A list of unpopular opinons
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arabianI'm bummed with my life and trying to get over it so, a list/meme/whatever you want to call it.
- I do not get the George Clooney love. At all. Ever. He's good-looking, but nothing devastating or amazing or gorgeous. He's a good actor, but nothing to write home about. He's charming, but not so ridiculously charismatic. And, yes, I've seen just about everything he's ever done. I have a good friend who used to be his neighbor and he apparently is a truly great guy, so I don't have a beef with him. I just don't get why he's considered so awesome, so fabulous, so the greatest, so the best. Frankly, he kinda bores me now.
- I do not get the Johnny Depp love. I watched 21 Jump Street like many a gal my age, and while everyone else was creaming themselves over Depp, I liked ... Peter Deluise. Yes, Peter Deluise. I do think that Depp is good-looking, but not gorgeous or sexy or beautiful. I do think he's a good actor, but not outstanding or awesome or worthy of all of his acting noms. I do think he's charismatic, but not the be-all and end-all of charisma.
- On that note, no! practically every frickin' review I've read about them ... I did NOT watch any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies because of Johnny Depp. I saw the first one for one reason and one alone: Orlando Bloom. I watched the others because I liked the first and I LOVE Orlando Bloom. And browsing threads here and there on various boards: Stupid movie critics, I wasn't the only person who watched PotC for Orlando Bloom and NOT Johnny Depp. I'm not saying that more people didn't watch it for Depp, but he wasn't the only reason at all. Yeah, yeah, Orlando's had duds, but you know what? So has Johnny Depp when it's not a BIG MOVIE! or have the name Tim Burton attached to it. So can we please give Orlando and his teeny-bopper+target demographic women-pleasing ways some credit as well?
- I do think that Amy Winehouse can sing; however I find her material of 60's type of music practically a parody and the marrying of that style of music + inventive profanity (what kind of fuckery is this indeed?) actually turned me off of the album.
- I love Celine Dion and I'm damn proud to say so. I love her voice, I love most of her songs, I love her exuberance, I love her utter lack of self-consciousness, I love her spastic dancing, I love her over-the-top-ness, I love her ballads, I love the fact that she sticks to her gun. I love Celine Dion. And "My Heart Will Go On" is great song, damnit!
- Speaking of ... Titanic is NOT a piece of shit and DID deserve to win the Oscar. Sure, it didn't have the best dialogue in the world and Billy Zane did really, really bad in the film ... but you know what? The best picture Oscar used to mean something ... it used to mean that this was a film for the ages, this was a film that transcended just being great, and was one that swept you away into a world of movie-making magic that could be found nowhere else. Titanic did that like no other movie had in years!!
- And on THAT note, it's complete crock of shit that Gladiator won best picture. Great action movie? Hell to the yeah! Great movie? Uh, no. Dude, it was an action movie. A very-well made one with some great performances, but it was not a BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR movie, especially when up against the sheer wonder and beauty of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeah, what I said above about why Titanic deserved the Oscar, doubly goes for CTHD -- that move transcended greatness and took viewers to another place and time that could not have been created in any other medium.
- Still on Oscars ... Shakespeare in Love soooooooo deserved the win over Saving Private Ryan. SPR was a great war movie, a great movie, yes, but SiL was an original, a delight, with one of the best scripts and joyous tones that a movie had had in ages. However, Gwyneth Paltrow did NOT deserve the Oscar over Cate Blanchett ... no way, no how.
- And that pink Oscar dress looked horrible on Paltrow, too pale, too insipid, washed her out, emphasized her lack of bust and looked a size or two too big for her.
- Alex O'Loughlin does absolutely nothing for me. He's mildly good-looking, has very little charisma. He looks to me like a big, blank hounddog. I also think he's mostly an okay actor. I don't get the fuss. I really, really, really don't. Seems like a lovely, lovely guy though.
- I do not believe that Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have a lick of sexual chemistry. I buy them as brothers, but don't see even a hint of HoYay! and I have no idea why so many do. And I did watch the first two seasons of Supernatural.
- I think that Jack on Lost is one of the most tool-ish, asshole-ish characters to ever be scripted for television. He is the main reason that I stopped watching Lost. Yup, that's right. I actually thought the other islander stuff was kinda interesting and was willing to see where they went with it, but nope, my Jack-hate is too strong.
- I have NEVER liked Tom Cruise. Lovely to be in vogue now, but imagine being a Cruise-hater when everyone else loved him? 'Twas torture.
- I think that Season two of Veronica Mars was thematically and overall worse than Season three.
- On that note, I fully, firmly and 100% believe that the last Logan/Veronica scene was a crystal-clear anvil from Rob Thomas that, yes, Logan and Veronica WOULD be getting back together, because, YES!, Logan and Veronica DO belong together.
- I think that daytime television has some of THE finest actors working today.
- I love The Office, but I think it's way over-rated.
- On that note, I like Pam and Jim, but think that they are WAAAAAY over-rated. Dwight/Angela and Ryan/Kelly interest me more.
- I think other than just falling in love with Elizabeth and the Elizabeth/Will story in Pirates of the Carribean, Keira Knightly is the worst high-profile overpraised actress in the industry right now.
- I think the sixth book of the Harry Potter series was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. It read to me like J.K.Rowling had a deadline to meet and she was rushing to get to it. On the other hand, even being a Harry/Hermione shipper, I liked most of the last book except for two things: The god-awful epilogue, and especially Mrs. Weasley pulling an Aliens-esque "get away from her, you bitch!" moment. That was pretty much terrible.
- As much as I adore Idina Menzel, I think that Rent is extremely over-rated. Like E-X-T-R-E-M-E-L-Y.
- Finally, I like when singers on American Idol do the big power notes ... as long as they stay in key (Carly Smithson, and scores of countless other past Idolists who were praised none-the-less by a suddenly tone-deaf trio of judges, that means I am NOT talking to you).
I'm not tagging anyone, but feel free to do your own version. 'Twould be fun to read.
- I do not get the George Clooney love. At all. Ever. He's good-looking, but nothing devastating or amazing or gorgeous. He's a good actor, but nothing to write home about. He's charming, but not so ridiculously charismatic. And, yes, I've seen just about everything he's ever done. I have a good friend who used to be his neighbor and he apparently is a truly great guy, so I don't have a beef with him. I just don't get why he's considered so awesome, so fabulous, so the greatest, so the best. Frankly, he kinda bores me now.
- I do not get the Johnny Depp love. I watched 21 Jump Street like many a gal my age, and while everyone else was creaming themselves over Depp, I liked ... Peter Deluise. Yes, Peter Deluise. I do think that Depp is good-looking, but not gorgeous or sexy or beautiful. I do think he's a good actor, but not outstanding or awesome or worthy of all of his acting noms. I do think he's charismatic, but not the be-all and end-all of charisma.
- On that note, no! practically every frickin' review I've read about them ... I did NOT watch any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies because of Johnny Depp. I saw the first one for one reason and one alone: Orlando Bloom. I watched the others because I liked the first and I LOVE Orlando Bloom. And browsing threads here and there on various boards: Stupid movie critics, I wasn't the only person who watched PotC for Orlando Bloom and NOT Johnny Depp. I'm not saying that more people didn't watch it for Depp, but he wasn't the only reason at all. Yeah, yeah, Orlando's had duds, but you know what? So has Johnny Depp when it's not a BIG MOVIE! or have the name Tim Burton attached to it. So can we please give Orlando and his teeny-bopper+target demographic women-pleasing ways some credit as well?
- I do think that Amy Winehouse can sing; however I find her material of 60's type of music practically a parody and the marrying of that style of music + inventive profanity (what kind of fuckery is this indeed?) actually turned me off of the album.
- I love Celine Dion and I'm damn proud to say so. I love her voice, I love most of her songs, I love her exuberance, I love her utter lack of self-consciousness, I love her spastic dancing, I love her over-the-top-ness, I love her ballads, I love the fact that she sticks to her gun. I love Celine Dion. And "My Heart Will Go On" is great song, damnit!
- Speaking of ... Titanic is NOT a piece of shit and DID deserve to win the Oscar. Sure, it didn't have the best dialogue in the world and Billy Zane did really, really bad in the film ... but you know what? The best picture Oscar used to mean something ... it used to mean that this was a film for the ages, this was a film that transcended just being great, and was one that swept you away into a world of movie-making magic that could be found nowhere else. Titanic did that like no other movie had in years!!
- And on THAT note, it's complete crock of shit that Gladiator won best picture. Great action movie? Hell to the yeah! Great movie? Uh, no. Dude, it was an action movie. A very-well made one with some great performances, but it was not a BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR movie, especially when up against the sheer wonder and beauty of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeah, what I said above about why Titanic deserved the Oscar, doubly goes for CTHD -- that move transcended greatness and took viewers to another place and time that could not have been created in any other medium.
- Still on Oscars ... Shakespeare in Love soooooooo deserved the win over Saving Private Ryan. SPR was a great war movie, a great movie, yes, but SiL was an original, a delight, with one of the best scripts and joyous tones that a movie had had in ages. However, Gwyneth Paltrow did NOT deserve the Oscar over Cate Blanchett ... no way, no how.
- And that pink Oscar dress looked horrible on Paltrow, too pale, too insipid, washed her out, emphasized her lack of bust and looked a size or two too big for her.
- Alex O'Loughlin does absolutely nothing for me. He's mildly good-looking, has very little charisma. He looks to me like a big, blank hounddog. I also think he's mostly an okay actor. I don't get the fuss. I really, really, really don't. Seems like a lovely, lovely guy though.
- I do not believe that Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have a lick of sexual chemistry. I buy them as brothers, but don't see even a hint of HoYay! and I have no idea why so many do. And I did watch the first two seasons of Supernatural.
- I think that Jack on Lost is one of the most tool-ish, asshole-ish characters to ever be scripted for television. He is the main reason that I stopped watching Lost. Yup, that's right. I actually thought the other islander stuff was kinda interesting and was willing to see where they went with it, but nope, my Jack-hate is too strong.
- I have NEVER liked Tom Cruise. Lovely to be in vogue now, but imagine being a Cruise-hater when everyone else loved him? 'Twas torture.
- I think that Season two of Veronica Mars was thematically and overall worse than Season three.
- On that note, I fully, firmly and 100% believe that the last Logan/Veronica scene was a crystal-clear anvil from Rob Thomas that, yes, Logan and Veronica WOULD be getting back together, because, YES!, Logan and Veronica DO belong together.
- I think that daytime television has some of THE finest actors working today.
- I love The Office, but I think it's way over-rated.
- On that note, I like Pam and Jim, but think that they are WAAAAAY over-rated. Dwight/Angela and Ryan/Kelly interest me more.
- I think other than just falling in love with Elizabeth and the Elizabeth/Will story in Pirates of the Carribean, Keira Knightly is the worst high-profile overpraised actress in the industry right now.
- I think the sixth book of the Harry Potter series was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. It read to me like J.K.Rowling had a deadline to meet and she was rushing to get to it. On the other hand, even being a Harry/Hermione shipper, I liked most of the last book except for two things: The god-awful epilogue, and especially Mrs. Weasley pulling an Aliens-esque "get away from her, you bitch!" moment. That was pretty much terrible.
- As much as I adore Idina Menzel, I think that Rent is extremely over-rated. Like E-X-T-R-E-M-E-L-Y.
- Finally, I like when singers on American Idol do the big power notes ... as long as they stay in key (Carly Smithson, and scores of countless other past Idolists who were praised none-the-less by a suddenly tone-deaf trio of judges, that means I am NOT talking to you).
I'm not tagging anyone, but feel free to do your own version. 'Twould be fun to read.
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Date: 2008-03-03 01:47 am (UTC)First and foremost, why the hell Veronica Mars -- THE Veronica Mars that I fell in love with in Season one -- would date a guy who practically date-raped her, left her there to suffer the consequences, ignored her for a year, then made her pain about the rape all about HIM!!!
Honestly, I was pissed but not at all surprised because...A Trip to the Dentist and Leave It to Beaver. She tells Logan it was feelings and nature, pretty much taking ALL blame away from Duncan; then she goes out of her way to tell him that they weren't siblings in the S1 finale. Really, we all (and Logan, apparently) should've seen it coming.
My big problem with S3 is that none of it was logical- it was a grand case of the writers doing shit in order to suit their purposes (see: everything Veronica and Logan did). For me, after S&E, it was like they were the writers of ML- an ep by ep storyline basis, with no clear outline or overall knowledge of what would happen.
And then there's the fact that, you know, the whole Piz/Parker rebound thing would've made a hellava lot more sense after S&E instead of for the final five eps ever, but I'm not bitter at all.