Controversial TV/Film Opinions

[Timothy Hunter]

Season 5 of Breaking Bad is the best season of the show, despite the admittedly undercooked Nazi prison gang villains.

Each episode is masterpiece after masterpiece, featuring some of the most memorable moments of the entire show (spoilers) the train robbery, taking out the police station with magnets, Walt's exile, Jessie's imprisonment, that meeting at the restaurant between Walt and Hank, Jessie revealing how he was joined his support group to sell drugs, etc.

Everyone talks about how Ozymandias was the best episode of the series, but in my opinion that honor goes to 51. Skyler might be the most underappreciated character In the show. Her guilt as an accessory to Walt's actions as a drug kingpin have been building up since season 3 and with this episode have reached the boiling point.

[Jim Kelly]

Some T.V. shows I've never watched (like BREAKING BAD) have been talked about so much in the public fora that I'm past the point of ever wanting to watch them.

[TheRay]

Based on what - a bunch of 'roided out toys

Not sure what that first part is supposed to mean, but we’ve been touching on that second part. It’s not feasible to base an entire show around just toy sales alone.

[Kirby101]

Some T.V. shows I've never watched (like BREAKING BAD) have been talked about so much in the public fora that I'm past the point of ever wanting to watch them.

Your loss. Would you not watch The Godfather or Citizen Kane because they were talked about too much? Star Wars might be the most talked about movie ever, would you tell someone who never saw the OT to not bother because of all the chatter?

[Kirby101]

Not sure what that first part is supposed to mean, but we’ve been touching on that second part. It’s not feasible to base an entire show around just toy sales alone.

roided out, as in they all look like steroid addicted, gym rats.

[Zelena]

Your loss. Would you not watch The Godfather or Citizen Kane because they were talked about too much? Star Wars might be the most talked about movie ever, would you tell someone who never saw the OT to not bother because of all the chatter?

I never watched “Titanic” and I’m not interested… At the time, they talked about a lot and… lack of suspens?

[Kirby101]

I never watched “Titanic” and I’m not interested… At the time, they talked about a lot and… lack of suspens?

Are you not going to watch because you have no interest in it. Or because it was talked about too much?

Are people not going to The Batman because it is talked about too much? Is this ever a reason to not see something?

[Sutekh]

I never watched “Titanic” and I’m not interested… At the time, they talked about a lot and… lack of suspense?

Spoiler alert. The boat sinks.

But seriously, I feel the same way. I'm just ornery and contrary by nature, and love all sorts of unpopular movies, but haven't seen (or wanted to see) Godfather, Citizen Kane or Titanic. It was at least a decade before I saw ET, and by the time I did, I was like 'meh.'

[ed2962]

Tameron Hall has a new show on Court TV called "Someone They Knew" and seems like it's a replacement "Judgement with Ashleigh Banfield". However, I'm pretty sure the set she walks around is an old "Dateline" set.

[Zelena]

Are you not going to watch because you have no interest in it. Or because it was talked about too much?

Probably, first and foremost, because I have no interest in it… But it’s irritating that people expect you to do something… because almost everybody does it.

And they talked so much about Titanic, I had the impression to have already seen it…

But seriously, I feel the same way. I'm just ornery and contrary by nature, and love all sorts of unpopular movies, but haven't seen (or wanted to see) Godfather, Citizen Kane or Titanic. It was at least a decade before I saw ET, and by the time I did, I was like 'meh.'

I watched Citizen Kane, though… not a bad movie, but I didn’t understand the high praise about it. I guess a movie makes you feel for very personal reasons…

[Sutekh]

I watched Citizen Kane, though… not a bad movie, but I didn’t understand the high praise about it. I guess a movie makes you feel for very personal reasons…

Of all the movies that get talked up all the time and I haven't seen, Casablanca is the only one that intrigues me enough to give it a shot someday.

And then there are shows that are insanely popular with my generation / peer group and quoted all the time like Princess Bride that I. Cannot. Stand.

[Catlady in training]

Your loss. Would you not watch The Godfather or Citizen Kane because they were talked about too much? Star Wars might be the most talked about movie ever, would you tell someone who never saw the OT to not bother because of all the chatter?

I watched both The Godfather and Citizen Kane and I consider them to be some of the most overrated movies ever. But I also consider Watchmen to be terribly overrated, so there you go.

[Ikari]

I saw Godfather 1 in its entirety only years after GF2, and I did consider it very slightly overrated, it was great and had some very memorable performances and scenes, but sometimes the dialogue and plot felt 'old-fashioned' in not a good way, simplified and dumbed-down like in a 1930s movie. However, I think Godfather 2 is really as good as they say.

A popular movie which I think is big time overrated is Gladiator. It's not a bad movie, but the plot was pretty dumb at places, some of the dialogue was pretty banal and its take on history of Rome was quite nonsensical. Also, the final battle was weak and anticlimatic after some of the earlier fights.

[TheRay]

Songs, much like romance scenes, can be gratuitous.

[godisawesome]

Probably, first and foremost, because I have no interest in it… But it’s irritating that people expect you to do something… because almost everybody does it.

And they talked so much about Titanic, I had the impression to have already seen it…


I watched Citizen Kane, though… not a bad movie, but I didn’t understand the high praise about it. I guess a movie makes you feel for very personal reasons…

Citizen Kane often gets "precedent defining" types of praise - it incorporated a genuinely mind-numbing amount of innovation in film-making at the time, with those pioneered techniques and styles impacting all successive movies. It's a bit like someone praising Jurassic Park for its CGI today; an initially dynamic and astounding achievement that has now become so commonplace that other, more basic elements of film-making and storytelling are praised for it instead.

And I think that's kind of Citizen Kane's problem compared to other Orson Welles films: strip away Welles's experimentation on the technical side, and it's another example of a "rich privileged ******* character study," and while a good one, that genre isn't as memorable or praised as some critics would prefer it would be. Like, his film Film of Evil has a much more mesmerizing story, but it wasn't the one that was as experimental as Citizen Kane, and frnakly, even a solid noir is seen as a genre film.