact, by Hayden Christiensen.

I still want to blame both of them though.

OT;

Games;

Assassins Creed is a terrible game.
Bioshock 2 was quite good.
Unreal Tournament is the best fps series ever made.

Movies;

The entire Aliens quadrilogy is actually good, not just the first 2 (or to some people, just the first one). This also includes the so-so AVP1. Requiem still sucks balls though.
Predator 2 was better than the original.
Wanted was a pretty good film.


TV;

Lost was not confusing or stupid. It had a satisfying ending that wrapped up all the shows mysteries.
Supernatural turned crap part way through season 1 and never got better.

[Nique]

Originally Posted by Greed

Ang Lee Hulk was terrible

Except for complaints about the graphics from people who thought Jurassic Park's were bad WHEN it came out, I have yet to hear a really compelling reason why this movie was terrible. I don't want to drag this on but honestly at this point if we're going to go 'uh huh' 'nah uh' at each other there might as well be some measure of justification.

Like, ok I liked it becuase the action was sparse but paid off for the big finish. Eric Bana is a good actor and did justice to the role. Jennifer Connely is.... tolerable. Gary Busey Nick Nolte was fairly compelling as a villain. The writing was pretty competent as far as I could tell - No groan worthy lines, motives that make sense, no glaring inconsistencies. I understand that there's no accounting for taste, but personally I don't see what's so bad about it and would be interested in what the actual answer is to that.

Bioware is not really that good at writing, and seems competent because most of the industry is flat out terrible. Their romances are at best boring and they run the gamut into terrible and creepy.

A lot of games are like this. It's easy to be good when the majority is terrible. Writing in games is unacceptably poor.

The Sisko was the best Star Trek captain and DS9 the best Trek. (Voyager was shit though, god damn was it shit, I honestly prefer Enterprise).

I recommend re-watching Voyager and skipping Threshold. There are some other frustrating things about the show (Captain Janeway's unexplained inconsistent behavior being my primary complaint) but after re-watching it a couple times I found more redeeming about it than not.

Enterprise felt like a betrayal of the principals implied in the franchise as a whole - which I guess is an interesting statement considering that some people feel that way about DS9. But saying DS9 is a wrong interpretation of what Star Trek is supposed to be about rings false for many reasons - Addressing social issues in a thought-provoking and progressive way was something that DS9 pulled off far better than even TNG did, and anyone saying that the interpersonal and intergalactic conflicts present in the series betrayed "Roddenberry's Vision" is missing the point.

Enterprise on the other hand was full of conflict where the end message was pretty ethno-centric. The T'pol character, for example, was completely misused (so much so that even the actress herself complained outspokenly about the direction the show was taking, though that may have more to do with other aspects of the program). Her supposedly superior logic and intelligence was always portrayed as an exaggerated-hubris and always undermined by "human Intuition" (most often represented by the pseudo-cowboy mentality of Archer and Trip), invariably showing her the error of her Vulcan ways. So much for respecting other cultures! Maybe even worse was the constant use of the character's sexuality to weaken and humiliate her.

I guess it's not entirely surprising or wrong to bring sex appeal into the series. Considering Jolene Blalock's modeling career and that the precedent for this sort of thing was found in Voyager's Seven of Nine, to say nothing of Troi and even Uhura, a sexy Vulcan lead is actually kind of a cool idea. But for a show that I have always imagined to have a conscience of sorts, I was deeply disappointed in their handling of it.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread. I just really wanted to talk about Star Trek.

EDIT

Originally Posted by Insane Genius

Firefly: Like... it's cool and all, but I don't see what all that buzz is about. It's a pretty fun show, but why pretend it's a classic.

Ok NOW you guys are making me go into my 'But someone on the internet is wrong!' place. Not-serious opinion threads are dangerous!

In all seriousness I can sort of maybe if I squint real hard see why someone wouldn't like Firefly all that much, but more in that it didn't suite their tastes than that it was not a progrum of excellent quality, becuase it totally was.