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130 (edited by Jimmy B 2012-11-18 17:32:47)

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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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133 (edited by JessicaMonroe 2012-11-18 19:18:19)

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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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134 (edited by Jimmy B 2012-11-18 19:32:18)

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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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135 (edited by MadBadCoyote 2012-11-18 20:08:07)

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Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love. -Uncle Iroh

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Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love. -Uncle Iroh

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

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Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love. -Uncle Iroh

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God loves you!

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142 (edited by TheDu 2012-11-20 03:39:52)

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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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143 (edited by Saniss 2012-11-20 05:15:05)

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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.

Invid - I'm not sure I agree with that criticism, and I've a feeling that your examples are going to be somewhat thin  smile

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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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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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.

Eddie Doty

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