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[Reelya]

Not liking things is the least-brave thing you can do.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions_2x.png

It takes much more guts to admit that you like things, since that gives the assholes an opening to tear you down. (you always have the hipster defence: you're enjoying everything "ironically").

[Iduno]

Not liking things is the second least-brave thing you can do.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions_2x.png

It takes much more guts to admit that you like things, since that gives the assholes an opening to tear you down. (you always have the hipster defence: you're enjoying everything "ironically").

The hipster defense is the least brave thing you can do, because you're enjoying things while also pretending to not like them. It's the thing you're talking about, plus dishonesty.

[scriver]

I was enjoying things while pretending to not like them before it was cool

[Rolan7]

Not liking things is the least-brave thing you can do.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions_2x.png

It takes much more guts to admit that you like things, since that gives the assholes an opening to tear you down. (you always have the hipster defence: you're enjoying everything "ironically").

My main difficulty here (besides not watching a lot of movies, particularly modern ones) was not knowing what movies I like are considered unpopular. 

Though actually Batman Vs Superman comes to mind.  I'm not actually sure why people despised it, mecha-Batman freakin ruled.  Luther being played by Joker was weird but hardly unenjoyable.  I'd say the plot was contrived, but it was actually internally consistent as far as I remember - not to mention that heroes being manipulated into fighting is EXCEPTIONALLY common in comicbooks.

Anyway searching "movies rated under 50 on rotten tomatoes" (a common enough query to autofill surprisingly quick, people sure love XKCD <3) got me this Reddit thread full of movies I loved.  I didn't verify because the Rotten Tomatoes website is a bit overwhelming, but here are some:

* Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (49%) - though tbh, I *didn't* like this so much?  It's an undeniable classic, I just didn't enjoy it.

* Hocus Pocus

* Swordfish (29%??)

* Last Action Hero (37%)

Though dang, none of those actually count because I was a kid when I saw most of them, and Fear And Loathing is 1998.  Wait... Swordfish was 2001, and I saw it like a decade later, so it does count!

I guess Batman Vs Superman is a better example but the point is taken - I'm kinda scared to stand by it.
_{(I'd say Ghostbusters remake but that'd be trolling and I never actually saw it)}

[scriver]

_{save martha}

[Naturegirl1999]

The only one of those I saw was Hocus Pocus and I love it. Why would it be rated so low?

[TD1]

I like Hocus Pocus!

[Grim Portent]

Oldest of my goldfish died overnight. Poor chap had been suffering from Dropsy for a few days, so there wasn't much I could do for him.

Sad to see him go, he was the only one left of the original three.

[Iduno]

* Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (49%) - though tbh, I *didn't* like this so much?  It's an undeniable classic, I just didn't enjoy it.

The people who care enough to use rotten tomatoes don't like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Also, everyone loves Hocus Pocus. It's a great hilarious movie.

[bloop_bleep]

Fun fact: Rotten Tomatoes scores are not a mean of all recorded scores, unlike IMDB. They are actually the percentage of all recorded scores that are above 60%. So if the reviews for a movie are half "50% meh" and half "100% masterpiece of modern cinema" it will have an overall score of 50%, not 75%.

In a lot of cases, it's like where most of the reviews are "65% there's some basic amusement from the action I guess but no character depth, plot, etc.", and it ends up having like 95% or something despite the lack of plot, etc., because even all the mediocre reviews get counted as 100%.

End result is that quick and easy mediocre movies get a huge additional boost relative to really good movies, which I'm sure purely coincidentally happens to be very convenient for the motion picture industry.

[Yoink]

Everyone needs to go re-watch Fear and Loathing. Or, hell, read the book, if you haven't already.   

[TamerVirus]

We can’t watch here, this is dwarf country!

[itisnotlogical]

I got a lot of money in back disability, so I decided to treat myself and build a PC for the first time.

The website told me to call my card issuer to verify the transaction. Whatever, no problem, except I sat on hold for well over an hour before giving up for the night. I'm trying again this morning and I have a feeling I still won't get any answer.

[Iduno]

I got a lot of money in back disability, so I decided to treat myself and build a PC for the first time.

The website told me to call my card issuer to verify the transaction. Whatever, no problem, except I sat on hold for well over an hour before giving up for the night. I'm trying again this morning and I have a feeling I still won't get any answer.

Back as in the thing that the spine is part of, or back as in retroactive/they paid late?

[itisnotlogical]

Retroactive, fortunately.