What is it with you?

[RobertScorpio]

Is there a movie, or TV show, that the rest of the civilized world loves but...you don't? And you're afraid of admitting so because it might invite unwanted ribbing from your family and friends?

We're all friends here, no one is going to laugh at you. So, come clean...confess now.


For me? "Friends". My friends tried to get me to watch that show. THEY ALL watched it. But I thought it was just dumb. So there!!! I admitted it...why didn't I like Friends? WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME???


Rob

 

[Spot's Meow]

The Princess Bride...I get the humor, normally it's the type of movie I would enjoy, but I just don't find it funny. If I had first seen it when I was about 12 maybe, but I've only seen it as an adult and it just bores me.

 

[Praxius]

• Every Star Wars movie
• Friends
• Seinfeld
• Cheers
• Every Reality TV Show to date.
• Jimi Hendrix
• Elvis (Not so much these days, but I'm still not a fan)
• The Beatles

I'm sure there's plenty more, but that's all I can think of for now.

 

[Praxius]

The Princess Bride...I get the humor, normally it's the type of movie I would enjoy, but I just don't find it funny. If I had first seen it when I was about 12 maybe, but I've only seen it as an adult and it just bores me.

Yeah I guess it had to be one of those things you had to see as a kid..... although my wife enjoyed it when she saw it two years ago.

But that reminds me..... I always hated Fred Savage. I always felt he was a bit of a wank.... AKA: no matter what show or movie he was in, he sounded the same, acted the same, basically really didn't have any acting skills. Although I guess he wasn't so bad in Goldmember, he didn't have that big of a role and didn't really do much acting except come in once in a while with a report and twich his mole around.

 

[Starbreaker]

The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Fast and the Furious

 

[RobertScorpio]

Bob Marley
the Beatles (I like them, just not as much as others do)
Bruce Springstien
Magnum PI
LOTR (sorry, but tru)

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Geckothan]

I absolutely cannot stand Lost, and I HATE The Dark Knight, but I freely admit it though.

 

[JiNX-01]

Seinfeld
Any "Reality Show"
Friends

 

[Praxius]

..... 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.

 

[SiorX]

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 don't know if it's a generational divide, or a cultural divide or what, but I always come out of it feeling like I've only gotten the Yahoo! Babel Fish translation, and thus missed most of the point. Yet as far as I can tell, the rest of the universe gets it and loves it, so I don't know what it is with me.

Sofia Coppola's movies universally bore the pants off me, but I'm not sure if they're mad popular so much as beloved by certain cinephile types. (Spent the entirety of Marie Antoinette wishing for the guillotine which never came.)

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.

 

[Praxius]

I also agree on the "No Country for Old Men" movie... that was pretty much a complete waste of time and a total bore really.

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.

 

[Niorah]

I never cared much for Seinfeld, neither the tv show nor the person himself. I guess it's just not my kind of humour.

I tried to watch Desperate Housewives, but nope, we never clicked.

Also Ugly Betty does nothing for me.

As for movies, I guess I'm one of the few that watched the first 20 minutes of Titanic (when they showed it on tv), got up and walked out of the living room leaving my mum to enjoy it on her own. Yuck.

 

[nevermore]

Is there a movie, or TV show, that the rest of the civilized world loves but...you don't?

Many. Including but by no means limited to: Everybody Loves Raymond and all similar sitcoms post 1990; Ghost; Dirty Dancing; in fact, anything with Patrick Swayze in it where it's not played as ironic; Sex in the City; Titanic; Grey's Anatomy; all versions of CSI and Law & Order; Thirtysomething decedents e.g. Desperate Housewives; UFC; all competition-based reality shows (though I don't actually know anyone who watches those); Joss Whedon; all but one James Bond movie; and so on.

And you're afraid of admitting so because it might invite unwanted ribbing from your family and friends?

Nope. I'm more likely to mock anyone who does like shite.

 

[Praxius]

...... As for movies, I guess I'm one of the few that watched the first 20 minutes of Titanic (when they showed it on tv), got up and walked out of the living room leaving my mum to enjoy it on her own. Yuck.

Well I paid for my ticket in the theatre..... no wait, I got in free with my cousin since we both worked at the theatres in town.... but since I was there and had my popcorn, I figured I'd stay through to see what all the hype was about.

Not a whole lot.

 

[Orac Zen]

In no particular order:

Firefly (and anything else Whedon related, for that matter)
nBSG
Seinfeld
Star Wars (all of them)
Brazil
Citizen Kane
Queen
Fawlty Towers
House

I'm in no way "afraid" to own up to not liking these things, though. Nor do I care that others like them. To each their own.

 

[RobertScorpio]

In no particular order:

Firefly (and anything else Whedon related, for that matter)
nBSG
Seinfeld
Star Wars
Brazil
Citizen Kane
Queen
Fawlty Towers
House

I'm in no way "afraid" to own up to not liking these things, though. Nor do I care that others like them. To each their own.

umm...good list!

Rob

 

[Islander]

Well I don't have anything that I don't like but nobody knows. If I don't like it, you'll know. But there are a few things that I just don't understand why anybody likes them, let alone havign academy nomitions like the Coen brothers entire work as previously mentionned (you can add Fargo to the list, SiorX). I still don't know why I watch more of them. After each I tell myself "never again" and each time I endup watching another.

In TV, it's reality TV. I watched the very first Survivor and Big Brother, it was ok but didn't have any value for sequels. Now that's the only thing you'll find on TV, so much that the writers guild's strike lastest much longest than expected because the studios didn't them at all. That just makes me sick.

 

[RandyS]

• Every Star Wars movie
• Friends
• Seinfeld
• Cheers
• Every Reality TV Show to date.
• Jimi Hendrix
• Elvis (Not so much these days, but I'm still not a fan)
• The Beatles

I'm sure there's plenty more, but that's all I can think of for now.

I can understand Friends, Hendrix Elvis, and the Beatles, but you don't like Star Wars, Seinfeld or Cheers??

What is it with you??

Me, I hate practically everything on TV now, except for the Clone Wars, even though I never watch it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Firefly

nuBSG

Anything CSI-related

Football

Lost

The new Doctor Who

Friends

Seinfeld

The Simpsons

Cheers

 

[Daneel]

I seem to be in something of a minority on this board in that I've never really cared for Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Stargate (the TV shows... I actually like the original movie), Lost, and others.

In general, I despise pretty much all reality TV shows. Music -- I could never get into a lot of the stuff that was popular with my age group. People in high school and university would often talk about these alternative groups and indie bands that I'd never heard of, plus, a lot of stuff (rap, hip-hop, emo rock, stuff that sounds more like screaming than any attempt at making music) that I really couldn't stand. I just don't get the appeal... I'll stick with my classic rock, thank you very much.