Topic: Other Unpopular Opinions (tech and non-gaming media) v2

@N00BiSH Truthfully, the interconnected nature of the MCU has kind of prevented me from getting into it. I think in its current state, it is a perfect example of how to not do an interconnected story. At this point, catching up to the newest releases can involve watching dozens of hours of movies and TV shows, which is just a lot to ask of moviegoers. The whole setup is also inconvenient for other reasons. What if you want to watch an MCU film with someone who hasn't seen any? Your options to pick are going to be very limited, or else the friend will be very confused.

I've grown to hate the phrase "who asked for this," and "nobody asked for this." Because in reality, there is always somebody asking for something. I'm seeing these phrases thrown around a lot with the Smurfs movie on YouTube, and honestly, I'm kind of tired of it.

Speaking of Smurfs, since it's an unpopular opinion, I am genuinely excited for this movie. Love the cute new look they gave the Smurfs. Also, really hate the backlash this movie is getting. I wonder why I don't watch movie or cartoon related YouTubers.

Ever since seeing Smurfs: The Lost Village, I love the Smurfs, I play the games, I watch the 2021 cartoon, watch the classic cartoons. Honestly, I'm excited for this movie even if that's a really unpopular opinion.

@Sunsy
I think the people who said "Who asked for this?" or "Nobody asked for this" are the peoples who have detestation with certain franchise or they are too cool to accept the stuffs that being liked by certain peoples.

Haters gonna hate but we can stay focus on liking the stuffs we like regardless of their opinions.
Also, I wonder if we will get another Smurfs movie again and new Smurfs video games again.

@Anti-Matter Indeed, I consider it a form of coping. By saying "nobody asked for this," comes off as "I didn't ask for this, therefore, no one asked for it" to me. Still people do ask for something, especially when it's from a series they like. Funnily enough, the only place I notice hate towards Smurfs is just YouTube itself, that's it. Once again, I wonder why I really don't watch movie and cartoon YouTubers. Reason, they're usually negative over said subjects.

Indeed. I don't know if there's a new Smurfs game based on the movie, but we've been getting lots of Smurfs games lately. Mission Vileaf, Prisoner of the Green Stone, Smurfs Kart, Smurfs Dreams to name a few.

Not to mention Smurfs is really popular in Europe AFAIK.

@Sunsy yeah, The Smurfs were a big deal in Europe, but I've never understood why that, out of the big 4 Franco-Belgian comics, was the one the States decided to make big and popular. I feel more people would've gravitated towards Tintin and Asterix more than The Smurfs.

I think it's just because the Smurfs are a lot more kid-friendly and instantly accessible than Tintin or Asterix, it's something that Hollywood studios can market really easily with the sheer amount of easy to understand characters. By comparison, Tintin is a more mature and grounded adventure series aimed at tweens and teens, and Asterix is so European-centric in its humor that it feels too inaccessible for the States.

Personally speaking, I do wish the Tintin movie made a bigger splash than it did though. I guess the motion capture just wasn't really doing it for people.

Yeah, when people say stuff like that or 'nobody uses/likes x any more' (that's x as in [blank], not Twitter), it just shows that they're assuming that if they're not interested in something then nobody is, which is obviously nonsense. Especially with TV, a lot of people seem to think that everyone exclusively uses streaming now, which is a bit annoying to me in particular as I still watch live TV and DVDs and prefer them to streaming in many ways.

@N00BiSH What's the fourth cartoon, given you mention Tin Tin and Asterix? I do know about Asterix's GBA game when I stumbled across an article about it years ago (amazing, 3D platformer on a GBA from what I remember).

@Dogorilla I agree, if anything I consider it a form of coping. "Nobody asked for this," just comes off as "I didn't ask for this," to me. It comes off as selfish too. That's cool, I actually use streaming to watch TV shows, but I still do buy DVDs and Blu-Rays of movies and shows I like. I do know people who still use live TV.

Still excited for the new Smurfs movie even if others aren't, if there is one complaint I have, it's the lack of The Lost Village Smurfs, since they've been incorporated into comics, cartoons, and even the games. Otherwise looking forward to it. Kind of glad an unpopular opinion thread for other stuff exists.

@Sunsy The fourth big Frano-Belgian comic was Lucky Luke, a bunch of silly cowboy stories. That probably would've killed in the states.

@N00BiSH Haven't head of Lucky Luke - I'd assumed the fourth would've been Marsupilami, which I vaguely remember seeing around when I was a kid

@N00BiSH Cool, I never heard of Lucky Luke.

@dmcc0 I have heard of Marsupilami, mostly because of the old Disney show.

a couple of things on my mind lately:

• lots of ppl complain about the refs in the nfl rigging games but I think there's a good chance its all scripted. every person an actor. theres just too much money on the line especially now w the rise of online sports gambling. so how do they keep everyone from spilling the beans? by them signing nda's. legally its listed as entertainment and not sport also. I wonder why. so why did they let the eagles win? ppl were starting to catch on to refs favoring the chiefs. I fear this might be happening to college football but I'm not sure. peewee and highschool might be the only authentic football left.
• movies have been dead to me since maybe the late 00s. the writing has gone down hill and theres something about the current aesthetic thats very sterile and boring. Ive made a list of best film for every year and I've resorted to the 2010s and 2020s being only youtube vids bc theres just nothing that interests me. far more creativity even though theyre not technically films.

@Sunsy I'm in the UK, and I mostly remember Smurfs from the 80s cartoon. It's one of those things that seems to get a boost in popularity every decade or so where, out of nowhere, there's a bunch of new Smurfs media appears.

Asterix doesn't seem as popular, but it was probably my favourite - I remember my local library had loads of the comics when I was growing up and I think there were a couple of animated movies, or maybe a cartoon too. I don't see as much of it around now, but there's still a few Asterix video games.

I was aware of Tin Tin, but it wasn't really something I particularly liked to be honest - I'm not sure why though.

Marsupilami isn't one I particularly remember that well. To be honest, I'd totally forgotten about it until the game came out a few years ago and jogged my memory. I'm not sure exactly what or where I've seen it, but a vaguely remember seeing...something Marsupilami related when I was a kid.

@Pastellioli Indeed, though the case with Smurfs, it's been pretty active in recent years. There's been a new cartoon in 2021 (which has to be successful, it's getting a third season), new video games I actually own a few of them too. They even introduced new smurfs in Smurfs: The Lost Village, which got incorporated in the official comics (which still get made AFAIK), the new show, and the new games. Maybe it's people who felt Smurfs fell off after the two live action movies or even after the 80's.

Ok, that's the thing, YouTubers tend to have too much of an influence at times when it comes to media. Someone could watch a video and that becomes their opinion without actually watching said media. Speaking of, odd thing about this hate towards the Smurfs, I've only noticed it on YouTube. I just checked Instagram, and I didn't noticed too many upset with the new Smurfs movie. The recent post was just fine other than one comment of criticism.

Personally, this is what makes it an unpopular opinion, I like the way the new movie looks. Yes, they're doing live action again by bringing the Smurfs to Paris, unless a second trailer reveals humans for the Smurfs to interact with, it feels more like it's going to focus on the Smurfs, rather than focusing on a human and the Smurfs (case with the 2011 movie).

@dmcc0 Yeah, the 80's cartoon is what they're best known for. There's been a 2021 cartoon, spun-off the movie Smurfs: The Lost Village and some new games.

Cool, I never seen Asterix being in the US, but I do remember reading about an Asterix GBA game a long time ago, basically standing out as a 3D game on the system.

Tin Tin I've heard of, but my memory feels fuzzy. I think it's about a dog or had a dog. I think I might have seen Marsupilami once as a kid, it's been so long. I remember Disney released it.

@Sunsy Tintin was about the adventures of a boy reporter and his dog.

@dmcc0 @Sunsy Marsupilami, eh? I watched the one by Disney back in the late 90's. That's how I knew the character. What I didn't know that it was based on a French comic...

@Sunsy There was a Tin Tin movie release a while back with (I think) Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis - maybe around 2010 or so which I recall had quite a distinctive animation style. I want to say it was quite similar in style to The Polar Express, but I could be mis-remebering that.

I knew Asterix was very much a euro-flavoured thing, but didn't realise just how little it was known in the US. Given there have been so many releases of various media over the years I assumed it was at least quite popular in other parts of the world. I've got a couple of Asterix Game Gear games and one for the Series X, but there have been other games through the years on most of the popular systems as well as animated movies and other stuff. I thought I recalled a live action movie too around 2000 - I remembered Gerard Depardieu playing Obelix - and when I looked it up, it turns out there was (1999) and it also got a few sequels so must've done well enough.

I personally have detestation with sport symbol that mostly symbolized as soccer ball.
The sport is not just soccer and I hate the mainstream idea of associating the sport with soccer.
If I made sport icons, I will display these 3 sports:
1. Boxing Gloves for Boxing
2. Dumbell for Bodybuilding
3. Baseball bat for baseball

@N00BiSH Looks like I remembered correctly. I never did see Tintin, but do recall stumbling across it online.

@Pastellioli Sad it's like that, now that I think about it (and sticking to this thread's theme of unpopular opinions), I actually didn't think the live action Smurfs were bad movies. I saw them sometime after seeing Smurfs: The Lost Village, and didn't hate them. Oh yes, it has happened with Sonic because of some of the poorly received games. They did. The Lost Village smurfs ended up in the official comics, I actually have one of the books too. They kept them in the current animated series too, hence why I'm confused on why they're not in the new movie.

Yeah, it's like what people do. They see something online and just let that form their opinion for them, without actually watching it or trying it. Today, YouTube on my living room TV recommended a video called "The TERRIBLE Trolls finale." I didn't watch it (it could be clickbait or rage-bait for Trolls fans, I don't want to give the engagement), who wants to guess people see that and never bother watching a Trolls movie themselves. Really sad that could happen.

I do love watching YouTube, I've seen so many gaming related videos and videos on other subjects as well as deep dives on stuff I know and like. It's sad that it pushes the negative more for engagement. Though I have taken advantage of the "Don't Recommend Channel" feature, and have prevented YouTube from showing me recommendations I don't want (including cartoon community YouTubers, since they tend to be so negative towards animation in general).

That brings up another point, they could be doing stuff to be entertaining rather than giving their actual opinions. The best Trolls related videos I've seen are a few smaller YouTubers talking about it, then you have that one guy who says the movies are "terrible," even though it seems like every animated movie is terrible to him (again, I wonder why, I don't watch movie reviews or cartoon community content). Those smaller YouTubers did some good discussions on the series in general, but finding it is like finding a needle in a haystack.

I'm glad you like the Smurfs new look too. That's exactly what came to mind, the look was going for a comic look. I like the way they look in the new movie, honestly, looking forward to seeing more of it in action.

@dmcc0 Looking up the movie online, I think I've seen that poster before. Oh cool, thanks for the bit of history on Asterix, definitely it wasn't here in the US from what I remember anyway. It was one of those things I discovered online, all because of a GBA game with impressive 3D effects.

Minecraft will get sequel movie, seriously?!
That franchise is really a detestation for me.
Terrible looking, terrible story, terrible culture, terrible in everything.
I can't fathom how on earth people like this Minecraft stuffs. 🙄