It was awful. I like musicals and romance, and it was awful. We made it 32 minutes. I texted my Father in law to let him know how long we made it, and he replied: ''We quit after 14 minutes. You lose."
The worst part is we own the movie. We bought it at full price because there was no rental option. :smack:
You’re not alone! It’s absolutely a perfectly cromulent '80s song.
It’s a fine song but it gets stuck in my head every time I build a city over a settlement in Catan.
Heh. Whenever anyone selects the “settler” action in Puerto Rico, The Sound of Settling by Death Cab for Cutie plays in my mind.
Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter both are stupid and insulting slogans. Vanishingly few people believe black or police lives do not matter. Now, neither opinion on its own is unpopular but the combination likely is.
I wasn’t even a fan of BLM’s message at first: in fact, the cases they chose to popularize were so marginal that whenever another one popped up my first reaction became “I wonder what the catch is this time?” Whereas before BLM I tended to give the putative victims of police brutality the benefit of the doubt because I only heard about the most slam-dunk egregious cases.
However, since then, there have been very many legit extremely egregious examples of police misconduct so my opinion is starting to shift the other way. Which hasn’t swayed my opinion on whether or not I think black people’s lives matter :rolleyes:
I am on the probably-unpopular fence as far as their protest tactics go as well. I did not appreciate the fact that an uncomfortably large percentage of them either condoned rioting or participated in it, while also keeping in mind that there are a huge number of them that weren’t and all of them shouldn’t be blamed for the actions of some. I was and am against their disruptive tactics such as blocking highways. However, when people complained that they should find a different way to protest to be more peaceful, I made a little prediction to myself that if they did find a way to change tactics, that a huge number of people telling them to change their tactics would still find a way to attack their tactics. So, yeah. I’m still not 100% pro-BLM but what the fuck is wrong with taking a knee?
I think some older “classic” films are are boring and unremarkable (and I’m a serious film buff who likes a vast range of movies, including those of the 1930s - 1950s era).
“Casablanca” - boring and plodding
“Citizen Kane” - eh. Revolutionary camera work and beautiful cinematography with a sucky plot.
“Gone with the Wind” - overwrought melodrama (to be fair, so is the novel).
“Wizard of Oz” - TBH, I didn’t see this until I was 45yo, so I didn’t see it as an impressionable, unjaded kid.
“It’s a Wonderful Life”- Mrs. Shark watches this at least four times a year. I hate Xmas-themed movies and this one in particular chaps my hide.
Skipping forward, Robin Williams was a terrible actor and ruined many movies he starred in; his work has been posthumously lionized but the bulk of it is saccharine crap meant to showcase his ADHD/manic man pixie antics. He did a few dramatic movies he was better in, but I avoid anything he did
I support BLM, but hate that some of the protests have devolved into riots.
I also believe that blue lives matter, but some of its rhetoric is positioned as the opposite of BLM. These movements are not mutually exclusive – I don’t want ANYONE to be hurt/killed.
I’ve posited on these boards before that I’d rather have Strasburg then Scherzer on the mound in a do-or-die situation. However I also don’t understand the assertion that one is more selfish than the other.
Bumping a dormant thread for this: I won’t be seeing “A Wrinkle In Time” because I could not get into the book when I was a kid, and was equally unimpressed when I tried to re-read it a few years ago.
My unpopular opinion is I think “nice guys” are actually usually secretly (consciously or not) very bitter towards women. “Nice guys” with quotes, not nice guys without quotes. There are genuine gentlemen out there!
However, there’s this stereotypical group that’s formed of men who really need to get laid who eventually start getting angry at the women who reject them. They pretend to be gentlemen, but they’re just trying to manipulate an outcome in which they get sex.
I don’t generally support the idea of categorizing people in stereotypical terms, but this one is pretty prevalent in my life. Perhaps my chances of meeting these people are greatly increased because I’m nerdy and I hang out with video game playing DnD nerds at times. Can’t be sure.
I could write a book on this topic. Not really. I could write a very biased, subjective rant on this topic. That’s better.
Honestly I don’t believe being a omnivore is any worse than being a vegetarian or a vegan. Sure some farm animals are treated badly, but what else is there?
Actually, that’s not an unpopular opinion. Check out the “incel” movement for more information about this.
Watch “What The Health” and “Food, Inc.” on Netflix. Then open a new thread and we can have this conversation.
I don’t think the statement “professional athletes are there to entertain us” is a comment on what/how the athletes view their role. I think it’s a statement that is saying “I pay to watch your singing/athletic skills, not to hear your [most likely] uneducated opinion on politics.” i.e. Jennifer Lawrence giving political opinion, when she hasn’t finished 9th grade? If I want to hear the left opinion for example, I would listen to Jon Stewart or James Carville.
I don’t think they should be discontinued, but I think some well chosen venues should be chosen as permanent locations.
W.C. Fields died in 1946. Who the hell is using him as the standard of humor these days? If someone alive were doing his shtick today, they wouldn’t get past smoky dive bars on open mic night. Neither would Foster Brooks by the way. Even if people do say he’s funny, it’s from nostalgia. Listen to Radio Classics on XM radio sometimes. Man, has humor changed over the years. It’s way more sophisticated than being an asshole and a drunk; even if those are occasionally humorous; it wouldn’t fly as top notch entertainment IMHO. By the way, if you get a chance check out a radio show called The Bickersons. My God, I get a headache whenever it comes on XM and immediately turn the station. The Bickersons - Wikipedia
My unpopular opinions.
**I think CNN is dividing this country. ** I work out a few times each week at the Atlanta Jewish Community Center, and they have several big screen TVs (10+) that show the major news stations CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Local News, ESPN, and more that I can’t think of. I don’t use sound when watching the TVs but I read them all. CNN constantly frames most of their news stories by tying it to something negative about Trump. First the banner comes up “The Trump White Hose.” That statement alone is a divisive statement. One of the other stations might say “Trump signed [major document] Today”, CNN would report “Trump signed [major document] Today but this contradicts some other action and some previous time.”
I think 24 hour news stations lead to ‘yellow’ journalism, fake news and sensationalism. When you have to report news 24 hours a day, it means you have to tell a lot of worthless stories in order to avoid repetition.
I think there were more people who voted ‘against’ Hilary Clinton, than those who voted ‘for’ Donald Trump. Furthermore I think if Hilary Clinton were put under the same scrutiny as Donald Trump has been since being elected; I think she would have a lot more skeletons in her closet than him.
I don’t particularly care about endangered animals.
**I think the Electoral College is a good thing. ** As someone who grew up in a farm town; I can appreciate how a simple majority is a bad thing for underrepresented geographic areas. What’s good for you isn’t necessarily what’s good for everyone.
I believe in the 2nd Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms. I don’t own a weapon. I believe that automatic weapons should not be able to be purchased by anyone. I believe bump-stocks should be illegal. I believe felons or documented unstable people should’t be allowed to purchase a weapon. I think raising the minimum age to purchase weapons is silly and won’t accomplish anything one way or the other. I think the biggest problem we have with violence in schools and elsewhere is the lack of positive male role models in the home.
***I believe in the soul, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
OK, OK, that last part was paraphrased from Bull Durham.
That’s not an opinion. That’s a fact.
I’ll copy my post from there as well:
No level of government should ever play any role in any of the following:
One more unpopular opinion: the Prophet Mohammed and Adolf Hitler were about equally bad, morally. Both of them hated the Jews. Both of them killed lots of Jews. It is true that Mohammed’s body count didn’t rise as high as Hitler’s, but that’s just because he never had the opportunity to kill the same number of Jews that Hitler did. It’s definitely not because Mohammed decided that mass murder was wrong, because he never did. In fact Mohammed said that at the end of time, Muslim warriors will hunt down and kill the Jews, and that talking trees will assist in the process. Jews are still getting killed today because of the things he said.
Isaac Newton is more impressive than Sherlock Holmes.
Lord Horatio Nelson is more impressive than Captain James Kirk.
the Sega master system was better than the nes and could of sold more if there weren’t reasons…
bbq chicken pizza with mushrooms rules all
I think the “anti” vote hurt Trump more than Clinton (although it didn’t hurt him enough as it turned out). In my opinion the people who were voting against Clinton were people who were going to vote for a Republican anyway. But I feel the opposite is not true; I feel there were voters who would normally vote Republican but who believed Trump was an unacceptable choice so they switched and voted for Clinton.