Unpopular Opinions

[Dr. Crawver]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

Lashing out at civilians? Yes, always unjustifiable in my opinion. If they just did the attacks on the pentagon (I.E. people who presumably are related to all the woes in the middle east caused by america), then while I'd still not like the attacks at all, it is justifiable in some form. Hitting a place filled with nothing but civilians who are entirely innocent of it all is never right.

 

[happyninja42]

Let's see...

1) Forrest Gump was the stupidest movie ever made, and that includes the Star Wars prequels. That being said...

Agreed. I heard a comedian once describe it as "The last 50 or so years of history, told through the eyes of an idiot." And I couldn't agree more.

2) The first Star Wars prequel was actually pretty good if you ignore Jar Jar.

I actually liked Jar Jar a few times in that movie. Not many, but a few. And yeah, I don't really hate the prequels, I just find them disappointingly bland/mediocre.

3) I liked the first Transformer movie; they went downhill after that.

Same. I loved the first one, hated the 2nd, hated it so much, never bothered to watch the others.

4) I like Nickelback's music. Along with Linkin Park and Evanesence.

I only like 1 song by Nickleback (Figured You Out), the rest are just ok to me. Agreed on LP and Evanesence.

5) I am a proud Canadian who doesn't drink beer and finds hockey boring.

I'm not Canadian, but my favorite band is RUSH, so that makes me an honorary Canadian! I also hate beer and hockey.

6) As an anime fan: Harem anime is 90% bad. Reverse harem anime is 95% bad. 'Slice of Life' anime bores me to tears.
7) 'Arthouse' movies are almost overwhelmingly pretentious garbage and the same goes for a lot of modern 'art'. (Dunno how unpopular that is, but hey, it's an opinion ^^)

Don't really watch either, so I can't comment here. xD

 

[Dr. Crawver]

Unpopular opinions? Okay:

Though I disagree with her on many things, I respect Anita Sarkeesian's opinions, and think she does make some good points.
Yes, I can say the above while still appreciating sexy female designs.
No, diversity will not kill the gaming industry. Grow the hell up.

Are these really unpopular opinions? I mean really, has peoples childishness gotten so bad that these of all things are unpopular opinions?

 

[Yeager942]

Gamer culture is incredibly self-absorbed, immature, and ill-prepared to handle any kind of cultural criticism. The fact that gamer forums such as escapist are still talking about Anita Sarkeesian, "SJW's", and "feminist propaganda" depresses me to no end. My year away from video games to just play board games with my IRL friends was a much needed vacation

 

[elvor0]

Batman Begins is better than The Dark Knight.

I agree with that one...the idea of Batman, especially when the Joker is involved, is very silly, and not something that realy lends itself to being very deep and serious. The Joker needed to be playing on god mode the whole time to get away with all the stuff he was up to, and he can't in a serious film.

I'd also add that I liked Batman and Robin. Very silly, but it was supposed to be.

I'm actually of the opinion that Batman and Robin/Batman Forever(which actually isn't too bad, it's not as good as Batman 89 and Returns, but it's still ejoyable) are better Batman films than the Nolan trilogy. Not great films, but better Batman films. B&R is awful, but it at least enjoys its mythos, and creates a world where Batman makes sense to exist in.

Nolans trilogy is so grounded and having a hard on for realism that Batman feels massively out of place. Nolans "Batman" trilogy would've been great as a crime thriller with Gary Oldman as the main character, but as Batman films they fall massively short of respecting its comic book mythos and have no reason for Bats to exist within them because all the larger than life Supervillians are reduced to just dudes.

 

[happyninja42]

Gamer culture is incredibly self-absorbed, immature, and ill-prepared to handle any kind of cultural criticism.

How DARE you sir/madam/unspecified gender person!! I have offense! *throws offense in your general direction* Your criticism of our culture being unable to handle criticism is offensive!! I demand you retract it immediately or we shall meet with pistols at dawn!

 

[The Purple Grape]

I prefer Legend-Underworld Lara Croft, where she was a confident witty and classy archaeologist (never understood this survivor stuff) She was highly intelligent and dedicated, arguably to a fault, to finding out what happened to her parents. That is were you can pull some drama, the emotional aspect of losing loved one at a young age, and playing up the trio of Lara, Her Doppelganger and Natla. No stuff about being a victim, no whining, no pandering to being 'relatable' i.e. whiny.


Went on longer than planned.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Marriage should be for two people who are raising or will raise kids. That's it. If a couple becomes infertile they adopt or get divorced and so on.

Out of curiosity, why do you have this opinion? I don't believe I've heard anything like it before. I've heard the opinion that a married couple should stay married for the sake of the kids, but never that marriage was only for kids.

 

[Silvanus]

as Batman films they fall massively short of respecting its comic book mythos and have no reason for Bats to exist within them because all the larger than life Supervillians are reduced to just dudes.

C'mon now, the comics themselves have been the source of far greater sacrileges against the comic book mythos. Remember Mr. Freeze's wife being resurrected but eeeeeviiiiill and calling herself "Lazara"? Remember Superboy-Prime punching time in order to set the clock back? Remember Dick Grayson dolling himself up as the Joker and gaining inexplicable invincibility? Such irredeemable bollocks.

 

[envy11235]

-Firefly was not that great. It isn't terrible but massively overrated.
-To me fandoms can straight up ruin things I like. I know it is just other people's thoughts but if you can't discuss something you like what is the point?
-I am not hyped for Bethesda. Bethesda is a shitty company that releases games with barely any story, glitches out the ass. The only saving grace is the modding scene.
-While I think fandoms ruin games I don't think shit talking in competitive games ruins them. It is my favorite part.
-stalker is better then fallout and stalker Shadow of Chernobyl is the best stalker but New Vegas is better.
-I don't think people understand the realism argument in fantasy. You base most of your fantasy in reality then add fantastical items
-And last Smash bros should not be at EVO they always run long and for every hype game there is a good 2 hours of shitty defensive play. I get it is skillful to make those moves but it doesn't make it interesting to watch.

 

[happyninja42]

Marriage should be for two people who are raising or will raise kids. That's it. If a couple becomes infertile they adopt or get divorced and so on.

Out of curiosity, why do you have this opinion? I don't believe I've heard anything like it before. I've heard the opinion that a married couple should stay married for the sake of the kids, but never that marriage was only for kids.

I've heard this a lot, from Christian people. "The only reason people get married is to have children." This is a statement that exists in the world. It's usually used to justify denying non-heteros the right to marry when I've heard it used, because you know, they can't have children, and thus shouldn't marry. I have no idea what the quoted person's reasoning is, but that's the reasoning I've always heard used when this statement is uttered.

 

[suikodenstorm]

- I think 9/10 times, tattoos on women are disgusting.

- I'm all for being "comfortable in your own skin" and not having to endure body shaming or anything like that. I prefer women with some meat on them rather than a skinny. But that being said, there is a difference between being thick and morbid obesity, that is just revolting.

- Winter Soldier was the best of the Marvel Movies, and I stand with Captain America in the Civil War.

- First-person shooters are all lame.

- Playing online is stupid. I play video games to escape from reality. If I wanted to play with others, I would go hang out with my friends and have a drink on the deck in the sunshine while discussing current events and having a laugh.

- Not enough people pay attention to politics, campaigns, or goes to vote during elections but still feel they have a platform to complain about things that are changed.

- People are too attached to their phones and don't take an opportunity to just take a look around.

- People place too much importance on celebrity.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Breaking Bad spoiler.

Spoiler

In Breaking Bad I think Mikes little speech before he dies is wrong.

I don't think Walter White really wanted to end up running a global drug empire in the end of breaking bad. I think if Gus had just let that thing between Jessie and the drug dealers go and not tried to kill Walter he would have happily kept making meth until he died. Walter was a reactionary force, pushed further into amorality by exterior pressures like Gus and the threat of being caught.

 

[Areani]

Spoiler

The holocaust was a hoax. No one was ever gassed to death. People died in the camps, sure, but from disease, starvation, exhaustion, etc. This alleged holocaust was and still is exploited for profit and used as a political tool to this day.

You asked for it

 

[Reasonable Atheist]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

Lashing out at civilians? Yes, always unjustifiable in my opinion. If they just did the attacks on the pentagon (I.E. people who presumably are related to all the woes in the middle east caused by america), then while I'd still not like the attacks at all, it is justifiable in some form. Hitting a place filled with nothing but civilians who are entirely innocent of it all is never right.

Ahem oops i had something in my throat. It tasted like disgusting hypocrisy.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-killhttp://cursor.org/stories/casualty_count.htm
(I specifically like the carpet bombing of villages)

http://cursor.org/stories/casualty_count.htm

I do not think it is nessisary for me to link something about japan.

 

[Mithcha]

Meh

Zelda (every single game with that jumping green goblin) is a just dull.

For the most part short hair on women looks so very, very wrong, as does long hair on men. Something about the faces, for the most part, it just doesn't work.

Nose and lip piercings always, unconditionally make the person look like a twat.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the most mind-numbingly boring person to have ever taken to public speaking. The guy has the charisma of a dying, stamp collecting ant. I would rather argue the pros and cons of toenail clippings than listen to him.

 

[springheeljack]

I really liked Russell Crowe's performance in Les Miserables so there!
He has a good singing voice and it matched his character!

 

[McElroy]

Marriage should be for two people who are raising or will raise kids. That's it. If a couple becomes infertile they adopt or get divorced and so on.

Out of curiosity, why do you have this opinion? I don't believe I've heard anything like it before. I've heard the opinion that a married couple should stay married for the sake of the kids, but never that marriage was only for kids.

I've heard this a lot, from Christian people. "The only reason people get married is to have children." This is a statement that exists in the world. It's usually used to justify denying non-heteros the right to marry when I've heard it used, because you know, they can't have children, and thus shouldn't marry. I have no idea what the quoted person's reasoning is, but that's the reasoning I've always heard used when this statement is uttered.

Nothing to do with religion this time around, though all the recent talk about gay marriage (the law passing here and everything around the whole thing) probably had its influence in getting me thinking, for better or worse. Rather than increase the amount of people who can "validate" their union in marriage as it now is, you could decrease it significantly instead. Love and romance exist just fine without marriage. If marriage got stripped of all the privileges that come with it there would be nothing for me to be opinionated about, I guess. But yeah, marriage for families, couples with no intention of getting children should find something else to validate their existence.

 

[DerangedHobo]

"Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan is the devil and the government is lying to us about 9/11".

Unpopular opinions? Well, "Heritage is all dead people's baggage", nations are a fucking joke, the games industry needs to crash, liberty within a society which prohibits a range of life choices (which do not infringe on the rights of others) is a pipe dream used to keep the masses complacent, Capitalism (or at least, it's application and current state globally) is a horrible system, death invalidates your existence (as well as the lack of objectivity in general), the fact that [insert minority here] triumphed over their oppressors is not uplifting in the slightest it is just depressing, consoles that aren't handheld have no reason for existing and the money from those consoles could be spent on a PC, having children is a dick move.

Oh, yeah, fuck religious nations entirely. I'm looking at you, middle east (and America).

Captcha: The Dude Abides

Say what you will about the tenants of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.

 

[RobertEHouse]

-Walt Disney, was a horrible man.

*Disney during his rule refused to employ anyone whom looked black.
* He believed women were inferior to men and segregated them from doing any type of animation for his studio, except painting animation cells..
* He used his ability to squash an animation strike at his studio over wages by stating they were communist, during the Senator Macarthur era. Those hundred or so people were black-listed the government after he did that. Those Black-listed people could hardly find work anywhere after that in the US.

-Steve Jobs, was the worst excuse of a human being, recently.

*By using a loophole to jump the national Organ transplant system so he could cheat someone else out of a badly needed organ.
* He had a huge god complex , and thought lowly of his fellow designers whom help developed much of his Apple products.

- Star Wars is not the end all be all Sci-fiction movie.
- Facebook and other social media should be shut off automatically when someone enters a car.
- Honey Badgers are the coolest creatures around.
- Political correctness is for people whom never graduated from the "school of hard knocks" and need to get some back bone.
- One should identified themselves from their deeds as a human being first, and not by one's race, sex or creed.