Unpopular Opinions

We all have Popular Opinions (e.g. ice cream is delicious, Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars, Phantom Menace the worst, The Simpsons should have been cancelled by now, etc).  We also all have Unpopular Opinions.  In the spirit of confession, here are some of mine:

Man of Steel is a pretty good movie, and most of the criticisms lobbed against it are unfounded.

The Amazing Spiderman was a much better Spiderman film than any of the Toby Maguire ones--yes, including Spiderman 2.

Star Trek Into Darkness is a pretty good film, and certainly better than the 2009 Star Trek reboot, which was lazily written.

Batman Returns is the best Batman movie.

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is a good movie.


Star Trek III is better than Star Trek IV.

There Will Be Blood is inconsistent and overrated.

I love Portland, but have never once even chuckled during Portlandia.

The Harry Potter movies are much better than, and improve upon, the books.

The Community season 4 finale was funny.

Community is a much better TV show than Big Bang Theory (maybe not a controversial opinion around the sorts of folks I hang out with, but given their respective ratings, an objectively Unpopular Opinion nonetheless). 

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs is not a very good album--and its Album of the Year Grammy proves it.

Speaking strictly of his music, I think Kanye West is only OK, not great.

David Foster Wallace's The Pale King is better than Infinite Jest.

Twelfth Night is not a good Shakespeare play.

The 50 Shades of Gray books, while unquestionably bad by every definable metric, still deserve props for foregrounding how the purported "chasity" of its Twilight source material was really just abstinence-as-sado-masochism all along.

Sense and Sensibility is not a good Jane Austen novel.

Lasagna is gross.

Tomatoes do not belong on sandwiches.

Pouring milk on cereal ruins it.

Whew, feels good to get that all off my chest!

What are some of your Unpopular Opinions?