Of questions of taste and preference where there is no factual answer, what position do you hold that you just can not imagine ever possibly changing your mind about? (It should probably be a position that at least some number of people in the world disagree with… not very interesting if you’re convinced that Casablanca is a better movie than Police Academy 6).
For me, it’s that the best order to read the Narnia books is the original publishing order, with The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe coming first. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met, or heard of, anyone disagreeing with that… except, of course, for the people who are actually publishing the books. (And, arguably, and bafflingly, CS Lewis himself, although I have to imagine there was miscommunication there or something.)
I mean, The Magician’s Nephew is a fun book because it’s introducing all those things that we’re already familiar with. Reading it first is like watching Friends in chronological order, starting with that flashback episode to before the chronology of the series actually started.
Episode Three is the third best Star Wars movie. That sounds like faint praise but one and two are obvious (although which is one and which is two varies).
I think the OP is asking for opinions, not facts. …Rauschbier uber alles!
Also, we will figure out that humans had little to do with climate shift, but it will take decades to confirm it.
It’s a hell of a lot more important that we focus on living with the changes, which are going to cause political disruption on an unbelievable scale, than it is to waste time trying to assign blame.
Office Space is a steaming pile of shit. For one thing, it’s not a comedy, it’s a heist movie with an occasional ham-fisted “joke”. For another, its creator had about as much knowledge of what makes corporate life farcical as the Idiocracy guy did about what makes morons moronic (…what’s that you say? Aaah, it all makes sense now), meaning what few jokes were there — on a subject that should provide ample fodder for decades of parody let alone 90 minutes worth of gags — fall flat on their face due to imbecilic setups.
I grant that the printer scene makes a valiant attempt to redeem the film, but around the tenth “LOL the Indian guy is Indian and also Michael Bolton is not a very popular artist” joke, even that falls woefully short.
Combining your two sentences provides my rebuttal to your second assertion: Brian May is a better guitarist than Beck. So is Eddie Van Halen, Mark Knopfler, Alex Lifeson and a few others.
Which brings me to an unshakable opinion: Rush features the most talented musicians of any three-member rock band. And more talented than most larger groups.
The overwhelming majority of popular music is utter shit–the worst music humanity has created in history–and will not be valued at all (with only a very few exceptions) in 100 years.
Chocolate is indeed, the Food of the Gods. If we go to the stars and all other forms of plants and animals from Earth are lost and forgotten and only Chocolate still exists, we will have done Earth proud.
If you actually read the exchange they use to justify using the wrong order, it’s extremely obvious that Lewis was just being friendly to a young fan and not at all saying it’s the order his books should be read.
…Rauschbier uber alles!