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Marty J wrote:

And I hope she won't be freaked out by my sci-fi and Winnie the Pooh DVDs either (some women are

Yeh, I'd feel like a hypocrite if I complained about something she had in her dvd collection when I have Hanna-Barbera cartoons, The A-Team TV series, Moonlighting,Magnum PI, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Beaches and the 80s Transformers cartoon in mine big_smile

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I knew a 38 year old bloke with Star Wars posters up in his pad, but chicks don't dig a man-child, so he took them down. Classic slacker plot-line (e.g. Ted)

I don't have posters on my wall any more. I had a framed Pan's Labyrinth poster signed by Del Toro but that fell off the wall and the glass smashed, so now my walls are bare. I actually don't think there's anything wrong with guys celebrating films they love, I think if anyone disagrees with that, it's their problem, not the owner of the posters. It's not as though any of the women who objected to the Star Wars posters were perfect and they shit gold, is it? They should accept him as he is, it's not as though he goes out every weekend and kills small animals, it's only bloody posters!

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I'd love some Star Wars posters on my wall, the SW artwork is absolutely awesome smile For now, I have to make do with a Mona Lisa reproduction (I guess that makes me a geek and an art fag big_smile ).

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So you're on a hot date, things are going well, she brings you back to her place, but then you see 'x' in her Blu-Ray collection. You immediately gather your things and take your leave. What's your deal-breaker?

Child pornography.

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avatar wrote:

So you're on a hot date, things are going well, she brings you back to her place, but then you see 'x' in her Blu-Ray collection. You immediately gather your things and take your leave. What's your deal-breaker?

Child pornography.

That's not fair. What if she'd been molested as a child and was just trying to make sense of it all?

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You know Chris Langham wrote for the Muppet Show and ended up as a special guest once when the original guest (Richard Pryor) couldn't make it.....

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You know Chris Langham wrote for the Muppet Show and ended up as a special guest once when the original guest (Richard Pryor) couldn't make it.....

I remember that episode! I had no idea who he was, so I assumed he was a popular British comedian they were introducing to the states. He did some sort of Hawaiian song, as I recall.

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Yup. About 3 minutes in-

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I'm gonna say it.

I hate MLP, and I hate when people shove it down my throat.

That seems to be a slightly unpopular opinion these days.

The DIF bronies are okay though, you don't usually rub me the wrong way.

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MLP? (my brain don't work)

EDIT: Got it! It's half 3 in the morning here, give me a break big_smile

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I'm gonna say it.

I hate MLP, and I hate when people shove it down my throat.

That seems to be a slightly unpopular opinion these days.

The DIF bronies are okay though, you don't usually rub me the wrong way.

That's all right, it's not everyone's thing.

That being said,
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I hate MLP, and I hate when people shove it down my throat.

I could say the same about the whole anime genre smile

Most anime fans are nice people, but there's a vocal minority that tries to "convert" anyone they meet (and they do it much more aggressively than door-to-door preachers yikes ).

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I could say the same about the whole anime genre smile

Most anime fans are nice people, but there's a vocal minority that tries to "convert" anyone they meet (and they do it much more aggressively than door-to-door preachers yikes ).

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You're probably one of the aforementioned "nice people" tongue

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YOU DON'T KNOW ME

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Hextable - Harvard evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker defines "Hextable" as: The album you find in someone else's collection which instantly tells you you could never go out with them. In other words, the deal-breaker.

So you're on a hot date, things are going well, she brings you back to her place, but then you see 'x' in her Blu-Ray collection. You immediately gather your things and take your leave. What's your deal-breaker? Anything by Eddie Murphy? Uwe Boll? Twilight?

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Unpopular opinions? *glances around nervously* Well here goes...

I like Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig as Bond more than Sean Connery. I feel like Connery has just been considered the best Bond for so many decades now it's essentially brainwashed into people (though I won't begrudge you if you genuinely feel that way) but I much prefer these two actors. I will certainly admit that after Goldeneye the Pierce Brosnan films were not at all good though I think that actually has very little to do with Brosnan who is consistently good in them.

I love the rock opera musical Repo: The Genetic Opera. I dunno if this ones actually an unpopular opinion with the public in general, the film seems to be more unknown than in ire but I absolutely adore it and it has a terrible 33% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

I really like Dollhouse. There are some dodgy eps (mostly at the start of season one but also sprinkled lightly throughout both seasons) but there's also a lot of damn good TV in there (Epitaph 1 is so damn good) and I will never not applaud it for trying something so cool and different when I'm sure Fox would have loved nothing more than another police procedural about a man and a woman in a will they wont they relationship solving crimes with the help of their fun but quirky lab technicians.

Now here's the big one...

I don't like Lord of the Rings. At all. When I tried to read the books I didn't even finish the first one (and I was not a person to leave books unfinished). I seem to remember making it as far as some talking trees that had seemingly had nothing to do with anything that was going on. Resultingly I never watched the films until my friends decided that we had to watch a marathon of the extended editions. I actually went in open minded, they all spoke so highly of them I wanted to like them like they did. I found the first one the best of the three and the other two unbearable. I will likely never watch any of them again.

I did read and love the book of the Hobbit, which was a fast paced adventure story that just happened to be set in the same world and featuring many of the same characters as LotR. I suspect that I'm going to hate the new Hobbit movies though because it seems that Peter Jackson has done everything within his power to take this awesome little adventure story and into another LotR style saga with a billion storylines and more character from the other films.

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Kyle Monroe wrote:

I'm gonna say it.

I hate MLP, and I hate when people shove it down my throat.

That seems to be a slightly unpopular opinion these days.

The DIF bronies are okay though, you don't usually rub me the wrong way.

It's completely fine by me to hate MLP, as long as you know what you're talking about. Most people I read on the internet are like "Those MLP lovers are complete retards, I mean, it's for little girls, duh", and probably have never even checked it out. Those people I hate just as much as the ones you're talking about: fanatics who cannot get the fact that you're allowed to have different tastes than theirs. It pretty much works for anything at all, but I find it can get even uglier with music.

Some days ago I watched a Youtube video of people who call themselves bronies. Well, I am most definitely not a brony, even though I really like the show. No need to be freaky about it.

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Also, to get back on the topic, I have a feeling that Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 show) isn't much loved around here. I'm a big time fan, so I wonder if this is just a false idea I had, and if not, whether this is generally because people compare it to the original show they loved or they just think it sucks in itself.

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After awhile I can to feel the new Battlestar Galactica was just trying to be the anti-Trek: If Star Trek would have done one thing, BG did the other just because they could regardless of if it was good or not. By the end of the second season I was just fast forwarding through the few episodes I bothered to look at.

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I love BSG, one of my favourite Sci-fi shows. It stumbles a few times (what series doesn't?) but taken as a whole entity (which is itself a rarity for TV) it's a great show. Just a few months ago I watched Series 4/5 again, which I'd never been that keen on during the initial run, and found it wasn't anywhere near as bad as I remembered. The exasperation with watching everyone be continuously miserable, and having Starbuck constantly wailing and going mental was much less severe because I wasn't waiting a week for each new episode. In fact, the second half of that final series is fantastic and gutsy stuff.

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It's fine you disagree with it smile The showrunner for BSG also worked on Trek, and at least to me seemed to be reveling in the freedom more than in creating a good show. I have no examples, because I have no desire to go back and look for them smile

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Just remember another.... I hate Woodie Allen. Even Annie Hall is terrible, in my opinion.

I've tried and tried... I've seen probably 8 or 10 Woodie Allen movies from early to the time that he stopped starring in them. Zelig was okay, and what I remember of Sleeper was pretty good. That's about it.

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I hate Woodie Allen.

I thought this opinion was pretty popular in the US. Most Woody Allen fans are European film snobs.

Annie Hall, The 40-year Old Virgin and Clerks II are the only romantic comedies I really like (yeah, I honestly think that Clerks II qualifies as a rom-com).

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Annie Hall is great, but I've never gone gaga for Woody Allen the way I felt like I was supposed to.  I ADORE Radio Days, however.  I don't know what strange alchemy it works, but I put it up there with Dazed and Confused in the slice of life sub genre.

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The only Woody Allen film I've ever seen is Whatever Works, and I thought it was pretty brilliant. Larry David was awesome in it.

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