What is a 'hot take' that you have about a TV show or movie?
For me...
Downtown Abbey is terrible. I watched the entire show because my friends kept saying that it would get better and I was tryin' to like it, but it never got better. From the first episode I was like, 'This is crap...'
[cracks knuckles, does deep knee bends, runs in place for a bit]
The Last Jedi is an absolute masterpiece and most opinions to the contrary are objectively wrong.
[Runs away like that dude in the “Danger Seekers” segment of Kentucky Fried Movie]
Related to Downton Abbey, I’ve been disappointed in the Gilded Age. It’s done by the same show runner.
We’ve got so many parallels they could draw to today. But instead of talking about concentration of wealth, and mistreatment of labor, they focus on costumes and sets, and everybody looking pretty. And of course we are supposed to root for the uber rich people as the protagonists.
For example, did you know that one of the architects who got barely a mention on the show was a pedophile who groomed the original Gibson girl? Where’s that storyline?
We did get at least one decent mention of how the Brooklyn Bridge was actually designed by a woman behind the man. And there was a labor strike, but uncharacteristically it was settled peacefully. In real life, all of those people would’ve been shot back then and the rail baron wouldn’t have given in.
So many missed opportunities. But everybody sure looks great!
That is so common with this type of thing. So frustrating.
remember to sort by controversial for the actual hot takes
MCU films are the same movie repeated endlessly for the most part. I gave up before the big Thanos set pieces—at about the time of either Black Panther or Captain Marvel, whichever came last—and I genuinely can't recall which remembered scene or dialogue snippet came from which movie. (And increasingly I can't even remember scenes or dialogue).
One that gets a lot of my friends angry with me: The best Star Trek was the original series. The second-best was Enterprise. The rest aren't Star Trek.
Forrest Gump is not a movie about a kind-hearted, if slow, man whose perseverance and innocence allow him to succeed despite his limitations. It is instead a pretty damning portrayal of the "American Dream" showing that being lucky and being in the right place at the right time is far more important to success than is hard work or aptitude.
Thelma & Louise is not a feminist road movie and definitively not a bold statement about female friendship, liberation, and resistance against male oppression. It is instead a bleak view of how dominating patriarchy crushes every attempt to rebel against it to the point of self-destruction. The "triumphant" finale is not a liberating act of empowerment but the inevitable despairing outcome of those who would dare tackle the injustices of the partriarchal world order.
Omg, yes about Forrest Gump! That story is as feel good/uplifting as news stories about people living in a city that left potholes unfilled for so long that a literal child starts risking their safety and filling in the ones in their community and then the mayor commends them on doing the thing that the city should have done... (Yes, it's a real story, and yes, the news tried to make it sound like a heart-warming tale.)
The MCU films are at their worst when they're trying to be funny. James Gunn is the only one who managed to pull it off well, and even then it felt out of place.
Also Thunderbolts is a solid "meh" at best. It felt like an extended tv show, not a movie. It ended once it finally got interesting.
Before Palpatine became emperor, there is reason to believe the Sith were more righteous than the Jedi. They, the Sith, operated far more based on negotiation and human experience and did not believe in immediate sectarian suppression. If only they weren't also fans of death and destruction.
The woman representation in Apple TV'S "Foundation" is degrading in addition to being poorly written.
They gender swapped a character to increase the representation of women in Foundation (which honestly, good Asimov was pretty sexist so fuck him), but made the character wholly dependant on a man (Harry Seldon)to be useful through visions? This both takes away her agency and defeats the original point of foundation in that humans will reliably make the right decisions given the proper circumstances and not because the ghost of mathematical people understandet said so.
Rising Tide was right
I don't get it. There's like two movies and three TV series called Rising Tide or The Rising Tide and ... I don't see any way "was right" could apply to any of them?