Rococo wrote:Okay so hear me out
This is not as much guilty pleasure as diverse tastes.
We probably all have it, that one or two movies that most of the world agrees are bad, or just unimpressive, that you love the heck out of.
For me it's Don Bluth's Anastasia and Disney's Treasure Planet
I don't even feel guilty for it, I love those two animated movies to death
(And I have lost count of how many times I have re-watched them)
Wait, are those unpopular? I love both these movies. And Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? Stop dissing my faves! That was a work of art and together with How To Tame Your Dragon it's my favourite animation movie, like, ever. Please don't tell me HTTYD is 'unpopular' as well, or there
will be consequences.
And Swan Princess. Come on. Between my sister and me, that movie was hella popular.
Who gets to decide a movie is unpopular anyway? I see Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride named here, but those, especially Nightmare, are immensely popular in their cult.
No, take one of my favourite series now. It may not be a movie, but I'm terrified at how underrated it seems to be. I'm talking about The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. For some reason I had missed the original movie, which turned out to be a cult classic like Nightmare before Christmas. But the new series - dang! That's a masterpiece if ever there was one! It aired on Netflix last year and after having seen it, I expected the rest of the world to be as blown away as I was. But everyone I ask about it just goes "Yeah well, I don't like dolls". But, but! They're not dolls. They're Gelfling! Artistically the whole setting is mindboggling, but if you somehow don't appreciate all that, it's still a hell of a story, and the characters are just... well, what's not to love? It really makes my heart cry to see how underrated Age of Resistance is and I really, really wish people would try to see through the unusual style one day.
Edit: I am currently laughing my buttocks off, because the dumbass who was dissing my dear Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was, apparently, me. I'm glad that I was just as disgruntled about this three years ago.