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I almost forgot-anime and manga. I don't dislike it-I loathe it.

Indeed.... japanese anime is the lamest, least talented crap I've ever seen.

Hey, even I can animate 10 seconds worth of the show by just re-copying over the same two frames of some circle they call a mouth to loop for those 10 seconds and have a flashy background. Frig South Park has more animated frames in a standard 30 minute show then three anime shows put together... it's sad and a complete insult to any respecting animator.

Well yeah I'd feel that way if the only anime I was exposed to was Dragon Ball too. The vast majority of the anime that is played on TV are crappy action shows for kids. It's the equivalent of watching nothing but American Idol (because that's the most popular show in America) and delcaring all American TV crap when we all know it's the rarer stuff in the shadows that is the best.
 
I almost forgot-anime and manga. I don't dislike it-I loathe it.

Indeed.... japanese anime is the lamest, least talented crap I've ever seen.

Hey, even I can animate 10 seconds worth of the show by just re-copying over the same two frames of some circle they call a mouth to loop for those 10 seconds and have a flashy background. Frig South Park has more animated frames in a standard 30 minute show then three anime shows put together... it's sad and a complete insult to any respecting animator.

Well yeah I'd feel that way if the only anime I was exposed to was Dragon Ball too. The vast majority of the anime that is played on TV are crappy action shows for kids. It's the equivalent of watching nothing but American Idol (because that's the most popular show in America) and delcaring all American TV crap when we all know it's the rarer stuff in the shadows that is the best.

agreed...

Now, for eveyone else, this isn't suppose to be place where we argue over whether it is good or not. There is no right or wrong answer in this kind of thread...its all based on personal tastes.

Rob
 
Well yeah I'd feel that way if the only anime I was exposed to was Dragon Ball too. The vast majority of the anime that is played on TV are crappy action shows for kids. It's the equivalent of watching nothing but American Idol (because that's the most popular show in America) and delcaring all American TV crap when we all know it's the rarer stuff in the shadows that is the best.

Well there are always exceptions to just about every rule.... Ninja Scroll being one of them and any TV anime that existed back in the 80's and before (Astroboy, Robotech, Macross, etc.) But based on the majority of anime out there currently, all the Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Avatar, whatver you want to pick, they're all crap and imo, make all the rest feel like crap too.

But to each their own.
 
..... Now, for eveyone else, this isn't suppose to be place where we argue over whether it is good or not. There is no right or wrong answer in this kind of thread...its all based on personal tastes.

Rob

Most of my posts are in agreement with many of the things already listed.
 
..... Now, for eveyone else, this isn't suppose to be place where we argue over whether it is good or not. There is no right or wrong answer in this kind of thread...its all based on personal tastes.

Rob

Most of my posts are in agreement with many of the things already listed.

Oh, no sorry..I didn't aim that at you. My bad. Just everyone in general. Sorry if it came off that way.

Rob
 
:lol:Fair enough.

And please tell me your mention/praise of Battlestar Galactica was the 1978 show, not that evil pile of shit Ron Moore made.

I never watched the new one, and only slightly remember bits and chunks of the original series..... but I was referencing the older show and the effects they seemed to pull off quite well back in the day compared to the crap in Star Wars.

That and nobody can beat Lorne Green

On this, we are in complete agreement.

If you've never watched the new one, don't. I did, looking forward to an update of one of my old favorites, but instead, What I saw was garbage. If you ever get the urge to give it a try, take three Fleets enemas while having a root canal. Trust me, you'll have more fun.

And I can't recommend Babylon 5 enough. It starts out slow, yeah, but does get better as it goes along. There is one thing I wish they had done that they didn't, but it's a minor annoyance in an otherwise great show.
 
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. :p

Thankfully, it's a list. :)

I've also never gotten the appeal of Rome (the series, not the city), The Big Bang Theory, Moon (although I think Rockwell was great, the movie itself was kind of lame), the Shrek franchise, and a few other things I've been meaning to post but have since forgotten.
 
agreed...

Now, for eveyone else, this isn't suppose to be place where we argue over whether it is good or not. There is no right or wrong answer in this kind of thread...its all based on personal tastes.

Rob

Yeah, you're right. It was just so, so hard to resist that comment. I was weak. :(
 
New addition to my list...

Sting. I think he is good, but not as good as some think he is. And some of his later music is better than Classical at putting me to sleep.

Rob
 
The Godfather. I don't get it. When it comes on TV, it can sometimes hold my attention for about a half hour. After that, my mind tends to wander away and never come back. The acting is very good but the story doesn't congeal into anything.

The Lord of the Rings books. Geez! Pick up the friggin' pace!

Most novels I was required to read in high school/college-- Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter, Brave New World, Looking Backward, Oedipus Rex, Beowulf, etc. (Although there were a few that weren't bad, like The Grapes of Wrath, Huckleberry Finn, Rising Sun, A Tale of Two Cities, and To Kill a Mockingbird.)

Much of the current crop of sitcoms, such as How I Met Your Mother, The Office, and Two & a Half Men. I especially don't understand The Office, either version. The British version is slightly less painful because Ricky Gervais has a tragic self-awareness that Steve Carrell totally lacks. But either way, this sort of improvisational comedy is just far too meandering.

Weird fantasy movies from the 1980s, like The Dark Crystal, Goonies, Labyrinth, and Willow.

Also, anything from the immensely popular Stoller/Apatow/Rogen axis of gross manchild films. Although actually, I maintain that I'm 100% right about those, and they are factually, objectively, metaphysically awful artefacts.

Generally, I'd agree with you. In particular, I'm coming to the conclusion that Seth Rogen is a hopelessly stoned moron. Superbad is one of the worst movies I've ever been forced to sit through in my entire life. (I would have walked out if I wasn't dependent on the other guy for a ride.) Pineapple Express is similarly shite (except James Franco is kinda funny). Knocked Up is kinda sweet in a very pedestrian way. Really, the only good movie that I can recall Apatow having any affiliation with is Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and I think he was only an executive producer or something on that one.

Star Wars (all of them)
[...]
Queen

Would it change your mind if you knew that Queen did a song that mentions how much they dislike Star Wars? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTPLUcQAjk

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"... :guffaw:

Amen, dude. Give me "Sack Lunch" any day.

Any of those damn CSI shows. Give me Law & Order! :lol:

Amen! Long live Jack McCoy (and his holy disciple, Michael Cutter)! Although, I've always been disappointed that, of all the spin-offs, Trial by Jury was the one to be cancelled. Trial by Jury, IMO, was the best one. In my experience, the solution to a fictional whodunnit is usually pretty arbitrary. The real action is in seeing how the prosecution is able to prove it, particularly in a justice system stacked very thoroughly in favor of the defendant. So the police investigations of SVU & Criminal Intent leave me somewhat cold.

SVU has its moments but it really needs less Stabler and more Munch. As for Criminal Intent, I think it's impossible to like that show unless you really, REALLY like Vincent D'Onofrio. I don't, so it's hard for me. The Chris Noth episodes were OK but I still keep getting impatient around the halfway point for Jack McCoy to show up. However, I am interested in what they're doing with Jeff Goldblum.

That and nobody can beat Lorne Green

Edward James Olmos can! He can beat him to death with a flashlight!

LOST... a show designed to ask questions without ever answering them... tedious.

Yeah. You'd think people would have learned their lesson after The X-Files.

One thing I always require of my TV shows is that, no matter how serialized the story is, I should be able to get at least a modicum of enjoyment out of any random episode, regardless of how familiar I am with the ongoing story arc. Unfortunately, Lost & Heroes have nothing going for them but the arc. (Well, Heroes might grab me depending upon how far they push Claire's lesbian roommate storyline.:drool:)
 
Seinfeld
Everyone Loves Raymond (uhhhh... no)
Friends
Buffy
Jackass
Apatow films
splattergore films
sports shows (there, I said it!)
Neighbours/Home and Away (Aussie soapies loved for reasons I don't understand)
Big Brother (mostly because of the vacuous/troublemaking people they choose)

Dozens of others, these are top of the list.
 
Anime. I like some of it, like Cowboy Bebop, Excel Saga, & Ranma 1/2. However, my friend keeps trying to get me into other shows like Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, & Soul Eater. But whenever I try, I just find most of the genre to be pretentious, weird, & boring. And I don't quite know how to tell her all of that without offending her, because I think she's pretty nuts for liking it. (And her parents are, comparatively, such normal Trekkies/Disney fanatics.)
 
There are some movies that are really highly rated and critically lauded that I think are terrible.

Braveheart-Won an Oscar. I think it took the indestructible hero motif to comic and absurd levels. Might have been a good movie if it was supposed to be a comedy. Just when you think it can't get any stupider it does, and then does it again about 4 or 5 more times.

Mars Attacks- A painfully unfunny and unimaginative movie.

28 Days Later- "Hey we have a good story and a fairly interesting twist on zombies but we haven't made our big anti-military statement yet so we have to spend the last third of the movie just doing that.

Elizabeth- Nominated for an Oscar. Elizabeth is a horrible queen. Geoffrey Rush sucked as her bodyguard because she almost gets killed twice and only dumb luck saves her. To Joseph Fiennes acting is standing around with that "Hi, I'm an incredibly good looking man" smirk on his face.

District 9- Setting the film in post-apartheid South Africa and including aliens doesn't change the fact that this was the standard idiotic "guy on the run from evil-faceless corporation" movie that has been done a million times before.
 
Lost
Anything with Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell
Seinfeld
Everybody Loves Raymond
Anything in the realm of reality TV
 
I can't believe I forgot Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder's whine makes me want to puncture my ear drums with a knitting needle.

Except of course that when I played you his Into The Wild album, not only did you not know it was him, but you also said that you liked it. So you'll excuse me if I take that with a gigantic handful of salt ;)

I do not recall this. :vulcan:

It happened, you probably blotted it out because of the trauma :p
 
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