I tried to watch Girls due to all the rave reviews from the media at large, and the show is fething insufferable. I nearly stopped watching when Lena Dunham's horrible character complained about her allowance at the beginning of the first episode.
I stuck around for three more episodes and decided it was one of the worst things I've ever seen in my entire life. And I thankfully didn't get to an episode where Duhham's dumpy ass was naked.
TV wise, I hate all "street magicians" with unreserved loathing - no exceptions.
I also dislike Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand, if they're in it, I don't want to watch it. And reality TV, not a fan of any of that.
I also didn't like Inception much - I just found it tedious, TBH. Also, "Titanic" - everyone raves about it, but it's a ship that sinks, big whoop - only good thing about it is Leonardo DiCaprio drowning
The Office. I know tons of people who like it, and I want to bang my head on a rusty nail over the idiocy of it. I also got sick of Family Guy, but that sounds more and more common these days. All my friends love Spartacus and Game of Thrones, but Spartacus didnt do anything for me, and Martin is a hack. I didn't see anything in his work that really shined, people just kinda latched on and ran with it. I really enjoy TWD though: drama+zombies=killer tv.
Not a fan of Big Bang, American version Office, or the Matrix.
Also, the internet seems to have a love for the gak fest that was Equilibrium that I don't understand. I've only met a single person in real life that didn't think it was only useful as a gold mine for joke material.
Can't stand.how I bored my kids to death for 7 seasons and somehow turned this tripe into 7 seasons.. How I met your mother btw.
Walking dead has successfully bored me away from zombie stuff in the same way game of thrones has bored me away from fantasy..shame as I actually liked both at one point
Any 1 line zinger sitcom, modern sitcoms seem to think that you need a line every 20 seconds, I'm talking about 2 broke girls and 2 and a half men. There is no setup of a joke just a series of (gereally) put downs. Strangely I like big bang theory.
People who make modern 1 line sitcoms should watch I love lucy and get back to setting up the jokes first.
edit: hell I'm going to go all in, I can safely say I do not like 95% of american dramas/ comedy (not stand up) on tV the characters seem to be cardboard cut outs and the actors bore me.There seems to be no depth to stories either, I just feel like I'm watching a series of badly drawn storyboards. I do not know if this is because actors have too much botox and cannot make facial expressions or if everyone in hollywood is on too much xanax to be able to act.
It's not that I hate GoT so much, it's more that it doesn't draw me in like a frothing madman. The books are actually more of a disappointment than the show. Show is pretty decent, I could just take or leave it without worry. The books, well, I don't find GRRM to be a good writer. He's decent, but I don't think he's good enough to get the recognition that he is.
Every zombie apocalypse film. I like zombie outbreak flicks, but a zombie apocalypse is predicated on a ludicrous notion. (Civilization collapses in the face of Romero type zombies.) I'm just not able to suspend my disbelief far enough to accept that civilization, all civilization, just went out the window to such a flimsy threat. The Walking Dead is a particularly egregious example of this. In TWD, it's like everyone was a sociopath just waiting for an excuse. It's like, "Oh, the power's been out for five minutes. Time to start murder-raping the neighbors." The characters are shallow and stereotypical, the plot is repetitive and dull, and the show is almost completely devoid of original thought. The comic has all the failings of the show coupled with a pacing that's so frantic I marvel that anyone who isn't hooked on meth can even keep up.
Lord of the Rings. I will be the first to acknowledge that all the modern fantasy I love owes Tolkien for its genesis. But just like we recognize most of Freud's work as bunk nowadays, so too is Tolkien a simply atrocious writer. Before it was a television show, whenever I tried to tell a friend about Game of Thrones I would sum it up as 'what Lord of the Rings wanted to be.'
twilight. im a guy so i am supposed to hate it, but LARGGG!
so damned bad. the worst thing about twilight (movies and books) is it completely lame-ifyed were wolves.
I mean seriously what happened to the cool werewolf movies, now it is all romance crap.
skyrim is the only good thing with werewolves this days.
Jimsolo wrote: Every zombie apocalypse film. I like zombie outbreak flicks, but a zombie apocalypse is predicated on a ludicrous notion. (Civilization collapses in the face of Romero type zombies.) I'm just not able to suspend my disbelief far enough to accept that civilization, all civilization, just went out the window to such a flimsy threat. The Walking Dead is a particularly egregious example of this. In TWD, it's like everyone was a sociopath just waiting for an excuse. It's like, "Oh, the power's been out for five minutes. Time to start murder-raping the neighbors." The characters are shallow and stereotypical, the plot is repetitive and dull, and the show is almost completely devoid of original thought. The comic has all the failings of the show coupled with a pacing that's so frantic I marvel that anyone who isn't hooked on meth can even keep up.
Lord of the Rings. I will be the first to acknowledge that all the modern fantasy I love owes Tolkien for its genesis. But just like we recognize most of Freud's work as bunk nowadays, so too is Tolkien a simply atrocious writer. Before it was a television show, whenever I tried to tell a friend about Game of Thrones I would sum it up as 'what Lord of the Rings wanted to be.'
I agree. The I only like two zombie flicks and that's the Dawn of the Dead Remake and (the not quite zombie film) 28 Days later. WWZ was a great piece of literary fiction, but that movie was probably the worse I've seen and I thought the remake of Alice in Wonderland was in the top worse movies I saw. I think the problem is that with zombie apoc movies is that they drop their antagonists into the world of undead and wake up to undead hordes without any explanation. WWZ the novel was so and still is so popular because it took time to pace the Apocalypse and you had a sense of dread of what will happen, though you know that humanity won... just not at what cost. I maintain that WWZ would of been much more critically acclaimed and developed a fan base if it was done in a documentary/interview split into three movies describing each stage of the war, and it could of been done at about a 6th of the 300 million budget. But instead we got the most generic, bad stupid (not good stupid where you can turn off your mind like Drive Angry) flick probably ever made.
Jimsolo wrote: Every zombie apocalypse film. I like zombie outbreak flicks, but a zombie apocalypse is predicated on a ludicrous notion. (Civilization collapses in the face of Romero type zombies.) I'm just not able to suspend my disbelief far enough to accept that civilization, all civilization, just went out the window to such a flimsy threat. The Walking Dead is a particularly egregious example of this. In TWD, it's like everyone was a sociopath just waiting for an excuse. It's like, "Oh, the power's been out for five minutes. Time to start murder-raping the neighbors." The characters are shallow and stereotypical, the plot is repetitive and dull, and the show is almost completely devoid of original thought. The comic has all the failings of the show coupled with a pacing that's so frantic I marvel that anyone who isn't hooked on meth can even keep up.
Lord of the Rings. I will be the first to acknowledge that all the modern fantasy I love owes Tolkien for its genesis. But just like we recognize most of Freud's work as bunk nowadays, so too is Tolkien a simply atrocious writer. Before it was a television show, whenever I tried to tell a friend about Game of Thrones I would sum it up as 'what Lord of the Rings wanted to be.'
I'm sorry, you're gonna have to explain the bolded part.
My personal pick: Community. Everyone loves it, and I just... don't understand why. It's not funny. At all. Except for the paintball episodes.
A Game of Thrones. Bores me to tears.
Ricky Gervais and Russel brand "Please don't bypass the language filter like this. reds8n me to tears" (do not like).
Haven't watched "the walking dead" - zombies don't do it for me - so don't know whether or not I like it.
Agents of shield. I approached it as a comedy - but sitcoms have better acting.
As for movies: Lord of the Rings bored me to sleep.
I can't watch anything with Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell or Brad Pitt.
Game of Thrones. Tried to read the book, tried to watch the show, I was constantly alternating between bored and confused throughout both. I'm just not smart enough to enjoy this one.
Also on the TV front - Arrested Development, Scrubs, and Archer. I don't know what it is, maybe it's just the fact that the internet raves about them so much that the real shows aren't nearly as good in comparison, but none of them have been able to really get me laughing. I feel like Arrested Development did the best job of all three, but I've still never seen past the first few episodes, just because it wasn't that funny to me.
thehod wrote: For me, the Walking Dead. Most of the characters are annoying and so freaking stupid.
The Walking Dead, and for pretty much this reason. These characters pass the idiot ball around so much that I simply cannot stand to watch them week to week.
GoT, it has its few good one liners, but other than that it is the same generic formula that has been recycled and half the time I couldn't tell if I was watching a TV or a certain type of adult website, the plot was straightfoward and predictable, but then, everything is these days.
Anything Harry Potter, mainly because the entire thing is written like this:
Harry 'Oh No, A massive anaconda that could kill me with a thought has just been summoned 6 feet in front of me! whatever shall I do!'
Little did Harry know that he was actually born with an innate fluency in snake, which probably had something to do with voldemort killing his parents and giving him a scar...
*30 seconds later*
Harry: 'sssssssssssss' (translation: 'sup snake dude)
Snake: 'ssssss' (translation: 'sup brah)
(much, much later)
Ron: 'Damnit, if only we could travel back in time to prevent this whole mess from happening!'
Hermione: 'Oh, wait, dumbledore gave me this time-manipulating device ages and ages ago for no apparent reason, but I completely forgot about this reality-bending marvel until just this moment when it is really useful'
And so Harry and chums meddled with the space-time continuum, successfully averting any forms of temporal paradox, and saved the day, while at the same time not attending a single lesson yet still getting top marks in all their exams...
The End
Oh and Dr Who, why, corny, naff dialogue and absolutely no sense of peril in any form, Yeah I know main characters have more plot armour than your average space marine, but at least give me 2 minutes where I think there is even the slightest chance that things might go wrong, in terms of 'the earth skirting the very brink of destruction', the earth in dr who is wearing a wedding train...
Harry Potter, Rickey Gervais, Russel Brand, Game of Thrones, Big Bang theory (huh, huh. You said Bang), Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Scrubs, The Avengers, and Archer are all extremely entertaining. You're obviously watching them wrong.
Twilight, 2+0.5 men, broke girls, and Walking Dead can all go die in a fire.
The Walking Dead. I dislike it for several reasons and some are more petty than others.
I really hate how everyone acts like zombies were never a cultural thing. Why do everyone, including teenagers, call zombies "Walkers"? Where did this term come from? How did it spread? Is there some sort of copyright on the term "zombie"?
The show also doesn't seem to have much of a focus or purpose. It's just about some needy and whiny individuals wandering around trying to do... stuff. I get that the idea is that they are trying to survive but I can only take so much whining.
I don't understand the nature of the zombie virus. If everyone is infected, why don't they turn into zombies? I understand latent viruses and all but how does a bite of all things do it? Is there some sort of chemical that is in the zombie's saliva that cause the virus to go active? How was a virus engineered to be like this? I also understand that they needed this element to add suspense but... you know, I would think the threat of being mauled by mutated freaks would be enough.
Why haven't the zombies expired yet? They look like their immune and cell reproduction systems are down. Wouldn't bacteria cause them to decay in such a state? Wouldn't they bloat in the SE US heat?
Maybe all of this is explained in the comics but it seems to be glossed over in the show in favor of more drama. I liken The Walking Dead as a soap opera for guys. Stupid situations that are an excuse for characters to be all sad and brooding.
I do not like The Big Bang Theory. It seems to be a show about what Hollywood writers think what mainstream people think nerds are like. What's worse is that I get the impression that we are supposed to laugh at the main cast instead of with them. I would like to echo one sentiment I have read about the show in that the person we are supposed to sympathize with isn't Leonard or his friends. It's supposed to be Penny. (Whom I think should be less in the show).
I don't like Walking Dead, but that's more a "I dont like zombie movies/tv shows period" than a, "i like zombies, but I dont like what walking dead did with them"
I absolutely hate that Duck Dynasty show... I recently watched three episodes (well, watched is a loose term, I was studying for a test, and it was background noise), and with the exception of one scene in 3 full episodes, it was absolute garbage... For the record, the "good" scene that I actually enjoyed was where the two old dudes went to school for "career day" and proceeded to dress a duck, and the other one regaled 8th graders with the blood and gut stories from his time in Vietnam.
It should go without saying, but I hate Glee, any of the singing shows (American Idol, the Voice, the X Factor, etc.)
We can also throw in basically all forms of Reality TV... and the fact that even sports leagues/teams are getting in on that game grinds my gears so badly
Game of Thrones, Big Bang theory (huh, huh. You said Bang), Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Scrubs, The Avengers, and Archer are all extremely entertaining. You're obviously watching them wrong.
Twilight, 2+0.5 men, broke girls, and Walking Dead can all go die in a fire.
I agree with Kronk on these things as well... (the ones I removed from his list I can generally take or leave, but I don't have a general outright dislike or hate of them)
I'm just glad no one hates Mythbusters. And of anyone does say that, I will find you, an I will kill you.
As for shows I hate, I really don't get what bronies see in MLP. It's just an awful gak filled mess for 5 year old girls. The one and only episode I ever in intend to even watch some of, is the one Weird Al was in.
I don't actually have a TV or anything like that, all I have is Netflix,.
Also, feth all live action sitcoms. I used to watch The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, thinking it was good. I recently watched an episode of the thing, and I could not understand how I was able to stand that gak! It's just awful!
I hate the Harry Potter stuff. The editing is just so choppy, and I can't stand things like that. Avengers was awesome, and Lord of the Rings (extended edition) is my favorite trilogy. Yes I like LotR more than I like the Original Star Wars
People don't enjoy Lord of the rings? Well you all suck.
Everything else I'm agreeing with, Big bang theory has gotten progressively worse with each passing season, as has Game of thrones. Only reason I watch GoT now is because I have a massive crush on Natalie Dormer haha.
The simpsons I've started to despise now too, it;s just getting awful and needs to be stopped before it's completely run into the ground. It's all just regurgitated story lines that have already been done.
TV Wise
Duck Dynasty, PAwn Stars, American Pickers.
I loathe those shows with a passion. Pawn stars was good for a bit, till it obviously became scripted and messy. Duck Dynasty. Jesus, who gave those guys a show? Why is "People Acting Insane when doing their job" so popular?
Movie:
Godfather, I just cant get into it.
Iron Man 3: It had no Iron Man
Citizen Kane
I'd tried my damnedest to like Dr. Who, but I don't get the hype. But, I dislike the OTT Whovian fans more than the show itself.
I haven't really watched much TV since I got Netflix about 4 years ago, but I will say that I can't stand reality TV shows. The ONLY exception being Hell's Kitchen. Everything else can feth off in my opinion.
Those are the only ones that come to mind off hand.
Ah, I forgot movies!
The ones that come to mind are Godfather, Princess Bride, or Tropic Thunder. I think those are the only movies that I can't even stand being around.
Revolution is by far the most god awful thing on TV, They missed their Y2K release by 13 years. I was horrified it got a second season.
There is nothing on earth that can stop a hand held electrical device from working, nor any magical amulet that will make it work years after all the batteries have drained and the electrical plants have been turned off. My son's lego light with a hand cranked generator spits in the face of revolution.
Worst zombie moves ever, Fido & zomibe love story one, so aweful I forget it's name where a zombie falls in love with a girl and starts becoming human again.
and of course any highlander movie or series after the first one. When the first movie kept quoting "there can be only one" they meant one movie, there can be only one movie.
Things People Like I don't like/don't understand why anyone likes;
For TV the chief is Firefly. It was alright, but I never thought it was that good. Occasionally funny, but I found the characters annoying and the plotlines generic. I did however like Serenity. It's not that I hate The Walking Dead, but I just can't get into it. I saw season one when it started and saw season two after season four finished and I just can't bring myself to keep watching. I don't find myself really interested in most of the characters who seem preoccupied with overly angsty melodrama and being varying degrees of godawful stupid. 2.5 Men for me as well. I enjoyed the first few seasons, but then they just started rehashing episodes and it became boring. Also the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. That series stopped being remotely in the realm of enjoyable after season 2 when the writers started doing their work while on LSD trips.
For video games;
Why people continue to buy Call of Duty, I will never know. Dawn of War 2; Both because it wasn't the game I really wanted and because I feel Company of Heroes was much better for the kind of game it was.
For movies;
Citizen Kane. I thought that movie was dreadfully boring and while I appreciate it was a revolutionary film in a lot of ways, I find the story to be an utter bore.The Hunger Games; I like the book well enough but I thought the movie was bland and dull to watch. Seeing people rave over it baffles me. Part of me enjoys entertaining notions of fan rage when Mocking Jay comes out and laughing.
Books;
Karen Travis; People probably notice I take chances to insult her when I can get them. Pure Mary Sue characters, constantly killing the few non-Mary Sue's she touches, and a really perverse infatuation with warrior types with scientists constantly being pure evil/the lowest form of life. And she killed Mara Jade over a personal squabble with Timothy Zahn and may she burn for it. Twilight; Considering that other books exist that tell pretty much the same story but with much better writing/less pathetic excuses for human beings as main characters the continuing popularity of Twilight does peeve me. The Great Gatsby; I have a special hate for this book. It's boring, overly long, and not 'Great' in any sense, but everyone has to read it an accept it as a pinacle of American literature.
At the same time, I kind of enjoy indulging in bad things. Dynasty Warriors is a series of games where each one is mostly the same as the last but I still play and crap out of them. I'd never call them good games thought. Just fun games. I can get why some people like some things and that's fine, but people holding up an obvious turd and calling it gold gets to me.
How I Met Your Mother. I tried to get into the show a few years ago, and I constantly hear how funny it is, but every episode I have watched is full of flimsy, shallow jokes and what seemed like hokey canned audience laughter. I really like Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel, but I find both of them un-watchable in that show. It is just so sitcom-y that I can't get involved. I am glad it is ending so it will no longer be in the news.
Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty, Keeping up with the Khardashians, any type of "Wars" show (Shipping, Storage, Parking, Cupcake, ect.) and generally anything on A&E, TLC, or E! is garbage in my book.
Anything WWII in any media, and this is from a guy that five years ago could recite the force dispositions for the siege of Tobruk from memory. It's overdone, folks, time to move along.
TV:
Moffat/Smith's Dr. Who. It's not really that bad, but I have to contend with a host of Moffat-worshipping, Smith-idolizing fanboys on a daily basis, and I'm secretly hoping for Capaldi and whatever new writer/director to take over.
Film:
Anything by Paul Haggis. Moralizing, hamfisted and manipulative. Nuff said.
90% of Tim Burton's films. See, there's this spanish singer and performer, Alaska, who rose to stardom in the early 80s by poaching stylistic elements from the (foreign, but also local) punk and gothic scenes, then reworking them as an acceptable pastiche for the post-francoist burgueoisie, deprived of all punch and subversive content. Much like her, Burton milks science-fiction, horror and fantasy for ideas, and in turn delivers bland, family-friendly box office hits that are neither sci-fi, horror or fantasy.
Books:
John Scalzi. The guy's quite a character and I often find myself agreeing with him, but his books are kind of... lacking. See, I don't believe we need to tone down science-fiction to make it appealing to prospective new readers, but Scalzi seems to think otherwise.
Other:
Twitter. No, I don't want the whole world to read my Whatsapp chats. They're not that interesting, really.
Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles are films I never really got into, but John Hughes also wrote National Lampoons Vacation so I let it slide. I grew up hearing everyone fawning over Heathers which I never really liked either.
Ahtman wrote: I don't like Big Bang Theory, though I think I dislike people assuming I should like it even more.
This. To me it's basically exploitation comedy. Along the same lines as Napolean Dynamite.
I cancelled my cable television service almost 4 years ago to switch to Netflix and Hulu. I find that the only serialized stuff I tune in for is generally anime and documentary series. I haven't found a reason to switch back.
tomball0706 wrote: People don't enjoy Lord of the rings? Well you all suck.
I know plenty of people that don't like it, mostly because:
They're good fantasy movies, it's a terrible Lord of the Rings adaptation.
Many of the characterizations are wrong, many of the parts that are added in make no sense, and many of the things that were reworked are odd, to say the least(why would they bring the civilians to Helm's Deep, why draw out Faramir's desire to claim the ring, etc.). There were also a few parts that should have been left in but were cut out because reasons. Not necessarily the Scouring, but little things.
I'll third this. I said "Huzzah" when my new debit card worked, and the cashier simply said "I think you mean 'Bazinga.'"
Listen here, I did not mean "Bazinga", nor will I EVER choose that over "Huzzah."
As a guy who is routinely subjected to marathon runs of BBT, Fringe, and Firefly (my wife is a huge fan of all three)... Bazinga is not even the proper word in your debit card situation.... Huzzah would be though. Good on ye for using the proper word to express joy over a "trivial" thing working
Since it's march, and it's techinically TV... I hate basketball.... College, pros, it doesn't matter, I fething hate it
Hmmm... The Walking Dead (and any zombie related films, though I do like 28 Days/Weeks later, Zombieland, and Shaun of the Dead), I utterly loathe zombies and 95% of things related to them. Other than that, I can't really say I outright hate any films/movies, although I dislike LotR and Harry Potter (both book/film), not because I dislike those works, but because I dislike the fan base that build it up to be the most amazing thing since sliced bread. I suppose Firefly also fits the bill there, although I did enjoy it a great deal.
timetowaste85 wrote: I just saw somebody say on here they disliked Archer. Ready the torches and pitchforks, boys, somebody here needs a whoopin'.
I found Game of Thrones to be very lacking. I haven't even finished the first book yet. It has been right here on my desk for months now, but I just can't bring myself to reading it again. I just got spoiled on the Lord of the Rings I guess. Game of Thrones just lacks the depth and literary value that Lord of the Rings has. It is not that Games of Thrones is bad or anything, in fact, I think it is great, but somehow it lacks that special spark that keeps me reading or watching.
I liked it for maybe 1 or 2 seasons... but after a bit I just couldn't stomach it anymore either.
I loved the Big Bang Theory, but I spent an entire night without sleep from like 10pm to 9am watching it non-stop with friends, and now I just can't stomach it anymore.
I generally dislike anything related to Vampires. Never got into Buffy, and have avoided anything Dracula-related. And let's not even talk about Twlight. Weirdly though, I love Blade 2.
TheCustomLime wrote: I really hate how everyone acts like zombies were never a cultural thing. Why do everyone, including teenagers, call zombies "Walkers"? Where did this term come from? How did it spread? Is there some sort of copyright on the term "zombie"?
That's another reason I can't stand it. The people in it aren't genre savvy, and act as if the idea of a zombie is a new concept to them. Of course, The Walking Dead isn't the only zombie story guilty of this though.
LordofHats wrote: And she killed Mara Jade over a personal squabble with Timothy Zahn and may she burn for it.
TheCustomLime wrote: I really hate how everyone acts like zombies were never a cultural thing. Why do everyone, including teenagers, call zombies "Walkers"? Where did this term come from? How did it spread? Is there some sort of copyright on the term "zombie"?
That's another reason I can't stand it. The people in it aren't genre savvy, and act as if the idea of a zombie is a new concept to them. Of course, The Walking Dead isn't the only zombie story guilty of this though.
Yep. Whilst I'm generally a supporter of tropes, this one is one of the more stupid ones out there and needs to stop.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I generally dislike anything related to Vampires. Never got into Buffy, and have avoided anything Dracula-related. And let's not even talk about Twlight. Weirdly though, I love Blade 2.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I disliked disliking things befoer you disliked it.
*adjusts vest, goes back to tapping away on his iPad whilst sipping stupidly overpriced coffee*
*monocle pop*
*tips fedora*
*stops to pull incredibly tight jeans out of buttcrack*
Ipad? pfffft! You guys aren't true hipsters if your using mainstream technologies, the real hipsters use retro tech to write their poems when enjoying thier decaf soy milk latte with pumpkin spice and vanilla
tomball0706 wrote: People don't enjoy Lord of the rings? Well you all suck.
I know plenty of people that don't like it, mostly because:
They're good fantasy movies, it's a terrible Lord of the Rings adaptation.
Many of the characterizations are wrong, many of the parts that are added in make no sense, and many of the things that were reworked are odd, to say the least(why would they bring the civilians to Helm's Deep, why draw out Faramir's desire to claim the ring, etc.). There were also a few parts that should have been left in but were cut out because reasons. Not necessarily the Scouring, but little things.
I get that, they didn't really stick to the books much but then again, do any book to film adaptations stick to the book well at all?
Its hard to know exactly what happened because the moderators at starwars.com probably spent more time cleaning up after the mess in the mid 2000's than anything else, but around that time were was a sort of civil war between two camps in the group that ran the EU (the side headed by Zahn, and the other of which Travis was one member). At some point there was apparently come kind of gaffe between Zahn and Travis and some people have theorized that killing Mara Jade was a sort of personal revenge by Travis that served the dual purpose of winning the 'civil war.'
I'll probably get flamed for my choices, but here goes:
24: This show has a cliffhanger like every 10 seconds (I guess so people don't channel hop); it gets annoying though, and spoils any element of pacing that a good story should have, and the twists get more and more ridiculous. The seasons are also very formulaic, it got boring pretty quickly after the first.
The Wire: I don't dislike this show as such, but I think it's massively overrated. It's often touted as "The best series ever", but I have to wonder who is saying this stuff. It's good compared to other police process shows like CSI, but that's about it really. And all those shows have better leads than plastic-paddy McNulty.
How I met your mother: I don't find anyone in this show especially funny, it just seems like canned laughter, and trying too hard.
You're actually the first person I've ever talked to that watched the show and didn't like it.
Meh. It meanders to no real end.
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timetowaste85 wrote: It's not that I hate GoT so much, it's more that it doesn't draw me in like a frothing madman. The books are actually more of a disappointment than the show. Show is pretty decent, I could just take or leave it without worry. The books, well, I don't find GRRM to be a good writer. He's decent, but I don't think he's good enough to get the recognition that he is.
tomball0706 wrote: People don't enjoy Lord of the rings? Well you all suck.
I know plenty of people that don't like it, mostly because:
They're good fantasy movies, it's a terrible Lord of the Rings adaptation.
Many of the characterizations are wrong, many of the parts that are added in make no sense, and many of the things that were reworked are odd, to say the least(why would they bring the civilians to Helm's Deep, why draw out Faramir's desire to claim the ring, etc.). There were also a few parts that should have been left in but were cut out because reasons. Not necessarily the Scouring, but little things.
As I recall, they did bring the civilians to Helms Deep.
Not the civilians of Edoras, but the civilians from the surrounding towns had taken shelter there. So there were actually civilians there. It just made a better story flow to have them be from Edoras. That's a very minor nitpick.
As for why draw out Faramir's desire for the Ring, it was so his resistance to it would seem special. In the book it is a little abrupt, it almost makes the Ring's power seem trivial at that point in time.
Iron_Captain wrote: I found Game of Thrones to be very lacking.
I haven't even finished the first book yet. It has been right here on my desk for months now, but I just can't bring myself to reading it again. I just got spoiled on the Lord of the Rings I guess. Game of Thrones just lacks the depth and literary value that Lord of the Rings has.
It is not that Games of Thrones is bad or anything, in fact, I think it is great, but somehow it lacks that special spark that keeps me reading or watching.
I liked it for maybe 1 or 2 seasons... but after a bit I just couldn't stomach it anymore either.
I loved the Big Bang Theory, but I spent an entire night without sleep from like 10pm to 9am watching it non-stop with friends, and now I just can't stomach it anymore.
I watched GOT and went meh. I procured the book to see if it was better. Its somewhat better but still has the meandering problem. I made the mistake of looking up how many books there were and the sheere number of them put me off. I made it to kidnapping the swarf but its been months since I went further. Been thinking of reading some nonfiction instead.
I agree with the GOT thing, it just goes on and on, and nothing really happens - even the big moments jus made me go "oh, ok." I got to a stage of terminal boredom with it, basically.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I generally dislike anything related to Vampires. Never got into Buffy, and have avoided anything Dracula-related. And let's not even talk about Twlight. Weirdly though, I love Blade 2.
TheCustomLime wrote: I really hate how everyone acts like zombies were never a cultural thing. Why do everyone, including teenagers, call zombies "Walkers"? Where did this term come from? How did it spread? Is there some sort of copyright on the term "zombie"?
That's another reason I can't stand it. The people in it aren't genre savvy, and act as if the idea of a zombie is a new concept to them. Of course, The Walking Dead isn't the only zombie story guilty of this though.
LordofHats wrote: And she killed Mara Jade over a personal squabble with Timothy Zahn and may she burn for it.
Please elaborate.
Well in defence, in Walking Dead there isn't a zombie culture. Its a parallel world without Romero... Thats why they're called walkers, or biters, or other names.
As I recall, they did bring the civilians to Helms Deep.
There were very few. Most of the people picked up on the way were additional soldiers, and for many towns, the civilians were left because the army was a more tempting target(the whole point of the army leaving Edoras). In addition, it's soldiers in the caves(the few civilians trapped once the Uruk-Hai made their way to the back entrance were in the fortress proper) as they were there, with Gimli tagging along because he couldn't see on the walls, to protect from attacks coming through the back passage.
Grey Templar wrote: As for why draw out Faramir's desire for the Ring, it was so his resistance to it would seem special. In the book it is a little abrupt, it almost makes the Ring's power seem trivial at that point in time.
But that misses the entire point of Faramir: He's pure enough to resist the ring's allure and power and do what's best for the world, even if it's not what Gondor wants. It changes a major strength of the character to have him capitulate to what his father wants just to change his mind because he and Frodo "finally understand each other".
I'm not saying there shouldn't be things changed or left out when adapting books to movies, but many of the changes were changes for change's sake(like the freaking Elves coming).
I don't like Firefly. I saw it during its initial run on Fox, and wasn't impressed. My friends convinced me that the reason I didn't like it was because Fox aired the episodes out of order. So I watched the first few episodes in order.
I still wasn't impressed.
(Hipster mode: engaged) "I was watching Firefly thirty years ago, back when it was called Blake's 7" (Hipster mode: off)
I also dislike the Lord of the Rings novels. I liked the movies, because I saw them without all of the emotional investment the book fans saw them with. I look on them as well put together fantasy movies. The novels... wow... Tolkieen could build a complex world and lay the foundations for the entire contemporary fantasy genre, but he was also a really bad writer. I'm sorry, its true. I couldn't even finish Fellowship because his prose style is over wordy and meandering to no beneficial effect.
I'll also throw in about the LOTR books being extremely boring. I love everything he did for the fantasy genre, but I gave up after the first book. Part of me wants to try again...but ehhhhh...
Locclo wrote: Game of Thrones. Tried to read the book, tried to watch the show, I was constantly alternating between bored and confused throughout both. I'm just not smart enough to enjoy this one.
Also on the TV front - Arrested Development, Scrubs, and Archer. I don't know what it is, maybe it's just the fact that the internet raves about them so much that the real shows aren't nearly as good in comparison, but none of them have been able to really get me laughing. I feel like Arrested Development did the best job of all three, but I've still never seen past the first few episodes, just because it wasn't that funny to me.
Edit: How do I grammar.
I'll chime in on the Arrested Development/Community appeal. These are two really slow burning comedies. There are bit jokes and oneliners tossed in, but they are at their best when they finally land a punchline based on a bad pun they set up two episodes ago. To really try Arrested Development you almost have to commit to watching a season. If you can appreciate this brand of humor, those shows deliver like nothing else. If you don't like one, you probably won't like the other. I'm a huge Community fan, but season 4 of Arrested Development was entirely too dark and flat out nasty for me. They went out of their way to blacken every ounce of hope and mirth from the show.
I'd love to hear someone explain the appeal of scrubs though- I am at a loss with that show.
I dislike Game of Thrones, I dislike it for being boring and long, but most of all I dislike the characters for all being unlikable donkey-caves and the world for being a psychotic betrayal cycle that makes no sense. However if you like it more power to you, its just not my kind of fantasy.
Lord of the Rings, both the movies and books, are my kind of fantasy, and I understand why people don't like them, but I do.
EmilCrane wrote: I dislike Game of Thrones, I dislike it for being boring and long, but most of all I dislike the characters for all being unlikable donkey-caves and the world for being a psychotic betrayal cycle that makes no sense. However if you like it more power to you, its just not my kind of fantasy.
Lord of the Rings, both the movies and books, are my kind of fantasy, and I understand why people don't like them, but I do.
Funny, that's why I like game of thrones there are few "heroes" and the constant betrayals ect. reads like Italy in the middle ages. I like that style
I'd love to hear someone explain the appeal of scrubs though- I am at a loss with that show.
Scrubs was one of those shows that was well written and funny to where guys like me who have no medical training/background find it funny (if you find it funny), but it's accurate enough to where, my sister in law who's an ER Nurse finds it just as funny as i do. (This is in contrast to House, which she absolutely hates, because it's so horribly inaccurate to the medical profession)... And like a good Doctor Who series/season, there's usually one episode or so that is a real feels grabber.
EmilCrane wrote: I dislike Game of Thrones, I dislike it for being boring and long, but most of all I dislike the characters for all being unlikable donkey-caves and the world for being a psychotic betrayal cycle that makes no sense. However if you like it more power to you, its just not my kind of fantasy.
Lord of the Rings, both the movies and books, are my kind of fantasy, and I understand why people don't like them, but I do.
Funny, that's why I like game of thrones there are few "heroes" and the constant betrayals ect. reads like Italy in the middle ages. I like that style
It would be nice if it didn't have massive junmp the shark moments every couple of chapters. The whole plot of Book 1 is one big WTF jump the shark if you think about it.
EmilCrane wrote: I dislike Game of Thrones, I dislike it for being boring and long, but most of all I dislike the characters for all being unlikable donkey-caves and the world for being a psychotic betrayal cycle that makes no sense. However if you like it more power to you, its just not my kind of fantasy.
Lord of the Rings, both the movies and books, are my kind of fantasy, and I understand why people don't like them, but I do.
Funny, that's why I like game of thrones there are few "heroes" and the constant betrayals ect. reads like Italy in the middle ages. I like that style
It would be nice if it didn't have massive junmp the shark moments every couple of chapters. The whole plot of Book 1 is one big WTF jump the shark if you think about it.
Jump the shark? I don't think you're using that term properly...
I'd love to hear someone explain the appeal of scrubs though- I am at a loss with that show.
Scrubs was one of those shows that was well written and funny to where guys like me who have no medical training/background find it funny (if you find it funny), but it's accurate enough to where, my sister in law who's an ER Nurse finds it just as funny as i do. (This is in contrast to House, which she absolutely hates, because it's so horribly inaccurate to the medical profession)... And like a good Doctor Who series/season, there's usually one episode or so that is a real feels grabber.
Pretty much. I've got quite a few medical experts in my family and they all say it's the most accurate portrayal of the real thing. That and it's just damn funny.
Frazzled wrote: It would be nice if it didn't have massive junmp the shark moments every couple of chapters. The whole plot of Book 1 is one big WTF jump the shark if you think about it.
Jump the shark? I don't think you're using that term properly...
mega_bassist wrote: I'll also throw in about the LOTR books being extremely boring. I love everything he did for the fantasy genre, but I gave up after the first book. Part of me wants to try again...but ehhhhh...
The first hundred pages of the first book mainly involve Bilbo doling out umbrellas, stationary, and clocks to relatives that have annoyed him in a very passive aggressive manner.
After that, it spends a lot of time discussing the virtues of long hikes.
Game of Thrones.
It's just so awful and boring. If there's one show that makes me fall asleep... It's Game of Thrones. I just can't understand why it's so popular. It's extremely overrated.
I don't get the game of thrones hate, but to each their own. The pacing is right were I like it. 10 episodes per season, character development for the ones you care about, and no one appears to have plot armor that's thick enough to survive!
EmilCrane wrote: I dislike Game of Thrones, I dislike it for being boring and long, but most of all I dislike the characters for all being unlikable donkey-caves and the world for being a psychotic betrayal cycle that makes no sense. However if you like it more power to you, its just not my kind of fantasy.
Lord of the Rings, both the movies and books, are my kind of fantasy, and I understand why people don't like them, but I do.
Funny, that's why I like game of thrones there are few "heroes" and the constant betrayals ect. reads like Italy in the middle ages. I like that style
It would be nice if it didn't have massive junmp the shark moments every couple of chapters. The whole plot of Book 1 is one big WTF jump the shark if you think about it.
Jump the shark? I don't think you're using that term properly...
There's no logic to the plotline and the major points that drive it. Its strangely and conveniently jumps to the next unbelievable event.
I love GoT (books) because nobody is safe and nobody is truly "good". There are no white hats vs. black hats. It's just human nature and desires that drive the characters. As soon as that axe fell i nthe first book, I was hooked!
I don't mind Game of Thrones, it has good moments, but as with all fantasy, I can't help but get all anal and nitpick, especially with the horrendous fencing scenes, it just kind of puts me off all fantasy.
However, I find some of the story and actors quite interesting, its not fantastic, but its still something I find bearable to watch, though I usually just watch it online.
mega_bassist wrote: I'll also throw in about the LOTR books being extremely boring. I love everything he did for the fantasy genre, but I gave up after the first book. Part of me wants to try again...but ehhhhh...
The first hundred pages of the first book mainly involve Bilbo doling out umbrellas, stationary, and clocks to relatives that have annoyed him in a very passive aggressive manner.
After that, it spends a lot of time discussing the virtues of long hikes.
I agree with you guys here, tolkien seems to be able to waffle quite expertly. I always think of it as most writers would put:
'The hobbits enjoyed a hearty breakfast, the bacon and mushrooms were particulary delicious'
But tolkien would go the whole hog:
'The hobbits sat down to breakfast, it consisted of 3 rashers of sweetcure bacon, 2 sausages, 2 fried eggs (sunny side up so as to prevent the yolk from staining thier magnificent elvish cloaks), a portion of mushrooms sauteed for 10 minutes in clarified butter, with parsley, black pepper and thyme, this was followed by several rounds of toast, to make the bread, Sam mixed 250g of strong white bread flour with 2 eggs, 10g of salt and ....
(you get the idea)
I love the LotR trilogy, thoroughly enjoyed both the books and the movies, but I just thought it could have been 1/3 of the length if Tolkien hadn't elaborated on every single detail.
I'd love to hear someone explain the appeal of scrubs though- I am at a loss with that show.
Scrubs was one of those shows that was well written and funny to where guys like me who have no medical training/background find it funny (if you find it funny), but it's accurate enough to where, my sister in law who's an ER Nurse finds it just as funny as i do. (This is in contrast to House, which she absolutely hates, because it's so horribly inaccurate to the medical profession)... And like a good Doctor Who series/season, there's usually one episode or so that is a real feels grabber.
It's actually been described as the most realistic non-reality program on hospitals.
Scrubs is excellent. It is kind of sad that it died.
Also, my post before was comedic. Zombie land isnt a movie you're ment to like, it is made to be hilarious.
Scrubs is only funny because of the one-liners and the slap-stick aspects. I can't stand most of the main characters, and the show definitely made a turn for the worst during season 7...but there were some REALLY good episodes thrown in. I did enjoy watching it most of the time, but it doesn't surprise me that some people couldn't get into it.
As for Arrested Development....the first season was great, the rest was pretty "meh" in my opinion.
Jump the shark? I don't think you're using that term properly...
I think he's looking for Wham Episode, cause GoT contains so many Wham episodes/chapters that I can see how it quickly becomes repetitive and less shocking when the unexpected happens because you start suspecting the unexpected.
That said, I disagree that plot points are illogical. If anything the scale of the books makes it a struggle to really keep track of all the plot points and numerous sublte ques and foreshadowing that ties everything together. I personally applaud Martin for this as its a struggle to say something without coming out and saying it but he manages to do it frequently and quite well. But the books are so big, its easy to lose track of that in a first read through of what is happening. Martin is a master of unreliable narrator, but unfortunately for him unreliable narrators are very much out of fashion these days.
The TV series I think has noticably been dragging along a little, in part because they don't seem willing to have characters not appear at least once an episode even if their story line is currently waiting on another to progress. Seeing Theon get pointlessly tortured by a sadist every single episode (sometimes twice) was a bit much, even by GoT standards.
the shrouded lord wrote: Scrubs is excellent. It is kind of sad that it died.
Also, my post before was comedic. Zombie land isnt a movie you're ment to like, it is made to be hilarious.
Honestly, I think Scrubs left at the best time possible. When they tried to reboot the series, it just failed miserably.
the shrouded lord wrote: Scrubs is excellent. It is kind of sad that it died.
Also, my post before was comedic. Zombie land isnt a movie you're ment to like, it is made to be hilarious.
Honestly, I think Scrubs left at the best time possible. When they tried to reboot the series, it just failed miserably.
Yeah, season 8 was already showing some cracks but they wrapped it up quite well. The thing that followed had no business existing.
kronk wrote: Scrubs did not get rebooted. There was a hiatus during the writers strike, but when they came back, I didn't find it was well done at all.
Thought when it came back, they moved from the hospital that we all know, and put the show taking place in a medical school, and just failed miserably.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I generally dislike anything related to Vampires. Never got into Buffy, and have avoided anything Dracula-related. And let's not even talk about Twlight. Weirdly though, I love Blade 2.
Blade 2 has Ron Perlman, thus it is acceptable.
In an ironic twist (considering the opinions in this thread) it also contains Norman Reedus...
I'm in agreement with much of the stuff said about TWD. I've personally never seen it and have avoided it intentionally, but I have a rudimentary knowledge of what's going on. I'm completely tapped out on the zombie genre, maybe in a few years when we aren't up to our elbows in said genre I'll give it a go. I deeply *want* to like it, but it's just "same old gak" with all the other zombie stuff out there right now.
kronk wrote: Scrubs did not get rebooted. There was a hiatus during the writers strike, but when they came back, I didn't find it was well done at all.
Thought when it came back, they moved from the hospital that we all know, and put the show taking place in a medical school, and just failed miserably.
they added 4 or 5 new interns, but they didn't move it to a school that I'm aware.
I don't tend to watch much TV at all, but there are a few shows I really don't get.
The Big Bang theory just isn't funny.
Elementary will never be as good as Sherlock, so why bother?
The Walking Dead is now on its 4th series. I've never watched it, but 4 series seems to be a bit too much milage out of 'zombie apocalypse', Then again, I'm not a fan of zombie stuff in general.
I also spent many years insisting that Red Dwarf was crap. I then watched it almost by accident (I was looking for Hitchhiker's Guide on Youtube, saw it was taken down, and so went for another sci-fi comedy) and realised it is amazing. In the last 2 weeks, I've watched all bar 8 episodes.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I disliked disliking things befoer you disliked it.
*adjusts vest, goes back to tapping away on his iPad whilst sipping stupidly overpriced coffee*
*monocle pop*
*tips fedora*
*stops to pull incredibly tight jeans out of buttcrack*
Ipad? pfffft! You guys aren't true hipsters if your using mainstream technologies, the real hipsters use retro tech to write their poems when enjoying thier decaf soy milk latte with pumpkin spice and vanilla
Elementary will never be as good as Sherlock, so why bother?
That's another one: Sherlock. I absolutely do not like that show at all. The lead character is utterly unlikeable, and not nearly as smart as he likes to think he is. Elementary isn't terrible, in contrast. I'm not a fan, and I think it's far too American for a Holmes adaptation, but at least they try to mix things up a little (their handling of Moriarty being a case in point).
Paradigm wrote: I also spent many years insisting that Red Dwarf was crap.
I nearly had a stroke when I read that. I didn't think it was possible for someone to not like Red Dwarf.
I gradually grew to hate the LOTR movies - things I didn't like just kept piling up; I was reasonable happy with the first one. T
he second one started annoying me (Why are wargs suddenly giant hyenas with Downs syndrome? Why change the Entmoot like that? Do we really need Elves at the Hornburg? Why are Uruk Hai magically repelled by horses? Who the hell pulls a cavalry charge down a slope that steep onto a line of heavily armored pikes?)
And the third one.... welp, thanks for showing up and fighting those hundred foot tall elephants, Rohan, but everything you did was just rendered completely irrelevant by a glowing green tide of deus ex machina.
Shoulda just taken the day off, had a late breakfast and hung out, you'd have had a few thousand more dudes to charge at the black gate yelling before the ground perfectly splits apart to swallow the armies of Mordor after that evil lighthouse collapsed.
Pretty straightforward ones for me, already mentioned I'm sure.
I don't understand the appeal of Family Guy given its very lazy and repetitive attempts at humour mixed in with crappy animation. Similarly, stuff like CSI when they over exaggerate murder and the whole DNA evidence crap. It's especially formulaic and boring since you know they'll catch someone in the end. The David Caruso sunglasses meme was the only good thing to come out of that show.
Also I don't get the hype around Frozen recently, am I the only one who preferred Disney's hand-drawn animation? The plot wasn't anything spectacular and there are some plot holes surrounding the sister's upbringing (only Elsa as far as I remember had to be isolated, her sister was never restricted in leaving the castle). Is it just because the song "let it go" got stuck in people's heads? I didn't find that song to be good either.
Grimskul wrote: Also I don't get the hype around Frozen recently, am I the only one who preferred Disney's hand-drawn animation? The plot wasn't anything spectacular and there are some plot holes surrounding the sister's upbringing (only Elsa as far as I remember had to be isolated, her sister was never restricted in leaving the castle). Is it just because the song "let it go" got stuck in people's heads? I didn't find that song to be good either.
Elsa wasn't isolated to her room, that was more of a self-imposed isolation because her parents convinced her she would hurt her sister. Keep in mind their parents did close the castle gates and reduce the staff (their dad explains that during the scene with the trolls in the beginning) to limit the girls' interaction with other people. They both were confined to the castle grounds and Elsa chose to further isolate herself.
I also enjoy traditional animation but the technique has its limitations and not everything the film makers want to do can be conveyed in traditional animation (especially when it comes to depth). Also, films like Frozen and Tangled employ both CGI and hand-drawn animation. Personally, I found the animation in Frozen to be absolutely gorgeous. You're also the only person I've heard describe "Let It Go" as "not good;" Idina Menzel has a fantastic voice (not a fan of the Demi Lovato version though)!
As far as what I don't like, that is most of "popular" television on the major networks. The only exception to that is some of the Fox sitcoms; my wife and I watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine (which I find hilarious), The Mindy Project (didn't watch it at first but have since come around to), and New Girl, which are all on Tuesday night. However, this past season of New Girl has declined in quality compared to the first two seasons so I don't know if I really keep watching it.
I wife likes some of the worst drivel ever produced, which is all those terrible Lifetime Network shows (Army Wives, The Client List, Drop Dead Diva, etc.) and "The Bachelor." I had proudly never watched a minute of that show until a few weeks ago. She was watching one of the recent episodes and I came up from downstairs and sat down on the couch to show her something I had just finished painting. I paused for a moment to take in how horrible that show is and said, "You know, this show is the reason the terrorists hate us," and I walked back downstairs.
im a 14 year old boy and even I enjoyed frozen. the comedy was well thought out, the animation "nice" and, although I don't have any appreciation of music out side of "loved the way you lie" and similarly themed, I found "let it go" to be good, in some ways. 2 broke girls isn't bad, and the bachelor was clearly created by evil nazi space lizards.
Frozen was horrible. Obviously released so they could make it into a broadway musical later and rake it in. The only funny parts were in the previews, the snowman thing was a sidebar in the movie when it had top billing in the previews.
Bait And Switch.
They really should put warning labels on previews to let you know it's a musical. As soon as the first contrived song was being belted out my wife and I looked at each other and groaned.
Well, it is a Disney film. I thought Frozen was so widely recognized for taking shots at the typical romance story line in favor of a tale of sisterly love, and learning to use even the talents you find embarrassing.
I enjoyed it for Elsa- a reluctant villain is an idea that isn't used enough in films. Actually, I'm not certain she falls into any archetypal movie role, and I love seeing characters like that.
SlaveToDorkness wrote: Frozen was horrible. Obviously released so they could make it into a broadway musical later and rake it in. The only funny parts were in the previews, the snowman thing was a sidebar in the movie when it had top billing in the previews.
Bait And Switch.
They really should put warning labels on previews to let you know it's a musical. As soon as the first contrived song was being belted out my wife and I looked at each other and groaned.
This is either the worst attempt at trolling or you have never seen any of the other 52 Disney animated feature films, especially considering just about every Disney film since The Little Mermaid in 1989 has been a full on musical.
SlaveToDorkness wrote: Frozen was horrible. Obviously released so they could make it into a broadway musical later and rake it in. The only funny parts were in the previews, the snowman thing was a sidebar in the movie when it had top billing in the previews.
Bait And Switch.
They really should put warning labels on previews to let you know it's a musical. As soon as the first contrived song was being belted out my wife and I looked at each other and groaned.
This is either the worst attempt at trolling or you have never seen any of the other 52 Disney animated feature films, especially considering just about every Disney film since The Little Mermaid in 1989 has been a full on musical.
To be fair, Disney make a lot of films which aren't musicals.
SlaveToDorkness wrote: Frozen was horrible. Obviously released so they could make it into a broadway musical later and rake it in. The only funny parts were in the previews, the snowman thing was a sidebar in the movie when it had top billing in the previews.
Bait And Switch.
They really should put warning labels on previews to let you know it's a musical. As soon as the first contrived song was being belted out my wife and I looked at each other and groaned.
This is either the worst attempt at trolling or you have never seen any of the other 52 Disney animated feature films, especially considering just about every Disney film since The Little Mermaid in 1989 has been a full on musical.
To be fair, Disney make a lot of films which aren't musicals.
Notice that I was being specific when I said "Disney animated feature," most of which have been musicals.
the new Batman films - over long, poorly written, no humour or real characterisation, terrible plots.
Inception - no substance - just flashy effects, no actual human characters - tedious little film.
The recent BBC Sherlock series - I quite enjoyed it at first then they brough on their version of Moriarty - a shouty idoiot- I could only stomach a couple of epsodes of this travesty. Compare with themuch better recent films - Especially Moriarity.
the new Batman films - over long, poorly written, no humour or real characterisation, terrible plots.
Really? I think those films were perfectly paced, with excellent characters and great plots. And there was a healthy dose of humour in places as well.
The recent BBC Sherlock series - I quite enjoyed it at first then they brough on their version of Moriarty - a shouty idoiot- I could only stomach a couple of epsodes of this travesty. Compare with themuch better recent films - Especially Moriarity.
Again, I disagree. I thought the TV version on Moriarty really took the unhinged madman aspect of the character really well, and I hated the film version (then again, I hated that second film, loved the first one. Second one was too much James Bond and not enough Sherlock Holmes)
the new Batman films - over long, poorly written, no humour or real characterisation, terrible plots.
Really? I think those films were perfectly paced, with excellent characters and great plots. And there was a healthy dose of humour in places as well.
The recent BBC Sherlock series - I quite enjoyed it at first then they brough on their version of Moriarty - a shouty idoiot- I could only stomach a couple of epsodes of this travesty. Compare with themuch better recent films - Especially Moriarity.
Again, I disagree. I thought the TV version on Moriarty really took the unhinged madman aspect of the character really well, and I hated the film version (then again, I hated that second film, loved the first one. Second one was too much James Bond and not enough Sherlock Holmes)
Then lets agree to disagree - for instance I can't remember a single humerous moment in the 2nd Batman film and no one in either I gave a damn about ( I couldn;t be bothered to watch the third) ? Compared with the genius of Avengers and Thor 2 they are veyr very very very poor. In terms of pacing - they are horible - the 2nd one in particular lurches drunkenly from set peice to set piece and wastes an extra half an hour on the whole 2 face bit which should have been in another film.
For me Moriarity in the film was a brilliant and twisted man who saw Holmes as nothing more than a minor annoyance, rather than a madman who just shouted a lot.....
The Avengers: It's not that I didn't like it it's just that I'd heard so much about it and how it was amazing, so when I was done it just felt like a bit of a let down.
The Walking Dead: When the second half of seasons 4 started I realised that I was only watching it for the sake of watching it and for what the first season was. I get that it's set in a universe where they don't know about zombies, but after a couple of years you'd think that they realise to stop being stupid around zombies.
Scrubs: I don't really have a reason for not liking it there's just something about it that bores the hell out of me.
I don't understand the appeal of Family Guy given its very lazy and repetitive attempts at humour mixed in with crappy animation. Similarly, stuff like CSI when they over exaggerate murder and the whole DNA evidence crap. It's especially formulaic and boring since you know they'll catch someone in the end. The David Caruso sunglasses meme was the only good thing to come out of that show.
Funny thing is, my mom got a summons for jury duty, and one of the questions that was asked to the whole group was "does anyone here watch CSI on a fairly regular basis?" She was promptly excused and thanked for her time when she said she did watch the show
I get why people don't like the LotR books, Tolkien is wordy and takes a while to get to the point. Its hard to find the excellently written bits but when they crop up they're quite nice. However yeah the Fellowship of the Ring takes forever to get to the point. The next two book are a lot better.
For the movies, I'm just glad that someone was a big enough fan to put my favorite series onto film, I wouldn't have cared if it was crap (well, that's not quite true, look at The Last Airbender), but they weren't crap. Even if you dislike the changes you have to respect the technical innovations and the work put in by the art department in making the world "come alive". I could have done without the elves at the Hornburg or Legolas being a Mary Sue. That got on my nerves.
"Ok Peter, we get you like elves, but this story is supposed to be about the smallest of people making the biggest differences, not elves skateboarding on shields."
Mary Sue/Marty Stu are idealized author inserts, not just over the top characters.
"Greya Templara was assigned to the Enterprise after both getting perfect scores on the Graduate Exit Exam and defeating four Klingons in melee unarmed combat, and was selected by Admiral Picard to serve as second in command to Captain Riker."
Family Guy, American Dad, pretty much any of that vein of US animation is terrible.
Can't quite put my finger on it, just find it lacking anything actually funny.
I miss Futurama already!
Any three-and-half hour film bores the hell out of me, anything of that length is usually massively overwritten and/or pretentious. Or has a lot of filler.
Only exception is book adaptations that actually need the time to tell the story.
I'm unsure about the walking dead, haven't watched the second half of season 4 so far and don't know if I'll bother. It's quite a depressing show and I don't really need that in my life right now.
Grey Templar wrote: I don't think he was over the top enough to be Marty Stu either.
Legolas and Gimli were semi-serious comic relief without breaking the vibe of the movies.
I just got sick of Legolas doing something ridiculous and over the top every fight scene, its not cool, its overdone and boring.
Peter Jackson made a story about Men and Hobbits become about elves and how awesome he thinks they are. I still like the movies, I just don't like that aspect of them. The books were much better in that regard.
I guess you could call me a hibster when it comes to the superhero movies. Most of ones that comic fans and others hate (the X-Men movies) I actually rather enjoyed, but the ones my friends where drooling over (The Avengers) left me unimpressed.
I generally don't care for any superhero that isn't human. I just lack any connection to the character. I mean watching the Thor movies I found myself not really caring if Thor "won".
Edit: Also the Captain American was terrible and couldn't care less about the second one.
Then lets agree to disagree - for instance I can't remember a single humerous moment in the 2nd Batman film and no one in either I gave a damn about ( I couldn;t be bothered to watch the third) ? Compared with the genius of Avengers and Thor 2 they are veyr very very very poor. In terms of pacing - they are horible - the 2nd one in particular lurches drunkenly from set peice to set piece and wastes an extra half an hour on the whole 2 face bit which should have been in another film.
Yea I very much disagree with you as well. Avengers, even with all its action scenes, was kinda boring. I went to see it with a bunch of comic fans who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, but I was left honestly with a response of "meh". It was one of those movies that is "fun" but overall forgettable. Thor 2 (didn't like the first one either) was one of those movies that by the end I was rooting for Malekith and Loki to win. If by the end I am rooting for the villains than that is a good sign that the movie sucks. On the other hand I loved the Dark Knight. Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker was excellent. I was really saddened to hear when he died.
SlaveToDorkness wrote: Frozen was horrible. Obviously released so they could make it into a broadway musical later and rake it in. The only funny parts were in the previews, the snowman thing was a sidebar in the movie when it had top billing in the previews.
Bait And Switch.
They really should put warning labels on previews to let you know it's a musical. As soon as the first contrived song was being belted out my wife and I looked at each other and groaned.
This is either the worst attempt at trolling or you have never seen any of the other 52 Disney animated feature films, especially considering just about every Disney film since The Little Mermaid in 1989 has been a full on musical.
To be fair, Disney make a lot of films which aren't musicals.
There are plenty of Disney movies that are not musicals. But somebody must have had a very sheltered life if they cannot look at the poster or preview for a Disney Princess/Prince Movie(tm) and realize that any Disney Princess/Prince Movie(tm) is basically just Disney Broadway Musical - The Movie(tm) and that you can expect lots of musical numbers and singing with lots of fancy outfits that you can purchase for your children at the Disney Store for the low low price of $99.
That is ok, I don't get why people don't like the movies.
Bromsy wrote: I gradually grew to hate the LOTR movies - things I didn't like just kept piling up; I was reasonable happy with the first one. T
he second one started annoying me (Why are wargs suddenly giant hyenas with Downs syndrome? Why change the Entmoot like that? Do we really need Elves at the Hornburg? Why are Uruk Hai magically repelled by horses? Who the hell pulls a cavalry charge down a slope that steep onto a line of heavily armored pikes?)
And the third one.... welp, thanks for showing up and fighting those hundred foot tall elephants, Rohan, but everything you did was just rendered completely irrelevant by a glowing green tide of deus ex machina.
Shoulda just taken the day off, had a late breakfast and hung out, you'd have had a few thousand more dudes to charge at the black gate yelling before the ground perfectly splits apart to swallow the armies of Mordor after that evil lighthouse collapsed.
Yea I very much disagree with you as well. Avengers, even with all its action scenes, was kinda boring. I went to see it with a bunch of comic fans who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, but I was left honestly with a response of "meh". It was one of those movies that is "fun" but overall forgettable. Thor 2 (didn't like the first one either) was one of those movies that by the end I was rooting for Malekith and Loki to win. If by the end I am rooting for the villains than that is a good sign that the movie sucks. On the other hand I loved the Dark Knight. Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker was excellent. I was really saddened to hear when he died.
Then lets agree to disagree - for instance I can't remember a single humerous moment in the 2nd Batman film and no one in either I gave a damn about ( I couldn;t be bothered to watch the third) ? Compared with the genius of Avengers and Thor 2 they are veyr very very very poor. In terms of pacing - they are horible - the 2nd one in particular lurches drunkenly from set peice to set piece and wastes an extra half an hour on the whole 2 face bit which should have been in another film.
Yea I very much disagree with you as well. Avengers, even with all its action scenes, was kinda boring. I went to see it with a bunch of comic fans who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, but I was left honestly with a response of "meh". It was one of those movies that is "fun" but overall forgettable. Thor 2 (didn't like the first one either) was one of those movies that by the end I was rooting for Malekith and Loki to win. If by the end I am rooting for the villains than that is a good sign that the movie sucks. On the other hand I loved the Dark Knight. Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker was excellent. I was really saddened to hear when he died.
See that's all good - we like different things
I really found Dark Knight tiresome to sit through - and the plot with the Mary Sue Joker - did not engage me in any way. Again I can't recall a single humorous moment in DK except perhaps the disappearing pencil. Yes Heath Ledger was good (not as good as Jack N IMO) but good, everyone else was dull and uninteresting.
Whereas for Me Avengers and Thor 2 had both wit and style where I actually cared about the characters rather than the just style over substance - but that's all of Mr Nolans films - stark, cold and heartless and in the end not films I want to watch again.
If you don't like The Dark Knight, no amount of clapping will get you your angel's wings...
Also, I <3 Idina Menzel more than any other straight man that enjoys Broadway Musicals, but I was done with "Let it Go" the first time i heard it on the radio.
Ahtman wrote: Mary Sue/Marty Stu are idealized author inserts, not just over the top characters.
"Greya Templara was assigned to the Enterprise after both getting perfect scores on the Graduate Exit Exam and defeating four Klingons in melee unarmed combat, and was selected by Admiral Picard to serve as second in command to Captain Riker."
Ahtman wrote: Mary Sue/Marty Stu are idealized author inserts, not just over the top characters.
"Greya Templara was assigned to the Enterprise after both getting perfect scores on the Graduate Exit Exam and defeating four Klingons in melee unarmed combat, and was selected by Admiral Picard to serve as second in command to Captain Riker."
I understood none of that -_-.
Mary Sue (often called a Marty Stu or Gary Sue for male versions by some) is a form of chracter that arouse in prominence from Fan Fiction, most noteably Star Trek fan fiction. From TV tropes "the term "Mary Sue" is generally slapped on a character who is important in the story, possesses unusual physical traits, and has an irrelevantly over-skilled or over-idealized nature." Often they are taken to be author insertions, which is a character that is written by the author as themselves in their own work.
Popular examples of the Mary Sue are Wesley Crusher (an author insertion of Gene Rodenberry), Bella Swan (author insertion of Stephene Meyer), and Eragon (a self admitted insertion of Chris Paloni). I would personally disagree that all Mary Sues are author inserts myself. The heroines of most young adult fiction are often share all the traits of a mary sue, but aren't always author insertions (and example is the early Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackon series, who is very marry sue, but clearly not an insert of autor Rick Riordan). Likewise, not all author insertions are a Mary Sue. Luke Skywalker is an author insertion of George Lucas (Luke. S, really clever George, bravo) but even in Lucas' original script he wasn't very Suish.
Mr Morden wrote: I really found Dark Knight tiresome to sit through - and the plot with the Mary Sue Joker - did not engage me in any way. Again I can't recall a single humorous moment in DK except perhaps the disappearing pencil. Yes Heath Ledger was good (not as good as Jack N IMO) but good, everyone else was dull and uninteresting.
Whereas for Me Avengers and Thor 2 had both wit and style where I actually cared about the characters rather than the just style over substance - but that's all of Mr Nolans films - stark, cold and heartless and in the end not films I want to watch again.
I don't think the Dark Knight was meant to be comedy. I would agree that it probably does jump from set-piece to set-piece, but the action sequences were so good that I can forgive it. Not once did I feel like the story or the live action was being displaced by over the top CGI.
I liked Avengers and I was very much looking forward to it from when it was announced. But ultimately I found it a bit disappointing. For me, the first Iron Man movie was the pick of those movies (followed by Captain America). I think the Avengers was weaker than both those films, which is disappointing because it was what they were building up to. The super aircraft carrier, and the final battle with aliens is all computer effects. Special effects just aren't special anymore when they are everything. I totally respect that you might disagree and feel differently about Avengers ymmv.
I cannot forgive you for liking Thor 2 though! Both the Thor movies are utter trash. Everything from the casting of Chris Hemsworth, to the uber gay rainbow-road to CGI town, it's repugnant to me. I think Avengers was probably spoiled for me by having too much Thor in it.
I think they certainly did give Legolas some preferential treatment in LOTR, but I always thought that was to make up for him being played by Orlando Bloom.
I liked Avengers, but it was a pretty typical Marvel film -- safe, workmanlike, bankable and brain candy.
Note that I have ZERO problems with brain candy films. Since the kids came along I get to maybe 4 or 5 (grown-up) movies in the theater each year compared to maybe 30 a year pre-kids. So when I go, I tend to want something blockbustery that looks good on the big screen. So yeah, Avengers was loads of fun, but with repeat viewings I've decided that it's surprisingly slow in spots and kind of an empty CGI smashfest in others. I'll still give Whedon credit for getting it all to work onscreen...it's an genuine accomplishment.
Captain America had some moments, but it wasn't anywhere near what it could have been. Cap has some of the best material to work with in all the Marvel pantheon, but Marvel needed the movie to be safe and bankable. So out went grittier, more realistic war action and adult themes, along with all the Nazi imagery (Red Skull IS the perfect Nazi, that's the point of the character). It was a little too Star Wars with all the cartoony action and laser beams, where it needed to be more Saving Private Ryan. The early buzz on the sequel is good, however.
Edit: I liked Firefly, but IMO it was just a nice little show and nothing more.
ST: TNG is another one in that general category. Overall likeable enough, but not consistently good, and entire seasons at a time seemed entirely missable. The difference between TNG and Voyager isn't as great as people make it out to be, and has a lot to do with a better cast. DS9 was the easily best of the post-original series IMO (and that series had its flaws too).
I have not owned a TV in two years, and frankly I don't miss it. Crap like Duck Dynasty, Honey Booboo and Lizard Lick Towing (The worst name for anything in the history of names) did it in for me.I don't miss it at all. What is my furniture pointed at? My painting table.
Admittedly I only watched the first half of the first series but I had no desire to go on after that. I just found it to be formulaic and repetitive.
Big Bang Theory. Have tried watching it and didn’t laugh once, pure comedy by committee.
Oh and for the British guys out there, Mrs Browns Boys. Apparently this show keeps topping the ratings though for the life of me I have no idea why and I’ve never met anyone in person who likes it. I have no idea who eaxtly the 10 million people are who watch this drivel, perhaps they have the good sense to never admit it. It’s one of the most insultingly bad shows I’ve ever seen, I actually felt my IQ dropping whilst I tried to watch it. It makes Miranda look like Monty Python.
Captain America had some moments, but it wasn't anywhere near what it could have been. Cap has some of the best material to work with in all the Marvel pantheon, but Marvel needed the movie to be safe and bankable. So out went grittier, more realistic war action and adult themes, along with all the Nazi imagery (Red Skull IS the perfect Nazi, that's the point of the character). It was a little too Star Wars with all the cartoony action and laser beams, where it needed to be more Saving Private Ryan. The early buzz on the sequel is good, however.
I felt the it was a gritty war movie. The lasers felt more scary the bullets, with them disintigrating anything they contact.
The UK version of the Office. I absolutely loathed it and still loathe Ricky Gervais. How any human being can be so smug and slimy without it seeping out of his pores is beyond me.
Mr Morden wrote: I really found Dark Knight tiresome to sit through - and the plot with the Mary Sue Joker - did not engage me in any way. Again I can't recall a single humorous moment in DK except perhaps the disappearing pencil. Yes Heath Ledger was good (not as good as Jack N IMO) but good, everyone else was dull and uninteresting.
Whereas for Me Avengers and Thor 2 had both wit and style where I actually cared about the characters rather than the just style over substance - but that's all of Mr Nolans films - stark, cold and heartless and in the end not films I want to watch again.
I don't think the Dark Knight was meant to be comedy. I would agree that it probably does jump from set-piece to set-piece, but the action sequences were so good that I can forgive it. Not once did I feel like the story or the live action was being displaced by over the top CGI.
I did not want it to be comdey (just an hour shorter and with a decent plot) For me in order for somethng to be good and "dark" you need to care for the people in it - now the humour in the films I like (and listed) provides a way to do this - whereas the stark heatlessness of Nolans films makes me shrug and yawn - whilst Dark Knight was not as dull as the CGI explosion that was Inception it had plenty of it..........lastly I just don't think Nolan can write actual people..................certainly the only atual chacrater in Dk was the Joker and he was soo over the top Mary Sue I lost interest in him as the film dragged on.
but again different strokes.................
Captain America was by the far the weakest of the Marvel films for me - again its a bit dull, the supposed uber bad guy is farily ineffectual - with henchmen that make Imperial Stormtroopers look effective - it seemed a poor version of the much better GI Joe to me. Captain America worked much better for me in Avengers when he could be the straight guy and actually got some good lines - "There is only god Ma'am and I am pretty sure he does not dress like that"
This isn't technically on-topic, but I finally saw World War Z. As a fan of the book, I thought it looked like poo. Not even a good, firm poo but the runny stuff. I even posted here about it, making up the probable plot (following the Jerry Bruckheimer template). But then I heard people say that it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be.
So I saw it, and yeah, it's poo. I'm $ure that Max Brook$ is ju$t fine with it, but what a terrible impression it gives for people who haven't read his really good book.
Frazzled wrote: I saw it, thought it was ok. But in my defense I was really hammered when I saw it.
It was a good day out with my dad, the last movie I saw with him, so it holds a place in my heart
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Banzaimash wrote: I despise The Big Bang Theory, complete gak. Also pretty much every superhero movie in the past 5 or so years except the Batman films.
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I liked super hero movies before they where cool
I don't like superhero movies at all really, but I'm not familiar with any prior to about 5 years ago, hence why I put it across like that. My main gripe is that its just indestructible super-beings throwing each other through walls for an hour and a half, with little to no compelling plot. The fact that I know they'll prevail in the end also detracts from my enjoyment.
Captain America is one of the few super heroes I like. His movie was a bit underwhelming but I liked it enough, just wish it was sort of... better. Like others have said he was done much better in the Avengers. I haven't seen the winter soldier yet, hoping its good, will still like it if it isn't.
"I can tell it runs on electricity..." Laughed out loud in the theater, which is rare for me.
