Things you liked but larger groups disliked and vice versa.

[Parasondox]

Disney Movies. The most scariest and deadly of all movies. Death, betrayal and love. And yet, we have our kids watch them in droves.

You know what, let's do this. Yeah it could be like guilty pleasure discussions and so be it. With the mixed release of Batman V. Superman there have been mixed opinions. Of course, it's a high profile movie. What movie doesn't have a mix bag to it. What are yours? What are things you liked or disliked but others round you, or Reddit, loved or hated?

Confession time. I liked Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. Yeah! I said it. I had fun with it and made me feel happy.

I dislike Breaking Bad. It bored me to yawning tears. You know when you yawn and a tear come it? Yeah you get it.

I liked Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. I smiled, I had fun, it was cheesy and stupid but I enjoyed it.

Aliens. Yeah, I am not much of a fan of it. It followed Alien which had a very different tone but it felt like a military gun ho something something I dunno.

Share if you care and enjoy the sour candy.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

You failed to mention movies lets expand this beyond movies.

Games:

I enjoyed the Crysis games ALOT and I think they are more then just "boring games made for Graphics"

Skyward Sword is not a bad game at all and I fully got used to the controls and it has some of the more creative dungeons.

Undertale...It will never be the 1# game of all time to me GameFAQs

Amnesia: Responisble for the FLOOD of what I call "First Person, No Combat, Horror Games" and the game itself was nothing special it was really bland and fogettable. The only moment that was is being stalked by an invisible creature whose footsteps can be seen in Water.


Movies:

I enjoyed Pirates of the Carribean At World's End. That movie was a special effects and setpiece masterpiece.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Conry, Cringeworth "Comedy" action movie.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I didn't particularly care for Breaking Bad either. The constant timelapse shots and meth montages made it feel kinda cheap overal. And the scene where the dude gets blown up and you see half his skull exposed, and not only is he still alive but he calmly adjusts his tie before falling over dead... That just sent it straight into silly town.

Also Platinum games. Hailed as the pinnacle of action games, yet their over-the-top crazy lunacy leaves me utterly cold.

I'm finding it hard to think of movies/games that are largely seen as bad that I don't agree with though. And I don't think guilty pleasures suffice. I think I've heard people say Gremlins 2 was shit, but I really liked that movie, more so then the original.

 

[madwarper]

Peter Jackson's "adaptations". I have been lead to believe that the majority of the users of these forums that do not want to see Peter Jackson tarred, feathered and catapulted for to his treatment of the classic works written by JRR Tolkien. I cannot fathom how anyone who is literate is not so outraged by viewing those films such that they do not feel compelled to go out, fell a tree, hew planks, build a table, then flip it over.

 

[Evonisia]

I really loved the last "Hobbit" film. I know, I've read the book and I'm aware of what a desecration that film (alongside the other two[footnote]I love the first one as well, and the Smaug parts of "Desolation of Smaug"[/footnote]) is to the tone of it. But I can't help it. I think by the last film Peter Jackson just threw up his arms, yelled "fuck it" and made the biggest, most bloated thing he could conjure in his sick mind, and it's such dumb fun! God damn, it makes all that tedium in the second film worthwhile.

"Warcraft" best hope to Elune it can match that glorious stupidity.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I enjoy Dragon Age 2. I think it has the best characters out of all three main games.

Resident Evil 6 did not make my eyes bleed from their sockets. It was enjoyable enough with my friend that I am happy with it. Could have been a lot better, but it's not the coming of Satan or anything.

I don't care for any of the Batman Begins movies. Too dark, too many people died.

I enjoyed Silent Hill: Revelation, and I have seen every Resident Evil movie since the third one in theaters, and own them all.

I think The Empire Strikes back is boring, and the worst out of the original trilogy.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I really loved the last "Hobbit" film. I know, I've read the book and I'm aware of what a desecration that film (alongside the other two[footnote]I love the first one as well, and the Smaug parts of "Desolation of Smaug"[/footnote]) is to the tone of it. But I can't help it. I think by the last film Peter Jackson just threw up his arms, yelled "fuck it" and made the biggest, most bloated thing he could conjure in his sick mind, and it's such dumb fun! God damn, it makes all that tedium in the second film worthwhile.

"Warcraft" best hope to Elune it can match that glorious stupidity.

The only thing I hate about the Hobbit movies was turning Smaug from this:

To this:

 

[Parasondox]

I liked the new RoboCop movie. When MovieBob laughed his head off because he used a Taser, I thought he was being childish. I saw the movie and I was right. He used a Taser because the suspect was fleeing and unarmed. FLEEING AND UNARMED BOB!! Maybe in 80s America... todays America, its perfectly "normal" (normal if you are a cop, kinda kidding) to shoot first and ask questions when someone gives a fuck but shooting an unarmed suspect doesn't solve the matter but causes more problems.

 

[Evonisia]

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Yeah, there's a lot of stuff like that. Some things made more epic for no reason, some things made smaller and less imposing when they could have been left as is. That said I think they nailed Smaug's personality, so he has that going for him.

I enjoyed Silent Hill: Revelation, and I have seen every Resident Evil movie since the third one in theaters, and own them all.

Second this. SH: R is another dumb fun ride for me, and somehow I love it when I love "Silent Hill 3" the most out of all the games. I even love the first film as legitimately good.

 

[Ryotknife]

I liked the FF13 series. They each had their flaws, let there be no question. But I liked how FF13 wasnt so clear cut morally speaking, and how a random group of adventurers didnt immediately become the bestest of friends right off the bat. You have to choose between saving yourself, or save a bunch of people who want you dead (whom are being manipulated). Then you have the rifts between the different characters. FF13-2 had perhaps the best protagonist in the series in Noel Kriss (although i hated Serah), and even Caius was a sympathetic villain as his sole purpose was to save the one person he cared about regardless of the cost.

I disliked FF6. Honestly, if it wasnt for Kefka I would put it as the worst FF game, possibly even one of the worse RPGs. Bland protagonists. Crappy story. Great music though. Kefka shouldered the game on his immaculate shoulders, and unlike Sephiroth he has actually aged well.

 

[Nimcha]

I liked the Mass Effect 3 ending. Original and Extended Cut. In fact it's probably my favourite game ever.

But even that isn't really all that edgy these days is it?

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I like quite a lot of the Tom Clancy games, even the ones that got "casulyzed". I also thing that Donald Trump should be PotUS.

I don't like Deus Ex HR, I thought it was a bit confusing and boring. I kinda hate Borderlands, and speaking of FPS games, I think non-ADS FPS shooters are inferior.

In terms of movies, I actually liked Iron Man 2 and Amazing Spider-man 2. In contrast, I think Inside Out is boring and overrated.


You know, I have always thought of making a thread like this, but wasn't sure how it would turn. Let's see, shall we?

 

[Poetic Nova]

Bioshock 2 comes to mind.
Specially because I dont even like the first one. For me it did most things better, I'm probably a heathen now aren't I?

On the other end we have Spec Ops: The Line.
Only reason I got it was my boyfriend bought it for me. Hated most of the playthrough, there were only 2 scenes that had some sort of impact on me. But most of the game I was just counting down the chapters until I saw the credits.

If the gameplay wasn't by the books the story might've actually had any lasting impact on me.

 

[Ygrez]

I liked "Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire".

I didn't think Femshep's VA was that great.

 

[TakerFoxx]

I found Pacific Rim and The Force Awakens to be okay at best. And I really hated Jurassic World.

 

[Joccaren]

Alright, you ready for this?
I'm going to blow your mind.

...

I. Liked. Spore.
Shoot me. It had a lot of wasted potential, sure, and the space stage is the grindiest thing I have ever encountered in a game, but god damn it was still simple, silly, fun. I think that's one of the things I loved most about it. Beforehand I'd been thinking of how to put actual evolution in terms with game mechanics and how it'd run and such and still be fun... And then Spore came and basically didn't care. It used evolution as inspiration, rather than a template, and just made a bunch of fun modes. Cell stage was adorable and fun, simple yet surprisingly deep when you get to the real high level playing of it. Creature stage was the biggest adventure out there, with a huge world, and potentially useful things everywhere to find. With epic creatures around, it even had its own challenges that took some planning and skill to execute. Tribal stage was a nice simplified RTS with minigames. On the higher difficulties though, properly maintaining your relationships was an interesting balancing act - especially if you hadn't planned ahead the stages before. Civilization stage was fun, with its different ways to win, even if unbalanced on the higher difficulties, and mildly disappointing in its vehicle design. And the first time you played the Space stage there was so much to do, and travelling to new planets even now still isn't cold.
Could so much more have been done with it? Hell yeah, and I wish it had of, but I can't deny the charm and fun I've had with that game just as it is.


Also got to second Bioshock 2. Honestly not sure why people didn't like it. Yeah, its Rapture and you've been there before. We've been to the general settings of most games before, whether its medieval Europe, or abandoned space station, or ancient ruins - yet we never complain about those themes being overused. Had we called it "Not Rapture" instead and had it be a different but same underwater city, it seems people wouldn't have had the problem. You visited entire new parts, got to go outside underwater, and the story was overall much better paced, especially at the end, even if it didn't have the big twist hook. Mechanically, it was much tighter, and all round an improvement on 1. It'll never top 1s twist, but outside of that it doesn't need to, and I don't see how not doing so means its not a good game.
That said: Games for Windows Live. Fuck you Microsoft.

Games most people love that I hate? Dishonoured. I've explained why a few times now. Put simply, autosaves, or I'm not playing.

TV:
Game of Thrones. Not at all, remotely, interested. The little bits I've seen of it have made it very apparently not my sort of show.
Breaking Bad. See above.
Walking Dead. See above.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

I love Aquarion, a mecha anime I've never heard anyone say anything positive about. Or negative. People don't really talk about it. I'm still going to count it though. It's hilarious nonsense with orgasm inducing giant robots and the fucking worst dub. I love it with all my being.

I prefer Code Geass R2 to season 1. I think that counts. Largely because it stops trying to be good and just embraces the stupidity.

I dislike the original Ghost in the Shell movie, mostly because of how horribly dated the sound editing and voice acting are in the Dub. I'd probably like it if I just watched the sub, but its too late.

 

[Kyrian007]

Skyward Sword is not a bad game at all and I fully got used to the controls and it has some of the more creative dungeons.

I'll agree with this. Skyward Sword has more of the best npc's in the series than any of the other Zelda games offer. And I'll even go further, wiimote control in general. People complaining about wiimote control as far as I'm concerned just didn't properly set them up, because I never had any problems with mine.

Can't agree with anything else on that list though, sorry Samtemdo8. But as with the overall topic, I get it. I'm in the small group of folks who loved Southland Tales. Everyone else seems to hate it.