What is it with you?

[Greylock Crescent]

The Sixth Sense. Utterly ridiculous.

 

[JustKate]

Seinfeld. I don't loathe it or anything, but it's always being described as the most brilliant innovative comedy show EVER, and to that my reaction is and always has been, "What?" As it happens, I watched an episode last night - first time in a long time - which is why I know for a fact that I'm still, like, "What?"

I openly admit this, though. If I didn't, I'd be trapped in those endless discussions about Seinfeld - Seinfeld fans being so fond of revisiting all those "classic" moments - and there is no way I could keep up my end of the conversation. And for that matter, I don't want to keep up my end of the conversation. Because it's boring to anybody except a Seinfeld fan.

Also jazz. A lot of people my age - former rockers all - like to talk about how into jazz they are these days. It's not that I dislike jazz, and it's also not that I doubt the talent and skill of those who play it, but I just can't get enthusiastic about music that has no melody for me to follow. I don't know if they are really that more sophisticated than I am or if they just fear that admitting that they still like, say, Kansas marks them as immature or something. I suspect that some self-professed jazz fans really are that much more sophisticated than I am, but not everybody. I still like rock, although I listen more often to blues and soul these days, and if that marks me as an unsophisticated rube, so be it. I don't mind.

 

[Mistral]

Agree with Seinfeld. Stupid show, IMO. Of course, I skipped everything non-scifi from the end of Cheers to the beginning of LOST. None of it appealed. Also, let's add RUSH to the list. I appreciate their talent but can't stand more than one song at a time. And American Idol-what's the point? Just not my bag of tricks, I guess.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Monty Python stuff, that's a good one. Some of the jokes are funny but it's not stuff that I care to watch again or that I found all that amazing. It's just kind of annoying when I look back on it really.

 

[RobertScorpio]

new ones I thought of..

Charlie Rose..over-rated interviewer
CSI (all of them).
LAW AND ORDER (all of them)
Terry Bradshaw. Cant stand the guy.
Adam Lambert. To over exposed (in more ways than one)
and
Sim Farming

 

[Nerys Myk]

..... Bruce Springstien

Agreed, he's pretty talentless too and merely just panders to the music that hypes up whatever group he's focusing on.

I was..... booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....

Second verse..... same as the last:

I was..... booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....
booooorrrrn in the usa, I was....

Fricking brilliant, I seen more complicated and in-depth lyrics from the Teletubbies.

ANd here I though these were the lyrics

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Kinda tells a story, don't it?

I guess a lot of folks mistake a chorus for the whole song.

 

[AnyStar]

Seinfeld's been mentioned a lot, but the entire question reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where EVERYONE but Elaine just LOVED the "English Patient"...

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

For me, anything with Adam Sandler. He sucks. And everyone I know likes him. I hear, "well that movie with him you saw was just okay, but this one, the new one he has, you just have to see it."

Nope, they all suck. i only liked Punch-Drunk Love because what he was doing actually served the character he played.

Add to this list Harry Potter (every time I watch any part of any film, I'm utterly bored, and like fantasy), Twilight, and The Sopranos (when are people going to realize that there is no need to glorify organized crime, it's not that interesting.)

 

[NCC1701]

In no particular order:
The Dark Knight
Shrek - yes, all of them
The Kings of Leon
Pearl Jam
Seinfeld
Any reality show
Any movie with Hugh Grant excluding Love Actually. Same 'character' in every damn movie, Michael Cera is heading down the same road, come to think of it, although he'll have to milk it for about 15 more years before he gets to the same level.

 

[Michael Chris]

I'm not a huge fan of Seinfeld, though it is awesomely funny. I just got annoyed at the abrupt nature of the endings.

 

[Sakrysta]

Almost any modern sitcom. I haven't seen one in a long time that wasn't unbelievably crass and obvious.

Saturday Night Live - aside from a few classic sketches, I find the vast majority of the show to be obnoxious, pointless, and humorless. And again with the crassness.

The Simpsons and Family Guy and ESPECIALLY South Park

Any of the late shows - Leno, Letterman, Kimmel, poofy-haired-what's-his-name...

Radio show pranks. Today's DJs apparently never matured beyond 5th grade.

 

[thestrangequark]

Don't feel bad about Friends. It was a stupid show with lame characters, unfunny jokes, and lame writing overall. I never liked Friends. I don't like Arrested Development either. It sounded really funny from what everyone said, but after watching several episodes I realized it was funnier in second-hand summary. Oh, yes, and Seinfeld.

 

[Michael Chris]

Don't feel bad about Friends. It was a stupid show with lame characters, unfunny jokes, and lame writing overall.

 

[Kelthaz]

In a completely random order:

Forest Gump
Friends
Everybody Loves Raymond
How I Met Your Mother
Shrek
2001: A Space Odyssey
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
The Matrix
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Monty Python
The Godfather
Neon Genesis Evangelion

 

[Kira's Mom]

Monk. I couldn't get into it, and my mom and sister think I'm nuts.

Grey's Anatomy. I just can't stand most of the characters, and none of my friends or family who love it understand that.

 

[sidious618]

Any of Joss Whedon's stuff. I'm sorry but I just don't like his humor. It really grates on me. I also don't find The Big Bang Theory to be funny at all.

 

[Cicero]

• Elvis
• 1970s television and cinema (except Woody Allen's and George Lucas's)
• Monty Python
• Music culture (post-1950)
• Indie culture
• John Mayer
• Family Guy, etc.
• The Office
• Horror movies

Monk. I couldn't get into it, and my mom and sister think I'm nuts.

Grey's Anatomy. I just can't stand most of the characters, and none of my friends or family who love it understand that.

I just watched it for the first time yesterday, and was much more entertained than I expected to be. It was terrible in comparison to ER, but, when not taken totally seriously, a little fun.

The Coen brothers' entire oeuvre - or at least, as much as I've seen of it (O Brother; The Big Lebowski; Raising Arizona; Burn After Reading; The Lady Killers; No Country for Old Men).

I liked O Brother Where Art Thou, which I didn't even realize they'd made, but thought everything else of theirs I've seen was horrible.

And while I liked The Godfather 1 a bit, I never did get all the way through the second movie, nor did I even attempt to watch the third...... too long, too drawn out and I fall asleep near the end not caring what I missed.

I could appreciate some degree of quality of the first two films, but didn't care for them much at all. Somewhat unusually, though, I really liked the third one. It may be that the first two chronicled moral descent, where the third explored the tragic futility of an attempt at redemption.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

I've never gotten...

TV:
Friends
Heroes
Gossip Girl
Law & Order and spin-offs
House
Survivor, American Idol and any other reality/competition shows
Grey's Anatomy
CSI and spin-offs
24
Chappelle's Show
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm

FILM:
Die Hard
Into the Wild
Knowing
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
The Incredibles
300
King Kong (2005)
Batman & Batman Returns
American Beauty
Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy
Moonstruck
Dreamgirls
The Notebook
There Will Be Blood
Back to the Future
Excalibur
Napoleon Dynamite
Twilight
Titanic

COMICS:
Grant Morrison's JLA
Grant Morrison's New X-Men
Anything by Geoff Johns
Garth Ennis's Punisher
Anything by Jeph Loeb
Ultimate Spider-Man
Wasteland
Air
30 Days of Night
All-Star Batman & Robin
House of M (except for the final issue, which I feel is a brilliant examination and terrific expression of widespread panic in a minority community)
Young Avengers
Bruce Jones' Incredible Hulk
Brubaker's Daredevil
Amazing Spider-Man post-One More Day

MUSIC:
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Michael Jackson

LITERATURE:
Twilight
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
The Scarlet Letter
The Things They Carried

 

[O'Dib]

U2

 

[Kira's Mom]

I've never gotten...

LITERATURE:
Twilight
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
The Scarlet Letter
The Things They Carried

Twilight and Literature do not belong in the same sentence.