Insulting historical inaccuracies(especially in regards to how a certain crew member was portrayed as a drunken coward, his family was NOT happy when the film came out and Cameron actually had to apologize for it, if this came out in the age of social media people would not have forgiven him for that so easily)weak acting(Leo and Kate have like zero chemistry and have to be hands down one of the worst couples in a film ever)lame dialogue("king of the world" makes me want to barf in disgust), terrible love story, languid pacing and it's way too fucking long for it's own good at 3 goddamn hours.
Okay, when you put it like that, then yeah, I can see why you hated it. Sounds like an absolute cataclysm of a movie by your description.
Harry Potter, both the book series and the movies. I tried reading the first book, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, when it first came out in 1997, only got about 5 pages in and said, "Yeah, I'm done." I think that J.K. Rowling is absolutely terrible as a writer, and couldn't force myself through more than that. Despite this, I tried to give the first movie a chance, but maybe at least in part because of my negative bias towards the book, I just couldn't finish watching that, either. I will never understand how anyone, child or not, can read any of the books or watch the movies in full.
I feel the same way. I consider Akazukin ChaCha to be infinitely better in every way.
Dreams are boundless, imaginations are infinite, space is a multi-directional spiral & Akazukin ChaCha is my favorite anime
Harry Potter, both the book series and the movies. I tried reading the first book, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, when it first came out in 1997, only got about 5 pages in and said, "Yeah, I'm done." I think that J.K. Rowling is absolutely terrible as a writer, and couldn't force myself through more than that. Despite this, I tried to give the first movie a chance, but maybe at least in part because of my negative bias towards the book, I just couldn't finish watching that, either. I will never understand how anyone, child or not, can read any of the books or watch the movies in full.
As a kid, I only liked books 1 & 3. And I think I mostly like the 3rd book because it focused more on Lupin and Sirius Black. Even then, I don't really like the 3rd movie because it cut down on a lot of Sirius Black's moments to focus more on the kids, I also think Sirius Black was miscasted.
I didn't like books 4-7, they felt very muddled. Also Harry gets a bit unbearable later on. Maybe unpopular opinion but Hermione is really annoying. I also heard that in the films, they gave Hermione more focus while making Ron a bigger idiot, which might explain why I never liked the later films either.
I don’t like Steven universe I will admit that the animation is beautiful but, the writing is sloppy and a boring. I tried to watch it a while ago because I am that person who will watch it play things because I like the art style. I feel like it took too long to get to the point. Like the first season was just them being goofy most of the time and sometimes had some lore sprinkled in. It’s after like season 3 where the story actually gets more serious witch is waaay too long.i also think that Steven is annoying.
Star Wars is also one of those things like too much lore and stuff to catch up with that I just gave up on. I am also not too much of a sci fi person.
I don’t like Steven universe I will admit that the animation is beautiful but, the writing is sloppy and a boring. I tried to watch it a while ago because I am that person who will watch it play things because I like the art style. I feel like it took too long to get to the point. Like the first season was just them being goofy most of the time and sometimes had some lore sprinkled in. It’s after like season 3 where the story actually gets more serious witch is waaay too long.i also think that Steven is annoying.
Star Wars is also one of those things like too much lore and stuff to catch up with that I just gave up on. I am also not too much of a sci fi person.
I'm not big on SU either, that whole flash-animation 2-D style just does not look that great to me and with how toxic it's fanbase can be i'm glad i'm not a fan honestly.
Insulting historical inaccuracies(especially in regards to how a certain crew member was portrayed as a drunken coward, his family was NOT happy when the film came out and Cameron actually had to apologize for it, if this came out in the age of social media people would not have forgiven him for that so easily)weak acting(Leo and Kate have like zero chemistry and have to be hands down one of the worst couples in a film ever)lame dialogue("king of the world" makes me want to barf in disgust), terrible love story, languid pacing and it's way too fucking long for it's own good at 3 goddamn hours.
Yeah, Titanic was sort of like his (Cameron's) Avatar of the 90s, a BIG spectacle that people couldn't stop gushing about in every single positive review and blowing past major narrative issues/cliched story/stilted acting because THE SPECTACLE, and of course the tweenies who swooned over the "love story" and Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of us who were just like: "I mean, it was...good?" (assuming you just weren't blown away by THE SPECTACLE and forgot everything else) Heck, like Avatar, it even was the highest grossing film of all time.
I like the film all right but once you get past THE SPECTACLE, the movie is EHHHHHHH like Avatar IMO.
Harry Potter, both the book series and the movies. I tried reading the first book, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, when it first came out in 1997, only got about 5 pages in and said, "Yeah, I'm done." I think that J.K. Rowling is absolutely terrible as a writer, and couldn't force myself through more than that. Despite this, I tried to give the first movie a chance, but maybe at least in part because of my negative bias towards the book, I just couldn't finish watching that, either. I will never understand how anyone, child or not, can read any of the books or watch the movies in full.
I'm of the mindset that I read Harry Potter WAY too late in life to ever be able to "get into" the series the way others in their endless rereading of the series/rewatching the movies, fan culture, forums, cosplaying, neverending fan theories and discussion, live action role plays, etc. I just wanted to read them to see what all the fuss was about. I was into my late teen years when I said: "Well everyone else is absolutely obsessed with this thing, heck maybe I can get obsessed too and fall in total love with it the way everyone else has." So I read all the books. They were good, but nothing more than GOOD IMO (see: Ursula Le Guin's review of HP, I'm not as harsh as she is, but I share a similar mindset). And it does really sadden me in a way that I can't just LOVE Harry Potter the way all the other Millennials and Zoomers do. But I just can't.
Harry Potter, both the book series and the movies. I tried reading the first book, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, when it first came out in 1997, only got about 5 pages in and said, "Yeah, I'm done." I think that J.K. Rowling is absolutely terrible as a writer, and couldn't force myself through more than that. Despite this, I tried to give the first movie a chance, but maybe at least in part because of my negative bias towards the book, I just couldn't finish watching that, either. I will never understand how anyone, child or not, can read any of the books or watch the movies in full.
I'm of the mindset that I read Harry Potter WAY too late in life to ever be able to "get into" the series the way others in their endless rereading of the series/rewatching the movies, fan culture, forums, cosplaying, neverending fan theories and discussion, live action role plays, etc. I just wanted to read them to see what all the fuss was about. I was into my late teen years when I said: "Well everyone else is absolutely obsessed with this thing, heck maybe I can get obsessed too and fall in total love with it the way everyone else has." So I read all the books. They were good, but nothing more than GOOD IMO (see: Ursula Le Guin's review of HP, I'm not as harsh as she is, but I share a similar mindset). And it does really sadden me in a way that I can't just LOVE Harry Potter the way all the other Millennials and Zoomers do. But I just can't.
I read the books and saw the films when they were popular and I always enjoyed them but they aren't anything that would ever make my my top 20 or anything like that.
Insulting historical inaccuracies(especially in regards to how a certain crew member was portrayed as a drunken coward, his family was NOT happy when the film came out and Cameron actually had to apologize for it, if this came out in the age of social media people would not have forgiven him for that so easily)weak acting(Leo and Kate have like zero chemistry and have to be hands down one of the worst couples in a film ever)lame dialogue("king of the world" makes me want to barf in disgust), terrible love story, languid pacing and it's way too fucking long for it's own good at 3 goddamn hours.
Yeah, Titanic was sort of like his (Cameron's) Avatar of the 90s, a BIG spectacle that people couldn't stop gushing about in every single positive review and blowing past major narrative issues/cliched story/stilted acting because THE SPECTACLE, and of course the tweenies who swooned over the "love story" and Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of us who were just like: "I mean, it was...good?" (assuming you just weren't blown away by THE SPECTACLE and forgot everything else) Heck, like Avatar, it even was the highest grossing film of all time.
I like the film all right but once you get past THE SPECTACLE, the movie is EHHHHHHH like Avatar IMO.
I was far too bored to be blown away and the lame-ass ending didn't help. Plus hearing about how shitty Cameron treated people on the set didn't exactly warm me to the film either.
Honestly as a kid and even now I’ve never been the BIGGEST fairly oddparents fan (yes the older seasons too) honestly I prefer the original oh yeah cartoons shorts.
I’m not saying I don’t enjoy it as it does have some moments that make me laugh (I do sometimes quote Mr.Cocker) but still I never really saw the draw factor then and now.
Honestly as a kid and even now I’ve never been the BIGGEST fairly oddparents fan (yes the older seasons too) honestly I prefer the original oh yeah cartoons shorts.
I’m not saying I don’t enjoy it as it does have some moments that make me laugh (I do sometimes quote Mr.Cocker) but still I never really saw the draw factor then and now.
I'm tired of a fair chunk of video game movies being live action.
I get it, animation is very expensive and difficult, and adapting a video game into outside media is also difficult. But 50% of the time they barely get it right.
Why can't we get more animated video game films, like the recent Mario movie? I just personally feel that some things just don't translate well into animation.
I thought the Sonic movies were okay, but I think it would've been neat to see what an animated adaptation would've been. We would've avoided the ugly sonic debacle.
Anyways speaking of the live action sonic movies, they're okay. Again it probably would've been better animated, but that's me.
Edit: I realized this is more of a "controversial opinion"/hot take than I "I didn't care for godfather" kinda thing. My bad. I was super tired when I wrote this.
I'm tired of a fair chunk of video game movies being live action.
I get it, animation is very expensive and difficult, and adapting a video game into outside media is also difficult. But 50% of the time they barely get it right.
Why can't we get more animated video game films, like the recent Mario movie? I just personally feel that some things just don't translate well into animation.
I thought the Sonic movies were okay, but I think it would've been neat to see what an animated adaptation would've been. We would've avoided the ugly sonic debacle.
Because the people in charge of making those decisions think animation is an inherently worse medium, and that all artists should be striving for realism? That kind of mindset sort of stunts creativity and makes everything look really samey, imo.
I'm tired of a fair chunk of video game movies being live action.
I get it, animation is very expensive and difficult, and adapting a video game into outside media is also difficult. But 50% of the time they barely get it right.
Why can't we get more animated video game films, like the recent Mario movie? I just personally feel that some things just don't translate well into animation.
I thought the Sonic movies were okay, but I think it would've been neat to see what an animated adaptation would've been. We would've avoided the ugly sonic debacle.
Anyways speaking of the live action sonic movies, they're okay. Again it probably would've been better animated, but that's me.
Edit: I realized this is more of a "controversial opinion"/hot take than I "I didn't care for godfather" kinda thing. My bad. I was super tired when I wrote this.
Eh i'm fine with it and the reason for it is largely because of how big of a flop Final Fantasy Spirits Within was back in 2001.
I honestly didn't care much for the Mario animated movie(it basically felt like a 90 minute commercial for the games) and actually prefer the live-action 1993 film over it.
An animated Sonic adaptation would've been cool but I think live-action works pretty well for those movies(which are way better then Mario IMO).
I honestly didn't care much for the Mario animated movie(it basically felt like a 90 minute commercial for the games) and actually prefer the live-action 1993 film over it.
I agree with you on that. The movie felt extremely average to me. Everything from the good-but-not-amazing animation, to the stock licensed music choices, to the cliched plot made the movie feel extremely safe, like it was too afraid to do anything too out of the ordinary.
I also will say that my opinion on the movie is a bit tainted by the discourse that happened back in March/April over the Critic's score on Rotten Tomatoes. Every argument from people attacking the score ("You're looking too deep into it, It's not meant to win Oscars" "You're just supposed to have fun", "Critics don't even matter anyways", "It was made for Mario fans, so you're the wrong audience") seemed to come back to one point, and while I didn't see anybody state it outright, it was definitely the atmosphere I got from the discourse: "The movie is actually good, and if you don't like it, you are wrong."
The entire discourse just felt cold and bitter. This is kind of mean, but after a week of it, the discourse just felt like whining from Mario fans who were painting themselves as heroic underdogs for not respecting other people's opinions. I was very much over it, and it was the final straw that made me delete Twitter (Which was actually a very good thing, now that I say it).
(Also, if you were a part of the discourse on the side of Mario, I just want to say that I am not trying to attack you, I'm just sharing my opinion on it now that it's long past).
