User blog:NerdWithAKeyboard/Movies I Hate That Everyone Else Likes

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(1987)
God, I hate this movie. I hated it when I first saw it as a kid, and I hate it now. I usually love weird, surreal fantasies like Alice in Wonderland and Wishbringer and stuff like that, but this movie was so weird and made no goddamn sense. I usually enjoy dark movies, especially ones aimed towards kids, as I believe kids need a little bit of dark and scary to help teach them that life can be rough, but there is always something good to it. But this film is WAY too dark for kids, at least in my opinion, with some WAY too scary and disturbing content. Both the heroes and villains in this movie are so insufferably unlikable, and I just couldn't wait for The NeverEnding Story to end.

In all fairness, however, at least the effects and atmosphere are okay. And the sequels got the proper reaction that they deserved.

(2008)
I love Disney, and I don't mind it when they do something aimed towards younger kids as opposed to all ages. I also don't mind when they cater to a certain gender/interest, it's just how movies are going to work. I don't dislike Tinker Bell for being aimed towards younger kids or that fact that I'm a man and it's a more girl-oriented movie. I dislike Tinker Bell because it's boring. Incredibly, incredibly boring. I first watched this movie as a kid, and I walked out. Again, it didn't do anything too insulting (except one thing, I'll get to it), it was just so slow and boring. I actually fell asleep during parts of this movie.

However, my main issue other than it being boring is Tinker Bell herself. Tinker Bell was always a unique female character in Disney because she wasn't pure good. If anything, she was kind of a villain at times in the original Peter Pan; trying to kill Wendy, allying with Hook and revealing Peter's hideout, and being a general bitch, but ultimately returning to good. However, this movie COMPLETELY does away with that and makes her just another generic nice, sweetheart of a character. There's nothing wrong with characters like that, but Tinker Bell just isn't one of those characters. Who would have thought that the version with no dialogue would have so much more personality than the one with not only speech, but a whole movie centered around her?

With all that said, however, the animation is generally pretty good for straight to DVD and some of the comedic moments and comic relief characters can actually be pretty funny at times. I also can't judge the sequels, as I never saw them.