How Do You Deal with Having an Unpopular Movie Opinion? (Patreon Question)
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- I explain why I avoid giving into peer pressure to change my opinion on movies, even when the majority is saying the opposite.
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I agree with this video and I’ve struggled with it myself. I also don’t like how so many people just respond on social media if someone likes something with a “That’s terrible” or “I don’t like it.” I also loathe the written by an AI “criticism.”
There was actually a movie where the writers admitted they used AI to make the script and AI in Hollywood is one of the main reasons behind the writer's strike. But one movie doing that and a strike shouldn't be an excuse for people to just accuse every bad movie as "written by AI" now. That's actually quite offensive because it implies they can't accept human errors and screenwriters can make errors too.
I agree! I really don't get that written by an A.I criticism at all!
@@frozenthingsstudios2452 That's pretty much what I say. I get that they're scared but nobody should forget that humans are capable of making mistakes because nobody's perfect.
0:18-0:40 - Exactly! I know the feeling.
When I made a positive comment about TLTS version of Lola Bunny on your character profile on Bugs Bunny, there was a person who replied to me saying that TLTS version Lola will never make a comeback & acted as if everyone hated that version of the character. (If that version is so hated, how come TLTS version of Lola is a playable character in the mobile game Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem?) I hated that comment so much that I deleted my original comment & reuploaded my comment again, free of that awful reply.
Still, thank you for answering. I really needed to hear this response. I really need to learn how to be more confident in loving the things I love, regardless of whether people give me a hard time or they seem to misinterpret a movie/TV show that I really love.
This video just reminds me why you are easily my favourite Internet critic and we really need more people like you
I feel movie discussions online have become incredibly toxic and nasty for no valid reason.
Twitter/X is a toxic cesspool that frankly is embarrassing to witness people accusing people of things over movies. I’m glad you made this video.
I've gotten to the point where if someone posts something I disagree with, I mostly just shrug and scroll by. Not worth getting into an argument with someone over it. And if someone replies to a Tweet of mine trying to start something, I just don't respond back. Because more often than not, the other person will just move on and likely forget about me and what I wrote anyway.
The same goes for political discussions. The amount of times I've seen people write something asinine or twisting something to fit their personal agenda is too many to count and I don't want to waste my time arguing with people about certain topics, no matter how strongly I feel about the subject and especially since I know it will be like shouting at a brick wall.
@@MrCoat yeah, very much agreed.
With so much vitriol and hatred on there, I usually report (if they break the rules) and block them if I need to. I don’t need that in my life. I have enough trauma as is.
THANK YOU. You've really put into perspective how stupid it is that people are still so furious about stuff they're disappointed by.
We get it. Move on. There's no need to try to manipulate newcomers and others who enjoy certain things the big angry critics aren't.
No need to create a atmosphere of hate and us vs them ideas. They are movies. It's fine if people don't like them, even to have a critical review, but all the volatility is just exhausting to see every day when you're trying to just search for music.
Let people like what they like.
Whoo boy. Man, we needed a video like this in a LONG time. And we got it.
My thing is as long as you are not a jerk about it have your different options than me
I always get attacked every single time I say an opinion. I got lots of unpopular opinions too but when it comes to popular opinions, people who have an unpopular opinion on it will attack me saying I'm wrong. And every time I look at replies to other opinions, they would say "facts". It honestly kinda hurts me every time someone says "facts" to another opinion that's different from mine because it means they think the opposite opinion is invalid and I'd be one of those people with that opposite opinion. Opinions have seriously become a punching bag now.
I’ve been wondering if you’d do a defense on TROS, but I can see why you wouldn’t. Same for Wish; mixed on the movie as I was, the way it’s become a Twitter punching bag has become tiresome.
And even UA-cam has been doing the same thing.
@@Starwarsfanboy0928 Not saying the whole Asha/Starboy deleted scene wouldn't have been interesting but it just gets so tiring hearing people bring it up so many times. Maybe it would have worked better maybe it wouldn't have. Point is that's not what we got and we need to move on. And also why that little tidbit when there are so many other interesting behind the scenes stories about well beloved films? The negativity has gotten so much online that if one little piece of film history gets unveiled then it gets blown out of proportion.
@@MrTristy22And even if we did get the Asha/Starboy romance, “Wish” would still suffer from bad songwriting.
I agree with everything you said here. Also, on a side note, I also enjoy the live-action Inspector Gadget movie.
I think this online comedian who trashed Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka was either the Nostalgia Critic, Angry Joe, or Cinema Sins.
I used to watch those channels back in the 2010s and for a while I thought it was funny mainly because they were reviewing stuff from their childhood and had creative skits. But once they started to review much more recent stuff from my childhood years, I immediately disengaged and stopped following their channel. It seemed to me like they only had one thing to say about everything; to only nitpick and trash everything they touched.
This is how uninformed opinions are like today. People don't really make their own opinions but follow other people instead of giving things a fair shot. And since the internet is at its strongest when everyone is negative to each other, trying to talk positively on something is just frowned upon. This isn't healthy nor is it a good sign of where society may be heading in.
Case in point, the live action Dr. Seuss movies from the early 2000s. The Jim Carrey Grinch and Mike Myers Cat In The Hat. Looking back on those movies, they did not age well in my opinion and everything looks rather dated. Not to mention certain actors who have changed since then it now feels like an eye sore rewatching those movies.
I get it that some people today still have nostalgia and attachments to those movies and that's fine. I can look back to that era of movies and clearly say that it was a post-Batman and Robin era where more movie adaptations were making some questionable creative choices. While we did get some hits like the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies, it also led to stuff like the Scooby Doo, Fat Albert, and Garfield movies from that time. Something that slowly changed once the MCU started to get off the ground.
I do think there are people who don't like Wish for legitimate reasons but then others take it a little too far by repeating the "AI" argument or posting one too many videos on the Asha/Starboy deleted scene. Like, well maybe that would have been interesting but two things. 1) Star Boy was supposed to be a younger version of her grandfather which would have made it feel a bit creepy. I also wouldn't mind seeing another Disney romance in the future but still... 2) What's done is done. Sorry you didn't like the movie but you can't hang on to what ultimately wasn't. After all, the message of Meet the Robinsons was "Keep moving forward."
I'm not gonna lie. I do feel a bit in that boat because there are plenty of movies I like that others don't, which is fine. And yeah. Some hate are going to hate certain movies for understandable reasons but then other people get really vehement about it to the point where they make it sound like the movie committed the worst kind of atrocity imaginable. Can we just agree to disagree peacefully without acting like just a mere mention of saying "I like the Phantom Menace" is the end of the world?
I immensely agree. In fact, instead of wallowing in woes as if I am in a Shakespeare play, I imagined these unused characterisations and designs being in Wasteland from Epic Mickey, since that game gave me a new perspective on forgotten, obscure and retired Disney creations. Ever wonder where the cancelled projects that Disney Animation has, they were in Wasteland. Splash Mountain? Already in Wasteland. You get the idea.
A video that TrollsNutHugger69 definitely needs to take to heart.
I relate to this question a lot. I love the phantom menace; it's my favourite star wars movie and I'm sick of people not being able to just accept that I feel that way about it. Never understood the hate for Jar Jar binks he still makes me laugh today
Well, it doesn't help that because of these discourses, is starting to make movie or fandom communities become as mean-spirited as real life.
I actually like both Willy Wonka and Charlie but i know how you feel about Willy Wonka
In regards to how you won't make an 'In Defence of Wish' video, I understand. I can simply find one by myself and there have been good videos about it.
When I was younger I was scared of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory specifically the blueberry inflation scene I found it to be creepy but when I rewatched it in 2018 I liked it not as much as the 1971 film but I thought it was visually stunning and the best adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel. I might prefer the 1971 version but I respect your opinion on it. I liked all three Willy Wonka movies
Regarding the Internet comedian that you mentioned, are you referring to Doug Walker, a.k.a. Nostalgia Critic?
Who else could it have been?
@@Shades14 he didn’t mention a name, so that was the first I came up with. In all fairness, though, there are quite a few other reviewers that are not big fans of the Tim Burton adaptation.
@@martingargaro4855At least Doug Walker praised the visual style of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.
Wish is probably one of my favorite movies of all time! Same for the Tim Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I’m just glad this kind of pettiness hasn’t happened to me.
Spot On!!! Best Video Ever!!!
I always loved both Willy Wonka movies equally. I didn't know the newer ones was less popular. I watched the 2005 one all the time growing up.
Thanks for keeping me inspired to hold on to my thoughts on stuff I love despite others dislike
I also love Wish. It's the best Disney movie since Turning Red. I think it's absolutely hilarious all the way through. I saw some criticisms of the movie but I decided to watch it myself and come to my own conclusions. I really love it. I do think that some people don't get the movie and are far too literal. No, she didn't want literally every wish granted. That would be reckless. She wanted King Magnifico to stop hoarding the wishes and to stop stringing people along. When the wishes were removed people had a mild depression and forgot their dream.
I really only have one movie I refer to as a guilty pleasure, mostly because I'm baffled by my own love for it: Cats (2019).
It's an objectively terrible movie. Everything about it is pure nightmare fuel. And yet, I've watched it at least 5 times and until a month or two ago, it was the last movie I'd seen in theaters since before the pandemic. I have no shame in loving anything else I enjoy but Cats... Shame and confusion are appropriate reactions to how that movie makes me feel.
But in all seriousness, I was watching an Underworld retrospective the other day and I really wish more people would take the "not better or worse, just different" approach to media analysis they took in that video. We can enjoy fine art AND cheap trash. I don't need or want my schlocky horror to do the same things as my refined Oscar-bait. I love them both for their own reasons.
This is also why I generally don't rank "best" movies. I try to have my top 5 favorites set so I'm ready to talk about them but if I start trying to rank the movies I think are the best ever made (which have almost no real correlation to what I consider to be my favorites), I end up trying to figure out what the hell I even mean if I were to say Baby Driver is better than The Silence of the Lambs or John Wick is better than The Social Network. They're such wildly different works of art that the comparison is all but useless.
I love the Inspector Gadget movie too!
Or In My Case The Walter Emanuel Jones Backyard Wrestling Movie Backyard Dogs I enjoyed the film one of my Personal Favorites but the film got negative reviews and Is regarded as one of the worst films ever but that didn't stop my enjoyment though but on the other side of that Coin I could not stand The Social Network It was a tad Overrated and I didn't see the big deal regardless of Positive Reviews and a Oscar
Even though I respect everyone's opinions, I do wish they would try to be a bit more respectful themselves when it comes to expressing their own. Especially when it comes to expressing an opinion that I might not agree with. Say for example, I really enjoyed the film Wish, but I come across somebody who didn't enjoy it. They should say something like: "I'm going to be honest with you, I really didn't enjoy the film very much. But that's just my opinion, if you enjoyed it, then fair enough. But it just wasn't for me." That's how you express your opinion without the risk of offending anybody
Yes, but it goes without saying that it’s their opinion and they’re not talking about you personally when expressing it.
Unless they say “You’re bad and stupid for liking a bad movie or hating a good movie”, then it’s obvious they’re not talking about you.
It gets tiring to constantly qualify a film criticism with “It’s my opinion” or “It’s ok if you like it even though I don’t”.
A critic’s job isn’t to confirm your biases or coddle you.
It’s better to be direct and to the point than to add a bunch of redundant filler words like “If I’m going to be honest” or “But that’s just my opinion”.
@@beethovensfidelioTrue. But, then you run the risk of upsetting people if you don't use the right words. Me for example, whenever somebody has come out directly to me, if it's something I really don't like, then I tend to get upset with tears, because it's often left me confused about my feelings about films I really like that others might not enjoy as much
@@jackwilkinson4911 Yes, some people will be assholes when expressing their opinions, but you shouldn’t let it get to you.
You need to learn to grow a thicker skin and accept that not everyone will love the things that you love or hate the things that you hate.
Also, it’s funny how men will mock women for getting upset over small stuff yet you yourself admit to crying when someone dislikes a movie you love.
Oh the irony with men!
Yes it can hurt when someone doesn’t feel the same way you do about something because it’s natural to want validation, but critics don’t owe you validation unless it’s earned.
I actually have those feelings for Pearl Harbor. Granted the movie definitely has problems and I would never consider it to be one of the greatest war movies ever made, but to be perfectly honest, I never felt that the movie main intentions was to an accurate representation of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Instead, it was to give some insight into America’s sense of innocence and isolationism in the earlier years of the war how and that was shattered by the attack, and how it fueled American resolve to defeat the Japanese. Granted it was flawed, but in terms of the concept, they did it right
You wanna know something that really gets to me about the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory backlash? Of all the people, Gene Wilder added fuel to the flames, calling it nothing more than a soulless remake made just for the money. It's hard to imagine someone that genuinely nice could feel this way, but I think he might have actually been spiteful over the fact that Burton refused to let him reprise his role as Wonka.
What I always found odd about that was that he didn't create the character. While I understand he felt a certain connection to the role, others should be free to adapt the book and do their own spin on it and in Burton's case, he had the approval of Roald Dahl's family.
In contrast, Gene Wilder was supportive of Mel Brooks turning "The Producers" into a Broadway musical, went to the opening night show and complimented Matthew Broderick for taking on the role of Leo Bloom.
It sort of reminds me of when the trailer for the new "Jumanji" movie was released and people immediately declared making the movie an insult to Robin Williams. But nobody seemed to ask what Chris Van Allsburg, who came up with the whole idea for "Jumanji", thought of "Welcome to the Jungle." Apparently, while he had little creative involvement with the movie, he still liked the direction they went with it.
Being nice doesn’t mean being a pushover who’s not allowed to complain.
Granted, it does feel hypocritical considering how Gene Wilder’s film deviated heavily from the book, but sometimes deviating heavily from the book can be a good thing.
Sometimes!
I saw the film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” in theaters, and my sentiments align with Wilder.
Yes, Gene Wilder’s Wonka wasn’t a saint, but he wasn’t a mean-spirited weirdo like Depp’s Wonka was.
Depp’s Wonka was more awkward than charming.
It’s like Depp was trying too hard to be funny, and it fell flat.
Yes, Tim Burton’s adaptation is more faithful to the source material than the 1971 film was, but that doesn’t make it a good film.
It’s like how people loved Kubrick’s “The Shining” despite deviating heavily from the book, but people hated “The Shining” TV series despite being more faithful to the book.
@@beethovensfidelioWell, considering that Wonka shut himself away from society for so long, with nobody to talk to except Oompa Lumpas who don't even talk back, can you blame him for being a bit eccentric?
I’ll admit that I only use the term “guilty pleasure” when talking about movies I love BECAUSE of how bad they are, since that’s different from the TVTropes term “narm charm” where you love a movie IN SPITE of its flaws.
That being said, I get why “guilty pleasure” is a loaded term because it’s used to shame people who unironically enjoy low-brow entertainment.
It’s ok to unironically enjoy bad movies as long as you recognize their flaws.
I still like Star Wars Prequel trilogy, despite the negative reviews.
Even other films like Pocahontas Phantom of the Opera(movie version) Passion of the Christ, did not get alot of positive reviews, but I admired them. ( I wish I bought those up those up earlier.)
Same
I freely admit I tend to have some unpopular opinions about certain movies, usually if I like or don't like something, but often times if I just don't think it's as great or as bad as everyone else does. For instance, I freely admit that I'm not the hugest fan of Princess Mononoke. It's still a good movie, but I don't consider it Miyazaki's best or my favorite. And there are people online who would consider even that opinion blasphemy of the highest order, even though I never said that I hated it or that I think it sucked. It feels like there's a lack of nuance when it comes to a lot of things these days, and it seems like opinions on movies are no exception.
For the record, I like the Tim Burton Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, too.
i'm with ya I've always found inspector gadget genuinely good
I happen to enjoy the Star Wars prequels/sequels, Jurassic Park III, X-Men The Last Stand/Origins Wolverine, The Transformers Films, The Cars films, most of the Fast and Furious films, Shrek The Third/Forever After, Jim Carrey’s Grinch, Mike Myers’ Cat in the Hat, Chicken Little, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3 Predator 2, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, most of Illumination’s library, Batman Forever, the Captain Marvel duology, Peter Jackson’s King Kong and Death To Smoochy despite a good majority of people not liking those films. Thankfully a good chunk of the films I mentioned are getting more praise in recent years.
On the other end of the spectrum, I don’t care for the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy, Toy Story 4, The Social Network, The Blue Sky Horton Hears a Who film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Harry Potter films, The Monsterverse, Jurassic World 2015 and Madagascar 3 despite a good majority of people giving those films praise.
The jokes about “Wish” being written by AI are related to the nonsensical, grammatically incorrect lyrics like “Watch out world, here I are” in the song “I’m A Star”.
It seems like the word “are” was added just to rhyme with “star” despite how awkward and grammatically incorrect it sounds.
In fact, ALL the lyrics of “I’m A Star” represent what happens when you sacrifice grammar and coherency for painful rhymes.
Furthermore, there is this redundant verse in “This is the Thanks I Get”:
🎶 I let you live here for free 🎶
🎶 And I don't even charge you rent 🎶
Well, yeah, Magnifico.
Letting people live in your home for free evidently means you don’t have to charge them rent. 🤦♀️