Arctic Hysteria
an abyss of Nothingness
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I'll start. Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey . I just said it, shoot me!
The Office
Scrubs
Superbad (and all of the related movies with the same kind of cast, humor, etc).
While I do understand "why", it doesn't make it any less revolting nor do I "get it".
I'd have to give The Office UK a chance before I give up on it totally, but for now I'd say I don't "get" The Office US.
There are shows that I like but I feel uninspired to watch the entire run of.
The Office is one of those. I laugh at the episodes I see, but I don't feel motivated to watch them all.
(New Girl and Wilfred and Better Off Ted are some others that I laugh at and think are really funny, but have trouble persisting watching.)
I feel the same way. If I turn on the TV and the show is running, I'll leave it on while doing chores. What it is I don't know, maybe I have no "chemistry" with anybody in the cast, or any character in the story?! The only comedy series I've finished so far is Seinfeld.
Since we're speaking TV shows, I'll add The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother. I don't just "not get it", I'll switch the channel if they're on.
I hate to say that I dislike all of the characters in TBBT.Yeah, I've watched a few random episodes of TBBT and think they're amusing, but no desire to sit and actually watch it. I view it as the "geek show for non-geeks."
Somehow I'm into this.never got into COPS either.
You're not alone. In fact, most academy awards winning animated movies lately (which mostly are Disney - Pixar) are overrated, for trying too hard to be "meaningful" and "educative" they end up being way too political and naive. I was utterly disappointed that The Wind Rises couldn't win at 86th Academy Awards, considering it's the last Hayao Miyazaki's work and last Studio Ghibli's production to be nominated. So sad.EDIT: And, heaven help, me, I didn't think Frozen was that great either. Some part of it (like the trolls) were stupid/dull, and the best parts (except for the resolution of Anna's plotline), I'd already seen in other movies.
Citizen Kane, Schindler's List (snooze-fest), The Deer Hunter, Friends, Star Wars (last half hour was good, but the first half was boring).
Arctic Hysteria said:With the same topic, The Pianist is a much more moving and well executed movie.
TV:
Movies:
Crash
Black Swan - The concept itself was interesting and I think there was a lot of potential there, but IMHO it ended up as the cinematic equivalent of a Lady Gaga concert. (Okay, maybe not that bad...) Maybe I'm just too dense to get it (and admittedly I've only seen it once), but I found this movie kind of emotionally hollow, conceptually simple, and pretentious. (I like Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but the ending has the same problem of waving the drama and tragedy in the audience's face to the point where it just feels manipulative and that dulls the emotional impact.)
Ditto about Star Wars.
I heard Harvey Keitel is nekkid in this one, so I'm avoiding it.
Arctic Hysteria said:I mean The Pianist. Are you talking about The Piano?
MOVIE SERIES
- The Matrix
- Lord of the Rings and (especially) The Hobbit
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Quentin Tarantino movies
- Seriously, are the fun action sequences really worth having to wait through all the characters spending hours of talking about movie trivia that I could look up on IMDb?
- Most David Lynch movies
- He's Michael Bay with no budget or pyrotechnics.
- Scary Movie
- Only the third one was remotely funny.
MOVIES
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Why does this movie get a free pass for essentially being a special effects demo reel? It can't be good because the story was good, because the story made no sense until 2010 came out 16 years later. So the next time you bash movies for being too dependent on special effects, think of this one.
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Dammit, I love the movie, but you have to admit, it hasn't aged well. Anthony Hopkins is a ham in this (though it worked well in Hannibal).
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- What is this doing with a fresh rating on the Tomatometer? I understand that there have been some bad Trek films, but none of them legitimately pissed me off for their lack of inspiration like this one.
- Gravity
- I'm sorry, but Sandra Bullock is the stupidest astronaut ever. How did NASA allow her in space?
That's all I got for now...
[*]He's Michael Bay with no budget or pyrotechnics.
I get not liking David Lynch, but have you seen anything other than Dune? At his best, he is to movies what Dali is to painting. He's a Surrealist, basically, and even comes up with ideas through similar methods. I definitely understand hating that, but it's really nothing like Michael Bay.