(Gasps! Shock!) Unpopular Non-pony Opinion Thread!
Officer Hotpants 
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@Acres
I hated it when it came out. I ended up loving it later on. It’s a weird one.
I hated it when it came out. I ended up loving it later on. It’s a weird one.
Acres 
@Officer Hotpants
The setting and the characters are amazing, but I HATE BEING TIMED. It’s an adventure game and I like to take my time and explore everything.
And the thought of everything being reset kills my enjoyment.
The setting and the characters are amazing, but I HATE BEING TIMED. It’s an adventure game and I like to take my time and explore everything.
And the thought of everything being reset kills my enjoyment.
Officer Hotpants
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@Acres
Oh, absolutely fuck how thoroughly the time mechanic screws you. It took me ages to 100% it because the combination of how short the timer is combined with losing half your inventory just made it such a hassle. “Oh, well, looks like I was about 13 seconds too late in starting this quest chain. Time to do the entire thing over! Probably three more times because that fucking race/obstacle course/platforming segment is so god damn finicky.”
I wasn’t too upset with story elements resetting simply because I liked dicking around with time to see what I could cause.
Oh, absolutely fuck how thoroughly the time mechanic screws you. It took me ages to 100% it because the combination of how short the timer is combined with losing half your inventory just made it such a hassle. “Oh, well, looks like I was about 13 seconds too late in starting this quest chain. Time to do the entire thing over! Probably three more times because that fucking race/obstacle course/platforming segment is so god damn finicky.”
I wasn’t too upset with story elements resetting simply because I liked dicking around with time to see what I could cause.
Acres
@Officer Hotpants
I stopped playing when I had to reset at the fish boss and lost all my rupees and had to redo the entire great bay temple.
Never went back.
I stopped playing when I had to reset at the fish boss and lost all my rupees and had to redo the entire great bay temple.
Never went back.
Dex Stewart 
I feel no shame wearing a shirt promoting the 2017 Power Rangers movie.
Ecto-Phase,Activate!
I feel no shame wearing a shirt promoting the 2017 Power Rangers movie.
Dex Stewart
Ecto-Phase,Activate!
@Officer Hotpants
They’ve only had three theatrical movies.
1995: MMPR the Movie
1997: Turbo-A Power Rangers Movie
2017: Power Rangers (creative)
There’s a few specials that are considered movies,like Super Samurai’s Clash of the Red Rangers,or the Lightspeed Rescue in 3-D tape.
They’ve only had three theatrical movies.
1995: MMPR the Movie
1997: Turbo-A Power Rangers Movie
2017: Power Rangers (creative)
There’s a few specials that are considered movies,like Super Samurai’s Clash of the Red Rangers,or the Lightspeed Rescue in 3-D tape.
Officer Hotpants
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@Dex Stewart
Ah. So they haven’t just been cranking them out ever since, then. Last one I heard about was Turbo. Saw, like, half of it on cable some years ago. I liked submarine Bayonetta.
Ah. So they haven’t just been cranking them out ever since, then. Last one I heard about was Turbo. Saw, like, half of it on cable some years ago. I liked submarine Bayonetta.
Dex Stewart
Ecto-Phase,Activate!
@Officer Hotpants
Divatox,her reputation has flipped in recent years. Initially fans didn’t care for her immature abrasiveness,but have come to appreciate the love she put into the role. I prefer Carol Hoyt to Hillary Shepard Turner,though. After the movie, Turner found out she was pregnant and had to leave,Hoyt replaced her for the first half or so of the Turbo series,but Turner returned to the role later and remained until the end of In Space.
Divatox,her reputation has flipped in recent years. Initially fans didn’t care for her immature abrasiveness,but have come to appreciate the love she put into the role. I prefer Carol Hoyt to Hillary Shepard Turner,though. After the movie, Turner found out she was pregnant and had to leave,Hoyt replaced her for the first half or so of the Turbo series,but Turner returned to the role later and remained until the end of In Space.
UrbanMysticDee
Bae > Bay
The first Matrix was perfect and the sequels are nothing but plot holes and retcons with fancy fight scenes added to distract you from the fact that they make no sense in the context of the original.
UrbanMysticDee
Bae > Bay
@Dex Stewart
Or maybe you’re in the Matrix now and never escaped. Think about that.
Or maybe you’re in the Matrix now and never escaped. Think about that.
Dex Stewart
Ecto-Phase,Activate!
@UrbanMysticDee
When I hear “Matrix” I think of Transformers heaven.
@Havoc
I had one person approach me while I was wearing the shirt and they told me how much they hated it. Oddly,they did like Power/Rangers.
I’m just glad I’m thinking about Power Rangers so much. It makes me happy.
When I hear “Matrix” I think of Transformers heaven.
@Havoc
I had one person approach me while I was wearing the shirt and they told me how much they hated it. Oddly,they did like Power/Rangers.
I’m just glad I’m thinking about Power Rangers so much. It makes me happy.
Havoc
Half Dragon, Half Meme
@Dex Stewart
I liked the more adult take on MMPR. Spoilers:||Liked how they made Billy autistic in more then a label, with the dude actually acting the part. Props the actor who played him. Genius syndrome is a thing, people. I also like how straight up killed him and used that situation to give Zordon some good character with doubt in these random teenagers. Really liked Alpha, his design felt far more like an alien robot. Enjoyed the ah-y-ah much. ||
I liked the more adult take on MMPR. Spoilers:||Liked how they made Billy autistic in more then a label, with the dude actually acting the part. Props the actor who played him. Genius syndrome is a thing, people. I also like how straight up killed him and used that situation to give Zordon some good character with doubt in these random teenagers. Really liked Alpha, his design felt far more like an alien robot. Enjoyed the ah-y-ah much. ||
Officer Hotpants
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@UrbanMysticDee
What even fucking happens in the second movie, really? Can you recall without looking it up? Some albino ghosts and a car chase, right? But what else?
What even fucking happens in the second movie, really? Can you recall without looking it up? Some albino ghosts and a car chase, right? But what else?
ANoobis
Ghibelline Omnipotens
I don’t know if this is unpopular or not, but I think that The Matrix is stupid enough that it could pass as a Zack Snyder film. All style, no substance and the “good guys” are ridiculous, violent sociopaths.
UrbanMysticDee
Bae > Bay
@Officer Hotpants
Going off memory:
The captains of several ships are meeting in the Matrix because telephones don’t exist in the future to discuss events of Final Flight of the Osiris which was the last segment in the Animatrix, which wasn’t released in theaters so several references made throughout the movie make no sense. While they’re there Smith gives an unnamed door guard his ear thingy and then leaves. Agents attack and Neo beats them up and then flies off and turns into a really crappy CGI version of himself and visits the Oracle’s apartment which is now totally abandoned for some reason. There are now two Smiths.
The Nebuchadnezzar gets to Zion where the unnamed “kid” who is allegedly 16 but looks older shows up and the dude with braids gives him his bags to carry. The Kid is literally named Kid. His back story is in the Animatrix, which no one had seen so all the references the characters make don’t make any sense. Braids the brother or cousin of Tank and Dozer, though he looks darker than them. Also half of Zion is black people despite being located in Saudi Arabia (the location is only revealed in the Animatrix).
The machines are tunneling down to Zion to attack it with six million sentinels because a $50 million CGI battle looks cooler than just pumping cyanide gas down the tunnel to kill the humans. There’s a guy with a deep, sexy voice who is in charge of defending Zion and he hates Morpheus because the two of them are banging the same chick. Sexy voice (don’t remember his name so I’ll call him Chadrone because he’s light skin and might be mixed race) talks to the old folks who run Zion and dress like Rastafari, and they disagree over the defense of the city.
Morpheus appears shirtless in front of all the black people and despite the fact that he spends half his life plugged into a computer he’s got a really buff body. He tells them the machines are going to invade so “Let’s get jiggy with it!” and the black people dance while Neo and Trinity have sex in some cave lit by six billion candles because using electric lights wouldn’t waste the limited oxygen supply in the cave and nothing else about this movie makes sense so fuck it. Neo is having dreams about Trinity fighting people with a motorcycle and falling off a building. These scenes repeat four times in the movie to save money and pad the length to almost two and a half hours to justify making this a trilogy.
At some point poor people in Zion give Neo a bunch of crap because he’s kung fu Jesus and they want him to miracle shit even though he only has powers in the Matrix. Also Neo talks to old white guy and they take a simple, self-evident idea that humans use machines to survive so #NotAllMachines and they stretch it out to like fifteen whole minutes because old people are too old to bother making points, they just tell stories that don’t go anywhere. I don’t remember where these two scenes happen so I’m just putting them here.
Neo goes into the Matrix alone the next day and passes by load of religious crap in Chinatown and meets a Japanese guy who glows in the dark drinking tea. They fight in a challenge handshake because everything is a computer metaphor and then they disappear into a hallway full of back doors. Braids makes another snarky remark because he’s the comic relief. Neo and the Japanese guy meet the Oracle and we find out she’s a computer program. She tells Neo to find the Key Maker and then leaves.
Smith appears along with several other Smiths who hold Neo down while first Smith tries to assimilate him with black tar heroin or something that shoots out of his veins. Neo resists and they fight Neo. At several times throughout the fight everyone becomes really crappy CGI. People beat the crap out of each other and no one really gets hurt so there’s nothing at stake. Retarded sound effects like dominoes and bowling pins are added to make us realize this movie is a comedy and then Neo flies away having accomplished nothing in 20 whole minutes.
Some guy named Bane and his nameless friend are in the Matrix and Smith assimilates him so he can enter the physical world. This is an important plot point for the next movie.
Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity enter a restaurant where we see an Indian man in a grey suit. He’s going to be important in the next movie so the camera holds on him and plays special music, but you probably missed that the first time you saw it. They meet Some Dude who loves to hear himself talk and surrounds himself with freaks and a hot chick with an awesome rack and they talk about giving chicks orgasms with cake. Dude refuses to hand over the Key Maker and goes off to get a blowjob and the heroes leave.
The chick with the rack takes them to see the Key Maker and he’s probably the best part of the whole movie.
There’s another fight scene where Neo kills Dude’s freaks while the albino twins chase Morpheus, Trinity, and the Key Maker into the parking garage and fight them with straight razors, which make crappy weapons in the real world because it’s really easy to get your own fingers cut off if you’re not super careful. If you can heal yourself by turning into a green mist I guess that doesn’t matter, but definitely don’t try this at home. They steal a Mercedes-Benz and the twins steal another Mercedes-Benz and the camera holds on the logo to let you know who’s sponsoring this movie.
Neo chases the Dude who escapes by locking the door, so Neo has to fly to the freeway to rescue his friends.
There’s a chase scene that drags on for about 20-30 minutes during which literally nothing makes sense. The entire purpose of the Matrix is to get the Key Maker to help Neo enter the building with no doors so he can reboot the Matrix and yet everyone is trying to kill the Key Maker as if keeping him alive isn’t integral to the machines’ plan. The twins are blown up but they don’t die because they appear in the Matrix Online game, which was the official sequel until they decided to film a part 4, and Neo saves Morpheus and the Key Maker.
Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, the Key Maker, and all the other captains are sitting in the Matrix again because if they have radios to “broadcast their pirate signal into the Matrix” why the fuck can’t they just send messages between ships? Why do they all have to plug into the Matrix to communicate other than to make communication a thousand times more dangerous?
They split up into three groups to get Neo into the building with no doors (there is a back door into it that we saw when the Japanese guy brought him to see the Oracle). Even though this is integral for the survival of humans and machines the machines still attack the ships and kill one whole crew, so Trinity has to go into the Matrix even though she’s going to die if she does, and we see the motorcycle scene for the last time. She fights with an agent who follows her out of the window she jumped out of because the new agents are all suicidally stupid.
Smiths fight Neo and Morpheus even though they have guns. They only pull out their guns when the Key Maker opens the back door and they kill him and it’s sad because he was the only good character. Neo enters the building and sees Colonel Sanders who designed the Matrix. He tells Neo a whole load of retcons that don’t make any sense in light of everything we saw in the first movie and in the second movie up until now. Neo is given a choice to reboot the Matrix or save Trinity and he chooses the Matrix because the ass was fat. He flies so fast he creates a tornado that probably kills thousands of the people he’s trying to save and rescues Trinity because hoes before bros.
Neo tells Morpheus that the prophecy was a lie and Morpheus sulks. Something happens, the machines attack or something, and Neo fights them off using space Jesus magic and goes into a coma. Also in a coma is Bane, and he’s in the next bed over smiling despite the fact that he’s in a coma and shouldn’t be able to smile.
To be continued.
Going off memory:
The captains of several ships are meeting in the Matrix because telephones don’t exist in the future to discuss events of Final Flight of the Osiris which was the last segment in the Animatrix, which wasn’t released in theaters so several references made throughout the movie make no sense. While they’re there Smith gives an unnamed door guard his ear thingy and then leaves. Agents attack and Neo beats them up and then flies off and turns into a really crappy CGI version of himself and visits the Oracle’s apartment which is now totally abandoned for some reason. There are now two Smiths.
The Nebuchadnezzar gets to Zion where the unnamed “kid” who is allegedly 16 but looks older shows up and the dude with braids gives him his bags to carry. The Kid is literally named Kid. His back story is in the Animatrix, which no one had seen so all the references the characters make don’t make any sense. Braids the brother or cousin of Tank and Dozer, though he looks darker than them. Also half of Zion is black people despite being located in Saudi Arabia (the location is only revealed in the Animatrix).
The machines are tunneling down to Zion to attack it with six million sentinels because a $50 million CGI battle looks cooler than just pumping cyanide gas down the tunnel to kill the humans. There’s a guy with a deep, sexy voice who is in charge of defending Zion and he hates Morpheus because the two of them are banging the same chick. Sexy voice (don’t remember his name so I’ll call him Chadrone because he’s light skin and might be mixed race) talks to the old folks who run Zion and dress like Rastafari, and they disagree over the defense of the city.
Morpheus appears shirtless in front of all the black people and despite the fact that he spends half his life plugged into a computer he’s got a really buff body. He tells them the machines are going to invade so “Let’s get jiggy with it!” and the black people dance while Neo and Trinity have sex in some cave lit by six billion candles because using electric lights wouldn’t waste the limited oxygen supply in the cave and nothing else about this movie makes sense so fuck it. Neo is having dreams about Trinity fighting people with a motorcycle and falling off a building. These scenes repeat four times in the movie to save money and pad the length to almost two and a half hours to justify making this a trilogy.
At some point poor people in Zion give Neo a bunch of crap because he’s kung fu Jesus and they want him to miracle shit even though he only has powers in the Matrix. Also Neo talks to old white guy and they take a simple, self-evident idea that humans use machines to survive so #NotAllMachines and they stretch it out to like fifteen whole minutes because old people are too old to bother making points, they just tell stories that don’t go anywhere. I don’t remember where these two scenes happen so I’m just putting them here.
Neo goes into the Matrix alone the next day and passes by load of religious crap in Chinatown and meets a Japanese guy who glows in the dark drinking tea. They fight in a challenge handshake because everything is a computer metaphor and then they disappear into a hallway full of back doors. Braids makes another snarky remark because he’s the comic relief. Neo and the Japanese guy meet the Oracle and we find out she’s a computer program. She tells Neo to find the Key Maker and then leaves.
Smith appears along with several other Smiths who hold Neo down while first Smith tries to assimilate him with black tar heroin or something that shoots out of his veins. Neo resists and they fight Neo. At several times throughout the fight everyone becomes really crappy CGI. People beat the crap out of each other and no one really gets hurt so there’s nothing at stake. Retarded sound effects like dominoes and bowling pins are added to make us realize this movie is a comedy and then Neo flies away having accomplished nothing in 20 whole minutes.
Some guy named Bane and his nameless friend are in the Matrix and Smith assimilates him so he can enter the physical world. This is an important plot point for the next movie.
Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity enter a restaurant where we see an Indian man in a grey suit. He’s going to be important in the next movie so the camera holds on him and plays special music, but you probably missed that the first time you saw it. They meet Some Dude who loves to hear himself talk and surrounds himself with freaks and a hot chick with an awesome rack and they talk about giving chicks orgasms with cake. Dude refuses to hand over the Key Maker and goes off to get a blowjob and the heroes leave.
The chick with the rack takes them to see the Key Maker and he’s probably the best part of the whole movie.
There’s another fight scene where Neo kills Dude’s freaks while the albino twins chase Morpheus, Trinity, and the Key Maker into the parking garage and fight them with straight razors, which make crappy weapons in the real world because it’s really easy to get your own fingers cut off if you’re not super careful. If you can heal yourself by turning into a green mist I guess that doesn’t matter, but definitely don’t try this at home. They steal a Mercedes-Benz and the twins steal another Mercedes-Benz and the camera holds on the logo to let you know who’s sponsoring this movie.
Neo chases the Dude who escapes by locking the door, so Neo has to fly to the freeway to rescue his friends.
There’s a chase scene that drags on for about 20-30 minutes during which literally nothing makes sense. The entire purpose of the Matrix is to get the Key Maker to help Neo enter the building with no doors so he can reboot the Matrix and yet everyone is trying to kill the Key Maker as if keeping him alive isn’t integral to the machines’ plan. The twins are blown up but they don’t die because they appear in the Matrix Online game, which was the official sequel until they decided to film a part 4, and Neo saves Morpheus and the Key Maker.
Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, the Key Maker, and all the other captains are sitting in the Matrix again because if they have radios to “broadcast their pirate signal into the Matrix” why the fuck can’t they just send messages between ships? Why do they all have to plug into the Matrix to communicate other than to make communication a thousand times more dangerous?
They split up into three groups to get Neo into the building with no doors (there is a back door into it that we saw when the Japanese guy brought him to see the Oracle). Even though this is integral for the survival of humans and machines the machines still attack the ships and kill one whole crew, so Trinity has to go into the Matrix even though she’s going to die if she does, and we see the motorcycle scene for the last time. She fights with an agent who follows her out of the window she jumped out of because the new agents are all suicidally stupid.
Smiths fight Neo and Morpheus even though they have guns. They only pull out their guns when the Key Maker opens the back door and they kill him and it’s sad because he was the only good character. Neo enters the building and sees Colonel Sanders who designed the Matrix. He tells Neo a whole load of retcons that don’t make any sense in light of everything we saw in the first movie and in the second movie up until now. Neo is given a choice to reboot the Matrix or save Trinity and he chooses the Matrix because the ass was fat. He flies so fast he creates a tornado that probably kills thousands of the people he’s trying to save and rescues Trinity because hoes before bros.
Neo tells Morpheus that the prophecy was a lie and Morpheus sulks. Something happens, the machines attack or something, and Neo fights them off using space Jesus magic and goes into a coma. Also in a coma is Bane, and he’s in the next bed over smiling despite the fact that he’s in a coma and shouldn’t be able to smile.
To be continued.
Officer Hotpants
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@UrbanMysticDee
You remember a hell of a lot more than I do. I couldn’t even remember who the primary antagonist was and I had to site through that movie, like, three times back in the day.
You remember a hell of a lot more than I do. I couldn’t even remember who the primary antagonist was and I had to site through that movie, like, three times back in the day.