I just can't get into The Big Lebowski. I've tried several times and can never seem to finish it.
For TV, it's Seinfeld. I don't find it funny at all.
Don't look up was that movie for me. Almost everyone praised it to high heavens, with me smirking at maybe 2 lines / scenes throughout that entire slog.
Each to his own, I guess...
Breakfast Club
multiple hours of horrible teenagers and some horrible adults learning no valuable lessons and their actions being glorified
also the two love interest characters fall for each other despite having zero chemistry, cuz fuck you can't have a teen movie without a romance i guess
Star Wars. LOTR.
I’ll let myself out.
lotr has always been meh to me. all the books after the hobbit were an absolute slog to get through, and the movies were just annoying. star wars--everything after jedi (and maybe even jedi itself) is polished turds
With LotR you have to remember that the books were essentially the foundation of the genre so you have probably read and watched hundreds of derivative works, doubtlessly some of them an improvement over this early part of the genre in at least some aspects.
For me, it's Scott Pilgrim
What I'm getting from the comments is that these days I'm just a credulous fool and I like everything.
What I used to do when I didn't like something, was I would subconsciously sour grapes it into believing it wasn't that good and give myself an undeserved sense of superiority.
Like when I saw Sin City while in a bad mood, or felt like my subculture was being popularized in Tron Legacy. In those cases it really was just me.
Inception
Parasite for me.. I know I'm wrong but I don't know why.
Never liked Star Wars. The original trilogy. I watched it and nothing no sense of adventure no tension just blah. The new ones are worse, watched all of those too but they fail even harder for what feels like the same reasons. To be clear I fucking love Sci-Fi books/movies/tv shows doesn't matter. Some of the starwars books are ok like anything with Kerra Holt in it
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. I walked away thinking wow that was boring and I really hate Jim carry.
Jim Harry's best role was the mask. Because his normal stupid Jim carry shit fits well with the character. Other than that he annoys the shit out of me.
Interstellar for me. Great soundtrack though.
Young Frankenstein. I'm a fan of Gene Wilder and a huge fan of Mel Brooks, but somehow the comedy in that particular movie had me going "hmm, yes, I can see how people would find that funny" rather than actually laughing.
Me with Breaking Bad. Couldn't get past the first season
Finished severance s02 this weekend. Very disappointing ending to me (that I will not spoil), even though it seems like it's all anyone could talk about a couple months back.
Maybe it's because I just played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and we were spoiled with incredible writing that does foreshadowing excellently with deep and nuanced themes, but while Severance's execution is great in the details the overarching plot left me severely disappointed. As if they got great directors, actors, set designers, dialogue, but just wrote the s01e01 hook and then kind of just made up the plot as an afterthought. Keeping up mystery for its own sake because once the curtain is pulled back, we realize the stage pieces are not that impressive.
It's still good TV but it ain't that deep and IDK why everybody's raving on about it. Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk.
I have the same thing with bands.
I am Legend.
I think the alternative ending (that follows the book) makes it a much better film.
Everyone around me said i should watch Napoleon Dynamite because it was sooooo funny. It was just an autistic kid doing and saying cringey things.
I also hate Donnie darko, Requiem for a dream, 90 % of David Lynch (especially Mulholland drive), citizen Kain, etc. Too many to mention.
Citizen Kane is so celebrated because of how revolutionary it was and how much it influenced pretty much every movie made after, with then-novel techniques in things like cinematography and non linear story telling. Just tons of stuff that had never been done before. Of course if you compare it to later films it won't be all that remarkable. Everything it did first is now everywhere and we kinda take it for granted.
I'm like this with a shitton of movies because I just find drama boring and most of the big, popular films are dramas.
I like stupid action movies (Commando, Last Action Hero, Predator, etc), stupid comedies (Adam Sandler's old shit, Grandma's Boy, Dude Where's My Car, etc), and sci-fi. Sci-fi is also very much like drama, but at least it has lasers.
I absolutely hated both Dune Movies... Such a boring and in my opinion incoherent mess. My jaw dropped when i found out it was So universally highly rated. It still makes me angry when i think about it.
Anything by the Coen brothers. Especially the Big Lebowski. I just don’t get it. But I’m probably not the target audience, either…
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