Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
Walking dead Lost All Marvel and DC movies
The office. Just don’t get what’s funny or good about it. I tried giving it an honest chance about 6 episodes and didn’t laugh once. 0/5
US or UK? I really didn’t find the US version funny in the slightest. And I dont mean in an elitist sense, I’m hardly the greatest fan of the office UK either, but there is something about the absurdity levels of many popular US sitcoms which never feel right to me. Like the characters are just so silly that they would never have been in those jobs in the first place. Scrubs and Brooklyn 99 are similar in that aspect for me, I just don’t find the ungrounded absurdity funny
Try Community, it’s like the office but with humour
I have tried to start the office no less than 5 times. I even tried someone’s suggestion of skipping season 1.
I just can’t get into it or find it funny.
Also something about Steve Carrel annoys me the moment I see him. Along with Ben Stiller, who’s not in it but same effect
The Princess Bride. Only USians care about that movie, which is absolutely not the most quotable movie (that goes to Commando).
Woah I guess if the point of this post was unpopular takes, the Princess Bride DEFINITELY wins lmao. May you rest well, and dream of large women.
Mr. Robot. I can’t tell if this is good or terrible.
Breaking Bad. I didn’t start it until maybe S4 or early in S5 so I marathoned everything and it got really cyclical really fast. Jesse does something stupid, they scream fight saying they don’t need each other, goes separate ways he fucks up more then they realize they need each other and get back to cooking then Jesse does something stupid…plus Walt says he needs just a little more money then suddenly it’s gone so he starts over again…
Basically any kind of “reality TV”.
TV. All of it. Films. Most of them.
Ah a true cinephile, I see.
I personally hate gore so I dislike most horror. I do like psychological and eldritch horror.
It’s not universally praised, but I think the overall sentiment for the Battalestar Galactica reboot is very positive. Even as a huge sci-fi guy and knowing the post 9/11 context of the show airing, never have I ever gone from all-in to hate watch so fast with a show. It has some fantastic stuff, maybe even, debatably, some of the best sci-fi/drama moments of all time. But it utterly and completely fails to deliver on its own premise in such a fantastic and increasingly absurd way as it goes on that I only finished it out of sheer morbid curiosity of how bad it could get.
Is this the one from about 20 years ago, or has there been a reboot of the reboot?
I both love and hate the BSG reboot. I found myself skipping through most of the Baltar scenes. There was also so much shaky cam and TV drama. But the look and feel and military stuff was fantastic.
I liked that first/early episode. Something about 33 minutes until the bad guys catch up to them. However the rest of the show was just watching everyone keep secrets from each other so the story could happen. A lot like Lost. Not my thing.
Definitely falls into the debate of most epic sci-fi moments. From what (little) I understand, 33 was the realization of Ron Moore’s original vision for how dire voyager was supposed to be before they TNGd it.
The mini series is phenomenal, the last season is… something. If I recall, didn’t they rush things because of the writers guild strike?
Saw a quote from GRRM on wikipedia under critiques specifically about being a crappy way to end a story, semi ironic to me considering GOT (yeah, know he didn’t write the ending) ended so poorly I’ve never done a rematch. I’d probably rewatch the first few seasons of bsg though.
The godfather.
Tried multiple times, couldn’t get in to it.
I don’t like mafia stories in general so that probably goes a long way to explaining it.
Fervent organisational/inherited loyalty doesn’t make sense to me ,so anything based upon that ruins my immersion.
To be clear, I understand that it’s a thing and why it happens, it’s just so ridiculous as a concept I can’t usually suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy the media.
Goodfellas, I could get through, godfather was a bridge too far.
Agreed, godfather is the reason I started saying I don’t like mob movies but that turned out not true . Goodfellas, casino, the departed. Must just be the godfather that’s bad
Goodfellas i could do, has been a while though, might have to go for a rewatch.
The departed was stellar, if you can deal with subtitles(or terrible dubbing, if that’s your thing), i would recommend the original movie on which it’s based, Infernal Affairs.
Just an FYI, the trilogy is the story of how much of a mistake the grandfather made. It takes three generations for them to be able to get back out of the crime business, and get back to legitimate businesses. By the end of part 3 Micheal Corleone isn’t a happy guy. He managed to legitimize the businesses, and lost his entire family in the process.
It sounds like an interesting story
The actual story was never the issue, what i saw of the acting, directing and production values was good as well
Fervent organisational/inherited loyalty doesn’t make sense to me ,so anything based upon that ruins my immersion.
Movies are just stories, you don’t have to ideologically agree with the existence of familial organized crime in order to enjoy a story about it.
And we’re not even talking about scifi here. The Godfather is almost historical fiction. It’s based on things that exist(ed) in real life, there’s no need to suspend disbelief.
Not trying to be argumentative, I just cannot understand this viewpoint. How can you be “immersed” in literally any story about anything if you think like this?
It’s not really about a conflict of ideology, as i said, i do understand it’s a thing, i even understand why it’s a thing (to an extent).
It’s also not about it being fictional, i have the same issue with it in real life, it just doesn’t tend to be so concentrated in my day to day life.
Closest example i can think of is that it’s like watching media that heavily features something in which you are an expert, but does so in such a way as to be noticeably bullshit.
It’s jarring enough to take you out of the flow of the movie/show.
If you’ve any experience with programming, it’s things like this
Or like being a huge sports fan, but the media you are watching clearly doesn’t understand the rules of the sport it’s depicting.
Suspension of disbelief wasn’t quite the correct phrase (that’s on me), it’s more like a cognitive stutter.
Somebody doing something because of inherited loyalty or “for the family” without any supporting reasoning feels like watching someone firing 50 rounds with a 6 chamber revolver ( apologies if that’s the wrong terminology, I’m not a gun person ).
is it critical to the story that this details is right ? not necessarily, but if it happens constantly throughout the story it can ruin the enjoyment (for some people at least).
I want to be clear that I’m not claiming to be an expert in loyalty or anything, it’s just far enough away from my expectations that it’s jarring, it’s almost certainly some weird hypersensitivity of mine.
Friends: a celebration of hedonism and shallowness.
Seinfeld: basically the same.
Seinfeld had much better writing than Friends
Seinfeld I thought had a lot of clever and funny parts. Even though I like Jerry less and less as the years go on, there were so many great supporting characters.
Friends though, any time that show is playing I feel like intelligence is being sucked from my brain. And not in a “so stupid it’s funny” way, it’s just empty and stupid.
What made Seinfeld funny was the situations they set up, like the one where Jerry and George pretend to be the people listed on the sign held up by a limo driver in order to get a free ride home from the airport, only to discover that the people they’re impersonating are white supremacists on their way to speak at a rally at Madison Square Garden (for good measure, Kramer and Elaine are at MSG to protest the white supremacists). But watching Curb Your Enthusiasm all these years has made it clear that it was really Larry David that was creating these situations, and his show does it a lot better.
The other thing that made Seinfeld funny was the copious amounts of weed I was smoking at the time. These days, it just isn’t really that funny, and the
soundtrack(I meant laugh track – the soundtrack with the funky bass line was great) just makes it worse. There was never anything funny about Friends. I watched it because I was in love with Courtney Cox.
I liked friends when i was a kid/teen. Bit re-watching it as an adult, not so much. Everyone but joey and chandler annoy me now
Any show with a laugh track I can’t stand.
Star Wars. I watched the middle three way back when. Didn’t care enough to watch the others.
I don’t care for most of the Star Trek movies
Star Trek just never works in a movie medium imo. The real meat of their stories work best in episodic format, with the occasional two parter.
The only movies that were decent was when there were no series being aired like Wrath of Khan. Pretty much all the TNG movies were just fan service, but palatable. The Kelvin timeline doesn’t exist in my book.
I loved the first Star Wars as a kid and also Empire Strikes Back. I was distraught when I learned that George Lucas had planned nine movies in total; the thought of having to wait that long to see them was unbearable. I ended up not particularly caring about Return of the Jedi (the muppet really ruined that movie for me, along with the Ewok “song” at the end). I’ve still never even seen the prequels, and I only watched the three new ones last year because I wanted to see if they were as bad as everyone said. They were.
Getting to the point where I don’t hear the laugh track anymore is a major feat, and a show has to be very funny for me to want to try to get to that point.
Frasier or IT Crowd, for example, are a couple that come to mind.
I find the laugh track insulting. The laugh usually starts before the punchline so I really don’t hear the joke.
Which ones are the middle three?
The ones that came out first. A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back. I forget the name of the second one.
Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of The Jedi
If I say Big Bang Theory am I just preaching to the choir?
I abhor BBT. Community was kind of its rival and I absolutely loved it. I saw a quote about the two they said “Big Bang Theory is a dumb show about smart people and Community is a smart show about dumb people.”
It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
Lol whoever made this is high on their own farts
They would have been more honest to label the left circle “shows I like” and the right “shows I don’t like”
I don’t know the date it originally dropped, but it definitely has some vintage internet superiority vibes. But it’s also not not accurate
You are, but I still sing with it
Seth MacFarlane feels so 1-note. Just can’t get into Family guy stuff, or any of the other shows that seem to be the same thing, with a different cast of characters.
South Park lost me during the “Stunning and Brave” cut your dick off haha funny stuff. Further reflection made me feel not so great about laughing at, or at least not thinking about, all of the other stuff that in retrospect looked like punching down. Either it’s all OK to make fun of, or none of it is. I’d imagine some other groups of people felt similarly as I did when they were “made fun of”. There are still some jokes that I find hilarious, and some parody they did that respected those that it made fun of. It’s just easier to not watch.
South Park has some of the best writing in western culture in some episodes. The first 10 series are kinda wonky, 10-20 had very good moments. When Trump got elected, it fell flat on the face, they assumed Hillary would win. Didn’t watch much of the later stuff.
Cock magic is my personal fav.
Lord of the Rings. The pacing is absolutely untenable. And it’s not the wide shots; it’s the constant close up reaction shots. Just endless seconds wasted on people staring at each other.
The Dark Knight is overrated. The ending makes no sense. The people would lose hope if they knew Harvey Dent went crazy, but they’re still perfectly hopeful believing he was murdered by Batman? Come on.
Also, Batman voice is stupid. It’s a silly creative choice, and I just can’t take it seriously.
