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Basically what is a super popular series or movie or whatnot that people rave about but you just dont enjoy or like?

For me, the Walking Dead. Most of the characters are annoying and so freaking stupid. My opinion its overrated and the comic is better.

The other show is Big Bang Theory.

I like both of those.

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.

Game of Thrones is amazing.

You're actually the first person I've ever talked to that watched the show and didn't like it.

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.

Anything with Jason God damned Statham...

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.

I don't like Big Bang Theory, though I think I dislike people assuming I should like it even more.

Is this some sort of Hipster thread?

Twilight, OMG and also the walking dead, the first thing in a survival situation seems to be forgetting the survival skills.

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.

Also an apt description of Game of Thrones

 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.

 Alpharius wrote:
Is this some sort of Hipster thread?

Pretty much what I was thinking.

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.

Marvel's Agents of Shield.

Oh wait......

 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.

Preachy sitcoms.

Although Dinosaurs "a new leaf" was about the only preachy sitcom episode I ever actually liked.

It had the "cast" doing pieces to camera, banging on about "not doing drugs, so we can stop doing these preachy sitcom episodes".

I think the 4th wall shattered then, and split pangaea up into separate zones.

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.

I just saw somebody say on here they disliked Archer. Ready the torches and pitchforks, boys, somebody here needs a whoopin'.

Psshh... the show is horrible.

That's right. We do exist.

Walking Dead for me, as for a film, The Avengers.... the hype has made me not want to even watch it lol, I'll give it a chance some day though.

The office.
Lord of the Rings
The God father. (boredom incarnate)
Anything with zombies. (except for Shaun of the Dead)

I haven't watch television in years. I watched Skins UK for the first three seasons and convinced myself there was nothing left worth watching.

The Avengers was horrible. I hate superhero movies in general. All of the Need for Speed movies are awful too, I think. They pander to stupid people.

I loathe the Big Bang Theory.