Unpopular Opinions Thread

[NWBuck 8548]

 

[52-80 19097]

Wes Anderson is a joke.  It's like he's not even trying to make movies anymore, rather, he's trying to make caricatures of the popular notion of what wes anderson is.  i.e., he insists on himself.

 

btw i LOVED rushmore and bottle rocket was cool

[Prepuce of Doom 20988]

33 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

Wes Anderson is a joke.  It's like he's not even trying to make movies anymore, rather, he's trying to make caricatures of the popular notion of what wes anderson is.  i.e., he insists on himself.

 

btw i LOVED rushmore and bottle rocket was cool

If Wes Anderson's fixation with twee affectations were a person, it would be whatever Jeff Goldblum has decided to become over the last 10-20 years. 

[closetohumping 17406]

I think Jerome bettors did actually get the coin toss wrong

 

 

hogan beat sting legitimately 

[Bullneck 18989]

I hate overtime games.  

They have all the time they need in regulation to win or lose. I fucking hate a game that drags on to how many overtimes.  And if your team loses, you had some extra misery to go through.  

[Lone Star Horn 2010]

you like kissing your sister? nttawwt

[Droopy 2624]

On 5/25/2021 at 4:42 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

One day, before I die, I want to watch a sports event on TV where all I hear are the crowd sounds, the whistles, the stadium announcer, the players yelling the play or calling for the ball, and random stuff from the side lines.

Pro Tip: If you have a surround sound system, unplug the middle bar during sporting events. It's like being in the stadium at home. I get little to no announcers or sideline reporter bullshit and I can hear the crowd noise and band since that's the ambient noise being played through my other speakers instead of the announcers.

It's heaven for a sports fan, and I stumbled upon it accidently when messing with my sound system. Your welcome.

[Droopy 2624]

On 6/20/2021 at 9:14 PM, Guadaloopy said:

I could do without Bob Wills’ “call outs” in his music.  

Same. I bet Tommy Duncan hated that mofo sometimes. 😈

 

He's still the King, don't get your panties in a wad. On a side note, I've been playing Bob Wills for my daughter since she was 4 and she loves the shit out of him at 16. 

[TXs 226]

Active posters in the cloak room should be actively sterilized. 

[tbone_ 14026]

Honest question - why do you go there?

[Born to Run 6568]

Active posters in the cloak room should be actively sterilized. 

Avatar checks out.

[TXs 226]

8 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Honest question - why do you go there?

wander there from time to time to see whats going on

[Bullneck 18989]

Janis Joplin sucked.  

[Bullneck 18989]

5 hours ago, TXs said:

wander there from time to time to see whats going on

Snowflake alert!

[Underdog 28457]

13 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Janis Joplin sucked.  

Was she a spitter or swallower?

 

[High Plains Drifter 10981]

 

I'm ok with more bowl games.

I think the college football playoffs should be scrapped, and return to the days of just having bowl games and an AP poll, a coaches poll, a whoever the fuck wants to bother poll.

Get rid of the review, refs call it on the field, play on.

While we're at it, lets get rid of the yellow first down line. And the on screen strike square.

 

[Ignatius 4002]

On 5/25/2021 at 5:42 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

One day, before I die, I want to watch a sports event on TV where all I hear are the crowd sounds, the whistles, the stadium announcer, the players yelling the play or calling for the ball, and random stuff from the side lines.

NBC did this in the early 80s for a Jets-Dolphins game…

[Biff Tannen 45500]

11 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I'm ok with more bowl games.

I think the college football playoffs should be scrapped, and return to the days of just having bowl games and an AP poll, a coaches poll, a whoever the fuck wants to bother poll.

Get rid of the review, refs call it on the field, play on.

While we're at it, lets get rid of the yellow first down line. And the on screen strike square.

 

Wow, this is perfect for this thread.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I'm ok with more bowl games.

I think the college football playoffs should be scrapped, and return to the days of just having bowl games and an AP poll, a coaches poll, a whoever the fuck wants to bother poll.

Get rid of the review, refs call it on the field, play on.

While we're at it, lets get rid of the yellow first down line. And the on screen strike square.

 

I can totally see myself not caring at all about college football come 2031. I'm all for athletes being paid for NIL. It's ridiculous that they weren't. But I also feel like that it's going to get really weird. Honestly don't know why there just isn't an NFL D-league.

Add in conference realignment (not a fan of going to SEC) and the last decade of Longhorn football.

Of course, the team will go 10-2 and I'll be right back into it.

[Jameslaw121 4445]

11 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I'm ok with more bowl games.

I think the college football playoffs should be scrapped, and return to the days of just having bowl games and an AP poll, a coaches poll, a whoever the fuck wants to bother poll.

Get rid of the review, refs call it on the field, play on.

While we're at it, lets get rid of the yellow first down line. And the on screen strike square.

 

Sounds like someone wants another A&M championship....

[NeverMarryAStripper 21781]

11 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I'm ok with more bowl games.

I think the college football playoffs should be scrapped, and return to the days of just having bowl games and an AP poll, a coaches poll, a whoever the fuck wants to bother poll.

Get rid of the review, refs call it on the field, play on.

While we're at it, lets get rid of the yellow first down line. And the on screen strike square.

 

I'm with you on all of that except the on-screen strike square.  I like the strike square for college football broadcasts.

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

58 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I'm all for athletes being paid for NIL. It's ridiculous that they weren't. But I also feel like that it's going to get really weird.

Fuck the NCAA for not seeing this one and creating "rules". It's the Wild West now and it hurts their product.

[Biff Tannen 45500]

3 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Fuck the NCAA for not seeing this one and creating "rules". It's the Wild West now and it hurts their product.

There will be some rules put in place after this first year or two I'm betting.  It is the wild west for sure right now.

[tbone_ 14026]

Fuck the NCAA for not seeing this one and creating "rules". It's the Wild West now and it hurts their product.

NCAA is worthless. It’s because they are worthless that we have this chaotic situation now.

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

17 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

There will be some rules put in place after this first year or two I'm betting.  It is the wild west for sure right now.

Good luck. Once SCOTUS rules, the hill is much steeper. They should have worked with Congress to create a carve-out like MLB/NFL

[Underdog 28457]

I remember the excitement when you heard a certain bowl committee was in town to watch your team/school play, possible extend a bowl invitation afterwards.  All the tie ins kinda kill it now.  

[ztejas 43266]

58 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

There will be some rules put in place after this first year or two I'm betting.  It is the wild west for sure right now.

By who? The NCAA is virtually powerless and could potentially find itself out of the cfb picture entirely. It isn't like there's a CBA with a PA and owners splitting authority. 

[Biff Tannen 45500]

27 minutes ago, ztejas said:

By who? The NCAA is virtually powerless and could potentially find itself out of the cfb picture entirely. It isn't like there's a CBA with a PA and owners splitting authority. 

I don't know.  Some bloke.

[Bullneck 18989]

15 minutes ago, Underdog said:

I remember the excitement when you heard a certain bowl committee was in town to watch your team/school play, possible extend a bowl invitation afterwards.  All the tie ins kinda kill it now.  

Agreed.  

I see SMU is playing Virginia in a bowl.  I thought that was an unusual pairing and checked Stassen Head to Head, which returned a "page not found."  Matchups like that are cool.  Then again, the modern bowl era is what made the 2005 and 2006 Rose Bowls so special.  

[Vic Mackey 46936]

Fuck the NCAA for not seeing this one and creating "rules". It's the Wild West now and it hurts their product.

Fuck the NCAA in every aspect. Corrupt as fuck and do nothing that's good. Good for the players finally getting what is theirs. If it means collapsing the NCAA, bring it on.

[closetohumping 17406]

Taco Bell is garbage yes.  But a crispy taco supreme from there is about as good as any crispy taco your abuelita can make.

[Born to Run 6568]

Taco Bell is garbage yes.  But a crispy taco supreme from there is about as good as any crispy taco your abuelita can make.

Wrong. However the homemade version of this actual beef, ripe tomatoes and better cheese with taco bell style sauce is freaking legit. Gringo af, but I enjoy as much as legit mesquite smoked fajitas, lingua, pastor etc.

I should start a white boy taco comfort food truck

[956 Worldwide 34450]

It’s time for gritty comic book movies to go away.  The subject matter is inherently unserious and it’s tough for me to leave behind the fact that that movie is about a guy who dresses up as an animal and uses ninja/magic to fight themed villains.

If you want to do a deep dive commentary into society and its pathologies and violence then let’s make a mob or other organized crime movie, please. Or a Western. We haven’t had enough of those in a while. 

[TurkeyChew 383]

3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

It’s time for gritty comic book movies to go away.  The subject matter is inherently unserious and it’s tough for me to leave behind the fact that that movie is about a guy who dresses up as an animal and uses ninja/magic to fight themed villains.

If you want to do a deep dive commentary into society and its pathologies and violence then let’s make a mob or other organized crime movie, please. Or a Western. We haven’t had enough of those in a while. 

This is a great take.

[Helobious 9482]

3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

It’s time for gritty comic book movies to go away.  The subject matter is inherently unserious and it’s tough for me to leave behind the fact that that movie is about a guy who dresses up as an animal and uses ninja/magic to fight themed villains.

If you want to do a deep dive commentary into society and its pathologies and violence then let’s make a mob or other organized crime movie, please. Or a Western. We haven’t had enough of those in a while. 

Maybe I’m just too young but a mob movie or western is as unrelatable to me as a gritty comic book movie is to you. Mass shooters, street gangs, cartels is the violence we know.

[956 Worldwide 34450]

16 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Maybe I’m just too young but a mob movie or western is as unrelatable to me as a gritty comic book movie is to you. Mass shooters, street gangs, cartels is the violence we know.

Hell, then do a movie about that. 

[utee94 15746]

I hate mob movies.  And mob TV shows.  Godfather 1 and 2 are about the only ones I can stand.

And yes, I understand that I'm definitely posting this opinion in the correct thread. 

[Underdog 28457]

Not particularly a fan of prime time NFL PO games, miss the days of early Saturday playoff games, same goes for Sunday and fuck the MNF PO game. 

[Vic Mackey 46936]

Not particularly a fan of prime time NFL PO games, miss the days of early Saturday playoff games, same goes for Sunday and fuck the MNF PO game. 

Sounds like you're just getting old lol

[Underdog 28457]

Can't argue with that.

[tbone_ 14026]

I don’t have a problem with playing the game on a Monday night. What I do have a problem with is the shittastic espn mnf production.

[utee94 15746]

On 1/15/2022 at 6:25 PM, tbone_ said:

What I do have a problem with is the shittastic espn mnf production.

The "POPULAR opinions thread" is over there ---->

 

 

[Trey3216 15325]

On 1/13/2022 at 12:42 PM, Helobious said:

Maybe I’m just too young but a mob movie or western is as unrelatable to me as a gritty comic book movie is to you. Mass shooters, street gangs, cartels is the violence we know.

So by putting clown masks and spider webs on the folks it makes it more real?  

[Helobious 9482]

3 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

So by putting clown masks and spider webs on the folks it makes it more real?  

When you’ve grown up watching real people get beheaded on the internet, and looking at dead kids in school shooting crime scene photos, old Italian dudes getting in shootouts and cowboys dueling in the street seems pretty cartoonish as a “gritty exploration of violence”. 

[Trey3216 15325]

6 minutes ago, Helobious said:

When you’ve grown up watching real people get beheaded on the internet, and looking at dead kids in school shooting crime scene photos, old Italian dudes getting in shootouts and cowboys dueling in the street seems pretty cartoonish as a “gritty exploration of violence”. 

When you spend your spare time watching people get beheaded on the internet and looking at dead kids, you need to look at how you spend your spare time.  

[Helobious 9482]

4 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

When you spend your spare time watching people get beheaded on the internet and looking at dead kids, you need to look at how you spend your spare time.  

It’s not something I do at all anymore but when you’re a teenager on the internet it’s easy to get lost in some rabbit holes. Several murders (Virginia Beach, Cleveland) and that mosque shooting were live-streamed, if you’re on social media you might see some shit without really trying to. 

[Guest Lobo]

Yeah, I never seek that shit out...but that's a good point possibly for a more serious thread.  I think I saw one piece of video footage of a real-life murder as a kid.  By the time videos on the internet of shit like that became easier to find in my teens/20's, I never sought them out, and they never found me. 

Now, I have to actively be ready to close a window or shut off the TV because some benign "The following may be disturbing to some viewers." My brain says, "Oh, it's foul language, partial nudity, or a fist-fight.  No biggie, kids are in the other room..."  And then nope, it's more than just "may be disturbing"...it's a cop shooting somebody in the back, a classroom full of dead children, somebody cutting off a head in Syria, some man beating a woman nearly to death on a bus.  I can't watch shit like that, but you just click on a newsstory these days and BAM, there it is...shit that wouldn't have been allowed with 100 yards of a news station years ago....and now it's so commonplace, you get a fucking pop-up menu after you hit close, 'Are you sure you want to close this video of multiple genital mutilations?'  

[Guest]

That Super Bowl performance? Meh... and I grew up with those songs.

Those songs seem very dated to me. Know how Beatles or Rolling Stones hold up? Those songs don't. As well, it's one thing for an old dude to rock behind a guitar. High-energy rapping when you're 60 and getting heavier just seems... weird. 

I thought Snoop and Kendrick Lamar killed it. Eminem is Eminem.

Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, and Mary J. Blige? It just looked bad to me.

[Tom 2959]

On 2/15/2022 at 9:03 AM, FirstTimeCaller said:

That Super Bowl performance? Meh... and I grew up with those songs.

Those songs seem very dated to me. Know how Beatles or Rolling Stones hold up? Those songs don't. As well, it's one thing for an old dude to rock behind a guitar. High-energy rapping when you're 60 and getting heavier just seems... weird. 

I thought Snoop and Kendrick Lamar killed it. Eminem is Eminem.

Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, and Mary J. Blige? It just looked bad to me.

 

They were also really bad at lip syncing.  I realize all Super Bowl halftime performances are probably lip syncs, but at least try to sell it.  Dre standing up and walking away from a piano while it still plays, Eminem pulling the mic away from his mouth while he keeps rapping.  Lots of mess ups.

[Helobious 9482]

On 2/15/2022 at 9:03 AM, FirstTimeCaller said:

That Super Bowl performance? Meh... and I grew up with those songs.

Those songs seem very dated to me. Know how Beatles or Rolling Stones hold up? Those songs don't. As well, it's one thing for an old dude to rock behind a guitar. High-energy rapping when you're 60 and getting heavier just seems... weird. 

I thought Snoop and Kendrick Lamar killed it. Eminem is Eminem.

Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, and Mary J. Blige? It just looked bad to me.

Right thread to say this… I don’t like the Stones or the Beatles. And there’s old music I do like but they never did it for me.