What is it with you?

[Robert Maxwell]

..... 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.

Springsteen also wrote "Blinded by the Light," which is one of my favorite songs of all time. So, I can't jump on the bashing bandwagon there!

However, there are plenty of popular things I don't like:

* Star Wars. It's passable, but I don't "get it." I liked the space combat games they made in the mid-'90s, though.
* Friends.
* Any of those damn CSI shows. Give me Law & Order!
* Lost. I've seen a few episodes, and it just seems like slow-moving nonsense is the whole point. Bleh.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Jack Nicholson. He's been playing the role in almost every movie since The Shining...which brings me too; The Shining. Can't stand that movie. Borning rubbish, IMO.

Rob

 

[The Wormhole]

Grey's Anatomy - Too depressing and melodramatic.

The Big Bang Theory - Seeing supposedly grown adults acting like they're 14 or 15 years old is not funny.

 

[Praxius]

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

What is it with you??

Since you asked:

Star Wars is a shallow story line filled with piles of holes and revolves around special fancy effects, which were still pretty poor even by 1970's standards (Battlestar Galactica looked a hell of a lot better, and let's not even mention what Star Trek was doing long before Star Wars was a brain fart) The additional three movies, somehow now the first three were completely a waste of time and money.

And Lucas's friggin addiction to stupid transition pans really gets my goat. Pan up..... Pan down..... pan sideways.... pan on an angle.... let's get one of those clock pans in there too while we're at it.

Frig I'd rather put up with lense flares then that crap.

Seinfeld?

Not funny, never was, never will be. Wow, great observational humor you got there buddy, I never heard anybody complain or comment about those trivial things in life before..... wow your life must be so complicated and difficult if those are the most important things you can think of to talk about. The stories in the sitcom are just the same recycled trash that's been used in every other sitcom in history, they're predictable, I know what each episode is going to contain 3 minutes into the show and already know how it's going to end..... and if I'm wrong, I really don't care enough to stick around to find out.

All the characters are annoying, Kramers' a dolt who I would have beaten up-side the damn head with a bottle of ketchup for barging into my home without knocking all the time and eventually is going to smash someone in the head with that door, which would follow with me tossing his sorry arse out the window.

The show was a complete waste of 30 minutes each day it was aired, had no point, wasn't funny and I'd get more entertainment out of watching the home shopping channel selling cardboard socks then I would watching any second of that show. The fact that it was so popular and so many people were so upset that it ended still baffles me to this day.

And while my parents watched Cheers all the time, it too was pretty pointless and a complete waste of time. Granted it had more originality then Seinfeld and the characters wern't as annoying, but having 98% of the show always in a bar with the same old bar flies who don't seem to have much better to do with their lives then waste it in this dive, ranting over yet more trivial things in their lives that don't really matter in the long run of life.

The difference though is that I can tollerate watching Cheers..... when Seinfeld comes on TV and someone wants to watch it.... I feel like either leaving the room, putting my headphones on and playing a game on the computer or to gouge my eyeballs out with a dirty spoon a monkey wiped his arse on.

*e'hem* Anywho, that's my two cents.

 

[Praxius]

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.

No, you're not alone, I never liked any of those shows.... but I never cared much for the original Stargate movie either.

 

[Praxius]

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

When the guy mumbles half the song in such a way you can't make out most of the words and the only part that sticks in your head is the part that's repeated beyond any purpose or logic, it's not suprising some would make that mistake.

That and the story's not that great.

 

[Praxius]

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.

Agreed... All his crap is the same as well.... usually some character who has no backbone, let's people walk all over him, but funny and silly with a few smart remarks here and there and his goofy voices tossed in here and there..... but then eventually he explodes and becomes the guy with the backbone and saves the day for everyone.... yippie.

He should have stopped after waterboy.... after that movie, everything just became the exact same thing over and over again, minus a few crappy exceptions.

 

[Mike Farley]

LORD OF THE RINGS. Yeah, I said it. Those movies were sooo dull. Every single one of them needed a good 20-30 minutes cut out.

 

[Praxius]

Oh and in regards to CSI.... I used to like it. I used to like how they showed off their fancy gadgets and special effects zooming into bodies and imaginations, etc.... but then over the years and over my college education and work, I started to notice that most of the methods they use to solve their crimes are complete fabrications and impossibilities.

Case in point:

When they look at some crappy security camera footage of some murder or attack. They zoom in an enhance the image of some guys' head in the distance to show the reflection of the guys sunglasses which when zoomed in even further shows the reflection of a car's license plate mirrored, whcih they then flip around, enhance some more and suddenly like magic, they got the car's plate...... OUT OF WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY ONE PIXEL OF INFORMATION!!!

It's impossible what they're doing, I don't care how fancy they claim their technology is. Unless security cameras now record everything in vectorized 3d-stereo graphics, it's an impossibility..... last time I checked, they don't.

When you look at any image captured by a video camera or photo camera, it's all compiled into pixels and can only contain so much information until you reach a paticular point where the information is just one colored square among many others. If you zoom in that colored square, there is no magical information there hiding away.... when you blow it up all you get is a big fuzzy colored square.... it doesn't suddenly turn into a helicopter or Thor God of Thunder.

Sure some images can be blown up and some..... SOME minor details can be made a bit clearer, but nothing close to what they seem to pull on those shows.

For those interested in what they actually do, is that they first take a really high quality photo, make it black and white to look like security footage, and then gradually make seperate files of that image set at lower and lower qualities..... then play them in reverse on the show to make it look like they're pulling out all this detail out of thin air.

That or someone one of the characters was at some trade show or something a few days ago that just so happens to relate to the case they are on and gives them this little clue to solve the case.

If it wasn't for their fake attempts at video/photo footage and their coincidental experiences at something totally unrelated a few days before the case occured.... most of their stories/cases wouldn't have been solved.

Certainly ruins the whole story for me when I see this type of crap.

That and Horatio Caine..... cripes, how many times in an episode does he have to act like some cool hitman dude with his fancy black suits in a typically really hot location on the planet, who loves to do the crouch thing with the head cock and sun glasses stare down?

His character would do better as some alien on Star Trek then some human being on earth.

OoOooOooooo..... so dramatic.

 

[RandyS]

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

What is it with you??

Since you asked:

Star Wars is a shallow story line filled with piles of holes and revolves around special fancy effects, which were still pretty poor even by 1970's standards (Battlestar Galactica looked a hell of a lot better, and let's not even mention what Star Trek was doing long before Star Wars was a brain fart) The additional three movies, somehow now the first three were completely a waste of time and money.

And Lucas's friggin addiction to stupid transition pans really gets my goat. Pan up..... Pan down..... pan sideways.... pan on an angle.... let's get one of those clock pans in there too while we're at it.

Frig I'd rather put up with lense flares then that crap.

Seinfeld?

Not funny, never was, never will be. Wow, great observational humor you got there buddy, I never heard anybody complain or comment about those trivial things in life before..... wow your life must be so complicated and difficult if those are the most important things you can think of to talk about. The stories in the sitcom are just the same recycled trash that's been used in every other sitcom in history, they're predictable, I know what each episode is going to contain 3 minutes into the show and already know how it's going to end..... and if I'm wrong, I really don't care enough to stick around to find out.

All the characters are annoying, Kramers' a dolt who I would have beaten up-side the damn head with a bottle of ketchup for barging into my home without knocking all the time and eventually is going to smash someone in the head with that door, which would follow with me tossing his sorry arse out the window.

The show was a complete waste of 30 minutes each day it was aired, had no point, wasn't funny and I'd get more entertainment out of watching the home shopping channel selling cardboard socks then I would watching any second of that show. The fact that it was so popular and so many people were so upset that it ended still baffles me to this day.

And while my parents watched Cheers all the time, it too was pretty pointless and a complete waste of time. Granted it had more originality then Seinfeld and the characters wern't as annoying, but having 98% of the show always in a bar with the same old bar flies who don't seem to have much better to do with their lives then waste it in this dive, ranting over yet more trivial things in their lives that don't really matter in the long run of life.

The difference though is that I can tollerate watching Cheers..... when Seinfeld comes on TV and someone wants to watch it.... I feel like either leaving the room, putting my headphones on and playing a game on the computer or to gouge my eyeballs out with a dirty spoon a monkey wiped his arse on.

*e'hem* Anywho, that's my two cents.

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.

Admittedly Star wars is nothing but one mindless action scene after another, but at least it's fun, inane dialouge and all.

As far as Seinfeld goes, George and Kramer are two of my heroes. And I can relate to your feelings about everybody's reaction to the show's end. Ironically though, that's exactly what got me involved. I never watched it first run, but the hype surrounding the end caused me to tune in, just to see what all the fuss was about, and once I did, I was hooked.

And regards to another post of yours, you don't like Babylon 5?? The single greatest sci-fi show (that isn't Star Trek) out there??

What is it with you now??

 

[nevermore]

Pearl Jam

I can't believe I forgot Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder's whine makes me want to puncture my ear drums with a knitting needle.

 

[Praxius]

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

And regards to another post of yours, you don't like Babylon 5?? The single greatest sci-fi show (that isn't Star Trek) out there??

What is it with you now??

I think maybe I attempted to watch one episode but it never pulled me in and I never tried to get into it again. I believe B5 suffered the same fate Voyager and Enterprise did..... in that I was already into DS9 at the time and didn't have much time to dabble in other shows.

 

[Mistral]

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

 

[Sakrysta]

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

I can totally understand this. I enjoy Monk, but even I find it annoying. I'm not quite sure why I continue to watch it every week, but I do. Maybe it's because I love all the actors so much - in spite of the fact that the writing is mostly uninspired, obvious drivel these days, and even the characters have become mostly caricature.

And since we're on the subject of Monk, I'll add to my list...

Psych - ugh! Hate HATE HATE that show! It's like a couple of sitcom kids who never grew up but like to mess with the adults - none of whom are remotely normal - and "wacky hijinks" ensue. Just please someone kill it with fire.

 

[John Picard]

The movie E.T, but I don't hide that fact. Back when moves were "Held Over" I caught it when visiting a friend as I'd not seen it (I was 14?) Thought it was stupid. His mother became offended and then started to argue with me that I liked it. Geez, lady. I think I know what I like versus what I don't.

 

[Praxius]

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.

 

[RobertScorpio]

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.

Go Speed Racer go!!!

Rob

 

[Dale]

I never got the love for All in the Family.

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

Dancing With the Stars and American Idol.

NuBSG.

Any Whedon show other than Firefly.

Teen soaps: Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place (both versions), The OC... anything like that.

OZ.

The Sopranos in particular and Mafia-themed crap in general.

I'd be here all day if I kept going.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Grey's Anatomy - Too depressing and melodramatic.

The Big Bang Theory - Seeing supposedly grown adults acting like they're 14 or 15 years old is not funny.

What if they were acting like they're 014 or 015?

 

[Nerys Myk]

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

When the guy mumbles half the song in such a way you can't make out most of the words and the only part that sticks in your head is the part that's repeated beyond any purpose or logic, it's not suprising some would make that mistake.

That and the story's not that great.

Not familiar with the concept of a chorus, I take it?

Sounds like a pretty good story to me.


Anyhow

Reality TV bugs me , Especially ones built around C list celebs and their familles. Why are the Kardashians famous????? And who the hell are they?