I've recently played Resident Evil 6 for the 1st time after playing Resident Evil 4 (an absolute masterpiece) & Resident 5 (a pretty good game). I was already aware of the hate this game got over the years. But after experiencing it, it's only bad in an artificial way. Like yeah, it's nothing like the classic games and it's too much in the action category.

Otherwise, as someone who loves action games, it's a pretty fun game. Especially in Mercenaries Mode, where it's fun to mow down body-horror themed enemies. As a Resident Evil game, it's pretty bad. But...as an action third person shooter with splatter punks, it's quite well executed

How I Met Your Mother. There's a ton of hate, and it's well deserved. Ted is annoying, Lily's selfish, and Barney could never be a character on national TV now. It tapers off around season 5-6 and then fails in season 9.

However, it had a profound effect on me. I grew up in rural nowhere, Midwest USA, in a town with 2 bars and a gas station. Watching the group go out in the city going to bars and growing up there made me really connect, and made me feel a bit less isolated. I finally did move out and to a different city, and HIMYM did give me the hope to someday be like that, and now I am. I still re-watch every few years. It definitely hasn't aged well, but it's nostalgic for me.

I was fine with Waterworld.

I saw Tron: Ares in the theater. I’m honestly indifferent to Jared Leto as an actor/person, and I was just interested in how the movie would build on the Tron universe. It don’t blow me away but I didn’t hate it either. But I get why it flopped. Sadly, it probably means we won’t ever get another Tron movie.

Iirc most of the press was just "this cost waaaaay too much to make" rather than "its a bad movie"

Thanks for reminding me I still need to actually watch it, though. And ive got a few hours to kill.

Different entertainment genre, but Nickelback.

Although I'm reasonably certain that 99% of people who hate on NB would sing along if it came on the radio.

Starfield. I think I got to ng7 before losing interest and I intend to go back to it if there’s ever a mod community. I’m sure there’s somebody else out there who thought it was fine but I haven’t found them.

I have a friend, whom I typically respect, who surprised me with that hot take one day. He had similar things to say about Creed and Taylor Swift.

Hes also been known to cheat at DnD, though. I love the guy but...

And The Postman.

But I tend to like post-apocalyptic movies anyway.

The Stunt show at Universal Studios was really cool tho

The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.

Story time. I'm nearing 30 and had only seen bits and pieces of the original trilogy (not more than 10 minutes or so at a time), and I saw episode 7 in theatre. Last year, my roommate (who is a huge Star Wars fan) and I decided to watch through the whole series. We started with the original, then trudged through the sequels so we could line up the prequel rewatch with the 20th anniversary of episode 3 and see it in theatre.

I went into it "knowing" that the originals were the best, the sequels were embarrassingly bad, and the prequels were pretty heavily shit on but still decent. I actually ended up liking the prequels more. From a technical standpoint I'd argue that they are probably "worse" movies. There's the obvious things that don't make sense (like Anakin being a child in episode one and a young adult in episode two yet Padme looks relatively unchanged) and the dialogue is certainly goofy at times, but I felt a lot more connected to the story and had more fun with the prequels than the originals.

The sequels were, in fact, absolute dog shit though.

Nickelback, Daughtry, i don't get what the hate tbh.

The Last Jedi. It took me a while to even process the hate, and I still don't really respect it, but I think I understand it. TLJ is flawed but by far the best sequel, and an Ep9 where Kylo is beyond redemption and rebels and force users are bubbling up from everywhere could have been really interesting.

Even if they'd backtracked thematically, The Rise of Skywalker made a huge mistake in overtly shitting on it, literally fucking over its own story (such as it was) and pacing to do so, and thereby pleasing no one. Even if you don't like what your partner did, you have to "Yes, and...," not go full "Michael Scott in improv class."

"Some body once told me, the world was gonna roll me, I ainʻt the sharpest tool in the shed..."

I thought A Minecraft Movie was a fun watch and I'd like to see Jason Momoa do more comedy.

Bubsy in Claws Entounters of the Furred Kind.

Bubsy walked so Crash could run.

Honestly I thought it was perfectly mediocre, I put like 25 hours into it and it was.... fine?? I didn't hate my time playing it. It was disappointing to me though, I expected better, that's all.

I'm fine with Harry Potter.

I see a lot of hate on the author, I almost don't know what it's about. And don't want to know. I still enjoy books and movies. And will show it to my child. I'm OK with separating the art from the artist.

I think I put in about 120 hours, which is low for me.

Haven't been back. I feel like I did everything. I dunno if there are any good mods for it, I haven't looked. I lost interest.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

I like the movie and have watched it three times, now.

The most common thing I saw people say that they hated about Bubsy was how "floaty" it was, but that was exactly why I liked it. Flying and sliding around almost felt like 2D Tribes.

I’ve always interpreted that show with Marshall as the main character. He goes through the most growth and also has the most altruistic intentions throughout. I see it as a demonstration that your friends and loved ones can be holding you back. Marshall deserved better than that friend group and he rarely if ever sacrifices his morals for the others.

She's a raging TERF and proud of it. I know you didn't want to know, but please don't give that woman any money.

I'm a massive Harry Potter fan, by the way. I can separate the art from the artist and despise the artist at the same time. See also Dickens, Dahl, Wagner, Scott Card, etc.

All Star is on my hate list because I've heard it too many times at this point. It joins

• Don't Stop Believing by Journey
• Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
• Nevermind by Nirvana
• A few Red Hot Chili Peppers songs

Jason Momoa has great comedy and fun in Stargate Atlantis.

The art is problematic in itself.

• Goblin banker look like antisemitic caricatures.
• house-elves want to be slaves because it’s their nature and Hermione is ridiculed for trying to free them
• the Irish guy is called Seamus Finnigan and like to blow up stuff
• the French girl is pretty and mean.
• the Eastern European guy is quiet an angry
• the red-haired family is poor and has a lot of children
• the Asian girl is smart and called „Cho Chang“
• …

It’s just another iteration of the Heroes Journey in a nice (except for the racism) setting.

Edit: read Alanna by Tamora Pierce. Much better.

I remember feeling kind of like you some years back and thinking surely this is just drama from terminally online people right? But then I finally did look into it and consider it and I did conclude that the woman really is a huge asshole.

Lest we forget the internet master of Bubsy, Ulillillia

I like the Super Mario Bros movie, I don't care how loosely connected it is to the games.

You can separate the art from the artist as long as you don’t give her any more money. She’s actively using her wealth to hurt trans people. The new TV series was made just to spite the original actors because they’ve publicly denounced her views and supported trans people.

It's always going to be one of my favorite Star Wars sequels because I got into it around the tail end of a deep depression and watched it early enough not to fall for the bad press

Luke's story hit home in a weird way and I liked that Johnson at least tried to make Rey's parents irrelevant as a much-needed dismissal of the whole idea that the fate of the galaxy far far away hinges on at least one magical bloodline

On top of that it's given me a good litmus test for what differences in opinion should actually be respected. Don't like the movie? Fine, but it is rather telling to me in all the ways people get downright aggressive over hating on it

I thought that most of the movie was somewhere between fine and fun, but that casino planet sequence was so unbearably bad that it soured the entire movie for me. I thought it was poorly-done, ham-handed social commentary awkwardly shoehorned into a strangely long sequence. And then at the end of it, they were in the exact same position they were at the beginning. It took a huge chunk of the second act, and it basically amounted to nothing.

Dead by Daylight.

I get the hate: it's buggy and messy and expensive, and people are rude AF. But I just turn off chat and have fun with it.

Though I've had less enjoyment since they redid the challenges to be a constant assault of the senses with updates for fifteen concurrent "challenges" each match. I'm not a baby, I don't need the distraction or unearned praise.

Wait, maybe I do hate it?

I don't mind their one song. But that's the thing, they only have one song. (They all sound the same.)

I'd watch Bob Hoskins read the phone book.

TLJ is just about the best movie in the whole series. The hatred is 85% pissed-off fans who thought the franchise belonged to them. And the rest is just anti-woke hysterics.

In time, TLJ will get the respect it deserves.

I loved watching that show, but the premise is a bit off. "Hey kids, let me tell you about all the chicks I banged before your mom."

Every Tron movie has flopped and they still reboot it every so many years so who knows? 😅

The sequels have a bipolar plot, it gives you whiplash seeing the tonal shift and direction change each movie goes through.

The prequels are definitely flawed (George, how much political mumbo jumbo do you really think people want to see in their space wizard drama?) but they have a more or less coherent story. You can see how A>B>C and it makes sense.

Plus, the absolute memefest that the prequels turned into has helped a ton.

It's the GOTCHA! (well that's a good part of it.)

You forgot something that you're going to start remembering very soon

Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012.
I get the hate, it isn't like the OG at all, but when played without caring about its name it is a banger game.

sword art online, sure it doesn't have a sensible plot or good writing but it has so much potential.

I know a lot of films and TV pilots start as a writers original idea, sometimes even a great idea, but for one reason or another never get picked up. Or even worse it does get picked up. But in both cases someone says, "This won't sell, can you make it Super Mario themed?"

The writer, creative as they are and just happy to get work, then mashes the two together.

I think a film featuring a parallel New York ruled by evolved dinosaurs and deevolution guns is a wild but potentially interesting film. What it has to do with Mario... I have no idea.

you sonofabitch

Speaking of resident evil: I really like the movies. All except the last one and the one in the desert. They might shit all over the games and any semblance of continuity, but if you can shut off your brain for a while (as much as for any other action horror movie), they are fun. Especially in a proper home cinema and even more so in 3D.

I liked RE6 as well. I don't remember if that's the one where you punch a boulder into a volcano or if that's 5, but I enjoyed the over the topness of it. I liked the set up of playing different characters too. Leon going through the White House was awesome.

My take away was that the protagonists were too caught up in being the protagonists and the outcome would have been better if they had just done nothing.

Which just isn't a very good adventure story.

There was actually a deleted scene originally in the movie where an executive from Nintendo met with Mario and Luigi to buy the rights to their story and that the movie was actually what happened and the games are the ones that changed things, which I've always thought was a fun tongue in cheek nod at the source material (or lack thereof).