2184: Unpopular Opinions - Revision history

SomebodyElse: /* Explanation */ just linking characters' names and fixing a different link

2026-05-15T12:44:02Z

‎Explanation: just linking characters' names and fixing a different link

Tromag at 15:36, 5 February 2026

2026-02-05T15:36:29Z

FaviFake: /* Trivia */

2025-03-02T12:32:09Z

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2025-03-02T12:12:16Z

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Alivechihiro: /* Explanation */ fix link

2025-01-11T16:13:29Z

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Solomon: /* Explanation */ updating link

2023-12-24T07:53:42Z

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141.101.98.133: /* Trivia */

2023-09-01T03:30:38Z

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172.70.206.157: prevent usepages from messing up categories

2023-09-01T02:24:09Z

prevent usepages from messing up categories

JLZ0kTC5 at 13:55, 24 October 2022

2022-10-24T13:55:22Z

417-blazeit at 17:13, 26 August 2022

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 Everybody has their own preferences as to what movies they like and dislike, and when your like or dislike of a movie seems to be different than the majority of people, you could call your preference the "unpopular opinion" because your opinion is the less prevalent one. This most often takes the form of "I hate this movie and I don't understand why everybody else seems to like it", but this comic is talking about the opposite form, which it categorizes as less common, namely "I like this movie and don't understand why everybody else seems to hate it."  The comic points out that it's relatively common to hate movies that most people like, but the converse, in which you like a movie others seem to hate, is much harder to find. One explanation for this may be that if a movie is already established to be bad, you won't end up watching it anyway.
-To illustrate this point, the comic challenges readers to identify such a movie, with three caveats: it came out during your adult life, you ''genuinely'' like it, and it scored below 50% on the popular review aggregator {w|Rotten Tomatoes}}. The first two conditions are selected to eliminate the most common reasons people might like "bad" movies. Movies we see as children may win our affection despite not being very good, both because children tend to have less discriminating tastes, and because we associate them with happy memories, causing us to enjoy them as adults, despite their flaws. Some movies are enjoyed specifically ''because'' they're so bad, and people find humor or morbid fascination with the terrible filmmaking (referred to as {{tvtropes|SoBadItsGood|"So Bad, It's Good"}}). Both those cases are distinct from a film that an adult would actually enjoy on it's own merits.
+To illustrate this point, the comic challenges readers to identify such a movie, with three caveats: it came out during your adult life, you ''genuinely'' like it, and it scored below 50% on the popular review aggregator {{w|Rotten Tomatoes}}. The first two conditions are selected to eliminate the most common reasons people might like "bad" movies. Movies we see as children may win our affection despite not being very good, both because children tend to have less discriminating tastes, and because we associate them with happy memories, causing us to enjoy them as adults, despite their flaws. Some movies are enjoyed specifically ''because'' they're so bad, and people find humor or morbid fascination with the terrible filmmaking (referred to as {{tvtropes|SoBadItsGood|"So Bad, It's Good"}}). Both those cases are distinct from a film that an adult would actually enjoy on it's own merits.
 The third condition is intended to ensure that the movie is genuinely unpopular (or at least critically maligned). It's possible for people to have a perception of how disliked a movie is (possibly due to your own social circle), which doesn't actually represent large-scale popularity. The condition also eliminates films which weren't actually disliked, but just weren't as popular as you think they should have been. Rotten Tomatoes aggregates professional reviews and categorizes them as positive ("fresh") or negative ("rotten"). Scoring below 50% means that less than half of all reviewers gave the film a positive review, which is a good proxy for a film being generally understood to be "bad".  It's worth noting that audience ratings {{tvtropes|CriticalDissonance|don't always align with professional critics}}, so this isn't a perfect test for popularity, but it's a decent match.
-The image in this comic gives an example of this effect, namely the movie ''{{w|Terminator Genisys}}'', the fifth in the {{w|Terminator (franchise)|''Terminator''}} series, released in 2015. This series, about time-traveling killer robots, included the highly rated ''Terminator 2'' (93% on Rotten Tomatoes), while ''Terminator Genisys'' is only 26%. When [[Cueball]] says he likes the movie, Megan is surprised (possibly appalled) causing him to become defensive. This may indicate another difficulty in expressing such opinions: other people may look down on you for your perceived bad taste.
+The image in this comic gives an example of this effect, namely the movie ''{{w|Terminator Genisys}}'', the fifth in the {{w|Terminator (franchise)|''Terminator''}} series, released in 2015. This series, about time-traveling killer robots, included the highly rated ''Terminator 2'' (93% on Rotten Tomatoes), while ''Terminator Genisys'' is only 26%. When [[Cueball]] says he likes the movie, [[Megan]] is surprised (possibly appalled) causing him to become defensive. This may indicate another difficulty in expressing such opinions: other people may look down on you for your perceived bad taste.
 The title text refers to three movies in the ''{{w|Terminator (franchise)|Terminator}}'' franchise, ''{{w|Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines}}'' (2003), ''{{w|Terminator Salvation}}'' (2009), and ''{{w|Terminator: Dark Fate}}'' (due out later in 2019). The ''Terminator'' movie series has featured both time travel and trucks driving or attempting to drive into people, and Randall apparently finds himself drawn to such movies. He hopes that ''Dark Fate'' will be a good movie, but has low expectations, considering the [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/terminator less than stellar ratings] of the last 3 movies (69%, 33%, and 26%).

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 ==Explanation==
-Everybody has their own preferences as to what movies they like and dislike, and when your like or dislike of a movie seems to be different than the majority of people, you could call your preference the "unpopular opinion" because your opinion is the less prevalent one. This often takes the form of "I hate this movie and I don't understand why everybody else seems to like it", but this comic is talking about the opposite form, which it categorizes as less common, namely "I like this movie and don't understand why everybody else seems to hate it."  The comic points out that it's relatively common to hate movies others appear to like, but the converse, in which you like a movie others seem to hate, is much harder to find. One explanation for this may be that if a movie is already established to be bad, you won't end up watching it anyway.
+Everybody has their own preferences as to what movies they like and dislike, and when your like or dislike of a movie seems to be different than the majority of people, you could call your preference the "unpopular opinion" because your opinion is the less prevalent one. This most often takes the form of "I hate this movie and I don't understand why everybody else seems to like it", but this comic is talking about the opposite form, which it categorizes as less common, namely "I like this movie and don't understand why everybody else seems to hate it."  The comic points out that it's relatively common to hate movies that most people like, but the converse, in which you like a movie others seem to hate, is much harder to find. One explanation for this may be that if a movie is already established to be bad, you won't end up watching it anyway.
-To illustrate how hard it is to like a movie everyone else seems to dislike, the comic presents a challenge whereby you 1) identify a movie you definitely like, which 2) came out during your adult life (so it isn't tainted by childhood {{w|nostalgia}}), and which 3) the majority of other people don't like, as measured informally by having a popularity rating below 50% on the {{w|Rotten Tomatoes}} website (a website that aggregates reviews of films).  Supposedly you will find it hard to find a movie that meets all three criteria. The rules prohibit a movie that the viewer finds {{tvtropes|SoBadItsGood|"So Bad, It's Good"}} - the enjoyment of the movie must be genuine, for its positive qualities, rather than ironic enjoyment of its negative qualities.
+To illustrate this point, the comic challenges readers to identify such a movie, with three caveats: it came out during your adult life, you ''genuinely'' like it, and it scored below 50% on the popular review aggregator {w|Rotten Tomatoes}}. The first two conditions are selected to eliminate the most common reasons people might like "bad" movies. Movies we see as children may win our affection despite not being very good, both because children tend to have less discriminating tastes, and because we associate them with happy memories, causing us to enjoy them as adults, despite their flaws. Some movies are enjoyed specifically ''because'' they're so bad, and people find humor or morbid fascination with the terrible filmmaking (referred to as {{tvtropes|SoBadItsGood|"So Bad, It's Good"}}). Both those cases are distinct from a film that an adult would actually enjoy on it's own merits.
-The image in this comic gives an example of this effect, namely the movie ''{{w|Terminator Genisys}}'', the fifth in the {{w|Terminator (franchise)|''Terminator''}} series, released in 2015. This series, about time-traveling killer robots, included the highly rated ''Terminator 2'' (93% on Rotten Tomatoes), while ''Terminator Genisys'' is only 26%.
+The third condition is intended to ensure that the movie is genuinely unpopular (or at least critically maligned). It's possible for people to have a perception of how disliked a movie is (possibly due to your own social circle), which doesn't actually represent large-scale popularity. The condition also eliminates films which weren't actually disliked, but just weren't as popular as you think they should have been. Rotten Tomatoes aggregates professional reviews and categorizes them as positive ("fresh") or negative ("rotten"). Scoring below 50% means that less than half of all reviewers gave the film a positive review, which is a good proxy for a film being generally understood to be "bad".  It's worth noting that audience ratings {{tvtropes|CriticalDissonance|don't always align with professional critics}}, so this isn't a perfect test for popularity, but it's a decent match.
 The title text refers to three movies in the ''{{w|Terminator (franchise)|Terminator}}'' franchise, ''{{w|Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines}}'' (2003), ''{{w|Terminator Salvation}}'' (2009), and ''{{w|Terminator: Dark Fate}}'' (due out later in 2019). The ''Terminator'' movie series has featured both time travel and trucks driving or attempting to drive into people, and Randall apparently finds himself drawn to such movies. He hopes that ''Dark Fate'' will be a good movie, but has low expectations, considering the [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/terminator less than stellar ratings] of the last 3 movies (69%, 33%, and 26%).

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 ==Trivia==
-On xkcd, this Friday comic was replaced on Sunday by a [[Disappearing Sunday Update]], which was temporarily assigned the sequence number 2185 in order to prevent the trouble a not numbered comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. It was designed to disappear completely and leave no trace in xkcd's history or archives when the Monday comic, [[2185: Cumulonimbus]], was released. The original comic also no longer appears in this wiki's comic navigation and is hence [[Disappearing Sunday Update|available here]].
+On xkcd, this Friday comic was replaced on Sunday by a [[Disappearing Sunday Update]], which was temporarily assigned the sequence number 2185 in order to prevent the trouble of having an unnumbered comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. It was designed to disappear completely and leave no trace in xkcd's history or archives when the Monday comic, [[2185: Cumulonimbus]], was released. The original comic also no longer appears in this wiki's comic navigation and is hence [[Disappearing Sunday Update|available here]].
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 ==Trivia==
-*On xkcd, this Friday comic was replaced already on Sunday by a "disappearing comic", which temporarily was assigned the sequence number 2185. But that was just to prevent the trouble a not numbered comic was having on the xkcd site. It was designed to disappear completely and leave no trace in xkcd's history or archives when the Monday comic, [[2185: Cumulonimbus]], was released. The original comic does also no longer appear in explain xkcd's comic navigation either, and is hence linked here: [[Disappearing Sunday Update]].
+On xkcd, this Friday comic was replaced on Sunday by a [[Disappearing Sunday Update]], which was temporarily assigned the sequence number 2185 in order to prevent the trouble a not numbered comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. It was designed to disappear completely and leave no trace in xkcd's history or archives when the Monday comic, [[2185: Cumulonimbus]], was released. The original comic also no longer appears in this wiki's comic navigation and is hence [[Disappearing Sunday Update|available here]].
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 The title text refers to three movies in the ''{{w|Terminator (franchise)|Terminator}}'' franchise, ''{{w|Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines}}'' (2003), ''{{w|Terminator Salvation}}'' (2009), and ''{{w|Terminator: Dark Fate}}'' (due out later in 2019). The ''Terminator'' movie series has featured both time travel and trucks driving or attempting to drive into people, and Randall apparently finds himself drawn to such movies. He hopes that ''Dark Fate'' will be a good movie, but has low expectations, considering the [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/terminator less than stellar ratings] of the last 3 movies (69%, 33%, and 26%).
-A [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/movies_at_home/critics:rotten~sort:populare|Rotten Tomatoes search ordered by release date limited to qualifying movies (except that it goes up to 60%)] can help individuals verify the difficulty of finding such movies for themselves.
+A [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/movies_at_home/audience:spilled~critics:rotten~sort:newest Rotten Tomatoes search ordered by release date limited to qualifying movies (except that it goes up to 60%)] can help individuals verify the difficulty of finding such movies for themselves.
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