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"...
Amen, dude. Give me "Sack Lunch" any day.
Any of those damn CSI shows. Give me Law & Order!
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.
)
