Forrest Gump, in my opinion one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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Breaking Bad for me. I just can't stand it and find the characters and the situations just unpleasant and undesireable to watch.
Claymation. It is unnerving and creepy. Gives me the same vibes as nails on a chalkboard or HR Pufnstuf.
Even Wallace and Grommit? It has the best chase sequence captured on film
Wallace and Grommit is the main offender haha. Oddly enough, I liked Gumby as a kid.
You're right and you should say it. Ricky Gervais has always been weird and off-putting and the idea that he was ever good has always baffled me. I never enjoyed The Office. When my dad tried to get me into Extras I just found all of Ricky's parts annoying. When my sister told me how great Derek was, I just found the whole thing simultaneously tasteless and bland, like it couldn't commit to being offensive but didn't put the work into being real. His standup is often clever, but always the kind of clever that is let down by a complete lack of emotional intelligence. The man just does not understand people, but thinks he really does.
Sports. I have little tolerance for it because every time a big event is on, people get incredibly obnoxious. They think they know better than the professional players, they keep making so much noise, it polarizes people into arbitrary bands and start talking shit like using that as an excuse to be a homophobic POS, sometimes they'll even riot because their team lost/won (da fuk), and even kill people over their favorite fucking team, and so much more. If the game is on I'd rather steer clear because it really brings out the worst in people.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Big Bang Theory
The worst part is how it's fans seem to think it's a love letter to "nerd culture" (whatever the fuck that is) and endlessly bring it up if you dare mention any interest in comics, roleplaying games or anything in that vein. "Oh you'll love this show, it's all about that nerdy stuff."
I thought the American version of The Office wasn't much better. Just constant cringe humor, it's exhausting.
Friends...
I would rather watch women's tennis or a fishing show. I don't fish, I don't play tennis.
I've got a good one: Andor. People can't stop raving about it and I had to force myself to finish it. Deathly boring all the way through. I didn't like anyone in it so I couldn't root for anyone, and it was just a slog til the end. Crucify me star wars fans, I know you want to. 😇
I think it's the Disney adults who fangirl over the newslop.
Same, I tried to watch it twice but never made it through.
I have seen so much praise for Kingdom of Heaven and all I did was laugh or yell at it, usually both. It's so bad. So, so bad.
I'm sorry, you're telling me they built siege towers in the middle of the desert. Where did they get the wood??? And there's like 12 of them? And you aimed a Ballista and that took down every single one of them in one swoop? ALSO YOU ARE A SMITH APPRENTICE BUT YOU KNOW SIEGE TACTICS? AND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT DESERT IRRIGATION WHEN YOU ARE FROM FUCKING ENGLAND? AND
I'm yelling again
And that's not to mention how deeply historically inaccurate it is at moments, like even besides all the general Hollywood of it all. Like sure they get some moments right but generally, holy shit it's bad lol
Though I will say watching Will Turner learn sword fighting from Qui-Gon only to be interrupted by Jaime Lannister was pretty funny
I've seen it noted by better critics than me that when people criticize movies by fixating on hyper-specific inaccuracies or contradictions (the Cinema Sins method) they're usually expressing the fact that there were deeper underlying flaws in the movie itself that meant it failed to give them a reason to overlook those hyper-specific complaints.
After all, if the things you've listed here were reason enough to hate a film, on their own, you're basically just saying that you shouldn't watch movies. If you know enough about where and when a movie is set, you're guaranteed to be able to find those kinds of inaccuracies in any movie you watch, with very few exceptions.
The real problem here, I suspect, is that Kingdom of Heaven, as released is a bad movie. The director's cut, on the other hand, is incredible. Ridley envisioned this as a sprawling Lawrence of Arabia style historical epic, and that's the film he made. That film was then butchered to fit what the studio thought would make a good theatrical release.
The director's cut will not, to the best of my recollection, solve any of your specific complaints, but it is a far, far better movie.
Of course, it is possible that the version you saw was the director's cut, in which case I'm very sorry, movies set in any version of the real world just might not be for you. Or you're just not really a fan of historical epics or something. I dunno, you do you.
3 body problem. What a fucking terrible shit waste of paper.
The worst part is that if you somehow drag yourself through the first book and rightly declare that it sucks, fans will all say "Oh, yeah, the first book is bad, but it gets sooooo much better after that!"
This is a fucking lie. The books actually get progressively worse at a genuinely shocking rate.
Do you like reading a series of Wikipedia articles about all these really cool ideas the author had? Do you like being slapped in the face with moments of truly egregious sexism? Do you like characters with zero defining traits? Do you like entire plotlines built around Death Note style "I know that you know that I know that you know that I know..." style bullshit that falls apart the moment you think about it for five seconds? Do you like like awful solutions to the Fermi Paradox? Oh boy do we have the book series for you!
Preach.
The only answer I can't understand. A great novel. I Chinese context was very fresh and interesting for me. Sometimes it seems amature, like fan fiction, like author is not a professional writer. But it makes it even better.
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Avatar the last airbender.
Literally the only thing interesting is the serial reincarnation of the Avatar, the disability representation in Toph, and that weird demigod of misfortune people call the cabbage merchant.
Literally everything else sucks. The graphics are meh, the lore is forgettable, the magic system is somehow both overly complicated and restrictive, the characters are cringy and uncomfortable, Aang's pacifism is infuriating, and the plot even more so.
Personally, the James Cameron movie is far superior. Not because of its characters or story. God no. But its worldbuilding is far superior. Eywa and the neural queues the Na'vi and the other local flora and fauna have has been a genuine inspiration to so many of my world building projects its crazy.
The visuals are crazy impressive too for the time period, and those floating mountains are just gorgeous.
Really, ATLA sucks in comparison, and I hate it when people slander the true Avatar just to push up their own cringy mess.
Top tier Pocahontas troll bait mate 👌
Disturbed's cover of "Sound of Silence." I like the original Simon & Garfunkel, or at least the more upbeat version of it. And I like Disturbed (see below). But this cover absolutely blows.
Yes, I know the lead singer is a grade A shitbag. I liked the band long before I knew anything about any of it and have since stopped listening to them.
If I may add their cover of Land of Confusion by Genesis to the list. It was disappointing.
Kinda surprised I didn't see breaking bad already listed. I guess I'm one of the few who dislikes it. I don't like tragedies in general. Life is already a tragedy.
I'm sure it was extremely well executed and totally worth making, but it's not my flavor of ice cream.
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Woah surprised no one mentioned South Park yet, it quite common in discussions like this.
I don’t like it but I cut them some slack for their willingness to tackle some issues publicly and mock people who deserve it.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Its not just that the humor is unfunny (and basically just bigotry porn with a side of cringe), its that none of the "friends" in the show are even friends with each other. The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes and then you are supposed to think that its funny.
The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes
and then you are supposed to think that its funny.
They take their twisted logic and antics to such extremes that it resembles a live-action version of some mid-20th century American cartoons. Same level of slapstick cruelty but the plotlines make it all more premeditated and sociopathic.
(I laugh hysterically at it, but I totally understand anyone who thinks it's depraved!)
Well, yeah, the whole show is based around each character being the worst narcissistic and self-serving asshole you can imagine, and then some.
I personally find it really funny, but I can sort of see why some people don't like it
I think it's supposed to be Seinfeld but moreso. Part of the humor is watching these assholes screw themselves over with their terrible plans.
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