The 50 Most Boring Opinions In Geek Culture - Part I
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50. What didn't help was that a LOT of stuff from the past 20 years has also tried to copy DBZ, unaware of what made it work. So far no series has even come CLOSE to matching it.
49. It's like reiterating that "Plan 9 is the best bad movie ever." We all know it, so it's redundant to say it.
48. True, people seem to forget CONTEXT
47. But they were still dumb
46. Didn't ruin them, but he didn't help
45. The Hobbit also lacks the scale of WW2. Plus having to use the questionable Lost Tales to pad out running time just makes they argument more obvious
44. Again, obvious and just done to death
43. See 44.
42. See 43
41. More like "Because JAPAN likes cutscenes they ruin games" Though no one has the balls to actually just ADMIT they're a bigot
40. No comment
39. See 42
38. Indeed
37. Still doesn't keep it from being true
36. Never heard that one
35. See 39
34. Dear lord Emmerich that movie was dumb
33. People need to get over this
32. Troopers, the ultimate in satire
31. See 35
30. Reminds me of how gutless the Academy is
29. And it still doesn't change that the Adam West Batman was not good on its own merits. It was liked because it was so BAD it was hilarious
28. Whatever
27. See 31
26. It's the new bullet time; overexposed
25. And it still doesn't change the fact that it's been floundering in terms of writing for a VERY long time now
49. It's like reiterating that "Plan 9 is the best bad movie ever." We all know it, so it's redundant to say it.
48. True, people seem to forget CONTEXT
47. But they were still dumb
46. Didn't ruin them, but he didn't help
45. The Hobbit also lacks the scale of WW2. Plus having to use the questionable Lost Tales to pad out running time just makes they argument more obvious
44. Again, obvious and just done to death
43. See 44.
42. See 43
41. More like "Because JAPAN likes cutscenes they ruin games" Though no one has the balls to actually just ADMIT they're a bigot
40. No comment
39. See 42
38. Indeed
37. Still doesn't keep it from being true
36. Never heard that one
35. See 39
34. Dear lord Emmerich that movie was dumb
33. People need to get over this
32. Troopers, the ultimate in satire
31. See 35
30. Reminds me of how gutless the Academy is
29. And it still doesn't change that the Adam West Batman was not good on its own merits. It was liked because it was so BAD it was hilarious
28. Whatever
27. See 31
26. It's the new bullet time; overexposed
25. And it still doesn't change the fact that it's been floundering in terms of writing for a VERY long time now
I can't help but feel that Movie Bob is being just a little bit...ah...what's the word I'm looking for...judgmental? Yeah kind of. Also Movie Bob, a compliant being "boring" doesn't make it any less valid. I'm not going to shut up after we hit a magical number of times we're allowed to say something before it is deemed boring and generic.
Well here in South America, the Simpsons stopped being good after a strike at the translation studio that ended up with the firing of the whole cast except the Kent Brockman voice. So whether or not quality changed we still mark the "downfall" by that event here.
Personally the most boring geek opinions I hear are those "best games list" ones. Where people always pick the games we've heard EVERYONE else pick too. I'm always more interested in "alternative" list and picks from people who have played anything other than critical darlings.
"Oh, the best ps1 game in your list is metal gear solid/final fantasy VII? *SNORE*"
"Oh, the best ps1 game in your list is metal gear solid/final fantasy VII? *SNORE*"
This article deserves all the slow claps. My only question is what 25 arguments could you possibly have up your sleeve that are more tired and less interesting than the ones listed here. I suppose I could think of a handful... 'George Lucas needs to leave Star Wars alone'; and 'The plot of 2012 is bullshit', but beyond that I'm struggling.
There is a point behind it. If you want to make a point, you only start hurting your own cause after you've made it so many times that people are just going to resent it.erttheking said:
Sorry, but I refuse to keep my mouth shut about an opinion just because a million other people think it. They probably think it for a reason.NinjaDeathSlap said:
#35 is actually kind of important. It's similar to the outcry over SOPA earlier this year and the effect that that had to stop the passage of the bill. Or even the supreme court's ruling that games are in fact art. As long as politicians don't let this topic go, neither should geek culture. Oh sure it's a boring and pointless argument, but as long as it's attacked, we need to defend it.
Opinion is a great thing. I've heard every one has some sort of opinion about things. Good to see your opinions Bob.
I didnt know that Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption and Forrest Gump were both up for the same Oscar. That must have been a crazy year
Both are great, I loved the book. But its so much different. They fight the same bugs, but where the movie is more propaganda the book deals with citizenship and responsibility to the govermentShameless said:
People actually say this? Who and what color is the rock they live under? People never took comics seriously. They were entertainment for children. The idea that adults read that stuff is a relatively new thing, although it's a movement that started as far back as the 60's.
This statement is so incorrect that it baffles me. I mean griping about the Adam West series is boring and overdone, but that causation is attributed to it is just plain wrong. The series didn't cause people to stop taking comics seriously. People didn't take comic book super heroes seriously and when they made the series, this was the format they went with.
Chances are, the series got made because theater owners took to running old serials, including the old Batman serials. The audience was laughing at how corny these things were. I mean, just look:
It probably didn't take long for the rights holder to catch wind of this and pitch the idea of a Batman television series that was a comedy.
Another factor was how the comics code authority defanged the comics industry when it was under threat of being censored by the government. If that had happened, it would have been bad, but the CCA did it's own damage that removed all possibility of comics being anything but pap for kids. The entirety of the 50's was this kind of safe crap. To blame that on a tangential television show rather than the other way around is ridiculous.
41. Cutscenes ruin videogames and are unnecessary.
No, bad cutscenes do that. Used properly, cutscenes can be a nice reward, a good way to expand a story or (at worst) a harmless auteur indulgence. It's been argued that cutscenes make games "impure" by injecting a passive art form (movies) into an interactive one. I wonder if people who think so also object to movies being made impure by the occasional inclusion of songs.
Is like it wass copied from a post i made when it was posted here that Guillermo del toro didn't like cutscenes in games. I didn't know it was a comun argument.
31. There are no good videogame movies because _____.
Whaat!? Not any more, Silent Hill Revelations dude.
No, bad cutscenes do that. Used properly, cutscenes can be a nice reward, a good way to expand a story or (at worst) a harmless auteur indulgence. It's been argued that cutscenes make games "impure" by injecting a passive art form (movies) into an interactive one. I wonder if people who think so also object to movies being made impure by the occasional inclusion of songs.
Is like it wass copied from a post i made when it was posted here that Guillermo del toro didn't like cutscenes in games. I didn't know it was a comun argument.
31. There are no good videogame movies because _____.
Whaat!? Not any more, Silent Hill Revelations dude.
Three of the most boring opinions in my little corner of fandom are:
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion is a dumb show / Shinji Ikari is an annoying character
2. Visual novels are just weird, Japanese porn
3. The Warhammer 40k universe takes itself too seriously
Those are obscure enough that I doubt Bob will include them, though I run into them constantly. I could maybe see him including
1. The Matrix sequels ruined a great franchise
2. Metroid: Other M was bad because it was sexist
3. WRPGs are better than JRPGs because they give you choices and don't have anime characters
4. Final Fantasy VII is the best game ever (though that might contradict number 44)
5. LARPers are horrible weirdos
6. Batman is better when he's portrayed "realistically"
7. Alan Moore is a saintlike genius and everything he says is unquestionably true
Oh, and one that personally bugs the hell out of me from hearing it so many times
1. Final Fantasy XIII was the worst game ever because it was linear, overlong, and narratively confusing
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion is a dumb show / Shinji Ikari is an annoying character
2. Visual novels are just weird, Japanese porn
3. The Warhammer 40k universe takes itself too seriously
Those are obscure enough that I doubt Bob will include them, though I run into them constantly. I could maybe see him including
1. The Matrix sequels ruined a great franchise
2. Metroid: Other M was bad because it was sexist
3. WRPGs are better than JRPGs because they give you choices and don't have anime characters
4. Final Fantasy VII is the best game ever (though that might contradict number 44)
5. LARPers are horrible weirdos
6. Batman is better when he's portrayed "realistically"
7. Alan Moore is a saintlike genius and everything he says is unquestionably true
Oh, and one that personally bugs the hell out of me from hearing it so many times
1. Final Fantasy XIII was the worst game ever because it was linear, overlong, and narratively confusing
Really? Ugh. Ruined my day (hellfire not withstanding). Not that the movie was great anyway, but... Really?
I think my biggest movie pet-pieve is when I find out a director or editor has cut a piece out of the film that actually would have made it better, usually for stupid reasons like pacing or momentum.
Like in The Terminator where Sarah runs away from Reese and they end up by a creek, establishing the only scene in the film that would have taken place in a non-urban setting, and Michael Biehn gets a monologue about what's really at stake and a crying close-up that probably could have helped his non-Cameron career.
Or even in Star Wars, there was (what I think is) a much better introduction to Luke that showed him in his natural habitat and what type of person he was when interacting with non-androids-or-space-adventurers. That scene also had a set-up for Biggs (that dude on Yavin that Luke gets all hot in his pants to see, then who dies a few minutes later and you're left thinking "Was I supposed to care about that guy? Could have used a pre-third act introduction.)
Also, that scene in The Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis uses his ghost powers to walk through the walls of a jail to break that kid out, and he has to shoot ectoplasm out of his eyes to fend off the guards, and then they fly over the... k that may have been a smart cut.
Point is, it's critic pandering. Most of your audience does not give a shit about pacing. Half of them probably don't even know what that is. It wasn't worth the trade.
I wonder if that's a boring opinion.
Opinions are like assholes... just full of shit.